Dark Sun over Swanton VT yesterday.

Todays harvest from the lab. Not cells.

Measles virus can evade immune pressure by entering and replicating in brain. Yousaf et al dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa… charted adaptations in viral genome as it spread in a brain. Our lab contributed ampFISH pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… to distinguish the viral genome variants in situ.

जाति सेन्सस क्यों है जरुरी? twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Indian spacecraft Aditya L1 is traveling to a place between Sun and Earth called Lagrange point 1 where the gravities of the two balance out. Any object that reaches here can’t leave. Seems to be repeating the legend of Trishanku who was suspended between heaven and earth.

As New York air was thick with historic levels of air pollution yesterday, mulberry branches hung heavy with the weights of fruit.

Ryan Dikdan receives his Ph.D. With a periodic table on his chest and the genetic code on his arm and each with a twist, he is going back to medical school to finish his MD.

70 years ago, 3 papers appeared in nature under the title ‘Molecular structure of nucleic acids’. In an article in Nature today (link at end) Nathaniel Comfort and I shed new light on ‘what Watson and Crick really took from Rosalind Franklin’. This thread summarises our findings. 1/23

One doctorate down and another one to go. Our MD/Ph.D. student Ryan J Dikdan brilliantly defended his dissertation and is moving on to finish his MD at #njms #rutgers

I wonder why the branches appear to be organized in concentric circles.

Immediately after after establishing the universality of the genetic code they started to search for exceptions. #DieterSoll from #Yale , the first author of a key paper on the code (pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…) spoke at PHRI Rutgers.Dieter and Ryan Dikdan with the code on his arm.

I asked #ChatGPT to write a #MatLab script to draw two concentric circles and fill the area between them with a thousand randomly distributed spots. After a couple of cajoling steps it came up with a great script.

Human Towers of Tarragona youtu.be/xe5TJYay8eI via YouTube

See how metabolism of macrophages is altered in response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Stained glass window on cancer. Drug resistant cells (gold) are identified using allele specific amFISH pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Want to know which COVID variant you have? Rutgers scientists have a test for that whyy.org/articles/rutge…