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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
🧪 Researchers just discovered a completely unknown single-celled organism that doesn’t belong to any known major group of life - hiding in plain sight in a lab culture!! 🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rare microbial relict sheds light on an ancient eukaryotic supergroup - Nature
The discovery of an unusual protist named Solarion arienae, which has a mitochondrial genome with some intriguing features, provides insight into the early radiation of eukaryotic groups.
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
🧪 Hey y'all! We are excited to start another interview series! Please welcome dr. Sarah Knox - a principal investigator and CEO of a biotech company! Check out our Instagram and TikTok to find out what we discussed this time! 🔥 IG: www.instagram.com/p/DRe9ONhEbqC/ TT: www.tiktok.com/@talkscience...
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Talk Science To Me on Instagram: "Welcome to a new series of interviews with scientists ✨🔬- this time featuring Dr. Sarah Knox! 👩‍🔬 🔬As a Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, Dr....
2 likes, 0 comments - talkscience_official on November 21, 2025: "Welcome to a new series of interviews with scientists ✨🔬- this time featuring Dr. Sarah Knox! 👩‍🔬 🔬As a Professor at the University o...
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Where cellular garbage needs to be removed, there’s always a macrophage happy to take care of it. And where there’s a macrophage… there’s Magda from Immuknowledge, happy to tell you some immunology! 💙 This week, for the tenth Immuknowledge celebration, we dive into microglia–astrocyte crosstalk 🧠
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
🧪 It's a Stem Press appreciation week! This time Karol is yapping about... YAP1 protein and how it can "yap" to the nucleus to initiate the regeneration! You cannot miss this one 💥 Watch the the video on Instagram or TikTok: IG: www.instagram.com/p/DQpQXGCDKBR/ TT: www.tiktok.com/@talkscience...
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✨ It’s Stem Press time! 🧬 Everyone’s been yapping about regeneration — but this time, YAP1 is actually doing the talking. ⚙️ A new study found that the ability to regrow tissue isn’t just about gene...
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
🩸 Mice that get a period? It’s real! 🧬 Scientists have engineered lab mice that can simulate menstruation-like bleeding! This breakthrough opens new pathways for studying menstrual health, disorders like endometriosis, and more! 🧪 🔗Don’t miss the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding
During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
🤔A new study challenges a Nobel Prize idea? 🧫Scientists engineered human olfactory receptors and revealed that certain odors can be recognized by single, highly specific receptors, challenging the view that odor perception always relies on broad combinatorial patterns! www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Decoding human olfaction by high heterologous expression of odorant receptors detecting signature odorants
Emter et al. improve in vitro expression of odorant receptors (OR) by engineering the C-terminal domain. With a library of engineered ORs, they discover ORs for signature odorants, which they relate t...
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
🧪 New potential therapy for treating Alzheimer’s Disease? Scientists significantly resolved AD's phenotype in mice by hijacking blood-brain barrier transport mechanics to preserve and reactivate its clearing function! #alzheimer's #disease #therapy #medicine
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Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy
Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Regulatory T cells are definitely the stars this week! ✨ First, winning the Nobel Prize, and now starring in the newest episode of Immuknowledge! 🧬What if we told you that some of the things we inherit don’t actually come from our genes? 👀 Don’t miss this episode to find out more!
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Salk Institute @salkinstitute.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Tune into Salk's podcast, Beyond Lab Walls, and meet Tony Hunter, the famed cancer biologist, who just celebrated 50 years at the Institute. His persistent curiosity has fueled discovery and lifesaving medications, and continues to shape the future of cancer research. www.salk.edu/blw-podcast/...
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
✨ In case you missed it – the Ig Nobel Prizes 2025 have already been awarded! 🏆And the main prize in Biology goes to…Scientists who painted cows like zebras! 🔗: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
🧪 New episode of #StemPress just dropped! This time we are discussing why mammals cannot regenerate limbs 🐭 Recent discovery shows that the secret isn't in the DNA sequence, but... our environment? Check out the new video to learn more! #oxygen #chromatin #regeneration
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The most insane protein synthesis animation doesn’t exi- 🤯
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
📊 Presenting data is an inevitable yet demanding part of being a scientist. But perhaps even harder is explaining science to those who are not scientists. So how can complex research be conveyed in a way that non-scientists can easily understand? 🤔
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Eos @eos.org · 10/09/2025
A Mars sample collected in 2024 may be “the closest we’ve actually come to discovering ancient life on Mars,” according to NASA officials 🧪 eos.org/research-and...
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Perseverance Sample Shows Evidence of Ancient Martian Microbial Metabolisms - Eos
A sample collected in July 2024 by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover may be “the closest we've actually come to discovering ancient life on Mars,” according to Nicky Fox, the science head of NASA.
