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biotech

[kat @katclone]

1 year since my dad’s death.

The most difficult thing I ever had to do was tell my dad he was dying.

Every other obstacle is trivial in comparison.

🤍

[kat @katclone]

@landon20s What’s animal 3

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I’m not being dramatic when I say this was a highlight of my life

I was early on capybaras

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@landon20s Humans included in top 3

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@sarahtonin Truly zero shock for real katfans

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@fulop_dan Capy Neko in Tokyo

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@zavaindar 🙌🏻

[kat @katclone]

Let’s go Willy!!!!!! 👑

[Jim O’Neill @regardthefrost]

We can double the pace of scientific discovery.

Jay Bhattacharya is backing young investigators, accelerating rare disease research, and harnessing SI to transform biomedical discovery.

Willy Chertman is cutting research bureaucracy and modernizing clinical trials through Operation Trialblazer.

A new golden age of science.

@NIHDirector_Jay @DrJBhattacharya @willyintheworld @HHSGov

[kat @katclone]

@iskander LFG

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genuinely never click this

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@sheetaverma @chowtato Wait this is devastating

[kat @katclone]

So well deserved!

Congrats to @KarlDeisseroth (whose work I’ve been following for as long as I’ve been in academia), Peter Hegemann & Georg Nagel!

Nobel days feel like Oscar’s for science. It’s especially exciting when researchers you’ve met / in your field get recognized 🥹

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

[kat @katclone]

art is BACK!

Renaissance 2.0 babyy

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.

[Milan Cvitkovic @MWCvitkovic]

China Travel Tips 🔗👇

[kat @katclone]

@Y_Ryan_Lu Personal motivation! 💪

[Yuancheng Ryan Lu @Y_Ryan_Lu]

1/ Excited to share our new preprint from a joint collaboration between @JswLab + @Bruce_Ksander!

Aging is marked by a progressive loss of resilience to stress. Can we systematically search the human ORFome for genes that make vulnerable cells more resilient?

Performing such a genome-scale ORF screen led us to NKX2-5—a heart transcription factor we engineered to restore vision, and improve health in aged mice.

A breakdown🧵
🔗 https://t.co/WVIO7JOx3p

[kat @katclone]

So thrilled our work is finally out!

@Y_Ryan_Lu has been an incredible mentor to me during (and after) grad school!

[Yuancheng Ryan Lu @Y_Ryan_Lu]

1/ Excited to share our new preprint from a joint collaboration between @JswLab + @Bruce_Ksander!

Aging is marked by a progressive loss of resilience to stress. Can we systematically search the human ORFome for genes that make vulnerable cells more resilient?

Performing such a genome-scale ORF screen led us to NKX2-5—a heart transcription factor we engineered to restore vision, and improve health in aged mice.

A breakdown🧵
🔗 https://t.co/WVIO7JOx3p

[alex rubinsteyn @iskander]

FYI I wrapped a lot of immuno-informatics predictors so you don't have to:

https://t.co/FWqNqgkIXG

(eg NetMHCpan, MHCflurry, Pepsickle, DeepTAP, ERAMER, BigMHC, PRIME, &c)

[kat @katclone]

@maggiezli I’d swap 2 and 3 😹😹😹

[kat @katclone]

Biotech investors and tech investors could not be more different.

[kat @katclone]

@Oliver__Hahn What’s more shocking is tech investors transitioning to more hard core bio in last few years!

[kat @katclone]

@Oliver__Hahn lol it’s not shocking to me