Matt MacKay

Three recent manuscripts reporting multimodal (RNA+protein) extensions of spatial transcriptomics! 1. SM-omics (@mssanjavickovic) : nature.com/articles/s4146… 2. SPOTS (@landau_lab): biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 3. Spatial-CITE-seq (@RongFan8): biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Fun day! @AstroPeggy & @johnpshoffner learning genomics protocols (@nanopore Mark1c, DSUP-HEK culture, spatial omics) to prep for @Axiom_Space Ax-2 mission. Thx: @EliahOverbey @HackerAstro @krista_ryon @KJangkeun CraigW @Sebastian__gm @BradenTierney @cemmeydan @jfoox @mjdmackay

Two weeks after launch, @NASAWebb has hit its next biggest milestone: the mirrors have completed deployment and the next-generation telescope has taken its final form. Next up for Webb? Five months of alignment and calibration before we start getting images:

Our new @NEJM paper "Viral Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Variants in Vaccinated & Unvaccinated Persons" saw similar viral load, but faster clearance, in vaccinated vs. unvaccinated NBA players w/ @TempusLabs (COI) @NathanGrubaugh @JosephFauver @mjdmackay @jdudley nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

In this groundbreaking review article, authors outline the fundamental biological features associated with #spaceflight that are related to human health risks and aerospace medicine. New to Space Biology? Start here ⬇️ cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Countdown to @inspiration4x launch! We are go for ignition. Godspeed @ArceneauxHayley @ChrisSembroski @DrSianProctor @rookisaacman-New space medicine, tools (@ButterflyNetInc) & science @BCMSpaceHealth @SpaceX @BradenTierney @krista_ryon @mjdmackay @USC @HackerAstro @EliahOverbey

Our new paper estimating male and female generation times across the past 10,000 generations of human history is up! Project led by the amazing @suggestive_pval (with @sialsaffar and Jeff Rogers). A brief thread: 1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

As the first all-civilian crew to orbit the Earth, Inspiration4 is excited to share experiments and research with @SpaceX, @BCMSpaceHealth & @WeillCornell that will help continue to broaden access to space exploration. Learn more: inspiration4.com/press/inspirat…

@mason_lab congrats!

Dr. Christopher Mason, professor of physiology and biophysics, has been selected to serve on the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Committee to develop the next 10 years of NASA and space medicine priorities.

@yashevde Beautiful story and an amazing, full life. Thanks for sharing

May 1937 - Aug 2021. The stories he told us… like how he forged the date to ‘36 to get one more income for his family sooner haha He’s survived—thanks in large part to him let’s say “thrived”—by 2 brothers, my grandma, 2 kids and 4 grandkids. We’ll miss him so much. ॐ शान्तिः

My grandfather passed away yesterday. We were very close, and I’d love to tell y’all some of his story. He was born in the town of Nainpur, the 5th of 7 kids who all called him “बंडू” (mischievous). It was always adorable to us that they called him that well into their old age.

Please vote for our panel for South by Southwest: ALIENATING MARS: CHALLENGES OF SPACE COLONIZATION SXSW PanelPicker shar.es/aW2Sgs

@mason_lab @ISS_CASIS @ISS_Research Well deserved !

I'm honored and humbled to get the International Space Station (ISS) Research and Development Award for Compelling Results in Human Health in Space - thanks @ISS_CASIS @ISS_Research #ISSSRDC ! It's a labor of love :-)

@mason_lab you just got an award at #ISSRDC!

Can't escape T cell exhaustion in the latest @NatImmunol, with a triptych of papers from: @DebattamaSen @EJohnWherry, Georg Lauer and a great N&V explainer from @Hazemghoneim11 nature.com/ni/volumes/22/… [1/n]

Generation of ovarian follicles from mouse pluripotent stem cells science.sciencemag.org/content/373/65…

Sister ship @NASAVoyager is 21 hrs 05 mins 43 secs of light-travel time from Earth (2021:162:120000:1L)

I am currently 17 hrs 32 mins 32 secs of light-travel time from Earth (2021:162:000000:2L)