Do eukaryotes need introns? Seems like they don’t. Very nice use of synthetic genome engineering in yeast to remove all introns and lose the splicosome. cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092…

There's no silver bullet. In my humble opinion, the "solution" involves: - A massive effort to manage fire risk better around human settlements across Canada through fuel control and prescribed burning (Collins should not have burned down). - A revolution in 'smart' forestry to maximize human value chains and ecological integrity while minimizing fire risk. - Improved monitoring, detection and risk prediction. - Investment in fire response resources, including fire fighting personnel, equipment and technological development (especially re: drones) - Better emergency management and evacuation planning and protocols - Better awareness and education in everything from fire smart home building and construction, urban-wildland interface planning, and fire risk at home and in the workplace - Learning to live with more smoke in our future (better home and workplace air filtration, access to masks; municipal protocols for smoke days, 'clean air' respite centres) - Better inter-regional and international coordination between provinces, states, and Canada-US on all of the above. - And for the long game: Ambitious climate action. A lot of this stuff is taking place already. But it's way too little, and too slow.

What is REALLY causing the increase of Canada’s smoke in our skies? Read in the comments below ⬇️ Thank you to our Michigan GOP Congressional Delegation for calling on Canada to do what they said they were going to do, and to be a good neighbor.

Had fun putting this video together 😎 Whole-body imaging is opening new possibilities for biology. Two new preprints from @DeepPiction showcase what's possible when whole-body imaging meets molecular biology: 🔬 DISCO-seq: anatomically guided single-cell transcriptomics. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… 🚀 LipiGo: next-generation targeted lipid nanoparticles. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… Seeing the whole picture changes the questions we can ask. Happy #FluorescenceFriday!

BREAKING: Justin Trudeau just through Mark Carney under the bus on an unhinged rant about China throwing BAGS of unlimited cash at Canada. He says China has unlimited money and demand for Canada 🇨🇦 but we can’t do that they don’t share our values.