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Maria Vernera

@marianveneral.bsky.social
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Living life one adventure at a time 📍Los angeles, California 📍Project Europa/Middle East @BioTech

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Maria Vernera @marianveneral.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
A tiny white-petalled weed beloved of plant biologists has received a CRISPR-fueled makeover, turning it into a supersized ruby-colored bloom www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Maria Vernera @marianveneral.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Chronic silencing is a critical barrier to breaking the cycle of bullying in academia and industry go.nature.com/482BUOY
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Chronic silencing is a critical barrier to breaking the cycle of bullying in academia and industry - Nature Biotechnology
Breaking the cycle of institutional betrayal and the culture of silence requires decisive actions to promote transparency, accountability and supportive environments in both academia and industry.
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Maria Vernera @marianveneral.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
The long-anticipated move, criticised by the US and Israel, will see the three Commonwealth countries join France and several others in formally recognising a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly this week. www.ft.com/content/36dd...
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Maria Vernera @marianveneral.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The September issue is live nature.com/nbt/volumes/... On the cover, a system for high-precision mutation detection of mRNA in extracellular vesicles. Song et al. present SCOPE, a method that uses Cas13 to recognize and amplify target RNA for liquid biopsy applications go.nature.com/47Yw8Mf
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Nature Biotechnology
Nature Biotechnology is a monthly journal publishing new concepts in biological technology of relevance to bioengineering, medicine, energy, agriculture, food ...
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Maria Vernera @marianveneral.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Bioactive molecules unearthed by terabase-scale long-read sequencing of a soil metagenome go.nature.com/4606ozA
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Bioactive molecules unearthed by terabase-scale long-read sequencing of a soil metagenome - Nature Biotechnology
Optimized long-read sequencing constructs megabase-scale genome assemblies from complex soil samples.
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Maria Vernera @marianveneral.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
A rapid imaging-based screen for induced-proximity degraders identifies a potent degrader of oncoprotein SKP2 go.nature.com/4mTBGhr
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A rapid imaging-based screen for induced-proximity degraders identifies a potent degrader of oncoprotein SKP2 - Nature Biotechnology
A screen for protein degraders discovers hits by imaging cell survival.
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Maria Vernera @marianveneral.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Our answers to climate change are damaging nature on.ft.com/3JWL9Gf
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Our answers to climate change are damaging nature
As the extinction of plants and animals accelerates, our dependence on the natural world is deepening
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Maria Vernera @marianveneral.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Quiet evening at Milan Cathedral, taking a short walk.. haha.. sorry that's my little friend from the Laboratory!!! #milan #Cathedral
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Maria Vernera @marianveneral.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Nothing like sipping coffee while leveling up the brows multitasking at its finest... glam and calm in one moment. #BrowGoals #GlamTime #BeautyRoutine
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Maria Vernera @marianveneral.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Non-profits wade in where for-profit life science investment fears to tread nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/eyzXy
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Non-profits wade in where for-profit life science investment fears to tread - Nature Biotechnology
For decades, and in the exceptional instance of the Institut Pasteur for over a century, non-profit organizations have augmented R&D to advance scientific understanding and develop affordable and ...
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 31/08/2025
"In IRL events, there's a hell of a lot more accountability, and people behave very differently in person than they do virtually," founder Lucy Rout said.
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This 30-year-old founder was so fatigued by dating apps, she started hosting IRL events: ‘I got to dating burnout’
"In IRL events, there's a hell of a lot more accountability, and people behave very differently in person than they do virtually," founder Lucy Rout said.
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 28/08/2025
Recent moves of note in and around the biotech and pharma industries go.nature.com/45WFeZc rdcu.be/eCTpZ
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People - Nature Biotechnology
Recent moves of note in and around the biotech and pharma industries.
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NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Employers can register for free, and must do so by Friday, September 5 at 3pm ET. For more information or to sign up, visit: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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NYU Center for Data Science Fall 2025 Career Fair: Employer Interest
Dear Employer Partners, The NYU Center for Data Science (CDS) Fall 2025 Career Fair will take place on Thursday, September 25, 2025 from 1:30PM-4:30PM ET in our open space at 60 Fifth Avenue and is ...
