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May (Mai) Khanna

@maykhanna.bsky.social
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@UF Faculty & Asst Dean of Innovation & Entrepreneur @AcadofInventors. CSO Regenerix ;co-founder Eternum Analytics. Opinions are my own. Spreading Kindness, Innovation and Peace. maykhanna.wixsite.com/themaykhannal…

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Monday is the deadline for public comment! The Heritage Foundation has been mobilizing its members to leave comments in favor of the rule change, so every unique comment matters (don’t use a form letter or copy/paste—similar comments are batched and treated as one).
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May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I am often drawn back to X to follow politics. But I miss my science community!!
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Jeff Coller @jmcoller.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Ten months ago I had never written an op-ed. I believed the work spoke for itself. It doesn't. When the government calls a lifesaving technology unsafe and scientists stay silent, the silence becomes the story. A new @jhu.edu profile on why I stopped staying quiet: hub.jhu.edu/2026/06/24/j...
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A staunch voice in support of science
Jeff Coller, a pioneering RNA biologist, has spent the past year vehemently advocating for the lifesaving promise of research in the face of federal cuts
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Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Don’t write, call. 5calls makes it easy.
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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
BOOM! www.nature.com/articles/s41... I think this is a big step forward for the field. Congrats to Lauren Donovan and @vivtawfik-mdphd.bsky.social and the whole Tawfik lab team.
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Aging and injury drive neuronal senescence in the dorsal root ganglia - Nature Neuroscience
The authors describe a susceptibility of the peripheral nervous system to neuronal senescence with age or injury relevant for sensory dysfunction, such as chronic pain.
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 11/05/2025
Lux Capital providing funding opportunities for academic biomedical research aligned with interests 👏 www.luxcapital.com/news/our-hel...
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Our Helpline for American Scientists
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May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Happy Mother’s Day to all. May your love always shine bright.
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Miami friends! I'm looking forwarding to see you this Friday, May 9th, at my seminar on cellular adaptation in cancer and a Night Science mini workshop, on the Creative Scientific Process! Location: Sylvester Support Services Building Auditorium (1430 NW 11th Avenue)
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Ryan Flynn @raflynn5.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Excited to share Benson’s and Maria’s work in collab w/Kostas Tzelepis: we found the nucleolar protein NPM1 is a marker of AML and can be targeted therapeutically connecting ‘cell surface RNA biology’ to cancer biology @natbiotech.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Very cool!!
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May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
CALLING ON ALL ENTREPRENEURS at COM @UFMedicine!! We are going to have a Seeding Startups day on May 17th at 4PM at a local farm in Gainesville!! It will be family friendly- bring your spouses/children to hear of your latest and greatest ideas!! MARK YOUR CALENDAR! More details coming soon.
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May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
This is pretty cool. Two RNA luminaries and some awesome socks!!! @darnelr.bsky.social and Adrian Krainer 😍
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 06/04/2025
Good tutorial on how measles infections work, fortunately all of this is avoidable. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Measles Attacks an Unvaccinated Child
With falling vaccination rates and outbreaks that have caused more than 580 U.S. cases and at least two deaths, health experts expect hundreds or even thousands more to be infected in the coming month...
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Dr. Shivani Ruparel @shivanibr.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Had a blast speaking and catching up w/ Nicole Scheff, @flybottleescape.bsky.social @robgereau.bsky.social @laurenslosky.bsky.social et al at the Center for Adv PainTher and Res (CAPToR) @ufresearch.bsky.social.Thank you @khannalabuf.bsky.social and @maykhanna.bsky.social for hosting us.
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 27/03/2025
We are seeking to hire a lab tech, this is an HHMI funded position, please share the job posting: hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
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Lab Administration Research Technician- Bertozzi Lab
Primary Work Address: Beckman Center, Stanford, CA, 94305-5323 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. We are currently looking for a highly motivated Lab Administration ...
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May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Everyone on this platform should also be on X.
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Next month we celebrate the 6th Anniversary of our service, and podcasts! So far we've published 303 episodes, and 11,735 minutes of top #dementia research content. Subscribe on YouTube or in your favourite podcast app! podfollow.com/dementia-res...
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Podcasts on DEMENTIA RESEARCHER
A biweekly podcast for early career researchers, bringing together fantastic guests to discuss their research, careers + much more.
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John Purdy @purdylab.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Congratulations to @rmokry.bsky.social on her first pub from the lab. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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NMR Online Limited @nmronline.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
NMR QUESTION: Hi NMR spectroscopy friends, Does anybody have an ARTSY RDC dataset in NmrPipe format that we could use for software testing purposes? DM’s welcome. Thank you in advance. #NMR #NMRchat #NMROnline
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Jeffrey Perkel (he/him) @jperkel.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
"Until we acknowledge that publish or perish is the natural consequence of the rankings obsession, we're not going to fix anything." New @nature.com, 62% of researchers in a survey attribute scientific irreproducibility to the 'publish or perish' culture. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘Publish or perish’ culture blamed for reproducibility crisis
Survey of more than 1,600 biomedical researchers also flagged small sample sizes and cherry-picking of data as leading causes of reproducibility problems.
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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
BOOM! Big advance in our understanding of the pharmacology of CBD, CBN, and most importantly CBG. New work from the Waxman lab showing these "minor" cannabinoids act on Nav1.8: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
@chen-zhao.bsky.social welcome to Bluesky my dear!! Good to see you here 😍. Follow this most awesome cryoEM scientist with a heart of gold ❤️
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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Anyone working in the chemotherapy neuropathy field should read this proposed guidance from the FDA and provide comment if they have something to say about what is proposed: www.fda.gov/regulatory-i...
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Prevention and Treatment of Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy
Prevention and Treatment of Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy: Developing Drug and Biological Products in Oncology
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May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
This is so awful. I can’t even imagine the loss.
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 12/01/2025
In-depth article on chronic pain, with my friend @robgereau.bsky.social and Allan Basbaum heavily interviewed as scientists studying pain: ‘We die in pain, we don’t die of pain.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/m...
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Chronic Pain Afflicts Billions of People. It’s Time for a Revolution.
As many as two billion people suffer from it — including me. Can science finally bring us relief?
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 09/01/2025
Childhood cancer death rates in the United States have declined six-fold over the last seventy years. 🧵
This chart presents US cancer death rates in children under five years old, measured in reported annual death rates per 100,000 children. It consists of four graphs:

