Douglas W. Houston

🔎 Spotted in @natcomms.nature.com!
Researchers from @uwmadison.bsky.social, among others, used DSHB's anti-MHC [MF 20] mAb in a study on how deleting ICAM-1 improves the immune resistance of stem-cell grafts.

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🧫 dshb.biology.uiowa.edu/MF-20

🔎 Spotted in Autophagy by @tandfresearch.bsky.social!
Researchers from #NationalTaiwanUniversity used DSHB's anti-α-Spec [3A9], anti-dlg [4F3], and anti-spitz mAbs in a study on Rab27’s role in regulating autophagy and lifespan in Drosophila.

Novel monoclonal antibodies against the C-terminal HEAT domain of Huntingtin biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Nice collaboration between @DSHB_antibodies , @LabScribbles and @thesgconline to make and characterize anti-HTT mAbs

🔎 Spotted in Comparative Biochemistry & Physiology Part A!
Researchers from @umassamherst.bsky.social and @utaustin.bsky.social used DSHB's anti-NKA-α-subunit [a5] mAb in a study on how red drum larvae adapt acid excretion to survive ocean acidification.

🔎 Spotted in @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social!
Researchers from #TongjiUniversity used DSHB's anti-dlg1 [4F3] mAb in a study on how bacterial membrane vesicles suppress CREB to regulate host immunity.

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🧫 dshb.biology.uiowa.edu/4F3-anti-dis...

🔎 Spotted in #ScienceAdvances!
Researchers from @uni-muenster.de, #OsnabrückUniversity, and @istaresearch.bsky.social used DSHB's anti-Rab7 mAb in a study on how RabGEF complexes evolved to regulate Rab GTPases in cell trafficking.

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🧫 dshb.biology.uiowa.edu/Rab7

🔎 Spotted in Proceedings B of @royalsocietypublishing.org!
Researchers from @barnard-college.bsky.social, among others, used DSHB's anti-PDF [C7] mAb in a study on how artificial night light influences fruit fly behavior across sexes and genes.

🔎 Spotted in Journal of Advanced Research!
Researchers from Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University used DSHB's anti-Br-C core [25E9.D7] mAb in a study on how SUMOylation switches Kr-h1 from repressing to activating Br-C during insect development.

Move-in day at Wake Forest … our youngest is off to college!

🔎 Spotted in @plosone.org!
Researchers from #TaylorUniversity used DSHB's anti-Dlg [4F3] mAb in a study on how two myosin proteins help align wing hairs in fruit flies via the protein Gliotactin.

📄 tinyurl.com/bdfmzp77

🧫 dshb.biology.uiowa.edu/4F3-anti-dis...

🔎 Spotted in @natcomms.nature.com!
Researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology used 7 of DSHB's mAbs in a study on how younger gut cells can slow intestinal aging and extend lifespan in fruit flies.

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🔎 Spotted in #BrainResearch by @elsevierconnect.bsky.social!
Researchers from #RussianAcademyofSciences used DSHB's anti-SV2 and anti-Na-K-Cl-cotransporter [N161/20] mAbs in a study on age-related GABA system changes in epilepsy-prone rats.

🔎 Spotted in #ScientificReports!
Researchers from University of Alabama at Birmingham used DSHB's anti-LAMP-1 [1D4B] mAb in a study on TFEB overexpression, showing it restores lysosomal function in progranulin-deficient cells.

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🧫 dshb.biology.uiowa.edu/1D4B

50 years later, hybridomas and monoclonal antibodies are still of "general interest" @dshb-antibodies.bsky.social

🔎 Spotted in #MolecularNeurobiology by @springernature.com!
Researchers from #NantesUniversité used DSHB's anti-ISL1/2 [39.4D5] mAb in a study on the impact of gestational protein restriction on fetal hypothalamic development in rats.

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🧫 dshb.biology.uiowa.edu/39-4D5

Cool new paper from the Sokac lab linking apical mRNA localization to the initial events of establishing apical-basal polarity

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🔎 Spotted in #Oncogene by @natureportfolio.nature.com!
Researchers from @uhn.ca's Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, among others, used 6 of DSHB's anti-MHC isoforms in a study on the role of pRB and p130 in maintaining adult skeletal muscle integrity and function.

🔎 Spotted in @dmmjournal.bsky.social!
Researchers from UAB School of Optometry used DSHB's anti-Islet-1 [39.4D5] and anti-MEIS2 [PCRP-MEIS2-2B4] mAbs in a study on Dhdds mutations in mice cause RP59-related retinal degeneration.

Extra kudos and thanks to all the staff at NIH and NSF and other federal funding agencies for working extra hard in very small windows of opportunity to get grants reviewed and funds released before the attention-addled federal policies change again (on an hourly basis).

🔎 Spotted in @cp-cell.bsky.social!
Researchers from @harvard.edu, among others, used DSHB's anti-β-tubulin [E7] mAb in a study on how sea slugs retain stolen chloroplasts to perform photosynthesis.

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🧫 dshb.biology.uiowa.edu/E7_2

Sorry I missed it!

Enjoy my old stomping grounds in Miami

@evodevopanam.bsky.social the four-eyed fish gang having a blast at the #ASEDB2025 meeting! 👀👀

🔎 Spotted in Journal of Applied Physiology by @apspublications.bsky.social!
Researchers from #AuburnUniversity and @ucf.bsky.social used DSHB's anti-PECAM1 [P2B1] and anti-MHCI [BA-D5] mAbs in a study on the impact of disuse and resistance training on muscle angiogenesis in young adults.

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🔎 Spotted in @currentbiology.bsky.social!
Researchers from #HarvardMedicalSchool used DSHB's anti-Brp [nc82] mAb (in magenta) in a study on a Drosophila visual-system neuron type, LT52, that inhibits steering toward the fly’s own limbs.

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🧫 dshb.biology.uiowa.edu/nc82

@ischneider.bsky.social received the PASEDB Young Investigator's Award! Congratulations! #finsintolimbs #regeneration #evolution