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
🦵We’re sure you’ve heard of phantom limbs - the sensation or pain felt in a limb that has been amputated. What if we told you that…. …the brain never forgets the missing limb?🧠
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Stable cortical body maps before and after arm amputation - Nature Neuroscience
Longitudinal neuroimaging of participants with planned arm amputations shows that the cortical body map remains stable after amputation, with no evidence of hand or face reorganization, thus challengi...
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
🧪 Are you ready for a new portion of the interview with prof. Austad? We introduced him some time ago and we're back with more! Check out what we discussed this time ⬇️ Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DOGSZGwjB9b/ TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@talkscience... #career #advice #mentoring #science #academia
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Are you ready for a brand-new Immuknowledge episode? 🤓 This time, the story is about an unexpected ally in the fight against cancer. 🦀 Don’t miss it - today, we get revenge! ⚔️
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
💡An incredibly thoughtful piece you won’t want to miss: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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Why would anyone want to be a scientist?
It is difficult to fathom why anyone intelligent enough to be a scientist would actually choose to be one. Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently...
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
🩸 One drop is all it takes… And this is another Stem Press episode! 🧪 A recent study demonstrates a small-molecule-only reprogramming strategy that converts human peripheral or cord blood cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (hCiPSCs) with unprecedented efficiency 💯.
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
💬 Advice Every Student Should Hear 🙌 Dr. Erika Moore reminds us that success doesn’t mean never struggling; it means knowing who can support you and how to get there together. 🤝 Advocate for yourself, build your support network, and most importantly: believe in yourself!
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
🧬 A new study in Cell reveals that the potato lineage was born from an ancient hybridization between the ancestors of tomatoes and Etuberosum, around 8–9 million years ago! 📎 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Ancient hybridization underlies tuberization and radiation of the potato lineage
Genomic and functional analyses reveal that the potato lineage originated from a homoploid interspecific hybridization event between the Tomato and Etuberosum lineages 8–9 million years ago. The alter...
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
🦷✨ Needles? Nah. Just floss. Scientists have found a wild way to deliver vaccines—using dental floss coated in vaccine ingredients. The study shows that flossing the space between your teeth and gums triggers a powerful immune response—with fewer barriers than under‑tongue drops or nasal sprays.
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
🧪 Happy Monday y'all! To make your week better, we remind you that last week we shared another interview series with one and only @drerikamoore.bsky.social ✨ Dr. Moore shared with us some really valuable insights into the research she makes, but also something else...
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
🚨Breaking News!🚨 Scientists from the U.K. confirm that eight children are living healthy lives thanks to a revolutionary three-person in vitro fertilization (IVF). Wait… three people? 🤯
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
👋 Hey Immune Geeks! Magda is back with another episode — and this one is a true heist story happening inside your cells! 🦠Buckle up! In this Immuknowledge, we dive into a viral immune escape strategy with a quick detour through… iron transport! #science #immunology
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
🍄What if we told you fungi have their own language? A while ago, Prof. Andrew Adamatzky studied the electrical signals in four fungi species... ...and discovered that fungi use spikes of electrical activity that resemble words! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking activity | Royal Society Open Science
Fungi exhibit oscillations of extracellular electrical potential recorded via differential electrodes inserted into a substrate colonized by mycelium or directly into sporocarps. We analysed electrica...
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
🧪 It’s Stem Press time! Here, we’re all about stem cells — but here’s the thing: not all stem cells are nice. Some are the ultimate villains hiding in plain sight: cancer stem cells 💀
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
🧪We all care about our buddies - and so do cells! 🙌 📄This fascinating paper shows how cells with DNA damage caused by radiation don't just deal with it alone. They send out exosomes to nearby bystander cells, helping them respond to DNA damage too! 👇
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
💡We have already shared many brilliant insights from Dr. McEver, but today we’re sharing one of our personal favorites: ✨“A good mentor has to have a genuine interest in the welfare and the progress of their trainees.”✨
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🧪 Hello folks! This week we have shared another part of the interview with Dr. McEver - you may remember him from our last interview series!
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
💃Are you planning a party this weekend and want everybody to have fun and dance? Here's a tip: play a nostalgic song to get your friends out onto the dance floor!🪩
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🍎Why does food usually not trigger an immune response, while parasites absolutely do? Let’s talk about it in the newest episode of Immuknowledge! ✨ #science #immunology
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
👉📄Today’s paper choice: How fetal sex influences the placental epigenome and transcriptome, and what that means for health later in life... 🧬🔍Scientists discovered that fetal sex strongly influences placental DNA methylation and its genetic regulation.
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Sex-differentiated placental methylation and gene expression regulation has implications for neonatal traits and adult diseases - Nature Communications
Sex differences in traits and disease risk are pervasive and begin before birth. Here, the authors report sex-dependent human placental epigenetic and transcriptomic regulation and highlight its conne...