1. All Malignant Cancers Combined: This graph illustrates a decline in childhood cancer death rates from about 11 per 100,000 in 1950 to around 1.8 in 2021, indicating a six-fold decrease since the 1950s.
   
2. Leukemia: This graph shows a decrease from around 5 per 100,000 in 1950 to less than 1 in 2021, following a similar declining trend throughout the decades.

3. Brain and Nervous System Cancers: This chart shows some fluctuations but overall a decline from nearly 0.8 per 100,000 in 1950 to about 0.4 in 2021.

4. Lymphomas and Multiple Myeloma: This graph shows fluctuations and a decline from around 0.8 in the late 1950s to less than 0.2 by 2021.

The data is sourced from the WHO Mortality Database (2024), with a note indicating that figures may fluctuate year-by-year due to low numbers.
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May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Share it!! You will love it here 😍
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 06/01/2025
AND, at some point, we need to talk about how the fact that we are DETROIT means we're already at a recruiting disadvantage, and not just in sports! You gotta WANT to be in Detroit! That's why we have such a fierce love for each other AND for our city. Stand up and tell 'em you're from DETROIT!
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May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Stunning!
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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
This should be a terrific study that give substantial new insight into mechanisms of Rheumatoid Arthritis pain: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1.... Also (another) great example of the open science leadership of @denklab.bsky.social and colleagues.
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Fibroblast-Neuron Interactions Driving Persistent Pain in Rheumatoid Arthritis (FiND-Pain RA) - a study protocol
Introduction Pain in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an unmet clinical need. Targeting joint inflammation with disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) has not resulted in the anticip...
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May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
It was such a pleasure ❤️ love seeing everyone come together to celebrate the holidays 😍❤️
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May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
This is cool!
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May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Art and Science. An awesome combo!!
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May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
@hastingslab.bsky.social welcome!! Its good to see you here Michelle 😍
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
So excited to share our new paper working w/ David Lyden, Han Kim & Jackie Bromberg (WCM), led by the amazing Inbal Wortzel & Ifé Akano where we revealed a new & unexpected function for chromatin on the surface of exosomes in #cancer #metastasis @ Nature Cancer! www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Unique structural configuration of EV-DNA primes Kupffer cell-mediated antitumor immunity to prevent metastatic progression - Nature Cancer
Lyden and colleagues find that immune developmental genes, such as apoptotic peptidase activating factor 1 (APAF1), support DNA packaging on the surface of tumor-derived extracellular vesicles that ar...
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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
PLEASE TAKE OUR MONEY TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE. Apologies in advance for spamming but I want to make sure there is reach on here and in bluer pastures. -$10K USD max per project -international projects accepted -deadline DECEMBER 25th; weekly rolling decisions -$41K left in grant pool rn
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The Vilcek Foundation has opened its grantmaking. #Nonprofit organizations are encouraged to apply for a grant of up to $20,000. The deadline to apply for a grant is June 30, 2025. vilcek.org/grants/?utm_...
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Grants - Vilcek Foundation
The Vilcek Foundation accepts grant applications to support immigrant artists and communities, and diversity in the arts, sciences, and education.
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Jianhan Chen @umassmdlab.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Excited to share our new coarse grained model of dynamic RNA for phase separation simulations. The model is still evolving and any feedback is welcomed! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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An Intermediate Resolution Model of RNA Dynamics and Phase Separation with Explicit Mg2+
RNAs are major drivers of phase separation in the formation of biomolecular condensates. Recent studies suggest that RNAs can also undergo protein-free phase separation in the presence of divalent ion...
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 03/12/2024
Cool new work from Jenn Prescher and coworkers @ucirvine.bsky.social, “RNA lantern” technology for bioluminescence imaging of RNA transcripts www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A modular platform for bioluminescent RNA tracking - Nature Communications
Studying RNA dynamics in vivo often relies on fluorogenic approaches, but these can be hampered by factors such as limited sensitivity and sample autofluorescence. Here, the authors describe an ultras...
