New study in @cellpress.bsky.social by Allen Distinguished Investigator @elowitzlab.bsky.social and collaborators explores the versatility of protein dimers. #FrontierScience
🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
February 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
New study in @cellpress.bsky.social by Allen Distinguished Investigator @elowitzlab.bsky.social and collaborators explores the versatility of protein dimers. #FrontierScience
🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
What does #FrontierScience look like in practice? 🔬
7 case studies from the #HFSP Grand Review explore bold, high-risk research and the discoveries, collaborations and new directions that followed. 🧪
Explore the stories ➡️ zurl.co/wrwYg
#sts #ResearchImpact
7 case studies from the #HFSP Grand Review explore bold, high-risk research and the discoveries, collaborations and new directions that followed. 🧪
Explore the stories ➡️ zurl.co/wrwYg
#sts #ResearchImpact
September 23, 2026 at 11:53 AM
What does #FrontierScience look like in practice? 🔬
7 case studies from the #HFSP Grand Review explore bold, high-risk research and the discoveries, collaborations and new directions that followed. 🧪
Explore the stories ➡️ zurl.co/wrwYg
#sts #ResearchImpact
7 case studies from the #HFSP Grand Review explore bold, high-risk research and the discoveries, collaborations and new directions that followed. 🧪
Explore the stories ➡️ zurl.co/wrwYg
#sts #ResearchImpact
Welcome to the Neurobiology in Changing Environments symposium! We’re thrilled to begin this important gathering exploring how nervous systems respond to our rapidly shifting world. #KavliNeuro #FrontierScience #NiCE
April 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Welcome to the Neurobiology in Changing Environments symposium! We’re thrilled to begin this important gathering exploring how nervous systems respond to our rapidly shifting world. #KavliNeuro #FrontierScience #NiCE
How can a silly-putty-like substance help us understand cancer cells?
Allen Distinguished Investigators @drlaurasanchez.bsky.social and @lydia-kisley.bsky.social are stretching the limits of #FrontierScience by developing a new way to look inside of cells.
@ucscscience.bsky.social
Allen Distinguished Investigators @drlaurasanchez.bsky.social and @lydia-kisley.bsky.social are stretching the limits of #FrontierScience by developing a new way to look inside of cells.
@ucscscience.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
How can a silly-putty-like substance help us understand cancer cells?
Allen Distinguished Investigators @drlaurasanchez.bsky.social and @lydia-kisley.bsky.social are stretching the limits of #FrontierScience by developing a new way to look inside of cells.
@ucscscience.bsky.social
Allen Distinguished Investigators @drlaurasanchez.bsky.social and @lydia-kisley.bsky.social are stretching the limits of #FrontierScience by developing a new way to look inside of cells.
@ucscscience.bsky.social
The cell is the building block of life. How do they work, how do they interact with each other, and what goes wrong in disease?
Meet the newest cohort of Allen Distinguished Investigators and their bold #FrontierScience projects. 🧵
Meet the newest cohort of Allen Distinguished Investigators and their bold #FrontierScience projects. 🧵
December 3, 2024 at 5:01 PM
The cell is the building block of life. How do they work, how do they interact with each other, and what goes wrong in disease?
Meet the newest cohort of Allen Distinguished Investigators and their bold #FrontierScience projects. 🧵
Meet the newest cohort of Allen Distinguished Investigators and their bold #FrontierScience projects. 🧵
How does marine life sense and respond to their changing world? The Allen Discovery Center for Neurobiology in Changing Environments is diving (literally) into this #FrontierScience. 🐋🧠
🔗 alleninstitute.org/division/fro...
📸 Dr. David Kline, Erik Jepsen, UCSD, @adc-neuroenv.bsky.social
🔗 alleninstitute.org/division/fro...
📸 Dr. David Kline, Erik Jepsen, UCSD, @adc-neuroenv.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
How does marine life sense and respond to their changing world? The Allen Discovery Center for Neurobiology in Changing Environments is diving (literally) into this #FrontierScience. 🐋🧠
🔗 alleninstitute.org/division/fro...
