Excessive sensory response via PIEZO1 in bladder epithelial cells can drive chronic pain from uropathogenic E. coli infection, revealing a critical link with IL-6 signaling. PMID:42361796, Cell 2026, @Cell https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(26)00649-5 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪

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One of the things I love about working in science philanthropy is seeing the people and curiosity behind discovery. Scientists aren’t just advancing knowledge. They can also help connect science to the people and communities it serves. youtu.be/3ZqvrlIuB0Q?...

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Excited to see our fMRI paper is out, led by Itamar Kahn’s lab. Our grad students, Amir Lawen and Bella Succi, in collab with Darcy Peterka, built a setup for simultaneous fMRI and dopamine fiber photometry in awake behaving mice. We learned some new biology too. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Our new paper is out in @nature.com! We uncovered how a naked mole-rat queen 👑 controls an entire colony: a natural contraceptive scent that suppresses reproduction in other females! A remarkable mammalian parallel to bees and ants! 🐝🐜 @garyrlewin.bsky.social youtu.be/enfv3zJrWKM?...

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BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

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