November 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Don’t tell the AIs. This is a key enabling technology of the Matrix. 😉
New stem cell model sheds light on human amniotic sac development @TheCrick www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-05...
New stem cell model sheds light on human amniotic sac development @TheCrick www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-05...
New stem cell model sheds light on human amniotic sac development
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have developed a new stem cell model of the mature human amniotic sac, which replicates development of the tissues supporting the embryo from two to four wee...
www.crick.ac.uk
May 16, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Don’t tell the AIs. This is a key enabling technology of the Matrix. 😉
New stem cell model sheds light on human amniotic sac development @TheCrick www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-05...
New stem cell model sheds light on human amniotic sac development @TheCrick www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-05...
🔬At #MFS25, Giulia Zanetti from @TheCrick unveiled the molecular architecture of the early secretory pathway using cryo-ET & super-resolution microscopy resolving the debate on COPII vesicles and mapping ER-to-Golgi transport in human cells.
🔗https://mfs2025.com/
🔗https://mfs2025.com/
September 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
🔬At #MFS25, Giulia Zanetti from @TheCrick unveiled the molecular architecture of the early secretory pathway using cryo-ET & super-resolution microscopy resolving the debate on COPII vesicles and mapping ER-to-Golgi transport in human cells.
🔗https://mfs2025.com/
🔗https://mfs2025.com/
Candice Roufosse @TheCrick
Very excited to be starting this satellite lab for the next 3 years! More beautiful images to follow. 🔬 ⚛️ #renalpath www.crick.ac.uk/research/lab...
Very excited to be starting this satellite lab for the next 3 years! More beautiful images to follow. 🔬 ⚛️ #renalpath www.crick.ac.uk/research/lab...
Candice Roufosse
www.crick.ac.uk
April 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Candice Roufosse @TheCrick
Very excited to be starting this satellite lab for the next 3 years! More beautiful images to follow. 🔬 ⚛️ #renalpath www.crick.ac.uk/research/lab...
Very excited to be starting this satellite lab for the next 3 years! More beautiful images to follow. 🔬 ⚛️ #renalpath www.crick.ac.uk/research/lab...
Excited about tomorrow!
A full house at @crick.ac.uk for the 9th Chemical Probe Hackathon, with experts from GSK, @icr.ac.uk & TheCrick
working with PhDs & postdocs to review chemical probes and improve research quality.
#ChemicalProbes #ChemBio #OpenScience #Hackathon
A full house at @crick.ac.uk for the 9th Chemical Probe Hackathon, with experts from GSK, @icr.ac.uk & TheCrick
working with PhDs & postdocs to review chemical probes and improve research quality.
#ChemicalProbes #ChemBio #OpenScience #Hackathon
February 5, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Excited about tomorrow!
A full house at @crick.ac.uk for the 9th Chemical Probe Hackathon, with experts from GSK, @icr.ac.uk & TheCrick
working with PhDs & postdocs to review chemical probes and improve research quality.
#ChemicalProbes #ChemBio #OpenScience #Hackathon
A full house at @crick.ac.uk for the 9th Chemical Probe Hackathon, with experts from GSK, @icr.ac.uk & TheCrick
working with PhDs & postdocs to review chemical probes and improve research quality.
#ChemicalProbes #ChemBio #OpenScience #Hackathon
@thecrick.bsky.social tiktok is now live! Definitely a fun challenge to distill my science into 10 words, and I’m going to need a tiny mic for all presentations going forward 😂😅🧬🦠🎤
www.tiktok.com/@thecrick/vi...
www.tiktok.com/@thecrick/vi...
TikTok - Make Your Day
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February 14, 2024 at 1:55 PM
@thecrick.bsky.social tiktok is now live! Definitely a fun challenge to distill my science into 10 words, and I’m going to need a tiny mic for all presentations going forward 😂😅🧬🦠🎤
www.tiktok.com/@thecrick/vi...
www.tiktok.com/@thecrick/vi...
