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Marina Lavigne

@marina-igmm.bsky.social
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Engineer @IGMM, Montpellier France, E.J. Kremer lab. Official CAV-2 vectors dealer. 🦠https://plateau-igmm.pvm.cnrs.fr/ 🦠

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 29/09/2026
I realise this is a long shot, but do I know anyone in Europe working with inducible mouse models of Parkinson (e.g. 6OHDA lesions)? Who, crucially, is willing to host and train a PhD student, sometime next year? 🧠 #neuroscience
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Philippe Le Mercier, ViralZone @viralzone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A clever new tool for building full icosahedral capsids from AlphaFold models — from the talented team behind ViperDB. FoldaVirus, a knowledge-based icosahedral capsid prediction tool using AlphaFold www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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RogueESR @rogueesr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Nouvelle victoire pour l'extrême-droite en Europe, et toujours ce même terreau que l'on retrouve partout. Dans les mois qui viennent, il nous faut faire tout ce qui est en notre pouvoir pour préserver les libertés publiques et l'Etat de droit d'une bascule fasciste. www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...
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En Saxe-Anhalt, l’extrême droite obtient une victoire historique
Selon les premières estimations, l’AfD a obtenu plus de 44 % des suffrages dans ce land de l’ex-RDA, où la participation a été très élevée. Il pourrait manquer d’une poignée de sièges la majorité abs…
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IGMM-Montpellier @igmm-montpel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🧬 New position available at @igmm-montpel.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @umontpellier.bsky.social ! 🔬 🧬 We are looking for a Gene Therapy Assistant Engineer (M/F) in Montpellier, France. 👉More information & applications: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... #CNRS #IGMM #GeneTherapy #Research #Montpellier
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Assistant ingénieur en thérapie génique (H/F)
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@WildImmunity @wildimmunity.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reclone: a global research community building equitable access to reagents - Nature Methods
The Reagent Collaboration Network (Reclone) seeks to address the global asymmetry in research and development in biotechnology across the Global South through open sharing of biomaterials, protocols a...
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Natale R. Sciolino, PhD @sciolinolab.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Looking for a postdoc? The @sciolinolab.bsky.social at UConn is hiring! We investigate how neuromodulatory systems interact with central taste processing regions to regulate behavior using in vivo recordings, optogenetics & mouse behavior. Apply: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49...
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Mikko Taipale @miketilapia.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Our evil ORFeome paper is out! In collaboration with @alex-stark.bsky.social, we screened ~4,000 viral proteins and secreted effectors from bacteria and parasites, covering hundreds of diverse pathogens, for phenotypes in human cells.
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IGMM-Montpellier @igmm-montpel.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🚀 Job opening 📣 We are recruiting an Assistant Engineer in Gene Therapy (Adénovirus team – Eric Kremer Lab) @cnrs.fr @umontpellier.bsky.social 🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... #Hiring #CNRS #IGMM #GeneTherapy #Neuroscience #LifeSciences #ResearchJob
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Assistant ingénieur en thérapie génique (H/F)
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Marina Lavigne @marina-igmm.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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#esact #bioprocessing #biotechtraining #biotechnology #cellculture #biotechtraining #biomedicine | ESACT - European Society for the Advancement of Cell Technology
The energy from Salzburg is still buzzing — and so is your chance to join us! The ESACT Meeting 2026 in Salzburg has just wrapped up, and what an inspiring gathering of brilliant minds it was! The con...
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RogueESR @rogueesr.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
#Parcoursup n'est pas seulement fait pour écraser les lycéens par l'angoisse et le contrôle permanent. Il est fait pour creuser les inégalités et les naturaliser, faire accepter une place dans la société largement déterminée par le capital éducatif des parents. www.nouvelobs.com/opinions/202...
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Parcoursup : où est le mode d’emploi pour les parents ?
Alors que s’ouvre ce mardi 2 juin la phase principale d’admission de la session 2026 de Parcoursup, l’angoisse monte chez les lycéens. Le sociologue Alban Mizzi a étudié les répercussions du processus...