📸 Dr. David Kline, Erik Jepsen, UCSD, @adc-neuroenv.bsky.social
🔗 alleninstitute.org/division/fro...
📸 Dr. David Kline, Erik Jepsen, UCSD, @adc-neuroenv.bsky.social
Using simulations, synthetic cells, and live archaeal cell communities, Andela Saric, @kgoepfrich.bsky.social, and @buzzbaum.bsky.social are challenging the assumption that the cell membrane is passive and only changes shape when acted upon.
#FrontierScience
#FrontierScience
December 3, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Using simulations, synthetic cells, and live archaeal cell communities, Andela Saric, @kgoepfrich.bsky.social, and @buzzbaum.bsky.social are challenging the assumption that the cell membrane is passive and only changes shape when acted upon.
#FrontierScience
#FrontierScience
Incredible plenary presentation by Starr-Luxton Lab student @xiangyiding.bsky.social at the International Worm Meeting! Who knew C. elegans cytoplasm has the viscosity of strawberry jam? 🍓 So proud! #Worm2025 #frontierscience @danstarrucdavis.bsky.social
June 30, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Incredible plenary presentation by Starr-Luxton Lab student @xiangyiding.bsky.social at the International Worm Meeting! Who knew C. elegans cytoplasm has the viscosity of strawberry jam? 🍓 So proud! #Worm2025 #frontierscience @danstarrucdavis.bsky.social
🥳Congratulations to the 104 pioneering scientists from 30 nations awarded 2025 #HFSPResearchGrants! 🎉Your frontier research is shaping the future of #LifeSciences! 🌍🔬🧪
🏆 Meet the awardees & their projects: www.hfsp.org/bookletRG202...
#ScienceDiplomacy #HFSP #FrontierScience #sts
🏆 Meet the awardees & their projects: www.hfsp.org/bookletRG202...
#ScienceDiplomacy #HFSP #FrontierScience #sts
April 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
🥳Congratulations to the 104 pioneering scientists from 30 nations awarded 2025 #HFSPResearchGrants! 🎉Your frontier research is shaping the future of #LifeSciences! 🌍🔬🧪
🏆 Meet the awardees & their projects: www.hfsp.org/bookletRG202...
#ScienceDiplomacy #HFSP #FrontierScience #sts
🏆 Meet the awardees & their projects: www.hfsp.org/bookletRG202...
#ScienceDiplomacy #HFSP #FrontierScience #sts
A year in frontier science. 🌍🧬
Bold research, international collaborations, scientific meetings and a global community pushing the boundaries of life science.
Explore the people, science and stories that shaped HFSP in 2025: 📖 zurl.co/zsAIA
#HFSP #FrontierScience
Bold research, international collaborations, scientific meetings and a global community pushing the boundaries of life science.
Explore the people, science and stories that shaped HFSP in 2025: 📖 zurl.co/zsAIA
#HFSP #FrontierScience
September 21, 2026 at 9:45 AM
A year in frontier science. 🌍🧬
Bold research, international collaborations, scientific meetings and a global community pushing the boundaries of life science.
Explore the people, science and stories that shaped HFSP in 2025: 📖 zurl.co/zsAIA
#HFSP #FrontierScience
Bold research, international collaborations, scientific meetings and a global community pushing the boundaries of life science.
Explore the people, science and stories that shaped HFSP in 2025: 📖 zurl.co/zsAIA
#HFSP #FrontierScience
OpenAI launches FrontierScience, a benchmark to measure models' expert-level scientific reasoning with 700+ questions, finding GPT-5.2 is its strongest model (OpenAI)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
December 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
OpenAI launches FrontierScience, a benchmark to measure models' expert-level scientific reasoning with 700+ questions, finding GPT-5.2 is its strongest model (OpenAI)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Does the cell membrane play a bigger role in cell activities than we previously thought?
