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Xujun Cao

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🇸🇬 PhD Candidate in Chemistry @ Stanford studying the biochemistry of innate immunity. Lingyin Li Lab (@lingyinli.bsky.social) @ Stanford University & Arc Institute Feed is mostly food and papers I forget to read

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Xujun Cao @xujunc.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
It's been a long time coming, but so excited to see this finally out! We've a few more tricks up our sleeves in the design of inhibitors...🤔
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Dr Like Dr Pepper is a Doctor Graeth @thebronzedragon.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
'The authors were aware they were treading on sensitive ground. “I hope that eight Italian authors is enough,” said Ivan Di Terlizzi, a statistical physicist at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany, who is originally from Puglia, Italy.'
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The Perfect Cacio e Pepe Recipe, According to Science
Italian scientists have drawn from thermodynamic principles to prevent a famous pasta from turning into a gooey mess.
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Keith Hornberger @krhornberger.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Critical assessment of LC3/GABARAP ligands used for degrader development and ligandability of LC3/GABARAP binding pockets Refreshing to see papers that go to great pains to set the record straight being published in a high profile setting
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Critical assessment of LC3/GABARAP ligands used for degrader development and ligandability of LC3/GABARAP binding pockets - Nature Communications
Autophagosome tethering compounds (ATTECs) are small molecule degraders hijacking the autophagy system. Here, the authors show that current ATTEC ligands did not bind to their designated targets but e...
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Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 29/11/2024
Content over at the other site deleted; but apart from #KanyeOrCronin or #SocialIsolationSocial posts, I think this was my greatest contribution there, so for a bit of Friday fun for #Chemsky, I'm reposting it here: Taylor Swift as @naturechemistry.bsky.social covers, starting with March 2020:
Taylore swift in a green/blue dress with a pink floral pattern on it.The March 2020 cover of Nature Chemistry with a circular chemical structure on a pink/red background surrounded by a larger blue/green-ish background
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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)
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Janet Emson @janetemson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Idea for a crime novel. Someone sets up a starter pack and each name on there are killed off one by one. The remaining people have to team up to work out who the killer is. 💙📚 #booksky
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Thorn-Seshold Lab @thornsesholdlab.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
📯📯 Chemical Biology starter pack 📯📯 140 PIs & groups posting primary research in chemical biology. Please reskeet (?) & reply to this post if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/KLrTWoj Let's make ChemBioSky even greater again! #realtimechem #FluorescenceFriday #chemsky #chemtwitter #AgentOrange
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Xujun Cao @xujunc.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Every now and then your science keeps you humble by looking like that Sodom and Gomorrah painting
An image of a Western blot with red and green channels. There is strong background signal causing yellow smears all over the image
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AndreaVentura @andreaventura.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Interesting perspective by S Quake out in Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
cell.com
The cellular dogma
In this essay, I will put forth what I see as a major conceptual challenge for biology in the next decade, one that is inspired by Crick’s Central Dogma: understanding information flow in the cell in ...
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Xujun Cao @xujunc.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Joining the #ChemistsWhoCook community here. Inspired by an ice cream I had at Ahn's Dry Cleaning in SD, this is a Dark Chocolate Wasabi Cookie that I had ChatGPT come up with the recipe for.
Image of a stack of chocolate cookies
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/11/2024
Shots fired.
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Leaving Twitter? Here are some alternatives to checking an online Nazi bot sewer every 20 minutes | First Dog on the Moon
Plant a tomato bush then lecture it on how it should grow tomatoes
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