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Dr. Benjamin Runkle @drbenrunkle.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
We're hiring at the U. of Arkansas! Asst. Prof. with the aim of a research program focus on circular bioeconomy systems, teaching, service, and mentoring graduate students and research staff. Tenure will accrue in Dept. Biol. & Agric. Engr. Apply: uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UASYS/...
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Marta Olah, PhD @martikacska.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Super excited to be here and to start using this platform with a great news - check out the latest study from the Sher lab published in Acta Neuropathologica reporting on the effect of LINE-1 retrotransposons on microglial function in Alzheimer’s disease 🙂 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Elevated expression of the retrotransposon LINE-1 drives Alzheimer’s disease-associated microglial dysfunction - Acta Neuropathologica
Aberrant activity of the retrotransposable element long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1) has been hypothesized to contribute to cellular dysfunction in age-related disorders, including late-ons...
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Sukrit Singh @sukritsingh92.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
New preprint! We prospectively evaluate structure-based methods and measure how well they classify clinical kinase mutations as inhibitor–resistant or –sensitizing when compared against our NanoBRET assay. Alchemical methods are well-suited to modeling distal mutants! Link: doi.org/10.1101/2024...
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Prospective evaluation of structure-based simulations reveal their ability to predict the impact of kinase mutations on inhibitor binding
Small molecule kinase inhibitors are critical in the modern treatment of cancers, evidenced by the existence of over 80 FDA-approved small-molecule kinase inhibitors. Unfortunately, intrinsic or acqui...
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Luciano A. Masullo @lumasullo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
ÅNGSTRÖM-RESOLUTION FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY. Can we do structural biology with an optical microscope? Yes! Check out how we resolved *single bases of DNA* and much more using fluorescence microscopy, out on 24.05.2023 in Nature! @natureportfolio.bsky.social [re-post from Twitter]
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Ångström-resolution fluorescence microscopy - Nature
The authors introduce a single-molecule DNA-barcoding method, resolution enhancement by sequential imaging, that improves the resolution of fluorescence microscopy down to the Ångström scale using off...
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May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
😍 go UMich!! Beautiful Detroit airport!! Heading home after a wonderful family gathering ❤️
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Being Reese @beingreese.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Support your local bookstores. Support your local bookstores. Support your local bookstores. Support your local bookstores. Support your local bookstores. Support your local bookstores. Support your local bookstores. #BookSky #BlackBookSky ☕️📚
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rangachari lab (vijay) @rangacharilab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A significant discovery elegantly demonstrated... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Stereochemistry in the disorder–order continuum of protein interactions - Nature
Studies on protein–protein interactions using proteins containing d- or l-amino acids show that stereoselectivity of binding varies with the degree of disorder within the complex.
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May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Wow! Time to expand 😊
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erzbergerlab.bsky.social @erzbergerlab.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Yeast ribosomes adapt to glucose starvation by tethering to mitochondria in hibernation. Prolonged depletion halts protein synthesis and remodels ribosomes to create protective ribosome arrays. #ribosomes #RNASky #RNABiology #translation rdcu.be/d1xqj
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Ribosomes hibernate on mitochondria during cellular stress
Nature Communications - Cells adapt to low glucose by halting protein synthesis and altering organelle shape. Here the authors showed that hibernating ribosomes tether to mitochondria and form...
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
My lab studies both lab mice and naked mole rats. There is a belief amongst some that what we discover in mice will be universally true, and what we discover in naked mole rats will be a weird mole rat quirk. I believe this mouse-centric view of biological systems is very limiting.
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rangachari lab (vijay) @rangacharilab.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Check out our chapter on "Amyloid Polymorphism" in the book "The Three Functional States of Proteins." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Structural polymorphism in amyloids—states within proteins’ solid-state
Proteins are functionally diverse molecules that exist in a plethora of conformations and structures or as disordered ensembles, depending on their pr…
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