Phil Tai

[UMass Chan Medical School @UMassChan]

The new education and research building is officially open on the UMass Chan Medical School campus!

#AdvancingTogether #education #research @MartyMeehan @UMass @senrobynkennedy @DrTedros @WHO @RepMcGovern @Shawmut_Builds @ZGFArchitects @UMassChanNeuro @NeurobioUMass @ProgMolMed

[nature @Nature]

Nature research paper: Stepwise requirements for polymerases δ and θ in theta-mediated end joining https://t.co/pyxjnM20Y9

[RNA Therapeutics Institute @RTI_UMassChan]

Emma RNA Saves the Day from the sinister Spike Man! Educational coloring book created by @ScienceLIVEUMMS to explain the science of the #mRNAVaccines for children. Download the coloring pages and/or request printed books for your classroom(s): https://t.co/ek6axKymhT
Pls RT!

[UMass Chan Medical School @UMassChan]

"Without UMass, I am not sure who I would be today," said Chioma Okwara, MD, @UMass trustee, @UMassChan & @UMassBoston alumna. "The greatest gift I received from UMass is not just outstanding education, but people who believed in me." 1/2

[UMass Chan Medical School @UMassChan]

"Strengthening education is still the answer," said Gerald Chan, on behalf of The Morningside Foundation, in announcing the $175 million transformational gift to @UMassChan. 2/2

[UMass Chan Medical School @UMassChan]

"Today is a very important day for UMass, but it's just the beginning of what will be the next act of an incredibly important medical institution, not just here in the commonwealth, not just around the country, but across the world." - Gov. Charlie Baker #UMassChan @MassGovernor

[Phil Tai @DrkbdcPhil]

UMassMedical https://t.co/BGkxYOPK4p

[Oncogene Journal @oncogenejournal]

AAV a #cancer risk factor? 🤔
Just published #Online today, this new #study reveals that AAV sequences detected in patient-matched tumor and adjacent non-lesion tissues are equally abundant and lack clonality @DrkbdcPhil @UMass @SiChuanUniv

👉https://t.co/sYSEQ9fwrh

[Huiya Yang @HuiyaYang1]

Our AAV gene therapy for glycosphingolipid biosynthesis deficiency in Trends in Molecular Medicine is online! | Home https://t.co/LhvJhb81Ru

[Dr. Nicole Paulk @Nicole_Paulk]

Devastated to share the news that Dr. Mavis Agbandje-McKenna passed last night from her #ALS. The #AAV #GeneTherapy #StructuralBiology world has lost a legend.

I encourage you to read about her extraordinary life: https://t.co/73xxgm2lpN

[Eric Kelsic (he/him) @ekelsic]

We used ML to design #AAV capsids that go beyond the diversity found in nature, towards enabling every patient to benefit from #GeneTherapy. A great collaboration with @Dyno_Tx co-founders @samsinai and @geochurch, @GoogleAI and Harvard's @wyssinstitute. https://t.co/SF0F7cdJvs

[UMass Chan Medical School @UMassChan]

Snow has arrived at #UMassMedical! #firstsnow #firstsnowfall #Worcester #worcestersnow #worcesterwinter #snow

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

“This is just amazing.”

For the first time, scientists have sharpened cryo-EM’s resolution to the atomic level, allowing them to pinpoint the positions of individual atoms in a variety of proteins at a resolution that rivals x-ray crystallography’s. https://t.co/lFOyly75bV

[UMass Chan Medical School @UMassChan]

The @umass Board of Trustees has approved the construction of a new building on the @UMassMedical campus that will accelerate research into new therapeutics for some of the most challenging diseases that humans face: https://t.co/3G38GQMxNv @UMMSGeneTherapy @ProgMolMed

[UMass Chan Medical School @UMassChan]

Guangping Gao, PhD, & #NobelPrize2020 winner Jennifer Doudna are both on @NatureBiotech's list of top translational biotech researchers for 2019. The #genetherapy pioneer & director of @UMMSGeneTherapy was on the 2018 list too. https://t.co/DQLXMsOuro @nresearchnews #UMassMedNews

[UMass Chan Medical School @UMassChan]

“Racial equity and disparity mar access to education, health care, housing and healthy food,” Chancellor Michael F. Collins writes in the @WBJournal’s focus on #diversity & #inclusion. The chancellor discusses the recruitment & retention efforts under way: https://t.co/wpuW76IQ80

[Martin Landray @MartinLandray]

Results of the @WHO SOLIDARITY trial:

4 drugs tested in 11,266 patients with COVID in 405 hospitals in 30 countries:
- hydroxychloroquine
- lopinavir
- remdesevir
- interferon

No clear benefit of any of them on survival.

https://t.co/ohtTAFaSnc

[nature @Nature]

The third phase of the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project has generated the most comprehensive catalogue yet of the functional elements that regulate our genes. https://t.co/IOjEQ5qJNh

[Phil Tai @DrkbdcPhil]

The Allspark is reimagined as AAV in Transformers: War for Cybertron? 🤔