"There is perhaps no stronger evidence of the [Trump] administration’s objectives to reduce the quality of the US scientific workforce than its treatment of the National Science Foundation’s flagship Graduate Research Fellowship Program," writes H. Holden Thorp in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://t.co/KLnLCQxDDP
This will be absolutely devastating in the medical field.
~30% residents are international medical graduates & ~10k of 43k residency spots are filled by docs with H1-B visas.
Previously the h-1B fee was <$5,000.
No hospital will pay a $100k fee for a $55k resident salary.
David Baltimore (March 7, 1938 – September 6, 2025). His discovery of reverse transcriptase, along with Howard Temin and Satoshi Mizutani, illuminated the retrovirus life cycle, led to the discovery of viral oncogenesis mechanisms and antiviral RT inhibitors, and enabled technologies including RT-PCR, RNA-seq, and prime editing.
https://t.co/MSK81W7MBn
The story behind how Generation 3.0 proGuides were engineered. They enable efficient, multi-step, pre-programmed CRISPR activation of endogenous genes.
https://t.co/X2vXk1hWdF
Very excited to see our work on Cas9 conformational activation out in @Nature ! https://t.co/lN52efWKxd
What started as a very poor crystal structure back in 2017 in the @MartinJinek lab, turned into a full blown cryoEM project during the pandemic.
Here's a bacterium on a diatom on an amphipod on a frog on a bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea [source, read more: https://t.co/qZ6x2VucHd]
Massively proud of Leo's elegant & thorough study out in NBT, developing CRISPR-transposons for high-efficiency & high-fidelity DNA integration in diverse bacteria. Lots of exciting ideas on advancing this even further, together w/ collaborators @harriswangnyc and @RondaCarlotta