Rajini Rao

🧪Senate Agreement Reached to Restart SBIR, STTR Innovation Programs.

6 years of re-authorization and language to limit high volume SBIR "mills".

Bill is not signed into law yet, but looks hopeful.
www.nsbaadvocate.org/post/nsba-sb...

I am impressed! I used the NYT hint feature for the consonant. 😬

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Let them have it, they need to learn. Probably not the first time.

Same. Could have had it at three with a more interesting word.

Agree - non-diffusible and macromolecular buffers. Maybe condensates of some kind.

How did I miss this awesome tutorial on pH microdomains within organelles?! 🤩 🧪

Hi, it's not too late. The conference is next Friday. There's time to register.

Join us for a day long workshop on Human Organoids featuring cutting edge science, including our keynote talk by Prof. Dan Huh from U Penn. Registration is required, but free! Zoom link available on request. 🧪

Congratulations, Raghu! You will be brilliant in this role 👏

Everything looks and sounds delicious! Happy New Year!🎆

Welcoming the New Year with black eyed peas and a cheesy gratin of collard greens for good luck 🎉 Happy New Year #foodsky ! What are you celebrating with tonight?

Good to see you! All the best of the holiday season to you too.

Annual holiday tradition- Brie with caramelized mushrooms and onions, scooped up with toasted French bread #foodsky

Wonderful! Stay warm and enjoy!

The best part of the holidays is that I can cook to my heart's content. Cornmeal blueberry pancakes for breakfast, udon noodles in a red curry soup with cabbage and carrot dumplings for dinner. Happy cooking! #foodsky

🧪Our paper titled “The Christianson syndrome protein, sodium hydrogen exchanger isoform 6, is required for fat accumulation" was chosen by J Physiol Editor-in-Chief as the Editor’s Choice! 🥳
This is our 1st paper using a mouse model & venturing into adipocyte biology 😍
Open Access: lnkd.in/eGs6sPds

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✅Are you a Pre-Med student looking to boost your chances of getting into Med School?
✅Want to try an intensive research program before committing to a PhD?
✅Honing your skills for a competitive job in pharma/biotech?

Apply to our MS in CMM program: cmm.jhmi.edu/index.php/ms...

A dark purple, magenta, and white graphic with the following quote: “"[S]tudies on lactation historically rely heavily on animal models which fail to fully recapitulate human lactation physiology, or on healthy breast tissue that is difficult to obtain, especially during lactation, and has limited scalability. Differences between human and animal models include the number and location of mammary glands, the timing and trajectory of mammary gland development, and the composition of milk." The quote is attributed to the linked paper by Misba Majood & Rajini Rao in Pediatric Research, 2025. On the left, a photo of an infant nursing at their mother’s breast.

🍼 Milk: good for babies… and organoids too?

Majood & Rao argue human milk—a living fluid rich in cells, bioactive molecules, & microbiome—could transform lactation biology & contamination research.

💡It's also a vital cell source for the development of 3D mammary #organoid models. 🧪

Thank you!

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its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

Foreign Grads Seeking H-1B Status Avoid $100,000 Trump Fee (1) Recent international college graduates who are sponsored for H-1B status while in the US won’t be subject to a $100,000 fee imposed on the program, according to new guidance from the Trump administrat...

Here come the exceptions!
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

Consistent with the death of expertise across this administration.

Expect deep cuts in PhD admissions throughout the US, including biomedical programs. The current model of PhD training and the current financial climate are simply not compatible. 🧪

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

I just want to leave this here, so you can block all the US.GOV accounts with a couple of clicks.

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I saw a patch of evening sun on the Celosia and this good boy understood the assignment 📷🐾

The problem I had with growing okras was that at any time, my plants had only 2-3 okras ready to be harvested. So I would need a whole bunch of plants for a decent harvest. Also, okra rapidly gets woody when stored, even in the cold, so you need to cook it right away. But the flowers are pretty!

Hop and Change

This nonsense never changes 😔

Remembering the NYT obit of Yvonne Brill, NASA rocket scientist, which began "She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children." 🤦‍♀️