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Jane Cook

@cookjanea

PhD student in the Bhatt Lab @StanfordMed 🌲 Biochemistry graduate & Foundation Scholar @tcddublin 🧬 Science writer. Palo Alto / Dallas / Dublin. Views mine.

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Joined November 2014
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Op-eds in local papers across the country are published today to fight for the future of science in honor of Barbara McClintock's birthday - including mine. Thanks to @cornellASAP #ScienceHomecoming #StandUpforScience #McClintockLetters for your work: dallasnews.com/opinion/comme…
Research cuts will strangle our nation's progress

Research cuts will strangle our nation's progress

The benefits of basic scientific study take time, even decades after an initial finding. Research cuts will hinder our progress.

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Beautiful work by Rachael Chanin and the Bhatt Lab inverton team!! They found intragenic invertons across a variety of bacteria, a new mechanism to produce more than one gene product from a single bacterial gene: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Frog parental behavior + microbiome = insanely fun collaboration to hear about in lab meeting 🐸 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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New from the Bhatt Lab!
Cell (@CellCellPress) profile pictureCell@CellCellPress21 Sep 2024
In the latest issue! Mining human microbiomes reveals an untapped source of peptide antibiotics dlvr.it/TDWzpm
Mining human microbiomes reveals an untapped source of peptide antibiotics

Mining human microbiomes reveals an untapped source of peptide antibiotics

Computational analysis of 1,773 human gut metagenomes led to the discovery of 323 candidate antibiotics encoded in small open reading frames, known as smORF-encoded peptides (SEPs). These SEPs...

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A must-watch:
PrakashLab (@PrakashLab) profile picturePrakashLab@PrakashLab14 Sep 2024
“Pursuing beauty: How basic science helps us understand the world” Testing out a new short video format to share what’s hard to write. This is focused on “Why pursue beauty in science, why explore & plunge yourself into the unknown.. m.youtube.com/watch?v=F4HtHP… #BeautyInScience
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“I think deep within every single scientist, is really an artist. And if we are honest to this creative process, let the data, or the living object that you are so curious about lead the way, and it’ll actually take you to a new place...
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And then you just have to be comfortable that, this is not where I wanted to be, but look how beautiful it is.”
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Come hang out & talk scicomm in SF next weekend!
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@JuliaBauman214 Sep 2024
One week til the first scicomm meetup! Active science communicators or anyone interested in getting started/helping out, register ⬇️
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Excellent overview of metagenomics from Yishay Pinto and Ami Bhatt - I’m also excited to share that I have joined the Bhatt Lab for my PhD thesis work! nature.com/articles/s41576-0…
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Trinity Monday—our newest #Fellows and Scholars! Following tradition, @LindaDoyle stood on the steps of the public theatre to announce the names of the 73 new #scholars, 43 new fellows, 3 new professorial fellows, and 4 #honorary fellows today. More: tcd.ie/news_events/articles/…
Laura Cole, Medicine (with flowers) plus friend Ella Clancy. Pic Paul Sharp/SHARPPIX

ALT Laura Cole, Medicine (with flowers) plus friend Ella Clancy. Pic Paul Sharp/SHARPPIX

L-R – Laura Harmon, Kate Fennell, Scholar in Philosophy, Political Science, Economics and Sociology and Aoife McCormack. Pic Paul Sharp/SHARPPIX

ALT L-R – Laura Harmon, Kate Fennell, Scholar in Philosophy, Political Science, Economics and Sociology and Aoife McCormack. Pic Paul Sharp/SHARPPIX

L-R - Antonina Wawrak, Piotr Górecki, Scholar in Economic & Social Studies, and Stephen Flannery. Pic Paul Sharp/SHARPPIX

ALT L-R - Antonina Wawrak, Piotr Górecki, Scholar in Economic & Social Studies, and Stephen Flannery. Pic Paul Sharp/SHARPPIX

Shane Burke and Lara Smith, Philosophy, Political Science, Economics and Sociology. Pic Paul Sharp/SHARPPIX

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@statnews11 Apr 2024
A study of children with cancer shows that testing tumor cells against hundreds of drugs, called functional precision medicine, can have great benefit. Read here: trib.al/49iNqUQ
A black quote card reads "There is no question that patients treated according to drug sensitivity testing did significantly better than those who didn’t. The time is now to investigate this seriously." - Anthony Letai

ALT A black quote card reads "There is no question that patients treated according to drug sensitivity testing did significantly better than those who didn’t. The time is now to investigate this seriously." - Anthony Letai

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Had a great time in Seattle at my first #NHGRI conference! 🧬 I was happy to see a lot of ethics and #ELSI research presented and discussed, both in faculty panels and in the trainee poster sessions
Eric Green (@NHGRI_Director) profile pictureEric Green@NHGRI_Director8 Apr 2024
I had a delightful and energetic lunch with a group of outstanding NHGRI trainees at the NHGRI Research Training & Career Development Annual Meeting!  Thanks to all of them for their terrific questions and insightful comments.
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Were you there when #BayFC kicked off their inaugural season Home Opener? 🔥 #BAYvHOU #BLegendary #WeCameToPlay – at San Jose, CA
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Breaking News: Dr. Ruth Gottesman, a former professor, has donated $1 billion to a Bronx medical school, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, with instructions that the gift be used to cover tuition for all students going forward. nyti.ms/49t5Zoq
$1 Billion Donation Will Provide Free Tuition at a Bronx Medical School (Published 2024)

$1 Billion Donation Will Provide Free Tuition at a Bronx Medical School (Published 2024)

Ruth Gottesman, a longtime professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is making free tuition available to all students going forward.

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“Functional precision medicine” - lots of exciting ideas in here, and it will be cool to see them applied outside of cancer
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@Nature20 Feb 2024
“This is a revolution. Patients are demanding this approach.” Researchers are blasting patients’ cancer cells with dozens of drugs in the hope of finding the right treatment go.nature.com/3UJN1FA
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2 cont: This is a problem in multiple precision medicine applications - like the early days of PD-1 immunotherapies, when trials were quickly rolled out to get approval for all cancer types, rather than having the ability to get blanket approval for the ID of the biomarker.
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I’ll be very interested to see how regulatory guidelines and drug label indications/approvals evolve as we get better at drug repurposing through precision medicine approaches.
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Such a fun read - excellent writing and reporting by ⁦@SilverJacket⁩ 🌱 Will Plants Ever Fertilize Themselves? newyorker.com/science/elemen…
Will Plants Ever Fertilize Themselves?

Will Plants Ever Fertilize Themselves?

Biologists aim to engineer crops that can eat nitrogen straight from the air.

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