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Alexander Price

@pricelesssci.bsky.social
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Assistant professor at the Wistar Institute studying Gene Regulation | Virologist interested in all things RNA and DNA.

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Alexander Price @pricelesssci.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
We tested four distinct splicing inhibitors across human adenovirus, herpes simplex, and influenza A. All three viruses showed profound drops in infectious virus production — even at doses that don't harm normal cells, don't activate interferon, and spare viruses that don't use cellular splicing.
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Alexander Price @pricelesssci.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
RNA splicing was discovered in adenovirus almost 50 years ago. In our lab's first pre-print we have turned that relationship around, showing that viruses dependence on the cell's splicing machinery leads to a hidden vulnerability that can be targeted with drugs already in human clinical trials.
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Alexander Price @pricelesssci.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Very excited to announce that the Price Lab has received a first major NIH award! In this five year NIGMS R35 MIRA we will be exploring fundamental processing and recognition of nuclear double-stranded (ds)RNA.
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Alexander Price @pricelesssci.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
We believe these tools will be useful to adenovirologists, as well as those that simply use this powerful little virus as a vector. In the manuscript we demonstrate using the E4 region for multicistronic gene expression, as well as a single vector system for doxycycline-induced gene expression.
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Alexander Price @pricelesssci.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Using the amazing AdenoBuilder system we have constructed a set of fluorescent and bioluminescent Ad5 viruses. By exploiting the existing transcriptional units of the virus, our single color and dual color (early/late) reporters reflect the staging of the virus with wildtype replication kinetics.
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Alexander Price @pricelesssci.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The Price Lab turned two years old this week! Of course we celebrated with cake, but the cherry on top was submitting our labs very first manuscript today! Excited to see what the rest of the year holds.
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Alexander Price @pricelesssci.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I also thought the experience was rather painless, but our grad student (who made this slide for our following lab meeting) had different opinions?
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Alexander Price @pricelesssci.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
With all that is happening it is very exciting to see the Price Lab's very first, in-house, Oxford Nanopore direct RNA seq running! Not bad for a ~3 year expired flow cell!
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Alexander Price @pricelesssci.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Happy Holidays from the Price Lab! Very excited to host our inaugural lab get-together, complete with secret white elephant gift exchange and hot chocolate bar. I am grateful to this team we are creating together, and looking forward to some big announcements in 2025 and beyond!
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