@TU_Muenchen | Stem cell research & Scientific writing

Munich, Bavaria
Joined March 2018
The main project from my PhD is out today in @NatureBiotech! 🫀 Excited to see future applications of epicardioids in disease modeling and more
Epicardioid single-cell genomics uncovers principles of human epicardium biology in heart development and disease go.nature.com/3zr2PkH
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Build-it-yourself human thyroid for regenerative therapy @ab_meier highlights a preprint by @MirianRomitti and colleagues from the Costagliola lab. prelights.biologists.com/?p=…
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Deciphering the epicardial signals that promote myocardial growth @ab_meier highlights a preprint by @JihyunJang_JJ, @Deqiang8, and colleagues. prelights.biologists.com/?p=…
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Our lab's work on dissecting the mechanisms of heart regeneration by cardiac progenitors in an ex vivo primate heart model (and in vivo pig model!) is now accessible on #bioRxiv
Primate heart regeneration via migration and fibroblast repulsion by human heart progenitors biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv
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Immigration shouldn’t only be open to exceptionally talented people. But the refusal of residency to Asiya Islam shows it’s closed off and hostile *even* for the most exceptionally talented theguardian.com/education/20…
The working culture of scientific research can be toxic. This perspective explores what the problems are, and what some of the solutions may be. @NatureChemistry #WorkLifeBalance #DiversityinSTEM nature.com/articles/s41557-0…
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« Jusqu’où laisserons-nous passer la haine des musulmans ? » lemonde.fr/idees/article/201…
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Oh COME ON @EconomicTimes!
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By replacing meat with protein-conserving plant alternatives, Americans could satisfy key nutritional requirements while eliminating pastureland use and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study published in @SciReports. go.nature.com/2mLZ0Vh
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By replacing meat with protein-conserving plant alternatives, Americans could satisfy key nutritional requirements while eliminating pastureland use and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study published in @SciReports. go.nature.com/309sEGb
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"Y'en a qui aiment être battues. Y'en a qui sont pas battues parce qu'elles ont pas besoin d'être battues"... Des témoignages glaçants au sujet des violences conjugales dans les années 70 (attention, certains propos peuvent choquer) #GrenelleViolencesConjugales #Feminicides
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C'est bien triste quand même de voir que lorsque des femmes admirables sortent des sentiers battus et ont enfin un certain écho, d'autres -qui n'ont jamais rien fait mais se croient brillantes- sont immédiatement là pour les rabaisser. lefigaro.fr/vox/societe/l-he…
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CR5-∆32 is deleterious in the homozygous state in humans - @ras_nielsen and Xinzhu Wei report in @NatureMedicine So much for "judicious" genome engineering... rdcu.be/bFvPu
Remember the CCR5 #CRISPR genome editing that Jiankui He did? Well, it is deleterious, with a >20% increase in all-cause mortality. nature.com/articles/s41591-0… by Xinzhu Wei and @ras_nielsen @NatureMedicine @uk_biobank
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"We're told science self-corrects. The candidate gene literature shows that it often self-corrects very slowly & wastefully, even when the writing has been on the wall for a very long time" @MarcusMunafo to @edyong209 as the SLC6A4 house of cards collapses theatlantic.com/science/arch…
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ICYMI We've got a new paper out in @NatureNeuro and I want to tell you about it. Here's the paper, and here's a short explainer - a thread. Cerebral organoids at the air–liquid interface generate diverse nerve tracts with functional output nature.com/articles/s41593-0… 1/11
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