Hossein Borhan

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization Plant roots release exudates to encourage microbiome assembly, which influences the function and stress resilience of plants. How specific exudates drive spatial colonization patterns remains largely ...

A long road to the Cover of Science!
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Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science Nature - The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.

Jane Goodall, known for her pioneering work with chimpanzees, has passed away aged 91

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DNA circuits store data — with heat as their power source Nature - DNA computers can use biological material to perform mathematical functions and store information, but their power sources have been fragile. Researchers now say they’ve developed a...

DNA computers could one day be used to store data, solve difficult mathematical problems and analyse biological data

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Blooms supersized - Nature Biotechnology Nature Biotechnology - Blooms supersized

A tiny white-petalled weed beloved of plant biologists has received a CRISPR-fueled makeover, turning it into a supersized ruby-colored bloom www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Huntington’s disease treated for first time using gene therapy Nature - Preliminary results from a small trial offer the clearest evidence yet that the brain disease’s progression can be slowed.

A one-time gene therapy can markedly slow the progression of Huntington’s disease, potentially paving the way for the first ever treatment to alter the course of this rare, inherited brain disorder.

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Long-range PM2.5 pollution and health impacts from the 2023 Canadian wildfires - Nature A modelling study based on satellite observations, machine learning and a chemical transport model quantifies the global and regional exposure to particulate-matter pollution and the human h...

🔥 Smoke’s deadly reach

The 2023 Canadian wildfires raised air pollution across North America and Europe, linked to over 69,000 deaths. Long-range smoke made health impacts global.

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#SciComm #AirQuality #WildFiresc🧪

Marmolada Glacier
2025 | 2015 | 1916

Everything is happening far too quickly... 🔥

We are witnessing the final years of glaciers on mountains below 3,500 metres!

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I created my own AI medical team. It changed the way doctors treat my cancer The collaboration between my doctors and me, powered by AI, reshaped my cancer treatment.

I created my own AI medical team. It changed the way doctors treat my cancer www.statnews.com/2025/09/10/a... #artificialintelligence #healthcare #healthAI

🌿 The 2025 volume of the Annual Review of Phytopathology is now online. Most read article is "Functions and Mechanisms of Secreted Proteinaceous Effectors of Broad-Host-Range Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens" by Liu et al. arevie.ws/4gq0jAa

Check out the TOC: arevie.ws/4npcHSW @kamounlab.bsky.social

Universitätsprofessorin / Universitätsprofessor (m/w/d) für Pflanzengenetik (W3) - Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg bietet Stelle als Universitätsprofessorin / Universitätsprofessor (m/w/d) für Pflanzengenetik (W3) in Würzburg - jetzt bewerben!

Professorship Plant Genetics. Würzburg, Germany.
#plantscijobs #plantscijob
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Out of all the languages I know, Persian is the one that speaks directly to my soul and offers a new way of being | Shadi Khan Saif I’ve found metaphors that mirror my own journey, phrases that feel like home and poetry that speaks directly to the soul

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‘Brain dial’ turns food consumption on or off in mice Master-control area integrates information about hunger, a food’s tastiness and more — and can even drive intake of plastic pellets.

Scientists have identified a ‘brain dial’ that can turn food consumption on or off, at least in mice.

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Bacteria displaying cytokines heat up the tumor microenvironment - Nature Biotechnology Escherichia coli engineered to display cytokines destroy hard-to-treat tumors by boosting the activity of local native and adoptive immune effector cells.

E. coli engineered to display cytokines destroy hard-to-treat tumors by boosting the activity of local native and adoptive immune effector cells #NBTNV go.nature.com/3XRyVSv
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🚨 We're hiring, please share! The FMI seeks a tenure-track Group Leader (Assistant Prof) in Structural Biology 🔬
Innovative scientists in genome regulation, RNA metabolism, or protein homeostasis—especially using cutting-edge approaches—apply now at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

Please retweet: Julius-von-Sachs Institute, University of Würzburg is hiring: Prof. For Plant Genetics, Chair Botany III. Please apply until Oct 13th

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Hope for diabetes: CRISPR-edited cells pump out insulin in a person – and evade immune detection Nature - Edits create cells that don’t trigger an immune response, allowing implant recipient to forego immune-suppressing drugs.