Alba Diz-Muñoz and Carsten Schultz are approaching this #FrontierScience question from a new angle by creating a toolkit to change the lipid composition of cell membranes.
@embl.org
Alba Diz-Muñoz and Carsten Schultz are approaching this #FrontierScience question from a new angle by creating a toolkit to change the lipid composition of cell membranes.
@embl.org
December 3, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Does the cell membrane play a bigger role in cell activities than we previously thought?
Alba Diz-Muñoz and Carsten Schultz are approaching this #FrontierScience question from a new angle by creating a toolkit to change the lipid composition of cell membranes.
@embl.org
Alba Diz-Muñoz and Carsten Schultz are approaching this #FrontierScience question from a new angle by creating a toolkit to change the lipid composition of cell membranes.
@embl.org
We know hormones impact the brain, but what if we could see it happening on a cellular level? 🧠👀
@neurrriot.bsky.social, Stephanie Correa, and Ed Van Veen are making a platform that directly observes relationship b/w hormones and brain state. #FrontierScience
🧠📈 alleninstitute.org/division/fro...
@neurrriot.bsky.social, Stephanie Correa, and Ed Van Veen are making a platform that directly observes relationship b/w hormones and brain state. #FrontierScience
🧠📈 alleninstitute.org/division/fro...
Optical tools for visualizing sex hormones as drivers of dynamic internal states
The Allen Distinguished Investigator program provides three-year grants between $1M and $1.5M to individuals and teams
alleninstitute.org
September 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
We know hormones impact the brain, but what if we could see it happening on a cellular level? 🧠👀
@neurrriot.bsky.social, Stephanie Correa, and Ed Van Veen are making a platform that directly observes relationship b/w hormones and brain state. #FrontierScience
🧠📈 alleninstitute.org/division/fro...
@neurrriot.bsky.social, Stephanie Correa, and Ed Van Veen are making a platform that directly observes relationship b/w hormones and brain state. #FrontierScience
🧠📈 alleninstitute.org/division/fro...
Viruses can impact organelles in a host’s cells. So why does this make neighboring cells more vulnerable?
@toettch.bsky.social and Ileana M. Cristea are developing new tools to monitor and manipulate organelle connections at varying distances from infection sites.
#FrontierScience
@toettch.bsky.social and Ileana M. Cristea are developing new tools to monitor and manipulate organelle connections at varying distances from infection sites.
#FrontierScience
December 3, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Viruses can impact organelles in a host’s cells. So why does this make neighboring cells more vulnerable?
@toettch.bsky.social and Ileana M. Cristea are developing new tools to monitor and manipulate organelle connections at varying distances from infection sites.
#FrontierScience
@toettch.bsky.social and Ileana M. Cristea are developing new tools to monitor and manipulate organelle connections at varying distances from infection sites.
#FrontierScience
Allergy, itch, inflammation, cancer, and more - how nervous and immune systems interact impacts our lives.
Brian Kim and David Artis break down the #FrontierScience of neuroimmunology and future research directions on @cp-immunity.bsky.social.
🔗 www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
Brian Kim and David Artis break down the #FrontierScience of neuroimmunology and future research directions on @cp-immunity.bsky.social.
🔗 www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
May 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Allergy, itch, inflammation, cancer, and more - how nervous and immune systems interact impacts our lives.
Brian Kim and David Artis break down the #FrontierScience of neuroimmunology and future research directions on @cp-immunity.bsky.social.
🔗 www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
Brian Kim and David Artis break down the #FrontierScience of neuroimmunology and future research directions on @cp-immunity.bsky.social.
🔗 www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
Julie Harris has been selected to be the new Vice President of the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group.
Harris was previously Executive Vice President of Research Management at the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund where she oversaw the funding strategy and research priorities.
#FrontierScience
Harris was previously Executive Vice President of Research Management at the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund where she oversaw the funding strategy and research priorities.
#FrontierScience
December 17, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Julie Harris has been selected to be the new Vice President of the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group.
Harris was previously Executive Vice President of Research Management at the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund where she oversaw the funding strategy and research priorities.
