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Christopher J Hernandez

@profhernandez.bsky.social
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Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences @UCSF and Bioengineering @UCBerkeley #bone #microbiome #biomechanics #mechanobiology #engineeredlivingmaterials www.hernandezresearch.com

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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Thank you #SDCC for having us and thank you #SDCC fans for the discussion. Now the hard work of doing the real science to make “unbreakable” bones. With KC Huang
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Biohub @biohub.org · 23/07/2026
Can science give you superpowers? Don’t miss Biohub Investigators @profhernandez.bsky.social and KC Huang at San Diego Comic-Con tonight! #SDCC
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I’m excited about my upcoming talk at San Diego Comic Con in a panel entitled “How science may give you superpowers” with KC Huang and Tom Galloway. #SDCC #Makeitcannon #Originstory www.comic-con.org/cc/things-to...
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Programming Schedule - Comic-Con
Check out the programming schedule for Comic-Con in San Diego!
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Supplementation with Vitamin D or calcium, or both does not help prevent fractures or falls. From a new systematic review of 69 randomized trials and >150,000 participants
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Great lab retreat @exploratorium.bsky.social today! Wonderful time sharing our research with staff and volunteers. Thank you for having us!
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I’m a mentor to the high school KhanLab-BayArea @iGEM. They made #engineeredlivingmaterials with advice from me @kelsey DeFrates @jingjieyeo.bsky.social @cheveran.bsky.social The team earned a Gold Medal and were nominated for a special award. Thanks to @NSF for supporting this broader impact.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 31/10/2025
Cement, brick, and metal use are responsible for more than half of the carbon dioxide emissions from the construction sector, and the sector’s carbon footprint could exceed the annual carbon budget, according to an analysis in Communications Earth & Environment. go.nature.com/4op0VZR 🧪
This is figure 1, which gives an overview of carbon footprints of the construction industry.
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Congrats to University of California, San Francisco Health Innovations Via Engineering professor Kyle Cromer on receiving the #NIH New Innovator award! After @kelseyhcollins.bsky.social last year #engineers @UCSf are on a roll. lnkd.in/guas9HWN
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I've been following the field of biosensors for nearly 2 decades. This may well turn out to be the most important advance yet erictopol.substack.com/p/biosensors...
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Biosensors to Track Proteins and Inflammation in Our Blood in Real Time
A recording from Eric Topol's live video
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I'm pleased to participate in the @exploratorium.bsky.social and SHPE Engineering Day, Saturday Sept. 27. Gissell Jimenez from my lab will also be doing a demonstration of her working looking at how cells deep inside a material get their nutrients. www.exploratorium.edu/visit/calend...
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Engineering Day | Exploratorium Museum Event
Our annual Engineering Day returns! Learn about STEM through interactive activities, hands-on exhibits, and panel discussions.
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Brian Umberger @brianumberger.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Please repost! We have an open rank, tenure-line faculty position in biomechanics in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. At U-M we have great colleagues, exceptional resources, and biomechanics can be found all across the campus. #BiomechSky
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Tenure-track Faculty Position in Biomechanics (Open Rank), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA - Biomch-L
The School of Kinesiology (http://kines.umich.edu) at the University of Michigan invites applications and nominations for a tenure-track faculty position at the level of Assistant Professor, Associate...
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Another #UCSF Orthopaedics Research Retreat on a perfect day at the #presidio so lucky to have such an amazing team
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Congrats to Natasha hunt for passing her qualifying exam!
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Commensal taxa in gut microbiota limit antibiotic resistance during extended oral antibiotic use www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Pleased to release this preprint with @elcyphert-phd.bsky.social and many others. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Commensal taxa in gut microbiota limit antibiotic resistance during extended oral antibiotic use
Certain bacterial infections, such as those involving prosthetics, can require antimicrobial therapy over months to years, potentially increasing the burden of antimicrobial resistance. Here we longit...
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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Some journals are claiming that you need to pay big $$ for gold open access to comply with NIH's new public access policy. FYI that is total bs. You can comply by depositing the Accepted Manuscript into PubMed Central on the Date of Publication without embargo. Pass it on.
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I wonder how many more microbial produced molecules regulate disease throughout the body, especially in musculoskeletal tissues.
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Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601
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Junior, Assistant, or Associate Specialist – Xue Lab
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Engineered Living Materials will change the world. Want to be in the room where it happened? Submit your abstract to the meeting today (due July 22). www.linkedin.com/posts/marimi...
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Due to popular demand, the abstract submission deadline for the Engineered Living Materials Workshop has been extended to July 22nd. | Marimikel Charrier
Due to popular demand, the abstract submission deadline for the Engineered Living Materials Workshop has been extended to July 22nd. Be a part of a dynamic exchange of ideas with leading experts from ...
