Sovanny ‘Sophie’ Taylor

The secret life of RNA and lipids There is no life without RNA or lipids. But could there be life with only RNA and lipids? The discovery that RNA can catalyse reactions in addition to encoding information opened new directions for...

Hot off the press, our latest review of RNA-lipid interactions -> The secret life of RNA and lipids: "There is no life without RNA or lipids. But could there be life with only RNA and lipids?" @tcjea.bsky.social @bcube-tud.bsky.social be-tud.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social.

“This is direct censorship of scientific research.”

RNA-binding proteins and glycoRNAs form domains on the cell surface for cell-penetrating peptide entry Mammalian cells present RNA-binding proteins on the cell surface that form clustered domains containing glycoRNAs.

Excited to share the work of Jonathan Perr where he uncovered a surprisingly common feature of cell surfaces - the presentation and clustering of RNA binding proteins with #glycoRNA.

Critically support by #NIH @cp-cell.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Directed evolution of a sequence-specific covalent protein tag for RNA labeling | PNAS Efficient methods for conjugating proteins to RNA are needed for RNA delivery, imaging, editing, interactome mapping, and barcoding applications. N...

applications.

Congratulations to postdoc Rongbing Huang, whose creativity, persistence, and resourcefulness made rHUH possible! We are grateful to NSF and Biohub for funding this work.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2422085122

As federal funding for research is uncertain, we need to diversify funding sources for our PhD students.

Here is a comprehensive list of >160 PhD fellowships and funding opportunities, mostly from private foundations and scientific societies.

Download it here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Triangle researchers join "Stand up for Science" rally Scientists and graduate students from across the NC Triangle gathered Friday to protest federal funding cuts to their research.

Thanks to WUNC for their coverage of the Stand Up for Science rally in Raleigh NC yesterday!
www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...

Science not silence
#standupforscience
Austin, TX

In lab’s #FIRSTPREPRINT, we present methods to measure nanometer-scale organization around & between specific proteins in condensates in live cells. We uncover unexpected heterogeneity for a liquid-like phase with local meshwork spanning 10-50nm, stemming from ribosome biogenesis in the nucleolus.

Opinion | American Science is Under Attack (Gift Article) The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.

American science is under attack

Opinion piece by Dr Harold Varmus, Nobel Prize winner, former director of the #NIH and the #NCI 🧪

“Perhaps what’s most disheartening is what feels like the absence of widespread opposition to this unraveling”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

Excited to announce the newest member of the flock - STARLING (conSTruction of intrinsicAlly disoRdered proteins ensembles efficientLy vIa multi-dimeNsional Generative models).
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The answer is yes! Come hear about STARLING this afternoon at the Biophysical Society IDP subgroup symposium!
Thread to follow later today...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are so sad to say goodbye to Gabe, but super proud he is moving on to an internship on Capitol Hill before starting med school. Congrats Gabe! We will miss you!