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A. Sánchez Alvarado
@Planaria1
An ongoing collection of places, ideas and people I run into during the practice of science
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    A. Sánchez Alvarado
    @Planaria1
    Nov 15, 2024
    Science is humanity's grand endeavor to understand the universe & our place in it Every scientific breakthrough a testament to our curiosity & perseverance Science remains our compass, guiding us through the labyrinth of ideas, helping us distinguish truth from illusion, voices
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    A. Sánchez Alvarado
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    Jun 16, 2022
    It’s Dr. Barbara McClintocok’s birthday She saw what everybody saw, yet saw something altogether new Intrigued by maize kernel colors, she found genes can jump and turn physical traits on & off She remains the only woman with an unshared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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    A. Sánchez Alvarado
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    Apr 22, 2021
    Congratulations to Akiko Iwasaki @VirusesImmunity and Dianne Newman @caltech for their election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences @americanacad !!!
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    A. Sánchez Alvarado
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    Oct 17, 2020
    Fall and its gorgeous genetics is here: jumping genes in the cells that make the kernels in corn cobs cause these beautiful changes in coloration Barbara McClintock figured this out & received the Nobel prize in 1983 for her discovery & gift to our better understanding of life
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    A. Sánchez Alvarado
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    Feb 28, 2020
    I am on my way to @SastraUniv to receive the 2019 Obaid Siddiqi Award. I want to pause and reflect on the fundamental contributions made by this extraordinary Indian mind and global scientist to human knowledge. @ScienceStowers @royalsociety @theNASciences
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    A. Sánchez Alvarado
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    Sep 4, 2020
    Our @ScienceStowers lab's most recent effort to understand regeneration has just been published @ScienceMagazine. science.sciencemag.org/content/369/65… The story began sometime in 2008 with an idea after hearing Anne Brunet @BrunetLab give a talk at my old institution @UUtah
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    A. Sánchez Alvarado
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    Jan 30, 2022
    There are time lapses and then there is this… Animated still images of Io and Europa over Jupiter's Great Red Spot taken by Cassini Credit: flickr.com/photos/kevinmg…
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    A. Sánchez Alvarado
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    Feb 6, 2021
    What are HOX genes doing in planaria? Our most recent preprint aims to shed some light on this puzzle Before diving in, a brief history of past efforts to understand HOX genes in planaria is warranted biorxiv.org/content/10.110… @ScienceStowers @HHMINEWS @biorxivpreprint
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    A. Sánchez Alvarado
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    Jan 13, 2019
    Not a bad time to remember and be inspired by Dr. Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958). Here she is in the summer of 1940 climbing mountains in Norway and sharing in a letter to her father her views on science. Learn more at: profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retrieve/Na…
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    A. Sánchez Alvarado
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    Oct 22, 2018
    As a teenager, Osamu Shimomura was a survivor of and was briefly blinded by the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. How remarkable that his work on aqueorin and GFP gave us the ability to see realms of biology we had been been blind to.
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    Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)
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    Oct 22, 2018
    The MBL mourns the passing of Osamu Shimomora, Distinguished Scientist Emeritus and 2008 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. Photo: Martin Chalfie mbl.edu/blog/mbl-scien…
    Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008
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    A. Sánchez Alvarado
    @Planaria1
    Apr 30, 2019
    Congratulations, Harmit @HarmitMalik for being elected to the @theNASciences !!! Richly deserved!!! @HHMINEWS @fredhutch
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    A. Sánchez Alvarado
    @Planaria1
    Jun 18, 2018
    The beautiful sea robbins (Prionotus carolinus) at the Marine Resources Center @MBLScience came by to say hello @___SDB___
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    A. Sánchez Alvarado
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    Jun 14, 2020
    Unsolicited advice: When someone tells you that you are not good enough, that you do not belong, that you cannot do what you love, that you should give up: Doubt the doubter. Doubt them long & hard before you consider doubting yourself
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    A. Sánchez Alvarado
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    Nov 4, 2016
    The first issue of @Nature was printed today in 1869. In opening article Huxley writes on obsolescence of theories but permanence of poetry.