Luay Almassalha

MD, PhD. Plants, Cats, Northwestern U, Chromatin, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Cancer, Imaging, Mathematics, and Gene Transcription

[Luay Almassalha @LAlmassalha]

Was thinking about this paper today and how sequencing technologies could totally transform how we identify a source of infection https://t.co/8XaJ65ng42

[Dylan Burnette @MAG2ART]

New sarcomeres assembling in a heart muscle cell (i.e., cardiomyocyte).
#CardioTwitter #CellBiology
https://t.co/xIBCu3hG1W

[Luay Almassalha @LAlmassalha]

@detroitbadboys Agreed - Drummond has been spectacular this season & it has been a pleasure to tune into the games

[Luay Almassalha @LAlmassalha]

New method by @sglads2 & @BackmanLab is now out! Label-free nanoscale imaging shows differences in #chromatin structure, motion, and remodeling in #stemcells & identifies #UV-induced cellular paroxysms (synchronous bursts >100x faster than protein diffusion) preceding cell death

[Nature Communications @NatureComms]

The @BackmanLab propose multimodal partial wave spectroscopy as a label-free method to measure macromolecular motion in cells with millisecond temporal resolution

https://t.co/IlNbIuuYZG

[Nature Genetics @NatureGenet]

Transposable elements drive widespread expression of oncogenes in human cancers (Jang et al.) https://t.co/hFzT990zCc

[Luay Almassalha @LAlmassalha]

This sounds spectacular - I'm so excited to read the PNAS article when it's published this coming week.

[cohost.org/adrienne | @[email protected] @adrienneleigh]

Holy shit.

(TL;DR: some dude found fossils that they think might be from the KT boundary. Not, like, "the broad time period between K & T"--like, "the day the asteroid actually hit and there was flaming death everywhere." A paper is on the way in PNAS.)

https://t.co/r2KrPv8Cj7

[KFF Health News @KFFHealthNews]

A look at the U.S. attempt to switch medical charts into electronic records. “The system is an unholy mess.” via @FredSchulte and @erikafry KHN/⁦@FortuneMagazine⁩ https://t.co/hkihX4q9AD

[Luay Almassalha @LAlmassalha]

@YSPTSPS Macromolecular crowding is so fascinating

[Dr. Lorna Farrelly ✨ @LornaFarrelly_]

Serotonin goes NUCLEAR!! Beyond excited to finally share almost 5 years worth of work. This was an enormous feat, with stellar collaborators @nature https://t.co/0M1CLOk6io

[Luay Almassalha @LAlmassalha]

@kelseytyss Woah, that's also not something I would have thought of before today. An overall interesting leap-day as TIL blue light changes gene expression in neurons and opsins are expressed outside of rod/cone cells. Thx!

[Luay Almassalha @LAlmassalha]

@morrill_rob @jonlovett If you could make a sport + video game mashup, what would it be? e.g. Megaman + basketball

[Luay Almassalha @LAlmassalha]

@kelseytyss Nice! Just thought if this was totally ROS/stress signal mediated the cells would have tried to detach. It's pretty wild that the green-light and blue-light have such different responses!

[Luay Almassalha @LAlmassalha]

@kelseytyss Interesting work! Did you notice a change in cell morphology (transmission or phase contrast) at the end of the experiment w/ exposure to the different wavelengths?

[Beatriz @Amiinci]

NASA has released new images of Jupiter, taken by the Juno Spacecraft.
This is Art.

[James L. Edwards III @JLEdwardsIII]

A live look-in at Luke Kennard

[Luay Almassalha @LAlmassalha]

@mattyglesias Well yeah - seeing a doctor once a year for 30 minutes can help people live longer, healthier lives. But we need better public policy to address exposures for the other 525,000+ minutes of the year

[Luay Almassalha @LAlmassalha]

20 years and a phd later, I still don't understand half the plot of the first Mummy movie. Why do the plagues happen? They don't happen when he comes back in the second one

[Luay Almassalha @LAlmassalha]

Is it bad that I'm just picturing the bacteria soaking up all the antibiotics singing "Grenade" by Bruno Mars to their neighbors as they go down? Cool unexpected finding though!

[Petra Dersch @pdersch]

https://t.co/EfrnHGUxxD