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Honored to have Marissa from #ASBMBToday feature our work on rhythmic lipid and gene expression change under chilling! 🌱 tinyurl.com/lipid-rhythm
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From lab to land: Crop modifications are fortifying our food supply against climate change
Scientists explore genetic and biochemical innovations fueling future-proofing agriculture
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November 20, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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In celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth, #ASBMBToday columnist Inayah Entzminger talked with trailblazers @meghnag27.bsky.social, Juanita Limas and Helen Pashley about their careers and their work empowering the next wave of #womeninSTEM. Read their inspiring stories: bit.ly/3DYK26n.
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Women’s History Month: Educating and inspiring generations
Through early classroom experiences, undergraduate education and advanced research training, women leaders are shaping a more inclusive and supportive scientific community.
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March 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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🔬 Calling industry scientists! Share your story for the ASBMB Today Summer 2026 essay series.
How do you approach discovery, problem-solving, and collaboration?

✏️ 500 or 250 words | 📅 April 15 | 📧 asbmbtoday@asbmb.org
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February 5, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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Yao Wang of Peking University and a team of researchers published an article in JLR on their work targeting PLIN2, a #lipid droplet protein that regulates lipid homeostasis.
➡️Learn about their findings in this #ASBMBToday article by Vanshika Patel: www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/....
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From the Journals: JLR
Promising therapeutic candidate for steatosis. Unique lipid profiles in glycogen storage disease. Microglial lactic acid mediates neuroinflammation. Read about these recent papers.
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March 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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UMB In The News: School of Pharmacy professor Paul Shapiro's research on Type 4 kinase "modulators" is revolutionizing disease treatment by targeting specific enzyme functions. This approach promises more effective therapies with fewer side effects. Via ASBMBTODAY #Science
Breaking through limits in kinase inhibition
Paul Shapiro, the first speaker on ASBMB Breakthroughs, a new webinar series highlighting research from ASBMB journals, discussed taking ideas and discoveries from basic science research toward clinic...
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January 31, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Deadline tomorrow!

ASBMB Today is looking for first-person essays on teamwork and leadership in science. Share lessons from leading—or being part of—a research team.

250- or 500-word essays welcome.

📅 Due July 15
📧 asbmbtoday@asbmb.org
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Three scientists wearing lab coats and gloves are engaged in a lively discussion about their research in a well-equipped laboratory, utilizing a laptop and a microscope for analysis.
July 14, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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Every career has turning points — big or small.

For an upcoming ASBMB Today series, we want your stories about navigating career transitions and shifting priorities. How did you adapt? What did you learn?

Deadline: Oct. 15
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September 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Every career has turning points — big or small.

For an upcoming ASBMB Today series, we want your stories about navigating career transitions and shifting priorities. How did you adapt? What did you learn?

Deadline: Oct. 15
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September 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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March is #NationalKidneyMonth! Check out this #ASBMBToday article about a JBC paper covering researchers' work on the aggregation of LECT2 in kidney disease and a microfluidic device they designed to mimic blood flow through the human kidney: ow.ly/iXfs50VqNp2.
Using a network to snare the cause of kidney disease
A microfluidic device that mimics blood capillaries may help in early detection, and proper measures could reduce the risk of renal failures.
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March 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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ASBMB Today invites biochemistry and molecular biology instructors to reflect on how their teaching has evolved. What inspired you to change?

📝 500-word essays or 250-word micro-essays
🗓️ Deadline: Jan. 15
📧 Submit pitches or essays to asbmbtoday@asbmb.org

