Thermo Fisher has responded to research integrity activists who spotted apparent manipulation in its antibody catalog:
"In ... preparing antibody images for publication on our website, some images may have been adjusted to clarify for presentation purposes."
More:
cen.acs.org/research-int...
Laurel Oldach
Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet.
The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.
IDPSeminars is back for a final seminar of spring 2026!
This week, we welcome Wenwei Zheng and Sigrid Milles! The seminar is at 10 AM PST / 1 pm EST / 7 PM European time on Thursday. Sign up via our website at idpseminars.com!
IDPSeminars
Carl T. Bergstrom
Glad to facilitate tomorrow’s discussion on this critical topic for anyone doing research supported by US federal funding. Please register to join in!
Phosphorylation tunes p62 condensates to drive autophagic degradation of ubiquitinated proteins
Masaaki Komatsu and collaborators
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Did you know that thermophilic amoeba have been isolated by researchers at Syracuse University from a steam vent at SUNY ESF? artsandsciences.syracuse.edu/biology/news...
You can visit this geyser of the built environment when you come to our first fall meeting, held at SUNY ESF this year!
🧪 That sourdough starter on your counter? It's a microbial community that's been evolving the whole time you've fed it.
@oliverio.bsky.social's lab just won a $2.1M NIH grant to use starters as a model system for studying how microbiomes evolve.
It is open comment time for a Project 2025 bill Stand up for Science has a synopsis of it here synopsis of the key points www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a... and also tips for commenting here www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a.... Comment and fight for science!
p62/SQSTM1 self-assembles with polyubiquitin into liquid-like condensates (“p62 bodies”) that function as stress-signaling hubs and selective autophagy cargo. We show that TBK1-dependent phosphorylati...
link.springer.com
A new $2.1 million grant from the NIH will support the Oliverio lab’s fermented food research over the next five years.
How could the OMB's proposed rule affect biomedical research?
Join ASBMB and Ellie Dehoney of @researchamerica.bsky.social tomorrow (June 16) at 10 a.m. Eastern for a discussion on the proposal and how you can respond.
➡️ Register: www.asbmb.org/meetings-eve....
#ScienceServesUsAll
Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule.
Russell Vought is going destroy American Science.
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