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NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
CDS Assistant Professor Grace Lindsay (@neurograce.bsky.social) offers practical summer prep advice for incoming students: brush up on quantitative basics if you're targeting technical skills, or research industry job requirements and work backward to plan your academic path.
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 04/08/2025
Australian startup Uluu is using seaweed and salt-loving microorganisms to produce bioplastics www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ocean-grown bioplastics - Nature Biotechnology
Nature Biotechnology - Ocean-grown bioplastics
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 04/08/2025
Each year, we highlight companies that received sizeable early-stage funding in the previous year. @seaporttx.bsky.social is modifying central nervous system drugs for delivery through the lymphatic system, bypassing first-pass liver metabolism
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Editor’s Pick: Seaport Therapeutics - Nature Biotechnology
Each year, Nature Biotechnology highlights companies that received sizeable early-stage funding in the previous year. Seaport Therapeutics is modifying central nervous system drugs for delivery throug...
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Texas Science @texasscience.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
🧬 A new AI tool from @utaustin.bsky.social & Sanofi could speed the development of mRNA-based therapies for viruses, cancers and genetic disorders. RiboNN predicts which mRNA sequences will be most efficiently translated into proteins. cns.utexas.edu/news/researc... @taccutexas.bsky.social
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New AI Tool Accelerates mRNA-Based Treatments for Viruses, Cancers, Genetic Disorders
UT Austin and Sanofi partner to build tool that predicts translation efficiency of mRNA sequences.
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 30/07/2025
At the intersection of biopharma and the public sector sits an extensive international community of non-profit R&D organizations steering life science innovations in the direction of global health burdens www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/eyzXy
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Non-profits wade in where for-profit life science investment fears to tread - Nature Biotechnology
For decades, and in the exceptional instance of the Institut Pasteur for over a century, non-profit organizations have augmented R&D to advance scientific understanding and develop affordable and ...
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 30/07/2025
A λ exonuclease system exhibits protospacer-adjacent motif-independent DNA-binding specificity, enabling diagnostic and imaging applications go.nature.com/3TwgkKk rdcu.be/eynve
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Bacteriophage λ exonuclease and a 5′-phosphorylated DNA guide allow PAM-independent targeting of double-stranded nucleic acids - Nature Biotechnology
A λ exonuclease system exhibits protospacer-adjacent motif-independent DNA-binding specificity, enabling diagnostic and imaging applications.
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 07/07/2025
Admiral Michael Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, once called the national debt the “greatest threat to national security.” Watch CNBC's "America's Deficit Reckoning" to learn how the U.S. debt spiral could spark a crisis: cnb.cx/407S3O9
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 07/07/2025
The greenback tumbled 10.7% against its global peers through June, making it the worst first half since 1973, back when Nixon broke the Bretton Woods gold standard. At its bottom, the currency hit its lowest point since February 2022.
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The declining dollar faces more headwinds after posting worst first-half return in 52 years
The U.S. dollar faces a variety of headwinds heading into the second half of the year that could have important investing implications.
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 07/07/2025
IBM has been a hot stock, and CNBC’s Jim Cramer said CEO Arvind Krishna is to thank for Big Blue finding its mojo once again.
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Jim Cramer salutes the CEO of an old-school tech stock that's making a lot of people money
CNBC's Jim Cramer on Monday marveled at the stock performance of IBM under CEO Arvind Krishna.
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Ben J Woodcroft @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Out in @natbiotech.nature.com: Metagenome taxonomy profilers usually ignore unknown species. SingleM is an accurate profiler which doesn't, even detecting phyla with no MAGs. Profiles of 700,000 metagenomes at sandpiper.qut.edu.au. A 🧵
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Innovative Genomics Institute @innovativegenomics.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Out today in @natbiotech.nature.com, IGI's @urnov.bsky.social and leaders across the #biotech industry on expanding patient access to #CRISPR cures with platform technology.