📢NEWS:The 4th LINE symposium will be on June 22nd @TheCrick!
Details:https://shorturl.at/LZPKT
Join us for this day of ECR-led science, networking, brilliant invited speakers and a fantastic careers panel.
Abstracts by May 10th:https://shorturl.at/UIXZg
Free registration:https://shorturl.at/JRzzo
Details:https://shorturl.at/LZPKT
Join us for this day of ECR-led science, networking, brilliant invited speakers and a fantastic careers panel.
Abstracts by May 10th:https://shorturl.at/UIXZg
Free registration:https://shorturl.at/JRzzo
February 24, 2026 at 9:25 AM
📢NEWS:The 4th LINE symposium will be on June 22nd @TheCrick!
Details:https://shorturl.at/LZPKT
Join us for this day of ECR-led science, networking, brilliant invited speakers and a fantastic careers panel.
Abstracts by May 10th:https://shorturl.at/UIXZg
Free registration:https://shorturl.at/JRzzo
Details:https://shorturl.at/LZPKT
Join us for this day of ECR-led science, networking, brilliant invited speakers and a fantastic careers panel.
Abstracts by May 10th:https://shorturl.at/UIXZg
Free registration:https://shorturl.at/JRzzo
Looking to get better at analysing high-dimensional flow and mass cytometry data?
Our Flow Cytometry and Bioinformatics and Biostatistics teams are running a 2-day course with a mix of hands-on and theoretical sessions.
📅 20-21 March
📍 @TheCrick
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/hig...
Our Flow Cytometry and Bioinformatics and Biostatistics teams are running a 2-day course with a mix of hands-on and theoretical sessions.
📅 20-21 March
📍 @TheCrick
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/hig...
High-dimensional data analysis for cytometry
www.crick.ac.uk
January 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Looking to get better at analysing high-dimensional flow and mass cytometry data?
Our Flow Cytometry and Bioinformatics and Biostatistics teams are running a 2-day course with a mix of hands-on and theoretical sessions.
📅 20-21 March
📍 @TheCrick
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/hig...
Our Flow Cytometry and Bioinformatics and Biostatistics teams are running a 2-day course with a mix of hands-on and theoretical sessions.
📅 20-21 March
📍 @TheCrick
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/hig...
PhD Opportunity @TheCrick Lab. Developmental biology meets metabolism and mass spectrometry imaging. Metabolic adaptations of neural stem cells in #Drosophila.
Application deadline 9th Nov. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Application deadline 9th Nov. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
October 8, 2023 at 8:09 PM
PhD Opportunity @TheCrick Lab. Developmental biology meets metabolism and mass spectrometry imaging. Metabolic adaptations of neural stem cells in #Drosophila.
Application deadline 9th Nov. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Application deadline 9th Nov. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
This work was led by postdoc, Komal, and research scientist, Louise, @theCrick with the help of lots of others. The link to our biorxiv manuscript can be found here: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... Feedback welcome, thanks for reading! 🙏 (7/7)
Modelling co-development between somites and neural tube with human Trunk-like Structures (hTLS)
Human stem cell-based embryo models have opened new avenues of research in development by providing experimentally amenable in vitro systems. One of the features of embryo models is their multilineage...
biorxiv.org
December 18, 2024 at 7:33 AM
This work was led by postdoc, Komal, and research scientist, Louise, @theCrick with the help of lots of others. The link to our biorxiv manuscript can be found here: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... Feedback welcome, thanks for reading! 🙏 (7/7)
Come and do your PhD with us @TheCrick and @UCL_IPLS starting October 2025. Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/epsrc-doctor...
December 20, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Come and do your PhD with us @TheCrick and @UCL_IPLS starting October 2025. Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/epsrc-doctor...
My old mentor, Nic Tapon, is hiring.
