Simon Bayly
@simonbayly.bsky.social
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Reformed chemist 👨‍🔬 IP licensing and spinouts at the Francis Crick Institute. Also post about cycling 🚲 Opinion my own etc.
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Welcome new Bluesky users! If you are into biotech, please use the feed I created: bsky.app/profile/did:...
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It would be very funny if this contravenes UK bribery laws
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Uh oh, some cells like to play fancy dress with DNA 🧬
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We’re excited to report work led by postdoc Jennifer Porat in the lab, finding that DNA accumulates on the surface of living cells and that the secreted extracellular protein DNASE1L3 can modulate its levels on B and T cells. With a new twist for ATAC-seq as well www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
DNASE1L3 surveils mitochondrial DNA on the surface of distinct mammalian cells
The extracellular space is a critical environment for discriminating self versus non-self nucleic acids and initiating the appropriate immune responses through signaling cascades to relay information ...
www.biorxiv.org
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Five for Tadej Pogačar 🇮🇹🏆 Add another consecutive Lombardia win and more history made for the Slovenian 💥💥

Race report up on Velo now. https://bit.ly/4ozWprl
📸 Getty Images
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Do you like my new key ring?
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Also Illumina’s investment in Grail
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Do you like my new key ring?
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Incredible opportunity!
crick.ac.uk
We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.

Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.

Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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Only being able to say HELL WRLD seems apt somehow
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Wow
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Holy moly
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Direct single-molecule detection and super-resolution imaging with a low-cost portable smartphone-based microscope www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
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So proud to be in the top 3%!
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The global population is still increasing. What reason could there be that these people want more babies of their particular race? (rhetorical)
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This isn’t going to end well
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I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down
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NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Morning folks. Should we turn this into a ‘Station F’ for UK life sciences/biotech?
A photo of the building in Kings Cross that was being built for Merck/MSd
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I don’t think I’ve ever had more fun in the lab than when I was making MOFs myself (and trying to use them for small-molecule X-ray structure determination). So let me celebrate by posting a few of the MOF crystals I prepared:
Bright green transparent metal-organic framework crystals prepared with copper and a “multipronged” carboxylic acid ligand. The crystals formed blocky roughly rectangular pieces with some very large emerald-like chunks. Pink/red transparent metal-organic framework crystals prepared with cobalt  and a “multipronged” carboxylic acid ligand. The crystals formed as a mixture of long rectangular types and aggregated chunks. Purple transparent metal-organic framework crystals prepared with cobalt and a “multipronged” carboxylic acid ligand. The crystals formed long slightly blocky needles. Clear transparent metal-organic framework crystals prepared with zirconium and a “multipronged” carboxylic acid ligand. The crystals formed chunky hexagons.
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Morning folks. Should we turn this into a ‘Station F’ for UK life sciences/biotech?
A photo of the building in Kings Cross that was being built for Merck/MSd
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Soufflé Therapeutics may be fantastic for all I know, but from the name it sounds like a lot of hot air #biotech
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Cell go brrrrrrrrrr!
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What would happen if cells would express more molecular motors ?
They would break all microtubules 😱
As shown by recent great work from @kjverhey1.bsky.social

rupress.org/jcb/article-...
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Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.

A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner

His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.

An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers

www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College
Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.
www.magd.cam.ac.uk
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bento.bio
Researchers have developed a portable bird flu genomics workflow to track emerging strains in remote locations:

🧬 Bento Lab used to extract viral RNA
🧬 ONT MinION for genome sequencing
🧬 Full workflow on an Antarctic research vessel

🔗 Full story: bento.bio/story/tracki...
Tracking Bird Flu in Antarctica
A research team has successfully sequenced a near-complete bird flu genome aboard a ship in Antarctic waters, proving that portable lab equipment can generate critical information about viral threats…
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