Will Barr @will_barrcode

Currently: PhD @PageLabXY @WhiteheadInst @MITBiology Joined December 2020

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Will Barr @will_barrcode

2 weeks ago

Always wondered how much this might contribute to control of mammalian body temperature -- degradation gated control as a means of futile cycling

Slavov Laboratory @slavovLab

3 weeks ago

Always wondered how much this might contribute to control of mammalian body temperature -- degradation gated control as a means of futile cycling

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We need experimental abundance in bioengineering. So much of biological science is trying to squeeze as much learning as possible out of a very small amount of raw experimental data -- because making that data is insanely expensive. We're hitting the limits of that approach --…

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The Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program @HarvardMITmdphd

3 months ago

You’re in great hands America! Here are the 2025 Harvard/MIT MD-PhD graduates who have dedicated their lives to providing the best care to your families & delivering you medical cures from their groundbreaking science. @NIH @NIHDirector_Jay @HHSGov @SecKennedy @harvardmed @MIT

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kat @katclone

4 months ago

The people rejoicing the downfall of academia don’t understand how screwed we are going to be if it actually crumbles

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Elliot Hershberg @ElliotHershberg

5 months ago

More exciting results for AI binder design 🧬 New work from the Ovchinnikov Lab at MIT builds on the open-source Boltz1 structure prediction model (from another MIT lab) for in silico design of a wide variety of binders. For computational benchmarks, appears to outperform…

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Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center @Schmidt_Center

5 months ago

Check out @WhiteheadInst's symposium – AI: Advancing Foundational Biology – today (Tuesday, April 8), from 2-5:00 p.m., followed by a poster session and reception at 5 p.m. @Schmidt_Center Director Caroline Uhler will be keynoting at 2:15 p.m. Learn more: calendar.mit.edu/event/ai-advan…

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Will Barr @will_barrcode

5 months ago

Spending hours tweaking aspect ratios on a ggplot is the next billion dollar problem

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Page Lab @PageLabXY

5 months ago

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Tony Kulesa @kulesatony

6 months ago

New review out today in Nature Biotech on nanopore-based protein sequencing. Feels... like... something... coming... soon... 👀

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Peter Wang @wyppeter

6 months ago

Check out the latest work led by @MatthewHarryHa1 in the Bartel lab! Matt solved a long-standing mystery about miRNA targeting, and drove the story to impressive mechanistic detail (1/2)

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MIT Biology @MITBiology

6 months ago

If 350 donors give to the School of Science today, MIT Biology alumna Dyann Wirth, PhD ’78, will make a $100,000 gift. Help us secure the future of fundamental discovery today!

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Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai

6 months ago

The Volkswagen Foundation has a new "Night Science" funding mechanism (!) for "teams of 2 researchers who inspire, complement and challenge each other. The aim is to create a space in which new approaches can emerge - without the pressure to produce immediate results." AMAZING!

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kat @katclone

6 months ago

Long layover in London otw to Poland next week would love to meet folks in tech/biotech :) — dm me

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Siniša Hrvatin @hrvatin_sinisa

6 months ago

Our story “A torpor-like state in mice (TLS) slows blood epigenetic aging and prolongs healthspan” is now out: nature.com/articles/s4358… Big congrats to @LornaLJayne, Aurora Lavin-Peter, and Julian Roessler, and thanks to @prof_horvath, @bloodgenes, @VadimGladyshev, and others.

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Page Lab @PageLabXY

8 months ago

We made the cover of Genome Research! Check out our latest paper on DDX3X and DDX3Y - the first X-Y gene pair with cross regulatory capabilities (genome.cshlp.org/content/35/1/2…).