Earlier this week I posted an example of a fake western blot provided by ThermoFisher to demonstrate the validity of a p53 antibody. I considered it an amusing curiosity. In fact Thermo Fisher Scientific has systematically manipulated antibody validation data!
Sholto David
Excited to share that I will start my lab at the Center for Integrative Genomics in Lausanne @unil.bsky.social in Jan 2027! I’m looking for PhD students fascinated by how cells build tissues and excited about developing new technologies to study development across scales. www.wanlab.bio/pages/9397
Data manipulation at a breathtaking scale by commercial providers of crucial research reagents.
As if the few remaining lab scientists didn't face enough obstacles already.
Open Postdoc Position - Giant E3 ligases: mysterious mechanisms & non‑protein substrates. Interested? Join us to uncover how these molecular giants tag lipids, RNAs, sugars beyond proteins, on organelles and pathogens, to defend the cell. Details & Application here www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
We’ve documented more than 100 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog
Reptiles with longer Wikipedia pages tend to be bigger. The relationship is a power law with exponent = 0.85. I guess humans really like writing about big lizards? The longest article is the Komodo Dragon.
a small attempt to capture this enormous loss and what Greg meant and means to so many.
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
One of my dream projects, ever since joining here in Basel, out now in @nature.com :
single-cells 🤝 eco-morphological proxies
rdcu.be/fiyso
How cells and tissues adapt to dietary niches...
Thanks and congrats to Antoine, Walter, and all the other co-authors for this great collaboration!! 🙏🥳
Our latest work is now online in NSMB: maternal yolk carries microRNAs from the intestine to embryos, shaping gene regulation and stress resilience in the next generation.
rdcu.be/fj8Er
#Epigenetics #microRNA #Inheritance @pasteur.fr @devstempasteur.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
Gregory J. Hannon passed away in April 2026 at the age of 61. A towering figure in
modern molecular biology, Greg influenced remarkably diverse areas of science. His
work reshaped our understanding of...
Nature - Single-cell transcriptomics combined with morphological and ecological data show that the rapid evolutionary radiation of cichlid fishes in Lake Tanganyika was accompanied by dietary...
In this study, the authors use the Caenorhabditis elegans model organism to show that maternal microRNAs are delivered from the intestine to embryos by the yolk, where they regulate gene expression an...
Great preprint by @vram142.bsky.social & Co www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... "fiber homotypy," where chromatin fibers with similar nucleosome spacing interact more frequently in 3D
--> Related to our previous "nucleosome homology recognition" in chromatin royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...
