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Nick Burgis
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Spokane area Biochemistry Professor/Bluegrass Festival President. Science, music, education, politics, nonprofit and union strong 💙 Happy GenX husband and father.
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I am so excited about moving my basic research lab towards applied science 🧬 This project that aims to address a very rare infantile encephalopathy and help a subset of cancer/organ transplant patients. Read all about my NIH funded R15 project at EWU! www.ewu.edu/stories/gran...
Grant to Support Probe of Rare, Deadly Disorder in Infants   - Stories - EWU - The Region's Polytechnic
NIH announces $350,000 to help chemistry professors Nick Burgis and Yao Houndonougbo explore ways to “stabilize ITPA clinical variants.”
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If you are looking for some protest songs, check out my audio recording of the Spokane Ragging Grannies from last month’s Folk Festival 😁 #protest #ProtestSongs #RagingGrannies

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Spokane Raging Grannies 2025-11-08 : Spokane Raging Grannies : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Spokane Raging GranniesFall Folk FestivalThe UndergroundSpokane Community CollegeSpokane, WASaturday, November 8, 2025, 1:45-2:15pmAudience Recording01. -...
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December 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
So stoked to see Della Mae this spring in Spokane!!! I scored front row center tickets yesterday 😁
December 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies.

Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.

This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
December 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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‬ Thanks for starting the Grateful Dead Feed! I notice my posts are not being displayed there despite tagging with "Grateful Dead" or #GratefulDead. Is there a trick to getting posts to show up in your feed! Thanks (~);}
December 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
What an incredible achievement bestowed upon The Grateful Dead on their 60th anniversary! Long live The Grateful Dead!!! #GratefulDead
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Grateful Dead Set Guinness World Record Title for Most Top 40 Albums Charted on Billboard 200
Photo: Herb Greene The Grateful Dead have claimed a new title. Today, 60 years after the band performed their first gig, a San Jose Acid Test, under the
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December 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Proteins plucked from the pages of Renaissance recipes. Analyses of German medical manuals from 1531 reveal what ingredients those who handled the books used. 🧪 #history #chemistry cen.acs.org/analytical-c...
Proteins plucked from the pages of Renaissance recipes
Analyses of German medical manuals from 1531 reveal what ingredients those who handled the books used
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December 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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This is awesome. Art and science. Culture.
December 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Steve Witkoff has shown the world he will adopt Putin's talking points and concede the sovereignty of our Ukrainian allies if it means some of his billionaire buddies can get rich off Russia.

It's un-American and a total betrayal of our values. Witkoff needs to be fired.
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
So stoked to see @bonnieraitt.bsky.social next year in #Spokane!!!
November 22, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Trump's rhetoric toward Democratic lawmakers is a disgrace—it’s not even close to acceptable coming from an American President.

Republican Senators need to show some courage and state plainly that the President is not above the law. That is the bare minimum.
November 21, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Check out my recording of Magoo last weekend in Spokane 😁 20+ min jams start at tracks 3 & 11. #bluegrass #JamGrass #taperssection

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November 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Thanks to all who have served 🇺🇸
November 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Wow! Magoo was off the hook last night in #Spokane! If you like #bluegrass that jams, this band’s for you! #JamGrass
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Interesting article that reports increased levels of DNA damage for a variety of foods after cooking. DNA Content and DNA Damage in Raw and Heat-Processed Foods | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 🧪 #foodscience #DNAdamage #chemsitry
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DNA Content and DNA Damage in Raw and Heat-Processed Foods
DNA in foods is a source of nucleotides that are salvaged by tissues as building blocks for chromosomal and mitochondrial DNA. A recent study provided preliminary evidence that high-temperature cookin...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Identification of a Novel Linker Enabling the Bioconjugation of a Cyclic Dinucleotide for the STING Antibody-Drug Conjugate TAK-500 | Bioconjugate Chemistry #chemistry #nucleotide #drugdevelopment 🧪
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Identification of a Novel Linker Enabling the Bioconjugation of a Cyclic Dinucleotide for the STING Antibody-Drug Conjugate TAK-500
STING activates the innate immune system by inducing type-1 interferon (IFN) production and has been pursued as a therapeutic option in immuno-oncology. The targeted delivery of STING agonists to CCR2+ immune cells could enhance the therapeutic window of the agonists by selectively activating the STING pathway within targeted immune cells. The chemistry strategy was established to enable the targeted delivery of the cyclic dinucleotide STING agonist dazostinag to CCR2+ cells through an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) approach. A self-immolative spacer between the adenine of dazostinag and the Cathepsin-B cleavable Val-Ala dipeptide linker rendered a linker payload that exhibits strong plasma stability while allowing the rapid payload release upon internalization into lysosomes. The stochastic cysteine conjugation of the dazostinag containing these linkers provided ADC TAK-500 and its mouse surrogate mTAK-500 with DAR = 4. In syngeneic tumor-bearing mouse models, mTAK-500 showed target specific antitumor activity as well as the induction of immune-stimulating cytokines.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Way to go #Spokane!

STA introduces free premium Transit App features for Spokane riders - STA is partnering with the #Transit App to give local riders a chance to make public transportation less stressful with premium features like live GPS bus tracking. www.krem.com/mobile/artic... via @KREM2
STA introduces free premium Transit App features for Spokane riders
STA is partnering with the Transit App to give local riders a chance to make public transportation less stressful with premium features like live GPS bus tracking.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I hope everyone had a happy Halloween 🎃 👻 💀 We had a pirate ship beached in front of our house 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ Arrrgh!!
November 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Beautiful effect with a rain cloud during sunset in Cheney tonight!
October 28, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Explore this #GiftArticle from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/o...
Opinion | Thanks a Lot, Boomers
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October 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It’s grape picking time in Cheney! Nothing tastes as good as #homegrown #grapes, well maybe the #rasins I will make 😋
October 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
🧪 This is a dangerous move 😡
They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.
October 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Reposted by Nick Burgis
Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
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The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...
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October 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Save the date for the 25th year of Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival! #bluegrass #festival #Spokane
October 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM