A huge thank you to everyone who entered Lasker's first-ever Video Contest. 🌟
🎬 🧪We loved seeing early-career physician-scientists share their creativity and passion for biomedical research. We'll announce the winners, to be featured in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, on July 15!
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🧪Researchers at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute & NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre used data from >14M single cells & nuclei from 47 tissues to build the "Hormone Cell Atlas," a map of the human endocrine system at cellular resolution, per Science Magazine study: https://ow.ly/Fnhi50Z90Nz
Maclyn McCarty was born #OTD in 1911. 🧪
🧬 McCarty won a Special Achievement Lasker Award in 1994. He made seminal investigations which revealed that DNA is the chemical substance of heredity, ushering in a new era of contemporary genetics: http://ow.ly/YfwW30oD1CQ
The Rockefeller University
"You want people to be autonomous agents. You want them to say, 'Well, this is a group project. I'm going to do this.'" 🧪
2023 Lasker Laureate John Jumper shares his guiding principles for efficient and effective communication in a team. 🤝 Google DeepMind :bot:
❤️🩹🧪 For #NationalCancerSurvivorsDay, listen to an interview with 2005 Public Service Lasker Award winner and founder of the Susan G. Komen Foundation Nancy Brinker: https://ow.ly/g5EV50Z7qfP
June is #CataractAwarenessMonth, which highlights the leading cause of vision loss worldwide.
Cataract surgery used to be an ordeal that upended patients’ lives. Then in the 1960s, Lasker Laureate Charles Kelman transformed the surgery into an outpatient procedure. 🧪
Abel Wolman was born #OTD in 1892.
🧪 Wolman won a 1960 Public Service Lasker Award. As a consultant to industrial companies, governmental advisor, and Johns Hopkins University staff member, he made significant contributions to environmental hygiene and #PublicHealth: http://ow.ly/PeDN30oD1CU
💡Lasker Laureate Howard Temin and the discovery of reverse transcriptase
🎧Immunology, collaboration, and creativity with Harvard Medical School's Diane Mathis
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Happy birthday, Edwin M. Southern! 🎂
🧪University of Oxford Emeritus Southern won the 2005 Clinical Medical Research Lasker Award for the development of the "Southern blot." This powerful tech allows for the detection of specific DNA sequences amid the entire genome: http://ow.ly/NeUu30oD1CL
Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation
Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation
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Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation
Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation
Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation
Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation
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Francis Crick was born #OTD in 1916.
🧪Crick won a Basic Medical Research Lasker Award in 1960 for his contributions to the famous discovery of DNA’s double helical structure. Cambridge University Press
🧬 Discover how understanding DNA revolutionized biology: https://ow.ly/WVuu50Z5ebQ
The Video Contest is now closed. Winner(s) will be announced mid-July.
About the Contest
The contest invites early-career scientists and clinicians from the United States and around the world to showcase their passion for biology and medicine. Participants should demonstrate how their creativity and innovative thinking can help address some
In the early 1960s, cataract surgery was an ordeal that upended patients’ lives. During the operation, the surgeon made a cut that extended halfway around the eye’s front surface, reached in with forceps, and gently pulled out the cloudy lens. After the operation, patients spent up to 10 days in a hospital bed, sometimes with their