Highly recommend:
Interested in the mechanisms that control size during development and evolution? We're looking for two postdocs to join our lab @TheCrick. Details below⬇️
Please RT🙏
tinyurl.com/TaponLabJob1
tinyurl.com/TaponLabJob2
Highly recommend:
Interested in the mechanisms that control size during development and evolution? We're looking for two postdocs to join our lab @TheCrick. Details below⬇️
Please RT🙏
tinyurl.com/TaponLabJob1
tinyurl.com/TaponLabJob2
November 30, 2023 at 10:38 AM
My old mentor, Nic Tapon, is hiring.
Highly recommend:
Interested in the mechanisms that control size during development and evolution? We're looking for two postdocs to join our lab @TheCrick. Details below⬇️
Please RT🙏
tinyurl.com/TaponLabJob1
tinyurl.com/TaponLabJob2
Highly recommend:
Interested in the mechanisms that control size during development and evolution? We're looking for two postdocs to join our lab @TheCrick. Details below⬇️
Please RT🙏
tinyurl.com/TaponLabJob1
tinyurl.com/TaponLabJob2
Really looking forward to take part in this #worldimmunologyday event on 24th April. @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social @britsocimm.bsky.social
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
World Immunology Day 2025 | The immune system and your brain @TheCrick www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/wor...
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
World Immunology Day 2025 | The immune system and your brain @TheCrick www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/wor...
World Immunology Day 2025 | The immune system and your brain
www.crick.ac.uk
April 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Really looking forward to take part in this #worldimmunologyday event on 24th April. @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social @britsocimm.bsky.social
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
World Immunology Day 2025 | The immune system and your brain @TheCrick www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/wor...
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
World Immunology Day 2025 | The immune system and your brain @TheCrick www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/wor...
A little provocative from my @TheCrick colleagues in the Uhlmann & Molodtsov labs
Instead of loop extrusion, condensin proposed to establish long range chromatin contacts by ‘‘diffusion capture’’ - sequential capture of two neighboring binding sites
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Instead of loop extrusion, condensin proposed to establish long range chromatin contacts by ‘‘diffusion capture’’ - sequential capture of two neighboring binding sites
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Establishment of dsDNA-dsDNA interactions by the condensin complex
Condensin is a structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) complex family member thought to build mitotic chromosomes by DNA loop extrusion. However, …
www.sciencedirect.com
October 13, 2023 at 8:28 AM
A little provocative from my @TheCrick colleagues in the Uhlmann & Molodtsov labs
Instead of loop extrusion, condensin proposed to establish long range chromatin contacts by ‘‘diffusion capture’’ - sequential capture of two neighboring binding sites
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Instead of loop extrusion, condensin proposed to establish long range chromatin contacts by ‘‘diffusion capture’’ - sequential capture of two neighboring binding sites
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I really enjoyed this on being a cricket supporter (despite my belief that you can go to T20/Hundred matches and still appreciate the actual game). open.substack.com/pub/thecrick...
“They Still Signal the Four”
Nostalgic Paralysis, Vanishing Capital and the Last True Believers of County Cricket
open.substack.com
March 8, 2026 at 10:59 AM
I really enjoyed this on being a cricket supporter (despite my belief that you can go to T20/Hundred matches and still appreciate the actual game). open.substack.com/pub/thecrick...
SAVE THE DATE!
🆕VI Seminario de ASEICA Internacional: Cancer Engineering
🗓️24 de septiembre
⏱️16:00 horas
💻online
👉Participan:
Alberto Elosegui (TheCrick)
Carlos Perez (GustaveRoussy)
✍️https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/dz5uUNnHSYyQoPOJXK3RKQ#/registration
🆕VI Seminario de ASEICA Internacional: Cancer Engineering
🗓️24 de septiembre
⏱️16:00 horas
💻online
👉Participan:
Alberto Elosegui (TheCrick)
Carlos Perez (GustaveRoussy)
✍️https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/dz5uUNnHSYyQoPOJXK3RKQ#/registration
September 10, 2026 at 10:19 AM
SAVE THE DATE!
