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David Mai retweeted
Jan 19
My poster on flower bioengineering at the #AIEBaB26 conference in Bristol last week 🌹 🧬 ✨
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David Mai retweeted
6 Oct 2025
BREAKING NEWS
The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
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David Mai retweeted
27 Aug 2025
In the genomics community, we have focused pretty heavily on achieving state-of-the-art predictive performance.
While undoubtedly important, how we *use* these models after training is potentially even more important.
tangermeme v1.0.0 is out now. Hope you find it useful!
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David Mai retweeted
11 Aug 2025
Introducing the 1,000 Flower Collection 🧬🌹
I’m creating 1,000 genetically designed flowers each crafted with new colors, patterns, and shapes.
Here’s how I’m making it happen… and how you can join me on this journey 🧵(1/7)
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David Mai retweeted
7 Nov 2024
ecDNA are rogue genetic material that amplify genes, contribute to treatment resistance and drive genomic heterogeneity. We report on the Origins and impact of extrachromosomal DNA today in @Nature nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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David Mai retweeted
1 Nov 2024
Our new paper on epigenome editing is out!
We mapped which effector domains regulate transcription across genomic, cell type and DNA-binding domain contexts. Then we built new gene repressor and activator tools with improved efficiency & deliverability
nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
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David Mai retweeted
10 Oct 2024
BREAKING NEWS
The 2024 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
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David Mai retweeted
9 Oct 2024
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”
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David Mai retweeted
8 Oct 2024
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
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David Mai retweeted
7 Oct 2024
BREAKING NEWS
The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.
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David Mai retweeted
24 Jul 2024
My PhD work is out!
How do mothers balance tending to their own needs, such as eating, and taking care of their offspring? We examined the link between feeding and parenting neural circuits and how they are modulated postpartum in mice 🧵 (1/9)
PREPRINT: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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David Mai retweeted
3 Jul 2024
For 25 years, the Toll-like Receptor pathway was considered a series of distinct protein complexes that drive inflammation. Today, we report that the entire pathway, from receptor to transcription factor, is executed from within one complex—the myddosome.
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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David Mai retweeted
26 Jun 2024
Our work on bridge recombination is out in @Nature today. We are especially excited to share our structural work in collaboration with @hnisimasu. We show that this enzyme makes and breaks a Holliday junction, using more (!) RNA-DNA base-pairing to drive the reaction forward 🧵
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David Mai retweeted
26 Jun 2024
Our 2 bridge RNA papers are finally published in @Nature! Check out the incredible CryoEM structures, they're truly beautiful. A years-long rollercoaster ride, it's hard for me to imagine a more exciting project than this. Thank you to @ntperry13, @pdhsu, and our amazing team!
26 Jun 2024
What if we could universally recombine, insert, delete, or invert any two pieces of DNA?
In back-to-back @Nature papers, we report the discovery of bridge RNAs and 3 atomic structures of the first natural RNA-guided recombinase - a new mechanism for programmable genome design
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David Mai retweeted
26 Jun 2024
Happy to announce that two papers on the bridge RNA-guided IS110 recombinase have been published in Nature! Many thanks for the wonderful collaboration with @pdhsu.
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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David Mai retweeted
28 Jun 2024
Sharing my first 1st author paper, now published in Science! For my PhD I engineered CHARM, a compact, enzyme-free epigenetic editor which can be delivered via AAV vector to reach the brain. This work was done in @JswLab with @TessaBertozzi and @ElaineWu0
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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David Mai retweeted
7 Feb 2024
Read below about our exciting work that is now out
@Nature led by @jcole_garcia of @UCSF @parkerici
@GladstoneInst and @jay_daniels1 of
@NUFeinbergMed. This is one of the most gratifying collaborations with @jaehyukchoimd
-- tinyurl.com/nhdvhm6v
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David Mai retweeted
25 Jan 2024
Excited to share - EcORep! Now you can simply electroporate a PCR product into E. coli and let the linear DNA replicate orthogonally in the cell. EcORep can be used to evolve proteins rapidly and continuously! science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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David Mai retweeted
25 Jan 2024
We are thrilled to present a new #enzyme to the world, the first shown to break the man-made carbon-silicon bonds in #siloxanes, which are persistent in the environment.
caltech.edu/about/news/teach…
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David Mai retweeted
17 Jan 2024
🔬 Delighted to share our lab's debut paper in @Nature. We unveil the first proof of autoreactive CD4 and CD8 #Tcells infiltrating and targeting peripheral nerves in #Guillain-Barré Syndrome patients, reshaping our understanding of #GBS #autoimmunity. 👉 nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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