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High-yield, green and scalable methods for producing MOF-303 for water harvesting from desert air Nature Protocols - MOF-303 is a promising water-harvesting sorbent that can take up water at low relative humidity and release it under mild heating. This metal–organic framework can be made...

Congratulations to all three winners!
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

We are honoured to have a Nature Protocol from Prof. Yaghi
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Get your head around cellular respiration by making our paper models! Link them together for a hands-on learning experience! Find out more here:
Electron Transport Chain: buff.ly/4u1KnvD
Mitochondrion: buff.ly/tcVFBQj
ATP Synthase: buff.ly/jDORJ7U

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks.”

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Have we written about MOFs before? Um, quite a bit:

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Global Mapping of Combinatorial Chromatin Regulatory Events Using Hi-Plex CUT&Tag https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.06.680180v1

Functional Group Composition: The Blueprint for Protein Interactions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.07.680707v1

Much needed good news!! Our paper is just out in @jcb.org. We found a crazy antagonistic motor function that explains the elongation/retraction phenotype we see during LRRK2-dependent lysosomal tubulation. I am especially proud of Tsion, Nuria, Mia and Irene's contribution. Check it out!

Mechanobiology across timescales - Nature Reviews Physics This Review explores how cells sense and respond to mechanical signals across timescales. By integrating mechanosensing at membranes, mechanotransduction in the cytoplasm, and nuclear reprogramming, it reveals a role of temporal dynamics in tissue development and disease.

Mechanobiology across timescales

A Review by Bo Cheng, Moxiao Li, Min Lin, Hui Guo & Feng Xu ⚛️🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

His Off-the-Grid Vacation Was Interrupted by Winning a Nobel Prize

“I certainly didn’t expect to win the Nobel Prize,” he said from a hotel in Montana. “It never crossed my mind.”

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Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon dies aged 92 It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the Gurdon Institute.

So sad to hear the news - John truly was an inspiration to so many, and one of a kind.

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It's grad school application season! My lab (cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/ ) will be recruiting a PhD student via the MPS program at MSU (mps.natsci.msu.edu) for Fall 2026.

Happy to take inquires via email (which can be found in the lab website) if you are applying this cycle.

What an amazing opportunity to do impactful work in bioimage analysis!!!!

Université Grenoble Alpes opens a full professorship in microbiology in 2026. The selected candidate will develop their research program on quantitative approaches in microbiology in the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique. More info: liphy.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/en/join-us/r...

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#NobelPrize2025 dates & time ⬇️

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025

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Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electri...

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Pour out a coffee and enjoy Margaret's thread(s) while we wait for 11:45

🛠️New tool from the lab! #SHARK🦈: a new strain to support complex cloning of transient R6K expression plasmids – perfect for genome engineering. Work led by the talented Shivang Joshi and all strains and strain assembly tools enroute to Addgene. #synbio doi.org/10.1101/2025...

@alexisbarr.bsky.social does some very cool work. Do apply if you are looking for a postdoc!

Linking antimicrobial resistance, climate warming, and carbon use efficiency in Arctic soils (HERNANDEZ-GARCIA_UEA_ARIES26) at University of East Anglia on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Linking antimicrobial resistance, climate warming, and carbon use efficiency in Arctic soils (HERNANDEZ-GARCIA_UEA_ARIES26) at University of East Anglia, listed on FindAPhD.com

PhD opportunity to work in my lab at UEA, together with @drbradbrad.bsky.social and Marc Dumont “Linking AMR, global warming and CUE in deglaciated soils”

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A load-bearing function for the cytoplasmic membrane of Escherichia coli The structural integrity of bacterial cells is traditionally attributed to the peptidoglycan cell wall, and more recently to the outer membrane, with the cytoplasmic membrane assumed to be mechanicall...

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Dissecting the impact of transcription factor dose on cell reprogramming heterogeneity using scTF-seq - Nature Genetics This study introduces single-cell transcription factor (TF) sequencing, a single-cell barcoded and doxycycline-inducible TF overexpression approach that reveals dose-sensitive functional classes of TFs and cellular heterogeneity by mapping TF dose-dependent transcriptomic changes during the reprogramming of mouse embryonic multipotent stromal cells.

🧵1/ Excited to share our new paper introducing a new #singlecell assay: scTF-seq, a high-throughput single-cell approach to explore how transcription factor (TF) dose shapes cell identity and reprogramming outcomes. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Big congrats to the entire team @EPFL & @SIAT_China

Cardiolipin dynamics promote membrane remodeling by mitochondrial OPA1 - Nature Communications This study reveals how cardiolipin governs mitochondrial morphology by modulating the activity of human OPA1 and how its replacement by monolyso-cardiolipin, as observed in Barth syndrome, impacts mitochondrial membrane-shaping mechanisms.

Excited to share that our paper on mitochondrial cardiolipin dynamics is published in @natcomms.nature.com today! We provide molecular explanations for unique aspects of mitochondrial morphology and the mechanisms underlying cardiolipin-related Barth Syndrome.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...