Martin Turner

‘As new infections outpace new drugs, are we sleepwalking into a global health disaster?’ | Dr Manica Balasegaram Much of the political momentum around the antimicrobial resistance crisis has dissipated, but a new report shows the danger to our health has not

‘As new infections outpace new drugs, are we sleepwalking into a global health disaster?’ | Dr Manica Balasegaram

Fantastic team effort led by the rising star Dunja Capitan-Sobrino and many great scientists at Infinity - Toulouse, Inserm, CNRS !!!

Why it’s worth taking a wider look at biarchal cultures | Letters Letter: In places such as Canada, the US, parts of Africa, southern India and Polynesia, biarchal traditions are almost within living memory, says Simon Dawson

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YouTube video by B.B. King - Topic Born Again Human

The saxophone solo is wonderful
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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

Amazing, and really cool therapy. mRNA for the win!

“The cells produce a small fragment of genetic material (called microRNA) that is designed to intercept and disable the instructions (called messenger RNA) being sent from the cells' DNA for building mutant huntingtin.”

YouTube video by David Bowie - Topic Panic in Detroit (2013 Remaster)

An exceptional album. just saw the original cover photo sold for >300K...The music is for everyone.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM3f...

YouTube video by Rhiannon Giddens - Topic Following the North Star

Great album for dog walking on a sunny today morning
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YouTube video by The Master Musicians of Jajouka - Topic You Can Find The Feeling

uplifting music for walking the dog on a surprisingly warm September day (Thanks to Bobby Friction for bringing this to my attention)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=39VR...

YouTube video by Nolan Porter - Topic Keep On Keeping On (Mono Single Mix)

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check it out, covered by Joy Division on Unknown Pleasures.

Three great reasons to join Vivensa Academy today - Vivensa Foundation Read on to discover why you should apply to join Vivensa Academy, and the fantastic members-only exclusives you can access from day one.

Vivensa Academy is a growing membership (500+) of researchers, clinicians and community organisations, all dedicated to improving later life. Discover why you should apply to join, and the fantastic members-only exclusives you can access from day one: vivensafoundation.org.uk/news/three-g...

Great Opportunity

YouTube video by John Mazza The Watson Institute at Brown University presents Mark Blyth on Austerity

Great 5' video from >10 years ago explains where we still are today and why the government has to invest (which means spending more money, not austerity).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmsj...

Cover of Labwork to Leadership

In the new book Labwork to Leadership, chemist Jen Heemstra offers actionable leadership advice to principal investigators.

Check out the #ScienceBooks Review on #ReadABookDay: https://scim.ag/46l2X6y

These projections for population changes over the century are fascinating! What will the age distribution look like esp in China?

Five funded places on Zinc’s Inflection Fellowship for mid-career researchers - Vivensa Foundation We are excited to announce that the Vivensa Foundation is funding five places for Academy members on Zinc’s Inflection Fellowship Programme.

🌟 We have funded five places for Academy members on Zinc's upcoming Inflection Fellowship Programme for mid-career professionals (10+ years of professional or research experience). More info and how to apply here: vivensafoundation.org.uk/news/five-fu...
#midcareeropportunity #FundingForAgeingWell

mRNA vaccines for HIV trigger strong immune response in people Results from early-stage trial show that 80% of participants who received one of two HIV vaccine candidates produced antibodies against viral proteins.

very timely--mRNA vaccines for HIV trigger strong immune response in people www.nature.com/articles/d41...

& can be very rapidly produced and shared at scale in a crisis such as a pandemic!

Good news for molecular studies of the mechanisms of ageing.

A great moment for Women's football in England. I hope this leads to more investment at the community level in football and all other sports.

Read Hanane's blog for the @bsrageing.bsky.social describing her experience at #AGE2025 held in Alaska!
* how her research @houseleylab.bsky.social has progressed since winning the 2024 Korenchevsky Award
* conference highlights
* sampling the Alaskan wilderness

The lab detective: how DNA breakthrough freed a mother ja... Kathleen Folbigg spent 20 years in prison until Carola Vinuesa uncovered the truth in a drop of blood

An incredibly important contribution to humanity.
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An outstanding opportunity - a great Institute in a beautiful city

Long-read RNA sequencing of transposable elements from single cells using CELLO-seq - Nature Protocols Single-cell long-read RNA sequencing enables the high-fidelity mapping of single-cell expression data from highly sequence-similar transposable elements to unique genomic loci by correcting errors fro...

Very happy to share our protocols paper for CELLO-seq. This will make single cell long read RNA-seq more accessible and provides analysis guidelines. We hope this helps the #transposon #TEsky community and folks working on #singleCell isoform and allelic #gene expression. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Falling vaccination rates leave millions of children at risk, experts warn More than 30m children worldwide not fully immunised for MMR and UK ranks worst in G7, WHO and Unicef say

“Vaccines save lives, and when coverage drops, disease spreads.” Dr Hans Kluge, the WHO regional director for Europe.
• invest in strong local health systems
• ensure vaccines are available to all
• fight misinformation

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

hopefully setting the scene for longer term funding, increasing support for the study of molecular and cellular biology in complex biological systems (living organisms) as well as new ways of working.

A mesmerizing time-lapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft over a month.

-Credits: NASA

Dr Simon Andrews, Head of Bioinformatics at the Babraham Institute, holding a certificate and an award for the 2025 Papin Prize for Contribution to Research. Image courtesy of The UK Institute for Technical Skills and Strategy. Photography by Alex Wilkinson Media.

AWARD NEWS | Following Simon's award for Contribution to Research in the #PapinPrizes, our article covers just a slice of Simon's impact on the Institute's research, on #bioinformatics and on empowering researchers across the world by demystifying data analysis.

www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/07...

Symposium a huge success thanks to Rachael Walker and Babraham Institute team!

⏱️ Just over two weeks left to apply for the role of Grants Officer. Read on to find out about the generous benefits, and what Oliver Soutar says about working within a small, expert team. More here: vivensafoundation.org.uk/about-us/vac...
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Well deserved Simon, your contributions are making a real difference to so many groups at BI