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The Cancer Moonshot, the Role of In Vitro Models, Model Accuracy, and the Need for Validation nature.com/articles/s4156… youtube.com/watch?v=C4T0uh…

8 cm live worm found in Australian woman's brain. theguardian.com/australia-news… DOI: 10.3201/eid2909.230351

We were so lucky to have Rita with us in Baltimore for the past few months! Safe travels to Portugal and thanks to @Fulbright_PT!

Groundbreaking snack discovery: cookies capable of mitosis, captured in telophase here

Fantastic @INBT_JHU symposium on Cell Engineering yesterday, and Tracy came away with an award from the poster session!

Nan's paper on angiogenesis in the brain was published today in Angiogenesis (co-authors: undergrads Sarah K, Sophia Z, and Danielle N. along with Raleigh, Tracy, Zhaobin, John, Lily, and Alex) The paper also made the front cover! link.springer.com/journal/10456/… doi.org/10.1007/s10456…

Plants speak! Cool paper in Cell. DOI:doi.org/10.1016/j.cell…

Was just online with ChatGPT - who says that for assessment of the scientific literature "I typically rely on the abstracts or key findings sections to provide a summary of the main results and conclusions of the study." Now we have another way to distort scientific discovery.

Interesting artwork? from the Percy Skuy Collection on the History of Contraception the Dittrick Museum of Medical History at Case Western Reserve University

AI can't provide explanations. Great article by Noam Chomsky and colleagues on AI and the challenges in going beyond description and prediction to providing explanations. nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opi…

Pedantic Friday Are "upregulated" and "cross-link" hyphenated? Is "Lucifer yellow" capitalized? When to use en dash (-) or em dash (–)? If you think about these things, here are some resources: • NCBI style guide #A259" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK995/#… • Diabetologia preferred spelling/usage

As an alternative to using plant protein in fake meat, tissue engineers at GOODMeat are creating sustainable meat from cultivated animal cells - an interesting application of tissue engineering goodmeat.co podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wha…

Came across this article while prepping for a biomaterials lecture: 56-year-old male with 67 Stents Khouzam et al., “A Heart With 67 Stents,” J Am Coll Cardiol (2010). 10.1016/j.jacc.2010.02.077

Commercial wearable devices can provide insights into an individual's daily activities, which support clinical care, Peter Searson (@SearsonGroup) writes in the Nature Portfolio Health Community. go.nature.com/3igZAXP

Gina's story on our Lyme disease paper was picked up by the American Society for Microbiology and physical.org phys.org/news/2022-12-l… via @physorg_com

Our work on using a tissue-engineered vascular model to visualize invasion and intravasation of Borrelia, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, is featured in the Hopkins Hub bit.ly/3jdVTmr

A reminder about the importance of scientific integrity from Elisabeth Bik nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Theoretical physicist and martial arts practitioner on condensed matter physics theguardian.com/science/2022/n…

Check out our new work "Three-dimensional microenvironment regulates gene expression, function, and tight junction dynamics of iPSC-derived #bloodbrainbarrier microvessels" published at Fluids and Barriers of the CNS | @SearsonGroup @INBT_JHU 🩸🧠🛠️ doi.org/10.1186/s12987…

To understand Lyme disease, scientists @SearsonGroup modeled the dissemination of the bacterium that causes it. The model visualizes the migration and invasion of fluorescently-labeled pathogens into blood vessels. Read the #OpenAccess article: ow.ly/QtRH50KTq5l