Allan Jacobson
Emeritus chair, Haidak Professor, and founding faculty at UMass Chan Medical School; co-founder and Director, PTC Therapeutics Inc. Post-transcriptional regulation: NMD, mRNA decapping, nonsense suppression, PABP function, translation termination #RNA
- #gardening Today’s harvest. At least a dozen varieties….
- #gardening #dahlias My best looking dahlia so far this season
- Universal Antivenom May Grow Out of Man Who Let Snakes Bite Him 200 Times www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/h... See also: www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... #Immunosky
- #Gardening This hibiscus spends most of the year indoors. Here’s how it thanks us for moving it outside for the summer:
- #Gardening How about a dwarf morning glory?
- #Gardening Lots of great seasonal pink in the garden
- #Gardening First year with decent lilies….
- Everything’s coming up nicely #GardenSunday
- Daylily season here in Massachusetts
- My favorite rhody, a deep purple #gardening
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- Rose-breasted Grosbeak at the feeder yesterday. First time I’ve seen one.
- De-extinction is a colossal disappointment — good article by Jerry A. Coyne in today’s Boston Globe nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
- Hungarian parliament on the Danube tonight
- Arctic bells showing some appreciation for the appearance of sunshine in New England. #gardening #bloomscrolling
- Star magnolia beginning its annual arrival in Massachusetts #gardening #bloomscrolling
- And let’s not forget our Northern Cardinal’s partner #birds
- Northern Cardinal having breakfast in our backyard #addbirder
- Spring definitely on its way. Blue scilla now blooming.
- Octopus using a Mako shark as a surfboard www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/s...
- Hello snowdrops. Spring is finally springing around here.
- Reposted by Allan JacobsonIf you don’t get your child vaccinated against measles, it can put them at a high risk of this serious infection, which can lead to severe complications or even death. Make sure your child’s measles vaccination is up to date.
- Reposted by Allan JacobsonNotice to flat-Earthers all around the globe: Please alert the authorities if tonight’s Total Lunar Eclipse looks like this:
- Reposted by Allan JacobsonBill Nye at the Stand Up for Science rally in DC: "What are you afraid of? What is it about the process of science, modern medicine, caring for our neighbors, or Women's History Month, that you all find so scary?" 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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- 18F was a critical technical unit working “to make government technology not just efficient but effective” until……. 18f.org
- Reposted by Allan JacobsonIncoming Asteroid xkcd.com/3049
- Renamed G of M to reflect both current affairs and my personal focus
- Extraordinary !! popular.info/p/in-botched...
- An important letter from Harold Varmus. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
- Reposted by Allan JacobsonThe U.S. has had probably the best university system in the world since the late 1940s; government investments (state and federal) drove that success. That may have changed overnight. 🧵🧪
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- Reposted by Allan JacobsonOUT NOW - Streptomyces secretes a siderophore that sensitizes competitor bacteria to phage infection www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Amaryllis “Marilyn.” Already 30” tall!
- Predictable chaos: Google’s Deep Mind develops reliable 15-day weather forecasts www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Man ran 700 miles to make ‘insanely impressive’ art on GPS fitness app nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
- The latest news from PTC: ir.ptcbio.com/news-release...
- From the days when people had a little more spare time……https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/science/nazca-lines-peru-ai.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
- Thanksgiving just won’t be the same without Alice Brock, the ‘heroine’ of Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant” (www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/22/l...). Let’s hear Arlo sing it one more time for Alice: nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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