NASA with the most beautiful image of the solar eclipse #Eclipse2024 🥇

🔔 CONFERENCE ALERT- biomedical engineering for innovations in women’s health w/ U.S. National Science Foundation ElevateHER: Engineering Innovations in Women’s Health, co-organized by Shreya Raghavan (she/her) TAMU BMEN and me! UMD Bioengineering
SAVE THE DATE: t.ly/Xp6Eo
#ElevateHER Biomedical Engineering Society @CMBE

On #InternationalWomensDay , a reminder of the 'scissors-shaped curves' showing the loss of talented women scientists from academia at each successive career stage

We still have a long way to go to reach #equality - we must keep pushing for this, all genders together 💪🏼

#IWD2024

So stoked to be part of this lab! Happy international women’s day everybody 🤗

Excited to share our new publication Advanced Sci News on embedded 3D bioprinting! We show how material properties and printing parameters during extrusion affect incorporation of microgel support baths into bioinks, changing internal print microstructure. (1/n)
doi.org/10.1002/adhm.2…

Did you know that only 4% of scientists and engineers are Black and Latina women?

Today, let’s celebrate those women who keep venturing into this field. Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 👩🏽‍🔬🔬🧪🧬

In our new paper Biomaterials, we present a custom-engineered hydrogel for the delivery of human iPSC-derived neurons for spinal cord injury! This paper was led by Vanessa Doulames, PhD and Laura Marquardt. Congrats to the team! 🎉 (1/8)

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The best ideas don't come from big teams – it only Takes Two To Think! Get a Science Buddy, today's Nature Biotech explains why and how: nature.com/articles/s4158…
Itai Yanai 💔 Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Please RT: We are recruiting a Senior Laboratory Research Scientist in our lab The Crick to study cell and tissue mechanobiology. European Research Council (ERC) #biophysics #mechanobiology #ECM #organoids crick.ac.uk/research/labs/…

This was such a great time! Thanks Feinberg Group @CMU for putting together such an exciting workshop.

Another 🎄Heilshorn Lab holiday party 🎄in the books featuring lab trivia, white elephant, and so much good food! Wishing everyone a happy holidays! ✨

Check out our recent paper in Integrative Biology (Integrative Biology), in which we explore the effects of conventional and ultra high dose rate radiation on human enteroids. Congrats to Dr. Katarina Klett and team! (1/8)

academic.oup.com/ib/article-abs…

Our paper on #titin missense variants causing #DCM is out in Cell Reports! 🎉 Combining #XrayCrystallography , #Biochemistry , #MolecularDynamics , and #Genetics , we found that variants decreasing hydrophobicity in the core of titin domains cause #DCM
doi.org/10.1016/j.celr…

There is a human tissue that builds itself up and breaks itself down every ~28 days using non-scarring wound healing and instead of studying that and learning everything we can about it we think it's gross and look for other less relevant models to understand wound healing.

More news coverage on our approach for tackling period poverty - by introducing open source, distributed manufacturing of sustainable material innovations for hygiene products here: news.stanford.edu/2023/11/30/pla… congrats Anesta Kothari Anton Alex!! Announcement on research consortium soon.

Sexism in academia is bad for science and a waste of public funding
We just published this paper in Nature Rev. Mater. (2023) today.
doi.org/10.1038/s41578…

An open access link is given under this link rdcu.be/dr6Pp

Celebrating a paper with hot chocolate, churros & porras!

Appearing online on Dec 4th! Stay tuned if interested in #titin variants causing #DCM

Congratulations leading author!! Inés Martínez Martín CNIC

Check out our recent Heilshorn Lab paper on designing new protein-engineered hydrogels! I learned a lot about protein design and expression, and you could too! 🤗

Congrats Meghan Hefferon and Heilshorn Lab team! New protocol paper out on using our HELP hydrogel system for cell encapsulation.

What a great year for our lab! Congrats guys :)