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🧪 New Stem Press episode is coming in hot! 🧠✨ What if treating Parkinson’s disease wasn’t just about stem cells… but also about something as simple as running? 🏃🏻 Let's dive into a fascinating study where scientists combined stem-cell therapy with exercise—and the results were wildly promising. 🧬
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🌟Ambition can be inspiring. It can also be your biggest enemy. It can push you to measure up, chase more, and question if you’re ever enough. The result? Frustration. Dissatisfaction. Burnout. This article captures that quiet struggle brilliantly — it’s a must-read. 👇
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
🏅 ”Science is a competitive sport” 🎙️ Give it up for Dr. Dawson! We are coming back with one more, very special question to us: does work-life balance in science really exists? Dr. Dawson has shared with us truly remarkable point of view which doesn’t really give answers to our questions.
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
🧬🖨️ What if we told you 3D-printed living tissues are no longer science fiction? Sounds wild, but it’s real! 🤯Mind-blowing? We think so too. Full paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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3D bioprinting of collagen-based high-resolution internally perfusable scaffolds for engineering fully biologic tissue systems
Bioreactor maturation of high-resolution FRESH 3D-bioprinted scaffolds form vascularized centimeter-scale functional tissues.
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
👋Welcome back to a new episode of Immuknowledge! 🦠We all know how crucial our immune system is in fighting off infections once pathogens get inside the body. But what if it could step in before an infection even begins?
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
🧪 What if lab-grown meat didn’t just imitate meat—but was meat in structure, flavor, and feel? Researchers at the University of Tokyo just made that leap.
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🚨As the dire wolf “brought back to life” is a really hot topic this week, we highly encourage you to be cautious and not get misled by the headlines. Here’s everything you should know: www.science.org/content/arti...
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Is the dire wolf back from the dead? Not exactly
Genetically edited gray wolf pups became instant media darlings—and drew hefty skepticism from scientists
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
🧪 Before organoids, cell therapies, and lab-grown tissues became buzzwords, there was a discovery that changed everything. In this week’s #StemPress episode, we're rewinding to one of the most pivotal moments in modern biology — the discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells.
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Dear young scientists, we have something special for you: a new week of our interview series! 🎥✨ 👨‍🔬Meet Dr. Dean Dawson, a brilliant scientist who will brighten this week with inspiration!
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
A groundbreaking study: surgeons transplanted a gene-edited pig liver into a brain-dead patient. It functioned for 10 days—producing bile, albumin & stable blood flow—before the study was halted at the family's request. A huge step for xenotransplantation! 🧪 #science #research
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Gene-modified pig-to-human liver xenotransplantation - Nature
A gene-edited pig liver transplanted into a human recipient remains functional after 10 days and indicates that porcine organs could help meet the growing demand for liver transplants.
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
This week, we revisited a study detailing how cancer cells can rupture their nuclear envelope to invade surrounding tissues and subsequently repair it. Understanding these processes provides insight into cancer progression and potential therapeutic targets.​ Check it out! 🧪 #science #research
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Cracking Under Pressure: The Secret Life of Cancer Cell Nuclei! 🔬💥 Ever wondered how cancer cells squeeze through the tiniest spaces in our body? As these cells invade tissues, the force of the squeez...
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🧪If you enjoy our interview videos, you’ll definitely want to check out the one with Dr. Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz. Get into the details of her trailblazing research in cell biology, all through a personal and engaging conversation, just like in our series! 🎤👩‍🔬
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Using cryo-electron tomography, scientists have visualized the native structure and organization of major mitochondrial complexes like never before! 🔬✨ Don’t miss their amazing work! 🤩
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
🫵🏻 Hey you, Young Scientist! We got a message for you! 🧪 🎙️ Some time ago we’ve interviewed Dr. Weyrich and we discussed with him similarities and differences between running a lab versus the whole research institution, and what brings him more satisfaction.
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🎉Today, we celebrate 3.14 - Pi Day! 🥧 Did you know that π is infinite and has been studied for thousands of years? 🤔But what makes this number so special? Discover its fascinating story in this video: youtu.be/9a5vHXsUvUw?...
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The infinite life of pi - Reynaldo Lopes
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
⚡Attention, everyone! A new Immuknowledge episode is out!⚡ 🦀Did you know that cancer cells can outsmart the immune system to avoid being eliminated? Grab a tea and watch the latest Immuknowledge episode, where Magda dives into a mind-blowing mechanism of immune evasion!
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Talk Science To Me @talkscience.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Leave Science, Join a Circus When burnout pushed her to the edge, Dr. Finn did something unexpected—she joined the circus! 🎪 This wild detour not only refreshed her perspective but also deepened her passion for mentoring and collaboration in the lab. Full interview on our IG and TikTok 🧪#science
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