Tommy Martin

Huge night for Arkana Therapeutics! We won the Lab Venture Challenge at CU. Excited to continue expanding our therapeutic platform inspired by nature’s extreme biology 🐍

Do sarcomeres disassemble when a cardiac myocyte (heart muscle cell) enters mitosis as the literature suggests? Not completely. Here is a cardiac myocyte in metaphase. There are plenty of stacks of myosin II filaments (the core of each sarcomere) hanging about. #CellBiology

Out today in @nature.com, a new paper from @doudna-lab.bsky.social lab, co-first authors @erinedoherty.bsky.social + @benadler.bsky.social and collaborators at @ucsandiego.bsky.social unveils a powerful new defense strategy in the arms war between viruses + microbes. Read here: ow.ly/mPQI50X5g68

SDR-seq is a droplet-based single-cell DNA-RNA sequencing platform for studying gene expression profiles linked to both noncoding and coding variants.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Join a vibrant, interdisciplinary community where collaboration and innovation are nurtured at all levels.

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Targeting RUNX1 in Macrophages Facilitates Cardiac Recovery Despite major advances in disease treatment, our understanding of how damaged organs recover remains limited. The molecular mechanisms that govern organ plasticity and drive recovery from pathological...

Proud to share new work led by the amazing #junedh_amrute identifying RUNX1 as a key regulator of human cardiac recovery. A druggable macrophage epigenetic program that governs organ recovery. Grateful my lab was part of this effort. #LavineLab @gladstoneinst.bsky.social @amgen.bsky.social

Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite Funding multiyear grants up front will sharply cut number of investigators receiving awards

Researchers’ chances of winning a grant from the National Institutes of Health have dropped under a new policy. scim.ag/4f7uew2

The Bethesda Declaration

A call to stand up and show support for the Bethesda Declaration, the NIH, and for federally funded science in general.

Titin evolution, titin force and muscle contraction instruct sarcomere dimensions in insect muscles to allow high frequency flight, larval crawling and max force to cut leafs. @ibdm.bsky.social @mpi-nat.bsky.social @jfrupprecht.bsky.social @vincent-loreau.bsky.social
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We have updated our database of funding opportunities for Early-Career Researchers (private foundations, federal, international)

We have 456 entries, for which we provide $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, etc.

Download this massive database here for free: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

"Science is an investment.

We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world."

— President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷

Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?

Here's a database from UCLA on Non-NIH funding opportunities ranging from grad students to faculty from a wide range of biological and medical disciplines: biofund.healthsciences.ucla.edu/crt-funding/...

Running a genetic stop sign accelerates oxygen metabolism and energy production in horses Horses are among nature’s greatest athletes, yet the ancestral molecular adaptations fueling their energy demands are poorly understood. Within a clinically important pathway regulating redox and meta...

Researchers have revealed a secret behind horses' exceptional endurance—a mutation in the KEAP1 gene that boosts energy production while protecting against cellular oxidative stress.

Learn more in Science: scim.ag/3Ydm4uU

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