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 09/07/2025
The Trump administration is rapidly unraveling federal support for scientific and technology research–terminating grants, capping funding, and tying awards to political criteria. District courts are pushing back, writes @patentscholar.bsky.social, but consequences for US innovation are profound.
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The Trump Administration’s Multi-Front Assault on Federal Research Funding
Costs for scientific progress and the public could be profound if the Trump administration succeeds in significantly cutting research funding.
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Bill Gates @billgates.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Health aid is a small piece of America’s foreign aid, which is itself a small piece of the federal budget. In 2023, the US spent less than one percent of the federal budget on lifesaving global health programs: b-gat.es/4l9AyW1
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NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Jones-Rooy co-authored the "Data Science for Everyone" book and is the host of the Data Science for Everyone Video Series. Vasant Dhar is the host of the "Brave New World" podcast, and author of "Thinking With Machines", available for preorder here: www.amazon.com/Thinking-Mac...
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Thinking With Machines: The Brave New World of AI
Thinking With Machines: The Brave New World of AI [Dhar, Vasant] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Thinking With Machines: The Brave New World of AI
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NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
CDS Prof. @yann-lecun.bsky.social and CDS-affiliated Asst. Prof. @saining.bsky.social‬ show that visual self-supervised models, when scaled to 7B parameters and trained on 2B images, can match or outperform CLIP on VQA tasks—without any language supervision. Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.01017
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Scaling Language-Free Visual Representation Learning
Visual Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) currently underperforms Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) in multimodal settings such as Visual Question Answering (VQA). This multimodal gap is often...
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NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
CDS Clinical Professor Pascal Wallisch was selected as one of only four NYU Trailblazers for 2025! His presentation explored what we learned from disagreeing about #theDress for over a decade. His research at Fox Lab examines how people construct their subjective reality.
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 17/06/2025
New York City Comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested Tuesday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as he was escorting a defendant out of immigration court, his wife said in a statement. Read more: cnb.cx/3HF4B9x
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NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
In @natbiotech.nature.com, CDS-affiliated @itaiyanai.bsky.social and @martinlercher.bsky.social discuss how openness fuels discovery. They highlight the evolutionary nature of research and advocate for embracing a creative process. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Openness guides discovery - Nature Biotechnology
Nature Biotechnology - Openness guides discovery
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Cormac Sheridan @cormacsheridan.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Individualized #cancer #vaccines targeting #neoantigens have shown promise in small-scale studies, but the field is waiting on data from Merck's & Moderna's phase 3 trial of the #mRNA vaccine Intismeran autogene in #melanoma. Just out in @natbiotech.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Individualized mRNA cancer vaccines make strides - Nature Biotechnology
The first cancer vaccines matched to a person’s unique tumor neoantigens are forging ahead, with expectations running high as the field awaits results from the first pivotal trial.
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 18/06/2025
New tool improves the detection of hidden genetic mutations #NBTIntheNews www.uclahealth.org/news/release...
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New tool improves the detection of hidden genetic mutations
The tool, described in Nature Biotechnology, will help understand how changes in our DNA affect proteins and ultimately contribute to cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and other conditions.
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Bill Gates @billgates.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
​U.S. global health and development aid is estimated to have saved 92 million lives over the past 20 years. We can't afford to let that kind of progress unravel: b-gat.es/4kjSUCG
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 20/06/2025
CD8-targeted lipid nanoparticles carrying anti-CD19 CAR mRNA were developed to generate CAR-T cells directly in vivo, demonstrating effective B cell depletion for potential treatment of B cell malignancies and autoimmune diseases. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #NBThighlight
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In vivo CAR T cell generation to treat cancer and autoimmune disease
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies have transformed treatment of B cell malignancies. However, their broader application is limited by complex manufacturing processes and the necessity f...
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 26/03/2025
Over the next decade, advances in artificial intelligence will mean that humans will no longer be needed “for most things” in the world, says Bill Gates.
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Bill Gates: Within 10 years, AI will replace many doctors and teachers—humans won't be needed 'for most things'
A new era of "free intelligence" powered by AI will change the way humans work, says billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
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