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 03/05/2026
Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations doi.org/10.59350/5zt... 🧪
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Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations
Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics
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Helmholtz Imaging @helmholtzimaging.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
What does your science look like? 👀 The Best Scientific Image Contest 2026 deadline has been extended to May 13 & now includes €4,500 in total prize money. 🙌 Share your images & let it travel beyond the lab. Submit 👉 awards.helmholtz-imaging.de/site/index.php Open to everyone at @helmholtz.de.
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Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
OneOrangeBrainCell
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Iria González-Dopeso Reyes @iriareyes.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
🧠 Our new paper in @NatureComms is out! We uncovered a disrupted temperature-sleep coupling in a Dravet syndrome mouse model — and show SCN1A restoration can help. Dedicated to the memory of Dr. Saja Fadila 🕊️ 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-69957-1 #DravetSyndrome #Neuroscience
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Disrupted temperature-sleep coupling mechanism in a Dravet syndrome mouse model - Nature Communications
In this study, the authors present that sleep onset fails to trigger the normal body-temperature drop, and that warmth does not promote sleep, in a Dravet syndrome mouse model. They further show resto...
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Roger Castells @rcastellsg.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Hot off the press! I'm thrilled to share that our paper "Unravelling the Maturation Pathway of a Eukaryotic Virus through Cryo-EM" has been published! Link to the paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Nature is full of remarkable protein nanomachines, and now we can watch one more in action.
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Josh Johansen @jojolab.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Excited to share our new paper: We uncover a locus coeruleus→amygdala circuit linking β-adrenergic signaling to transcription regulation in defined amygdala cells during memory reconsolidation—+ stress or elevated noradrenergic signaling at recall can strengthen memory. www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
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A neuromodulatory circuit-to-molecular pathway for reformatting aversive memories during recall
Tan et al. identify a neuromodulatory circuit-to-molecular pathway in rats that updates aversive memories when they are recalled. Noradrenaline from the locus coeruleus triggers synapse-to-nuclear tra...
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Marina Lavigne @marina-igmm.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Steven Spielberg, Denis Villeneuve : I’m free…
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Nicolas Lebrun @nicolas-lebrun.fr · 02/03/2026
My project Degenerative Architecture has been on display on the façade of the Montpellier School of Fine Arts since last week.
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davidweinshenker.bsky.social @davidweinshenker.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
New Special Issue out in #AddictionNeuroscience edited by @talialerner.bsky.social on dopamine circuitry and heterogeneity in addiction with articles by @daylab.bsky.social, Tom Hnasko, @mtorregrossa1.bsky.social, and Awatramani Rajeshwar check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 16/02/2026
Despite decades of intensive research, current approaches to treating #NeurodegenerativeDiseases only slow down the seemingly inevitable. Could recent data associating #vaccines with reduced risk of #dementia offer an unexpected beacon of hope?🧪 @sparrerlab.bsky.social
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Could targeting viruses be a new hope against neurodegenerative diseases?
Current therapies for neurodegenerative diseases largely manage symptoms and only modestly slow progression. This Perspective highlights emerging evidence that vaccines and antivirals may lower…
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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
There's a special place in hell for people who benefit daily from state of the art medical treatment and then argue that the means to discover the next state of the art treatment should be eliminated.
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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Great to see this officially out: An mTurquoise2-Based Glucose Biosensor - works in yeast & mammalian cells and is compatible with FLIM: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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An mTurquoise2-Based Glucose Biosensor
Glucose is an important substrate for organisms to acquire energy needed for cellular growth. Despite the importance of this metabolite, single-cell information at a fast time-scale about the dynamics...
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ProgGrrl @proggrrl.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Tom Morello live in Minneapolis
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Nature @nature.com · 23/01/2026
After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts go.nature.com/4qLPpcb
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When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.