🆕VI Seminario de ASEICA Internacional: Cancer Engineering
🗓️24 de septiembre
⏱️16:00 horas
💻online
👉Participan:
Alberto Elosegui (TheCrick)
Carlos Perez (GustaveRoussy)
✍️https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/dz5uUNnHSYyQoPOJXK3RKQ#/registration
🆕VI Seminario de ASEICA Internacional: Cancer Engineering
🗓️24 de septiembre
⏱️16:00 horas
💻online
👉Participan:
Alberto Elosegui (TheCrick)
Carlos Perez (GustaveRoussy)
✍️https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/dz5uUNnHSYyQoPOJXK3RKQ#/registration
Happy birthday to one of my favourite scientists, Sir Paul Nurse of the @TheCrick (and president elect of the @royalsociety)!
Here Paul explains how DNA changed the world - and his life www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKvc...
Here Paul explains how DNA changed the world - and his life www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKvc...
How the discovery of DNA changed the world – and my life | BBC Ideas
YouTube video by BBC Ideas
www.youtube.com
January 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Happy birthday to one of my favourite scientists, Sir Paul Nurse of the @TheCrick (and president elect of the @royalsociety)!
Here Paul explains how DNA changed the world - and his life www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKvc...
Here Paul explains how DNA changed the world - and his life www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKvc...
You should all follow brand-new-today skeeter @maxgg.bsky.social, Cell Biologist 🇦🇷&🇬🇧 @thecrick via @embl @helmholtz_de #phagosomes #imaging #tuberculosis #macrophages #iPSC and #wine - especially the wine and most especially, the Argentinian wine!
September 1, 2023 at 2:44 PM
You should all follow brand-new-today skeeter @maxgg.bsky.social, Cell Biologist 🇦🇷&🇬🇧 @thecrick via @embl @helmholtz_de #phagosomes #imaging #tuberculosis #macrophages #iPSC and #wine - especially the wine and most especially, the Argentinian wine!
5/5
Developed over the last 7 years by our team @TheCrick & @KingsIoPPN,
VISIBLE is customisable, modular, and pushing boundaries in tissue engineering, neuroscience & cancer biology. Sounds interesting? Get in touch
📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#VISIBLE #Organoids #Bioprinting #LabAutomation
Developed over the last 7 years by our team @TheCrick & @KingsIoPPN,
VISIBLE is customisable, modular, and pushing boundaries in tissue engineering, neuroscience & cancer biology. Sounds interesting? Get in touch
📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#VISIBLE #Organoids #Bioprinting #LabAutomation
doi.org
June 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
5/5
Developed over the last 7 years by our team @TheCrick & @KingsIoPPN,
VISIBLE is customisable, modular, and pushing boundaries in tissue engineering, neuroscience & cancer biology. Sounds interesting? Get in touch
📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#VISIBLE #Organoids #Bioprinting #LabAutomation
Developed over the last 7 years by our team @TheCrick & @KingsIoPPN,
VISIBLE is customisable, modular, and pushing boundaries in tissue engineering, neuroscience & cancer biology. Sounds interesting? Get in touch
📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#VISIBLE #Organoids #Bioprinting #LabAutomation
Want to join us for a PhD 🧑🔬👩🏿🔬👨🏽🔬 starting in Autumn 2025? Just 2 more weeks to apply! Deadline 19 March, noon.
Check out our website for available projects working across #uclcancer #QMBCI #KCLcancer_pharm #KCL #TheCrick
Check out our website for available projects working across #uclcancer #QMBCI #KCLcancer_pharm #KCL #TheCrick
Are you interested in doing a #PhD in #cancerresearch?
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PhD Studentships
For students embarking on their research career
Applications for 2025 PhD studentships are open!
Applications are open!
The PhD programme
PhD students, funded by the CoL Centre, will follow th...
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March 6, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Want to join us for a PhD 🧑🔬👩🏿🔬👨🏽🔬 starting in Autumn 2025? Just 2 more weeks to apply! Deadline 19 March, noon.