#FrontierScience
Harris was previously Executive Vice President of Research Management at the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund where she oversaw the funding strategy and research priorities.
#FrontierScience
🗺️🔬 A first-of-its-kind map of lipid traffic is demystifying an important yet elusive aspect of how cells work.
Read the study, out now in @nature.com, by Allen Distinguished Investigators Alf Honigmann, @nadlerlab.bsky.social, and collaborators: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#FrontierScience
Read the study, out now in @nature.com, by Allen Distinguished Investigators Alf Honigmann, @nadlerlab.bsky.social, and collaborators: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#FrontierScience
Quantitative imaging of lipid transport in mammalian cells - Nature
Directional, non-vesicular lipid transport is responsible for fast, species-selective lipid sorting into organelle membranes.
www.nature.com
August 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
🗺️🔬 A first-of-its-kind map of lipid traffic is demystifying an important yet elusive aspect of how cells work.
Read the study, out now in @nature.com, by Allen Distinguished Investigators Alf Honigmann, @nadlerlab.bsky.social, and collaborators: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#FrontierScience
Read the study, out now in @nature.com, by Allen Distinguished Investigators Alf Honigmann, @nadlerlab.bsky.social, and collaborators: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#FrontierScience
Welcome to Day 2 of the Neurobiology in Changing Environments symposium!
We’re looking forward to another day of engaging talks and discussion as we continue exploring how nervous systems respond & adapt to environmental change. #NiCE #KavliNeuro #FrontierScience
We’re looking forward to another day of engaging talks and discussion as we continue exploring how nervous systems respond & adapt to environmental change. #NiCE #KavliNeuro #FrontierScience
April 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Welcome to Day 2 of the Neurobiology in Changing Environments symposium!
We’re looking forward to another day of engaging talks and discussion as we continue exploring how nervous systems respond & adapt to environmental change. #NiCE #KavliNeuro #FrontierScience
We’re looking forward to another day of engaging talks and discussion as we continue exploring how nervous systems respond & adapt to environmental change. #NiCE #KavliNeuro #FrontierScience
Excited to have @han-arbach.bsky.social sharing their scientific journey with students @ucscscience.bsky.social how does one get from astronaut to thinking about #FrontierScience @alleninstitute.bsky.social @jaxcalhoun27.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Excited to have @han-arbach.bsky.social sharing their scientific journey with students @ucscscience.bsky.social how does one get from astronaut to thinking about #FrontierScience @alleninstitute.bsky.social @jaxcalhoun27.bsky.social
Congrats to @xiangyiding.bsky.social et al. on their new study on the intense cellular dance happening in worm cells! 🕺
Dive into the #FrontierScience of organelle crowd control. 👇
Dive into the #FrontierScience of organelle crowd control. 👇
🧬BREAKING!🪱Plot twist: Cells aren't meditation pools, they're overcrowded concerts with VIP ropes everywhere! Our
study reveals worm cells are insanely crowded AND compartmentalized. Ribosomes = packing peanuts, ANC-1 = the bouncer!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
study reveals worm cells are insanely crowded AND compartmentalized. Ribosomes = packing peanuts, ANC-1 = the bouncer!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Giant KASH proteins and ribosomes establish distinct cytoplasmic biophysical properties in vivo
Living tissues maintain unique intracellular biophysical properties under the control of cytoplasmic constraints and crowding.
www.science.org
September 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Congrats to @xiangyiding.bsky.social et al. on their new study on the intense cellular dance happening in worm cells! 🕺
Dive into the #FrontierScience of organelle crowd control. 👇
Dive into the #FrontierScience of organelle crowd control. 👇
How do we fund and publish research that doesn't fit neatly into a single discipline?
Last week, at the #EMBORulesOfTheGame, #HFSP Chief Scientific Officer Guntram Bauer presented how HFSP supports #frontierscience across disciplines and borders.