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Alexandra Kinne, an undergraduate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, guides high school students and high school biology teacher, Tori McGarry, through a DNA extraction protocol for insects they collected using pipettes and a plastic pestle.
December 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Eric Minikel & Sonia Vallabh, a husband-and-wife team, describe themselves as “on a lifelong quest to prevent #priondisease.” They run a lab at the @broadinstitute.org, studying prion disease, a rare, aggressive & fatal neurodegenerative disease: ow.ly/UoFm50WrvlA.
#RareDiseaseAwareness #ASBMBToday
Eric Minikel and Sonia Vallabh pose for a photo in their lab at the Broad Institute. Credit: Broad Institute. Light microscopy image of brain tissue showing neuronal loss in the brain of a patient with Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. Credit: Sherif Zaki and Wun–Ju Shieh via Wikimedia Commons.
July 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Jeremy Berg @ASBMB: The impact of the sequester: "1,000 fewer funded investigators" http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201403/PresidentsMessage/ http://ow.ly/uk0JF
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March 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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The Feb 2016 issue of ASBMB today focuses on issues of diversity and inclusivity in science - good articles <a href="http://asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201602/Diversity/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201602/Diversity/
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March 11, 2016 at 1:51 PM
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@Teresavalencak @geolittlejohn @BiosciCareer ASBMB Today special issue on diversity & inclusion
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March 11, 2016 at 1:56 PM
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Why you should judge science fairs
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March 11, 2016 at 1:57 PM
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Add #11: NO TRASHTALKING OF MEMBERS! || How to become a good lab manager http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/asbmbtoday_article.aspx?id=48974#.Uk0NLbz11Kw.twitter
How to become a good lab manager
Contributor Elizabeth Sandquist rounded up excellent advi...
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November 25, 2024 at 7:38 AM
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This is a good development for postdocs who are (or might become) parents! If you are considering a faculty career AND parenting, it also pays to be informed about "stopping the tenure clock" at prospective hiring institutions - advice/overview here:

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February 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Just learned that lead singer Dexter of the Offspring is a PhD student at USC! #fightOn! <a href="http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201409/Features/Holland/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201409/Features/Holland/
Keep 'em separated
Dexter Holland, the lead singer of the punk-rock band The Offspring, has a lot of different interests. One of them is biology.
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November 3, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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🔬 Calling industry scientists! Share your story for the ASBMB Today Summer 2026 essay series. How do you approach discovery, problem-solving and collaboration?

✏️ 500 or 250 words | 📅 April 15 | 📧 asbmbtoday@asbmb.org
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#ScienceInIndustry #ASBMBToday
Lab technician analyzing data on a computer while monitoring high-tech machinery in a modern laboratory.
February 20, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Showcase your science!

ASBMB is seeking original images from members for upcoming ASBMB Today covers. Submit your image with a 2–3 sentence description of your work to asbmbtoday@asbmb.org.

➡️Explore themes for upcoming issues: www.asbmb.org/asbmb-....
The cover of the Fall issue of ASBMB Today, created by ASBMB member, Soutick Saha. The cover image features different levels of disorder in 100 human proteins with intrinsically disordered regions from the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database. Disordered regions are highlighted in lighter shades.
October 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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For an upcoming ASBMB Today series, we want your stories about navigating career transitions and shifting priorities. How did you adapt? What did you learn?

Deadline: Oct. 15
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Let’s share the real stories behind change in #science.
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August 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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"David’s work has had a major impact on our understanding of how drug resistance develops," said Margaret A. Phillips, who nominated Fidock for the award.
➡️Learn more about his research in this #ASBMBToday article by @ankitaarora.bsky.social: www.asbmb.org/asbmb-....
'You can't afford to be 15 years behind the parasite'
David Fidock will receive the Alice and C.C. Wang Award in Molecular Parasitology at the 2025 ASBMB Annual Meeting, April 12–15 in Chicago.
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April 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Harmonizing lipidomics https://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201905/Features/Lipidomics/#.XPKwb5z2a3g.twitter
Harmonizing lipidomics
Researchers worldwide work to agree on lipid identities a...
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November 19, 2024 at 2:52 AM
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I searched "asbmb" today & the #ASBMBToday article "Keep 'em separated" is circulating! It notes🎵 that The Offspring's famous lyrics were inspired by Erlenmeyer flasks full of steaming hot LB broth, fresh out of the autoclave. #Science literally ROCKS!🎸
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Keep 'em separated
Dexter Holland, the lead singer of the punk-rock band The Offspring, has a lot of different interests. One of them is biology.
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August 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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So many fails in http://asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201409/PresidentsMessage/ The comparison between NIH $ in 1970 with today without 6X inflation factor...
December 26, 2024 at 5:28 PM