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CNRS Biologie @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
#ResultatScientifique🔎| Des parasites du paludisme pris au piège : une approche innovante pour lutter contre la maladie 🦠 ✍️ Rachel Cerdan 🤝 @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @inserm.fr @umontpellier.bsky.social 📕 buff.ly/YZ7m9qz
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Parasites piégés dans le globule rouge, une nouvelle approche antipaludique
Face aux quelques 260 millions de cas de paludisme recensés chaque année, l’identification de nouveaux médicaments aux modes d’action innovants est une
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Johannes Bohacek @bohaceklab.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
How does your favorite gene respond to stress? Check out our updated “Stressome-app”! In a new @natcomms.nature.com paper we vastly extend our interactive app with loads of bulk and single-cell transcriptomics after acute and chronic stress. www.nature.com/articles/s41... I'll walk you through👇
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CNRS Biologie @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
#ResultatScientifique🔎| Un circuit neuronal qui énergise le comportement 🧠 ✍️ Emmanuel Procyk et @crewilson.bsky.social 📕 @currentbiology.bsky.social | buff.ly/Dv4XBOt buff.ly/S7OfpX3
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ETH Zurich @ethz.ch · 15/12/2025
In a groundbreaking study, an international team led by ETH Zurich researchers has for the first time calculated how many glaciers worldwide are likely to remain until the end of the century and for how long. It looks bleak. ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
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The Alps to lose a record number of glaciers in the next decade
How much longer will glaciers survive? A new study from ETH Zurich researchers offers the first detailed projection of how many glaciers could vanish by 2100 due to global warming – and why regions su...
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CNRS en Occitanie Est @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
« 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐈 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐈 𝐠𝐨 » : 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐮 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 Des scientifiques de l'IGF montrent que des neurones du noyau paraventriculaire du thalamus permettent aux souris de comparer leurs expériences présentes et passées afin d’évaluer danger et sécurité relatifs. urlr.me/Zsg2x9
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« Should I stay or should I go » : comment le cerveau apprend en comparant
Dans une étude publiée dans Current Biology, des scientifiques montrent que des neurones du noyau paraventriculaire d
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Marina Lavigne @marina-igmm.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Need help 😬 : anyone knows a good system to stop protein expression in mammalian cells (except degradon, Tet on/off prom, crispr, smash or trip system) ?
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IGMM-Montpellier @igmm-montpel.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
🎉 Félicitations à l’équipe de Stephanie Trouche Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle - IGF, avec le soutien de l’équipe d’Éric Kremer (IGMM) et la plateforme de vectorologie Biocampus, pour leur publication dans @currentbiology.bsky.social 🧠✨ www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...
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« Should I stay or should I go » : comment le cerveau apprend en comparant
Dans une étude publiée dans Current Biology, des scientifiques montrent que des neurones du noyau paraventriculaire d
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Ed Hutchinson @socialinfluenza.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Feeling festive? Why not deck the halls with @cvrinfo.bsky.social's papercraft #VirusSnowflakes and celebrate the science of viruses and the fight against viral diseases. Download for free: cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl... #scicomm #sciart #decorations
A poster with branding for the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre fo Virus Research, labelled 'Virus Snowflakes.' The poster shows snowflake-like virus designs and song lyrics reading:
On the twelfth day of Christmas, a virus gave to me,
Twelve fights worth winning,
Eleven Christmas dinners,
Ten lunar landers,
Nine childhood vaccines,
Eight tools for teaching,
Seven dogs a-barking,
Six wasps a-laying,
FIIIIVE TIIINY RIIIIIIINGS,
Four vaccine platforms,
Three genome segments,
Two twinned capsids, and
A world that is too small to see
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American Society of Gene + Cell Therapy @asgct.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
FDA approves Itvisma, expanding access to gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy. The one-time intrathecal treatment is approved for patients two years and older – the first gene replacement therapy available for this broader SMA population. Read more: bit.ly/3Kn9mpM
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FDA Approves Gene Therapy for Treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy
FDA Approves Gene Therapy for Treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy
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IGMM-Montpellier @igmm-montpel.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
👏Pauline Duc et @florage.bsky.social pour leur contribution à cette avancée publiée dans Nature Neuroscience : un microARN musculaire pourrait protéger les neurones moteurs et ouvrir de nouvelles pistes thérapeutiques contre la SLA grâce au financement ARSLA! www.arsla.org/quand-le-mus...
