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Ran Blekhman
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Professor of Medicine at @UChicago. Decoding the human microbiome. BlekhmanLab.org
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    Ran Blekhman
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    Feb 20, 2025
    These are challenging times for science, but I'm happy to share a bright moment: our work is on the cover of Cell today! We built a compendium of human gut microbiomes integrating 168K worldwide samples, revealing patterns of microbiome variation across the globe
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    Cell
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    Feb 20, 2025
    The new issue is out👉cell.com/cell/current Featuring an engineered Newcastle disease virus that selectively and safely lysed tumors in refractory cancer patients, the identification of rhodoquinone as a mammal mitochondrial electron carrier, and a metagenome-informed
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    Ran Blekhman
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    May 15, 2024
    still the best example of how AI works
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    Massimo
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    Sep 5, 2020
    The story of Nigel Richards, the man from New Zealand who memorized every French word in the French scrabble dictionary and won the French Scrabble Championship without speaking any French buff.ly/2rK5wi4
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    Ran Blekhman
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    Jul 22, 2024
    Kamala's mother immigrated from India to pursue a PhD & stayed to work as a cancer researcher Kamala's father immigrated from Jamaica to pursue a PhD & stayed to work as a professor Immigrant scientists contribute not only to science but to society at large -- for generations
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    Ran Blekhman
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    Jan 8, 2019
    Congratulations, you invented taxes and public education
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    The New York Times
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    Jan 8, 2019
    Silicon Valley is backing a novel idea: Instead of charging students tuition, students go to school for free and are required to pay back a percentage of their income after graduation, but only if they get a job with a good salary nyti.ms/2FeBUOp
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    Ran Blekhman
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    Nov 13, 2020
    Elon Musk
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    Abeba Birhane
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    Nov 13, 2020
    What's something that seems scientific but isn't?
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    Ran Blekhman
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    Jun 23, 2020
    Do US citizens understand how stressful it is to be an immigrant scientist in the US? Far from family/friends, never ending visa bureaucracy & payments, constant fear of not being allowed back in the US, or being forced to leave your home/job/PhD due to some ban
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    Ran Blekhman
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    Jul 10, 2020
    As a professor at a public university, my job is 60% research, 20% teaching, 20% service, 20% paperwork, 20% grant writing, 20% mentoring, 10% reviewing, 5% organizing, and 5% letter writing, so there's really not a lot of time for radical left indoctrination
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    Ran Blekhman
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    Mar 13, 2020
    Stuck at home with small kids due to #COVID19? Here are some fun activities you can enjoy together: - Write a research paper - Teach a class via zoom - Write a grant proposal - Email
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    Ran Blekhman
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    Mar 7, 2021
    My biologist origin story is that when I was a young child I found out I was fascinated by grant applications
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    Ran Blekhman
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    Aug 24, 2021
    reading about people taking ivermectin for covid and the stories are really heartworming
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    Ran Blekhman
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    Jan 26, 2022
    telling students in my class about the history of genomics
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    Ran Blekhman
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    Mar 16, 2020
    Just got an email that one of my grants got an automatic 1 year no-cost extension, without even requesting it, due to #COVID19 Grant admins and funding agencies: this is a great way to support your investigators during this crisis
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    Ran Blekhman
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    Sep 6, 2020
    Basically how machine learning works
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    Massimo
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    Sep 5, 2020
    The story of Nigel Richards, the man from New Zealand who memorized every French word in the French scrabble dictionary and won the French Scrabble Championship without speaking any French buff.ly/2rK5wi4
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    Ran Blekhman
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    Mar 9, 2017
    There's no cure for polio. There's a highly effective vaccine. This vaccine, by the way, was developed by a son of immigrants.
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    Ambassador Mike Huckabee
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    Mar 8, 2017
    Take on 4 big diseases that cost the BULK of $$: Cancer, heart disease, Alzheimers, diabetes; find CURES like we did with polio in 50's.