zebrafish researcher, genetics and genomics of regeneration
All posts are my personal opinions and do not reflect the position of the NIH or US government
Shawn Burgess
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“You can’t get to the clinic without the basic scientific discoveries, the fundamental knowledge of how biology works, sometimes in very surprising, unexpected ways. This is what leads to transformative or even revolutionary advances in human health.”
Lovely Q&A with Iain Drummond at @mdibl.org 🐟
Waiting for lots of apologies from people who got enraged when you suggested abundance was what it obviously was
What if damaged human kidneys could one day repair themselves? At MDI Bio Lab, Iain Drummond, Ph.D., and his team have identified inflammatory signaling pathways in #zebrafish capable of triggering the production of new, functional nephrons without injuring the kidney itself. 🧪 🐟🎸 #NephSky #RenalSky
One point I think deserves more attention: In addition to worrying about grants cut or never funded based on ideology, we probably also ought to worry about outside groups (like, @shobitap.org points out in my piece, big tech) gaining influence over research priorities and individual grants.
“[W]hile his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse—gleefully.” elon-musk-trillionaire-killer
Zebrafish Rock!
Atrios
if mark cuban ever runs for president, just know he was involved in losing both jalen brunson and luka doncic and not getting anything in return for them. immediate disqualification!
A fresh attack on the US scientific infrastructure could be the most damaging yet.
I wanted to share some news: I'll be leaving the NCI at the end of August. I'm excited to share more about the lab's next step soon, but for this post wanted to focus on expressing gratitude for my colleagues, trainees, and friends at the NCI Center for Cancer Research.
Jeremy Wang developed rammap, a minimap2 rewrite in Rust. It achieves comparable or better performance than minimap2 and produces identical output to minimap2. During rewrite, Jeremy found two long-existing bugs in minimap2 which are fixed in v2.31. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
T2T roadshow this week! ✈️ Monday, ESHG talk on personalized genomes and Robertsonians ✈️ Wednesday, Sanger ToL talk on great ape acrocentric chromosomes 🚂 Thursday, QMUL talk on a little bit of both 🚇 Friday, London reunion with T2T legend @sergeynurk.bsky.social 🎉
mike taddow
~15 years after we published the first chelonian genome (Chrysemys picta), I'm going back to my turtle roots! We now have an excellent assembly, annotation, & evo-history study for the spotted turtle (Clemmys guttata), led by the amazing @cheloevo.bsky.social, out in JOH: doi.org/10.1093/jher...
What if damaged human kidneys could one day repair themselves? At MDI Bio Lab, Iain Drummond, Ph.D., and his team have identified inflammatory signaling pathways in #zebrafish capable of triggering the production of new, functional nephrons without injuring the kidney itself. 🧪 🐟🎸 #NephSky #RenalSky
Lisa Jarvis
MDI Biological Laboratory
www.biorxiv.org
Abstract. The spotted turtle (Clemmys guttata) is the sole extant member of the genus Clemmys and can be found in shallow wetlands across eastern North Ame
In new reporting for @prospect.org, our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social details internal documents from Bay Area abundance groups pitch the movement to tech elites as a way to take control of Democratic politics and describe a 9-figure funding stream from billionaires. (1/2)
prospect.org/2026/06/12/n...
Jordan Meier
The Prospect has obtained a fundraising pitch and historical manifesto from inside the movement.
