Illustrated infographic comparing a functioning neuron with healthy GRN with one experiencing neurodegeneration due to mutated GRN.
A wealthy family fighting its own disease boosted research on a little-studied brain protein, progranulin. Can it spur new dementia treatments?
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4bqxG4J
Sensory aboral organ of an adult comb jelly.
Using volume electron microscopy in the warty comb jelly, researchers reveal that the aboral organ forms synaptic connections between cells in the nerve net—and may use both synaptic and nonsynaptic forms of communication.
Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/4rOAmPz
An unrelenting Everglades advocate, a clever wartime spider farmer, and a resourceful Peruvian potato hunter are among the cast of real-life science figures whose stories are told in the titles in this year’s children’s book roundup.
📕 Check out the reviews: https://scim.ag/47unHJh
During the Bronze Age in China, intensifying typhoons contributed to population decline in the inland “Cradle of Civilization,” according to new #ScienceAdvances research involving ancient scripts, paleoclimate radiocarbon data, and additional archaeological evidence. https://scim.ag/4boOGID
❤️this review of JELLYFISH SCIENTIST in @science.org by 8 year old reviewer Bianca Buehler (supported by Christie Wilcox). "I learned that anyone can be a scientist in their own way, whether they love chemistry or marine biology or even cooking." 🌊https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aef9208
I am *obsessed* with Antscan's detailed 3D ants. I wish there were data like these for all critters! #ScienceAdviser @science.org www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 🐜
Fascinating look at efforts by a wealthy family to change the course of a deadly brain disease | Science | AAAS via @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...
Insects living in the lowland tropics have evolved to deal with brutal heat. But many of them are close to their limit, according to a massive study that assessed the heat tolerance of hundreds of species. https://scim.ag/406Y5yh
In #ScienceSignaling, a team of scientists devises a method to extend the time that individual molecules can be tracked in a cell, widening the analysis window from several seconds to more than one hour. https://scim.ag/3OGClH4
This year’s children’s book roundup features everything from a look at space law to a clever wartime spider farmer. Science's Valerie Thompson joins the @science.org podcast to discuss some of the books. Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...
Researchers found the psychedelic elixir would have been possible to make using ingredients and techniques available in ancient Greece. https://scim.ag/3OMLGNv
As part of a special section on science books for young readers, I review 'Measuring Up' by Jenny Lacika & Anna Bron. They explain the real tale of Oliver Smoot and the unconventional unit named after him. 🧪⚛️
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Another great article featuring our research published in @nature.com
Many heat-stressed tropical insects are reaching their limits | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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[New Paper] @science.org Science Advances reveals mechanisms of chemosymbiosis in the shallow-water clam Thyasira tokunagai, with carbon fixation rates estimated using radiocarbon. Thyasira clams are widespread globally -- a great model to study chemosymbiosis!
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Our work on #hornwort #pyrenoids is finally out in @science.org! 🎉 We uncovered how hornworts pack their Rubisco into pyrenoids and successfully recreated them in Arabidopsis. A key step toward engineering more efficient photosynthesis in crops @btiscience.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Soaking up destructive signals | @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Structural modeling reveals phage proteins that manipulate bacterial immune signaling | @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The future of Europe’s forest disturbance regimes– a thread.
Tl, dr: Disturbances from wildfire, bark beetles & wind will continue to increase in the coming decades. Under unabated climate change disturbances could more than double by 2100.
New paper out in @science.org doi.org/10.1126/scie...
On sabotage of our young scientists, by @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org
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My daughter and I reviewed Megan Durnford’s terrific book “Our Plastic Problem: A Call for Global Solutions” in this week’s @science.org
chemsky #chemchat
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This week on the @science.org podcast, a policy round up with #ScienceInsider editor @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social and others--including a story by @richardastone.bsky.social on allegations of a Chinese nuclear blast that may reignite weapons testing. Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...
An advisory panel to Japan’s health ministry has recommended limited marketing approval for therapies using induced pluripotent stem cells for heart failure and Parkinson’s disease. https://scim.ag/4bj5iBw
People have always been captivated by crystals. Turns out we’re not the only apes to find them fascinating. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
Leveraging systems immunology, researchers characterize the distinct immunological profiles produced by #RSV and #SARSCoV2 infections in infants, providing data that explain clinical divergences and could inform future therapeutics. #ScienceTranslationalMedicine https://scim.ag/46XY2IK
A quote by H. Holden Thorp, Editor-in-chief of Science journals, on a black background. The quote is: "… why curtail a program … that cultivates and grows the number of US graduate students and future researchers?"
"There is perhaps no stronger evidence of the [Trump] administration’s objectives to reduce the quality of the US scientific workforce than its treatment of the [NSF]’s flagship Graduate Research Fellowship Program," writes H. Holden Thorp in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/4d0fi3N
Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus), such as this mother and 7-month-old joey from Queensland, Australia, embody a genetic paradox. Populations rich in diversity are declining, whereas those with little variation are expanding and rapidly reshuffling their genomes. These findings reveal that diversity alone does not determine resilience. Instead, a population’s fate depends on several evolutionary processes unfolding across generations.
According to a new study of Australia’s koala populations, rapid demographic rebound may be able to restore once-lost genetic variation and drive recombination in ways that re-establish long-term evolutionary potential in previously bottlenecked populations.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4b6hLaE
NIH sent notice this week that it will no longer recognize a union of early career researchers on the basis that trainees aren't "employees." My latest for @science.org.
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Shields and biological countermeasures could help protect astronauts during prolonged missions beyond Earth's magnetic bubble.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4u7Pnxn
A noninvasive test can detect liver cirrhosis and other non-cancerous disorders in multiple cohorts by searching for cell-free DNA markers in the fragmentome, laying the road for a flexible, multidisease liquid biopsy.
Learn more in #ScienceTranslationalMedicine: https://scim.ag/4ub6qP7
This glass wafer could back up your phone—and last 10,000 years
Writers for the Superman, Star Trek, and Mission Impossible franchises all dreamed up the idea of storing libraries of data in glass.
Now, Microsoft researchers say they are bringing this vision closer to reality. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4cZ9aJd