In a medical first, researchers report that they have implanted CRISPR-edited pancreas cells into a person with type 1 diabetes

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Supervised learning in DNA neural networks - Nature DNA molecules can be programmed to autonomously carry out supervised learning in vitro, with the system learning to perform pattern classification from molecular examples of inputs and desired responses.

Nature research paper: Supervised learning in DNA neural networks

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Scalable secondary metabolite production in Streptomyces using a plug-and-play system - Nature Biotechnology A plug-and-play system fine-tunes multiple targets simultaneously for secondary metabolite production in Streptomyces.

Scalable secondary metabolite production in Streptomyces using a plug-and-play system go.nature.com/3HdTOTV

Tomato Roots Exhibit Development‐Specific Responses to Bacterial‐Derived Peptides Pattern-triggered immune responses in roots are concentrated in the early differentiating regions in wild and domesticated tomatoes (Solanum pimpinellifolium and S. lycopersicum). Signalling compon...

🚨 New publication alert 🚨
Tomato Roots Exhibit Development-Specific Responses to Bacterial-Derived Peptides
🔗: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Authors: R Leuschen-Kohl, R Roberts, @danimstevens.bsky.social, N Zhang, S Buchanan, B Pilkey, @gittacoaker.bsky.social , and A Iyer-Pascuzzi.

Precise, predictable genome integrations by deep-learning-assisted design of microhomology-based templates - Nature Biotechnology Genomic integration of DNA templates is made more precise through microhomology-focused design.

Precise, predictable genome integrations by deep-learning-assisted design of microhomology-based templates - @ethz.ch @uzgent.be go.nature.com/41GoBiX

illustrations of scientists manipulating DNA in a seed in a steam punk style

Self-cloning crops could transform agriculture – thanks to research from IGI's Venkatesan Sundaresan, who was awarded the 2024 Wolf Prize for his research on apomixis. Read more in this feature from @nature.com: ow.ly/Q7v350WQyne

Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants Plants deploy a diverse array of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), which perceive microbe-associated molecular patterns to activate immune responses. Leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase subgr...

Very happy to share our latest work “Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants” out in @science.org !

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Well done
It takes determination and dedication to learn a new skill
I have taken several python courses but never managed to set aside time to put it into practice
It would be good if you share your experience in mastering statistics

Thrilled to share our new bioRxiv preprint!✨ Huge credit to first author Yujin Chen and thanks to all co-authors. Extra special: my first paper as co-corresponding author (with Lieve Gheysen).
Check how nematodes uncouple FLS2–BSK signalling in 🌱👇
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States now have a legal duty to prevent climate harm — justice is in reach A July ruling from the International Court of Justice is clear: nations can face consequences if they don’t act on the climate crisis.

A July ruling from the International Court of Justice is clear: nations can face consequences if they don’t act on the climate crisis, says Maina Vakafua Talia, Tuvalu’s minister of home affairs, climate change and environment.

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One-shot design of functional protein binders with BindCraft - Nature BindCraft, an open-source, automated pipeline for de novo protein binder design with experimental success rates of 10–100%, leverages AlphaFold2 weights to generate binders with nanomolar affinity without the need for high-throughput screening.

Nature research paper: One-shot design of functional protein binders with BindCraft

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Amoc collapse must be avoided “at all costs”. It would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50cm to already rising sea levels.

Stunning cryo-ET from Peijun Zhang lab: Direct visualization of HIV-1 nuclear import!
Hundreds of viral cores captured entering the nucleus. The NPC dilates to let the capsid through. A masterclass in correlative microscopy that makes it quantitative. A leap for structural virology! @emboreports.org

A community effort to optimize sequence-based deep learning models of gene regulation - Nature Biotechnology A benchmarking competition improves tools that predict how regulatory regions control gene expression.

A benchmarking competition improves tools that predict how regulatory regions control gene expression go.nature.com/3NnblYZ
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We learned a lot about plant cell wall mechanics by stretching the Arabidopsis epidermis. Now published in
‪@natcomms.nature.com‬ Fibrous network nature of plant cell walls enables tunable mechanics for development
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