Molecular Biologist, Educator and Consultant
The East Coast
Joined June 2009
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Dr. Furneaux retweeted
Sir Alex Ferguson, Gary Neville and Ruud van Nistelrooy were among a number of football figures who turned out for a memorial service for Scotland great Denis Law in his hometown of Aberdeen.
#BBCFootball
N.B. "it is important to emphasize that, in the absence of previous structural knowledge of synthetic or patient-derived α-synuclein fibrils, such materials should be handled with extreme caution."
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Dr. Furneaux retweeted
Diane Ladd, the Oscar-nominated actress best known for her work in Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and David Lynch’s Wild at Heart, has died. She was 89.
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Dr. Furneaux retweeted
Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, who spent the Seventies singing with the Grateful Dead, sang back-up on several classic Sixties hits, and fronted her own bands, has died at age 78.
More on her life and legacy: rollingstone.com/music/music…
“He will not listen but will insist on doing his work in his own way. I believe he has ideas about becoming a scientist; on his present showing, this is quite ridiculous.”
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"The upstream RNA duplex in one RTC is reciprocally unwound by a helicase in a head-to-head-positioned RTC in the 3′–5′ direction."
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Dr. Furneaux retweeted
I highly recommend for those who like to have an extra pair of A-eyes before submitting for peer review (which might end up being similar). This helps identify limitations in a study and provides solutions to address them, without the typical Reviewer #2 insufferable vibe.
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 It started from my frustration with the depressing effect that the current publishing system has on the well-being of myself, my team, and pretty much every scientist I know (maybe you’ve noticed from my stupid jokes… :) I was exhausted of dealing with the huge delays, reviewers that can be abusive, and how arbitrary it all is. Unfortunately, the most important factors are often WHO your reviewers are and who YOU are... It’s clear we need alternatives or at least ways to improve the situation. So, together with a really special and talented team we worked to develop this idea into “qed” a platform where you can get CONSTRUCTIVE feedback on your own work or CRITICALLY assess other people’s papers. It can be a real difference maker if many of you join us (thousands have tried it already, but today we release a NEW and much stronger version ;) Let’s harness qed to put the power back in the scientists’ hands, to do, to read & to publish science on our own terms. I’m dying for you to TRY IT, and it’s very simple - just drop a paper (the link to the website is in the replies👇) - it’s completely secure, private, and free, and you get results fast. Please show your support, SHARE, tell your friends, and let’s be the revolution 🫵!
Matrix-associated extracellular vesicles modulate human smooth muscle cell adhesion and directionality by presenting collagen VI doi.org/10.7554/eLife.90375.…
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Diane Keaton
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Sir John Gurdon cam.ac.uk/research/news/nobe…
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Functional RNA splitting drove the evolutionary emergence of type V CRISPR-Cas systems from transposons cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
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RNA-directed recombination of the human genome
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Dr. Furneaux retweeted
In a first-in-human trial, genetically modified pancreatic cells evaded immune attack and produced insulin without the need for immunosuppressants. This immune-stealth cell therapy could mark a major leap toward a functional cure for type 1 diabetes. science.org/content/article/…
A breeze before "The winds of change"?
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"There is not, has never been, and never will be, a system that can absolve you of the need to read papers, use data, conduct experiments, think about results, and share insights you find valuable. Doing anything else is an abdication of your responsibility as a scientist."
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