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Where did you take your @asbmr.bsky.social swag this summer?
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Tom Ellis @proftomellis.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
We're hiring for 2 postdocs to work in our lab in London on the newly announced Wellcome Trust SynHG project. If you know people looking to work on big-scale ambitious science like this, please RT and share this with them. Apply by 7/20, interviews in Aug. imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I’m proud of Natasha Hunt who presented her work at the Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine Annual Retreat
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Great talk by Cater Wilder at the UC wide bioengineering meeting
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Great talk by Cater Wilder at the UC wide bioengineering meeting
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
What a great story about @cheveran.bsky.social and her team! www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/s...
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Fungi and bacteria could be used to build homes one day, new study suggests | CNN
Researchers in Montana say they have found a way to turn fungus into a brick, which could eventually offer a more sustainable cement alternative.
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Another PhD from the Hernandez Research Group! Congrats Dr. Chongshan Cleo Liu
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Hernandez Research Group party this year featured tacos and a close look at a Cybertruck
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
youtu.be/417F1uWzDCA?...
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Ten Thousand Men of Harvard: A Virtual ARTS FIRST Celebration!
YouTube video by Harvard University Band
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Want to do a #postdoc? Did you know more faculty jobs go to people who postdoc in slightly different subject area? doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Are you an expert in #microbiome OR #osteoarthritis? How'd you like to join me and @kelseyhcollins.bsky.social as we figure out how the two are connected?
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Physical mechanisms that enable bacteria to traverse channels half their width www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Wow what a great visit to Washington University in St Louis. Thank you #MuscloskeletalResearchCenter students and postdocs for the invite! Thanks @settonlab.bsky.social for the engineering school tour. @mcalinden-lab.bsky.social @simonytanglab.bsky.social
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Congrats to Samuel Stephen who was just awarded a UC Postdoctoral Fellowship! I was lucky to recruit Sam to the lab last year. He's got big plans to revolutionize bone
Picture of Samuel Stephen
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
In the future engineers will use cells, proteins and DNA the way they currently use gears and circuits. This April we start this effort in the US with a workshop of scientists and engineers using biology to make materials for buildings and commercial devices. synbio.rice.edu/2025-elm-wor...
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2025 ELM Workshop
Fostering diversity and an intellectual environment, Rice University is a comprehensive research university located on a 300-acre tree-lined campus in Houston, Texas. Rice produces the next generation...
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
2025 lab retreat this year included discussion of “Outlive” by Peter Attia, and sea lions on the rainiest day of the year in San Francisco
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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Love this!! 🙌🏻 Depts with upcoming searches, don’t miss these amazing future PIs!
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Tom Ellis @proftomellis.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Mitochondria are just the gut bacteria of cells.
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Really a great thread detailing how you deal with unexpected findings! Great work @jboerckel.bsky.social @amilangscience.bsky.social
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Kelsey H. Collins @kelseyhcollins.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Congrats @thehopefulscie1.bsky.social - great way to wrap up the year! Don’t miss this high value study profiling systemic metabolomic changes with OA and weight loss from the IDEA trial - great insights into OA as a systemic metabolic disease, with important insight on sex differences 👏🏻
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
An interesting article about the Ivory Tower
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Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Really an outstanding paper
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
When the earthquake 230miles away fouls up your force displacement curve
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
How do you cell living cells into rigid materials? Tomorrow im speaking on Engineered Living Materials at #F24MRS in a session w @meyerroc.bsky.social @saramol.bsky.social and others stop by or we can chat after @materials-mrs.bsky.social
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🦋 Gourdon Lab 🦠🔬 @delphe.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Interesting and promising! 👉 At a time when synthetic #plastic has polluted nearly every corner of the globe and appeared in food and in the human body, Northeastern researchers have developed a plastic that dissolves in #water 🧪 #plasticpollution #plasticwaste www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mechanically Tunable, Compostable, Healable and Scalable Engineered Living Materials - Nature Communications
Advanced design strategies are required for increased control of favourable characteristics of Engineered Living Materials. Here, the authors report the development of a material that has plastic-like...
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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The 2024-2025 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 122 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList Add a job: forms.gle/HPzAKkS1x44t... Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/
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Christopher J Hernandez @profhernandez.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I’m a scientist who studies #musculoskeletal disease. Musculoskeletal diseases are among the most common of the #chronicdisease in the US. Chronic disease accounts for 90% of health care costs in the US. 1/1 www.cdc.gov/chronic-dise...
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Fast Facts: Health and Economic Costs of Chronic Conditions
The economic impact of chronic diseases in terms of health care costs and lost productivity
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