@embo.org
Last week, at the #EMBORulesOfTheGame, #HFSP Chief Scientific Officer Guntram Bauer presented how HFSP supports #frontierscience across disciplines and borders.
@embo.org
June 11, 2026 at 8:13 AM
How do we fund and publish research that doesn't fit neatly into a single discipline?
Last week, at the #EMBORulesOfTheGame, #HFSP Chief Scientific Officer Guntram Bauer presented how HFSP supports #frontierscience across disciplines and borders.
@embo.org
Last week, at the #EMBORulesOfTheGame, #HFSP Chief Scientific Officer Guntram Bauer presented how HFSP supports #frontierscience across disciplines and borders.
@embo.org
Meet the latest cohort of ADIs!
These #FrontierScience pioneers are undertaking bold, risky projects that could fundamentally change our understanding of how life works.
I’m eager to see the insights they surface and have little doubt that they will advance our understanding of life.
These #FrontierScience pioneers are undertaking bold, risky projects that could fundamentally change our understanding of how life works.
I’m eager to see the insights they surface and have little doubt that they will advance our understanding of life.
The cell is the building block of life. How do they work, how do they interact with each other, and what goes wrong in disease?
Meet the newest cohort of Allen Distinguished Investigators and their bold #FrontierScience projects. 🧵
Meet the newest cohort of Allen Distinguished Investigators and their bold #FrontierScience projects. 🧵
December 3, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Meet the latest cohort of ADIs!
These #FrontierScience pioneers are undertaking bold, risky projects that could fundamentally change our understanding of how life works.
I’m eager to see the insights they surface and have little doubt that they will advance our understanding of life.
These #FrontierScience pioneers are undertaking bold, risky projects that could fundamentally change our understanding of how life works.
I’m eager to see the insights they surface and have little doubt that they will advance our understanding of life.
🧪 Applying for an HFSP Postdoctoral Fellowship?
Join our webinar on how to navigate the 2027 HFSP Fellowships application process!
Two sessions available:
🕘 25 March, 09:00 & 16:00 CET
🔗 Register: zurl.co/fO8Ga
#HFSP #ResearchFellowships #FrontierScience #sts
Join our webinar on how to navigate the 2027 HFSP Fellowships application process!
Two sessions available:
🕘 25 March, 09:00 & 16:00 CET
🔗 Register: zurl.co/fO8Ga
#HFSP #ResearchFellowships #FrontierScience #sts
February 26, 2026 at 11:10 AM
🧪 Applying for an HFSP Postdoctoral Fellowship?
Join our webinar on how to navigate the 2027 HFSP Fellowships application process!
Two sessions available:
🕘 25 March, 09:00 & 16:00 CET
🔗 Register: zurl.co/fO8Ga
#HFSP #ResearchFellowships #FrontierScience #sts
Join our webinar on how to navigate the 2027 HFSP Fellowships application process!
Two sessions available:
🕘 25 March, 09:00 & 16:00 CET
🔗 Register: zurl.co/fO8Ga
#HFSP #ResearchFellowships #FrontierScience #sts
Congrats to Allen Distinguished Investigator Joseph Ryan on getting the cover of @jgp.org!
🤿 Dive deeper into the #FrontierScience of comb jellies: alleninstitute.org/division/fro...
🤿 Dive deeper into the #FrontierScience of comb jellies: alleninstitute.org/division/fro...
May 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Congrats to Allen Distinguished Investigator Joseph Ryan on getting the cover of @jgp.org!
🤿 Dive deeper into the #FrontierScience of comb jellies: alleninstitute.org/division/fro...
🤿 Dive deeper into the #FrontierScience of comb jellies: alleninstitute.org/division/fro...
Dive deeper into these incredible #FrontierScience projects. alleninstitute.org/news/the-pau...
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Awards $9 Million to new Allen Distinguished Investigators
Research funding will support six projects focused on how organelles within the cell communicate and cellular membrane form, function, and behavior.
alleninstitute.org
December 3, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Dive deeper into these incredible #FrontierScience projects. alleninstitute.org/news/the-pau...