Science As We Know It

A group of PhD students who decided to join forces and share their passion for science with the rest of the world.

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🎆Before stepping into 2025, let’s take a final look at 2024, when Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the Nobel Prize for their decades-long work on microRNAs - tiny molecules with massive impact on gene regulation and disease. 🧬https://t.co/egKKxKAkAE

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🍂Long autumn evenings have arrived, so we’re back with our book recommendations! 📚 Embark on a gripping journey with @sam_kean in "The Icepick Surgeon" - a thrilling dive into the dark side of science, packed with murder, fraud, and sabotage. 🧑‍🔬🕵️‍♂️

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Life can be threatened due to severe blood loss and reduction in oxygen.

Artificial Red Blood cells can save patients in situations where blood transfusions are not immediately available. 🩸💉

Check our blog for more information.
https://t.co/IUapwfxGAO

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🚀 Future space tourists! 👩‍🚀👨‍🚀 Don’t miss our latest post on how space affects the health of non-professional astronauts! https://t.co/ooo57S92D5

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BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

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BREAKING NEWS
The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.

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Future dads, your diet matters! 🍔🍕🌭 What you eat can impact your son's health. Discover why in our latest post! 👉https://t.co/cRxJ3Odttg

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On the 27th July of 1921, insulin was discovered, revolutionizing diabetes treatment.

103 after, we are here to offer you a sweet weekend read 📖. Learn more about the role of this protein and how our cells uptake sugars in our new post. #SCIENCE #diabetes #weekendread 🍭🍬🍓🍉

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Our body's immune system is our police force that fight outside invaders as virus but also inside intruders, like cancer. Scientists are now training a new generation of police agents to fight cancer.

Come meet this police academy in our blog 👮‍♀️👩‍🔬 🎗️
https://t.co/MzlMDSoSS5

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There's no shame in not knowing things! It's Okay to say "I don't know"

The only shame is to pretend that we know everything.

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As the old saying goes "laugh is the best medicine".
Yesterday was the International Day of Laugh, made to remember that sometimes the only thing we need to is a good laugh. In our new post we explain the biological reasons under this well-being. 😂

https://t.co/hlbPZMTDq4

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On April 1953, Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins published their studies about the structure of DNA. This knowledge would change science forever.

To celebrate the DNA day, we just publish a new post about the molecule of life! Enjoy the reading 🧬

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A secret superpower of a lab with more than one research topic is that group meetings are a safe space for naive questions - because there are many ‘outsiders’ - and a big idea tends to start out as a naive question.

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Celebrate #InternationalDayOfHumanSpaceFlight with "The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts". Life (and @lorengrush!) writes the best scenarios filled with dreams that come true, friendship, love, tragedy and lessons for the future!
@NASA

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The original study by @JefBoeke and @ItaiYanai was published in @Nature

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🐒Ever wished for a tail you could use like an extra hand? Blame an event 25 million years ago. Discover the molecular twist that likely led to humans losing their tails in our latest post! https://t.co/Ale7b9QCWt

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Happy World Water Day!💧 Celebrate with us by exploring the astonishing biodiversity of Lake Malawi!🌊🐠🧬
https://t.co/d821MFDvRN

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Did you listen about Casgevy? The first CRISPR gene therapy was approved around the world. We decided to dive into the basics of this technology that have been widely used by scientists to answer several questions in biology. Check our new post: https://t.co/TtQEYKB3ZO 🧪👩‍🔬

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Happy birthday to the incredible @kkariko! 🎉 Her groundbreaking work on mRNA has not only revolutionized science but also serves as an inspiration to researchers navigating challenging paths! Read more 👉 https://t.co/c49xKTLip4

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Happy New Year! 🎉 Kickstarting 2024 with a flashback to 2023's Nature's Method of the Year in our latest post. 🧫https://t.co/EkgWxcUlxE