Lab Leaks

Lab Leaks is a fun(ny), biweekly newsletter bringing you the latest scientific research. Check us out at and don't forget to subscribe! 🔬 🧬🧫🧪

[Xianrui Cheng @ChengXianrui]

How does the spatial organization of the cytoplasm affect diffusion? Protein-sized molecules get the speed boost! Our study is now published: https://t.co/KECsm0UzAq

[Lab Leaks @lab_leaks]

- The genes of doppelgangers 👬🏽🧬
- The statistics of sleep-induced crankiness 😴😠
- 🐁 Embryos without eggs and sperm
- and more... 🦠🧫🛠️

Check out our latest issue:
https://t.co/aqJgoTY9zt

[Lab Leaks @lab_leaks]

Pssstt..
Did you miss our Secret Life of Pets episode?
🐱🐭🐕🐶🐟

Learn about cats learning names, mice playing hide & seek, and more...

https://t.co/pF797nHXuW

[Lab Leaks @lab_leaks]

@cm_manasvi @paduvalli

[Lab Leaks @lab_leaks]

And here is an amazing thread from the first author @IRavreby, who discovered that people who smell similar to each other have a better chances of friendship-at-first-sight!

https://t.co/lxwChQgEfJ

[Inbal Ravreby @IRavreby]

Is there chemistry in social chemistry?
When we click with someone and immediately become close friends?
Thrilled to share our new @ScienceAdvances paper, “There is chemistry in social chemistry”:
https://t.co/IoDWKXUVGj
Together with Kobi Snitz and Noam Sobel, @WeizmannScience

[Lab Leaks @lab_leaks]

The science behind conspiracy theories 🧐
The chemistry of people-chemistry 🧪
Music therapy with mice 🎶🐭
...and more

Check out our latest issue, we discuss all these!
https://t.co/axWrRCmT29

[Lab Leaks @lab_leaks]

One of our conspiracy theory works come from
@ULBruxelles and @olivier_klein, they wrote a nice Tweetorial about the same:
https://t.co/fw0y0V5gMf

[Jyot Antani @AntaniJo]

Bacteria smelling each other

[Fer—is that a virus?—nando @NandoGordillo]

I looooooove this 😍❤🤣
And the main takeaway from my PhD was turned into a meme:

[Lab Leaks @lab_leaks]

The main story comes from @NandoGordillo and @JeremyJBarr

https://t.co/Klv4rsbWHl

[Phage Directory @phagedirectory]

Paper by Fernando L.Gordillo Altamirano (@MonashUni, Australia) and colleagues in @eBioMedicine: #Phage-antibiotic combination is a superior treatment against Acinetobacter baumannii in a preclinical study.
https://t.co/KofTWgFSz3

[Lab Leaks @lab_leaks]

Enemy of the enemy is a friend: viruses (phages) can be used to treat bacterial infections🦠. Natural disasters cause aging and plants may grow on the moon 🌱🌚

Check out our latest issue 📩📩

https://t.co/cERqFIa71B

[Connor G. G. Bamford, Ph.D @cggbamford]

Given the recent interest in monkeypox, here's a few things that people should know about poxviruses from a virologist point of view (1/14)

[Lab Leaks @lab_leaks]

Here we go again 👉👉🤘Let's talk about algae-powered batteries and teenage brains.

And while we're at it, we also talk about the center of our galaxy, a future endoscopy alternative, and how bees count.

Check out the latest issue... https://t.co/zkv379TQJw

[Lab Leaks @lab_leaks]

Intermittent fasting, endometriosis (we NEED to talk about this), productivity on Zoom, dogs, robots, COVID-lockdown hobbies,... what DON'T we have in this issue! Check out the latest: https://t.co/xd438sU45C

[Lab Leaks @lab_leaks]

A behind the scenes look at Lab Leaks!

#science #scicomm #sciencecommunication #instascience #neuroscience #scienceisfun #scientific #sciencerules #sciencelover #newsletter #memes #nature #biology #physics #scientist #womeninscience #sciencememes #sciencenews #sciencejokes

[Lab Leaks @lab_leaks]

We also look at the neural basis for food cravings during pregnancy, from @ClaretLab

https://t.co/o5iPF6OUhC

[Claret Lab 🇺🇦🕊 @ClaretLab]

Curious about the basis of gestational food cravings? Don't miss our latest study @NatMetabolism led by talented @RobertaHT. Million thanks to collaborators @delosrodriguez, @aabortolozzi, Manu Valjent and @ClaretLab @idibaps #cravings #neuroscience.
https://t.co/8MLFgJpBJS

[Lab Leaks @lab_leaks]

In this issue, we trace the Call of Beauty and Bring Back Memories. For these and more fun science stories, check out the latest issue:

https://t.co/iJX1ljaq0i

[Lab Leaks @lab_leaks]

And another story from @dheerajroy7
https://t.co/VbxdHv4ylp

[Neuroscience News @NeuroscienceNew]

“Brain-wide mapping reveals that engrams for a single memory are distributed across multiple brain regions” by Susumu Tonegawa et al. Nature Communications

https://t.co/FeFzVIc0ID