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Une piste thérapeutique prometteuse : quand le muscle aide à protéger les neurones moteurs - ARSLA
Une équipe de chercheurs de l’Université de Tel Aviv, en collaboration avec des scientifiques français, vient de publier une découverte
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Brain Case @braincase.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
🧬 AAV not expressing? 🔍 Weak fluorescence? Here’s your step-by-step guide to fixing the most common AAV pitfalls—from titer and serotype to detection and sample processing. www.ebraincase.com/support/lite... #AAV #AAVVector #ViralVectors #GeneDelivery #GeneExpression #NeuroscienceResearch
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Cracking the AAV Expression Problem: No Signal? Weak Fluorescence? Here’s Your Step-by-Step Fix from Virus to Detection
Learn how to solve AAV expression loss and weak fluorescence with step-by-step optimization of vector design, viral titer, injection dose, timing, detection, and sample processing.
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Methodology
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Karim Majzoub @karimaj.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
My lab is recruiting a post-doc ! please share ! emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Glen Dunlap @glendunlap.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I forgot the settings on the last #FullMoon post. Here's a slightly different version though. #MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography Camera settings: Canon T5i Sigma 150mm x 600mm Focal length: 600mm F-stop: f/10 Exposure time: 1/1600 ISO: 800
Close up photo of the full Moon
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Jerome Sallet @jsallet.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Really delighted to share our new article in Current Biology showing that the cingulate-to-dorsolateral prefrontal pathway is not involved in trial-to-trial short-term adaptation but rather in sustained motivational control. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
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Redirecting
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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
'In this manuscript, we show that tag fusions often change protein expression to a degree that is highly dependent on cell and tissue context. We characterise two underlying mechanisms, providing information that should help others to design more effective transgenic strategies'
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Tissue-specific consequences of tag fusions on protein expression in transgenic mice
Author summary To better understand the function of specific proteins, researchers need ways to quantify their abundance, to visualise their movements, to understand what other molecules they interact...
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IGMM-Montpellier @igmm-montpel.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
🧠Maladie d'Alzheimer⚡ Rétablir les rythmes électriques du cerveau par thérapie génique. Projet mené au sein de l'équipe dirigée par Eric Kremer et soutenu par @frm-officiel.bsky.social
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Maladie d’Alzheimer : rétablir les rythmes électriques du cerveau par thérapie génique
Les chercheurs souhaitent mettre au point une thérapie génique innovante pour restaurer un bon équilibre électrique dans le cerveau, et ainsi freiner le développement de la maladie d’Alzheimer.
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Wcrt L @l-wcrdt.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Lecornu Sébastien succède donc à Sébastien Lecornu. (censure)
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Thelonevirologist @thelonevirologist.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Viral interferon antagonism shapes host tropism journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
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Viral interferon antagonism shapes host tropism
Outbreaks of zoonotic viruses in human populations highlight the need to understand the molecular factors that influence viral host tropism and interspecies transmission. A virus’s host range is deter...
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Damn, we had a government... for 14 hours
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Josh Currie @joshcurrie.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Just a reminder if you're getting a manuscript together (like we are) to thank your core facilities!
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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Should you plant goldenrods? Yes! And be a hero to migrating monarchs. Here’s showy goldenrod putting on a show for monarch butterflies and other pollinators #nativeplants #nativepollinators #homegrownnationalpark #mentalhealth
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Addgene @addgene.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Check out the plasmids from this study! 👉 www.addgene.org/browse/artic...
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Addgene: Programmable de novo designed coiled coil-mediated phase separation in mammalian cells.
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Ofer Yizhar @oyiz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Really cool stuff! Engineered excitatory opsins responding to 15nW light
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FamilieSCN2A Foundation @scn2a.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🚨 Big news for the #SCN2A community 🚨 Landmark UCSF study shows CRISPR activation can restore SCN2A function — even later in development. A real step forward, and real hope, for families living with SCN2A-related disorders. www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
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Landmark UCSF Study Demonstrates Functional Rescue of SCN2A Loss of Function, Underscoring the Potential of Regel Therapeutics' Targeted EpiEditing Platform.
/PRNewswire/ -- The laboratories of Dr. Kevin Bender and Dr. Nadav Ahituv at the University of California, San Francisco, today announced the publication of...
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