Check out our website for available projects working across #uclcancer #QMBCI #KCLcancer_pharm #KCL #TheCrick
Check out our website for available projects working across #uclcancer #QMBCI #KCLcancer_pharm #KCL #TheCrick
Are you interested in doing a #PhD in #cancerresearch?
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Do you want to develop new #biotherapeutics?
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#uclcancer #QMBCI #KCLcancer_pharm #KCL #TheCrick
PhD Studentships
For students embarking on their research career
Applications for 2025 PhD studentships are open!
Applications are open!
The PhD programme
PhD students, funded by the CoL Centre, will follow th...
www.colcc.ac.uk
February 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Are you interested in doing a #PhD in #cancerresearch?
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Do you want to develop new #biotherapeutics?
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#uclcancer #QMBCI #KCLcancer_pharm #KCL #TheCrick
🚨 We're hiring a sequencing technician in #TRACERx!
Join world-leading teams at @TheCrick & @uclcancer, working at the forefront of cancer research.
Want to apply cutting-edge genomic tech to understand cancer evolution? Apply now!
👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
#Genomics #CancerResearch
Join world-leading teams at @TheCrick & @uclcancer, working at the forefront of cancer research.
Want to apply cutting-edge genomic tech to understand cancer evolution? Apply now!
👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
#Genomics #CancerResearch
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
July 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
🚨 We're hiring a sequencing technician in #TRACERx!
Join world-leading teams at @TheCrick & @uclcancer, working at the forefront of cancer research.
Want to apply cutting-edge genomic tech to understand cancer evolution? Apply now!
👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
#Genomics #CancerResearch
Join world-leading teams at @TheCrick & @uclcancer, working at the forefront of cancer research.
Want to apply cutting-edge genomic tech to understand cancer evolution? Apply now!
👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
#Genomics #CancerResearch
Are you interested in doing a #PhD in #cancerresearch?
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Do you want to develop new #biotherapeutics?
Are you of black heritage?
Applications for our fully funded 4-year BLiC PhD programme starting in Autumn 2026 are open now!
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Are you of black heritage?
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Black Leaders PhD programme
For students of black ethnicity embarking on their research career
Applications for 2026 PhD studentships are open! Application through Cancer Research UK/ Windsor Fellowship required in addition!
W...
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October 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Are you interested in doing a #PhD in #cancerresearch?
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Do you want to develop new #biotherapeutics?
Are you of black heritage?
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#uclcancer #QMBCI #KCLcancer_pharm #KCL #TheCrick
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Do you want to develop new #biotherapeutics?
Are you of black heritage?
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#uclcancer #QMBCI #KCLcancer_pharm #KCL #TheCrick
#MedSky🧪 #IDsky #immunosky #pedsky Recap the study @TheCrick & @imperialcollege via @jexpmed.bsky.social
been able to pinpoint rare #geneticvariants likely driving the systemic inflammation & children more susceptible to MIS-C.
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/258534/...
rupress.org/jem/article/...
been able to pinpoint rare #geneticvariants likely driving the systemic inflammation & children more susceptible to MIS-C.
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/258534/...
rupress.org/jem/article/...
Genetic clues explain why children develop rare post-COVID condition | Imperial News | Imperial College London
An Imperial-led study has highlighted how rare variants of a gene regulating the gut lining may increase the risk of MIS-C by up to four times.
www.imperial.ac.uk
November 28, 2024 at 3:55 PM
#MedSky🧪 #IDsky #immunosky #pedsky Recap the study @TheCrick & @imperialcollege via @jexpmed.bsky.social
been able to pinpoint rare #geneticvariants likely driving the systemic inflammation & children more susceptible to MIS-C.
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/258534/...
rupress.org/jem/article/...
been able to pinpoint rare #geneticvariants likely driving the systemic inflammation & children more susceptible to MIS-C.
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/258534/...
rupress.org/jem/article/...