Farhoud Faraji

Do we need our tonsils? Science is slowly revealing more about the misunderstood organs.

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05.07.2025 02:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

It’s the economy stupid- “There is no better investment than one that saves lives, supports local economies and drives America’s global leadership in biomedical innovation” www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

13.03.2025 03:22 — 👍 42    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 2

Statement by Francis Collins, MD, PhD - BioLogos "It has been the greatest honor of my life to be part of this institution in various roles over the last four decades."

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11.03.2025 22:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Postdoctoral Position in Immunology Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!

We are hiring! Several projects available in mucosal immunology and stem cell transplantation using functional genomics and spatial transcriptomics. Could you please help us spread the word? @ljiresearch.bsky.social

09.01.2025 03:25 — 👍 30    🔁 24    💬 1    📌 2

FAK inhibition combined with the RAF-MEK clamp avutometinib overcomes resistance to targeted and immune therapies in BRAF V600E melanoma By transcriptomic analysis, Lubrano et al. demonstrate that FAK-regulated pathways are enriched in BRAFi+MEKi-resistant melanoma lesions. In BRAF V600E melanomas, MAPK inhibition decreases RhoE (RND3) expression, activating the RhoA-FAK-AKT pathway and…

Online now: Online Now: FAK inhibition combined with the RAF-MEK clamp avutometinib overcomes resistance to targeted and immune therapies in BRAF V600E melanoma

28.02.2025 12:53 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

YAP-driven malignant reprogramming of oral epithelial stem cells at single cell resolution

"This study unveils the processes underlying oral epithelial progenitor cell reprogramming into tumor initiating cells at single cell resolution."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

11.02.2025 13:14 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

The future of vaccines is needle-free Nasal vaccines are more effective and easier to get to the people who need it most.

www.vox.com/future-perfe...

12.02.2025 01:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage Move to cut indirect cost rate to 15% could cost universities billions of dollars

Cutting NIH IDCs would be a death blow to every state’s economy, education and health systems. Contact your reps in Congress today and oppose these attacks on science. www.science.org/content/arti...

08.02.2025 19:46 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉)
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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