PhD @TuftsUniversity | @BU_tweets alum| biomedical/genome engineer| Latinx 🇪🇨🇺🇸 #retina #genetherapy #CRISPRdelivery #firstgen
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Vanessa Yanez, PhD retweeted
I am humbled by the response to this and I have one ask. Can you share this post so that we can get 75K likes? It is the most impactful thing @sabrevaya and I can do to save our democracy.
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Vanessa Yanez, PhD retweeted
Delivery, delivery, delivery!
Join us in Siracusa, Italy from April 4-7 to discuss new advances in nucleic acid delivery and how to solve the remaining challenges! Don't miss this opportunity. Abstract deadline is March 15, 2024. Register here:
engconf.us/conferences/biote…
Vanessa Yanez, PhD retweeted
Just heard from another family that we've partnered with and things are looking good. while just an observational study, kids are improving while on a drug that we discovered in a fly screen.
Vanessa Yanez, PhD retweeted
On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, let’s help girls everywhere pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math. Our world is better with their ideas and perspectives.
Vanessa Yanez, PhD retweeted
1) Your well-being must be your priority.
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It's easy to become so focused on the end goal that we sacrifice all to get there.
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But if you arrive at your destination as a hollow shell of who you are, you have missed the mark of building a better life in the very pursuit of it.
Vanessa Yanez, PhD retweeted
The first molecular age of the eye clock:
identifying ~6,000 proteins (via liquid biopsies from 120 patients) and multiomics #AI
cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092… @CellCellPress
Vanessa Yanez, PhD retweeted
🚨 Today, we’re thrilled to share our study expanding the gene editing toolbox to enable virtually any kind of edit in gene transcripts at the order of thousands of bases. A thread 🧵👇(1/n)
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Vanessa Yanez, PhD retweeted
Appreciation Post Alert!Last Thursday in our #S2P2, we had the chance to share with the Tufts #alumni that paved the road for @TuftsSACNAS: Dr. Jesús A. Romo, and @VYBioDesign.
Thanks for setting up the stepping stone for our #organization!
@SACNAS #dei #appreciationpost
Vanessa Yanez, PhD retweeted
Amazing S2P2 Alumni Oral Presentations!
#S2P2_Symposium #SACNAS
Special shout out to old SACNAS/SPINES leader @VYBioDesign
Vanessa Yanez, PhD retweeted
Affirmative action was never a complete answer in the drive towards a more just society. But for generations of students who had been systematically excluded from most of America’s key institutions—it gave us the chance to show we more than deserved a seat at the table.
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decision, it’s time to redouble our efforts.
Vanessa Yanez, PhD retweeted
Since the discovery of CRISPR-Cas systems, people have wondered if a similar type of system exists in eukaryotes. Today, we report in @Nature the characterization of Fanzor, a eukaryotic RNA-guided system that can be reprogrammed for human genome editing. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Vanessa Yanez, PhD retweeted
As a Ph.D. student, my income surpassed that of my parents combined. Although leaving them behind left me with a sense of guilt, it also filled me with pride to be able to help. As first-generation students, we often experience these conflicting emotions throughout our journey.
Vanessa Yanez, PhD retweeted
Additionally, this data is another reason why medical schools should feel morally OBLIGATED to ensure a more diverse pipeline of physicians. They should be investing in programs in low-income communities to ensure the physician population accurately represents the patient pop.
Vanessa Yanez, PhD retweeted
Has a similar study ever been done for US Congressman and Senators? What about CEOs?
Vanessa Yanez, PhD retweeted
As someone from an extremely poor background who excelled academically (perfect scores in math meets, captain of mock trial team, award for highest state test scores, etc), this merit argument is a joke. It was hard at every level for me to succeed in academic environments:
Vanessa Yanez, PhD retweeted
In grad school, I had independent funding the entire time but only presented my research once at a scientific meeting because I could not afford to wait for reimbursement.
Vanessa Yanez, PhD retweeted
Not here to change anyone's mind. All I ask is that when women from minoritized group win, despite being so encumbered by the system, YOU who champion MERIT would lift THEM up, celebrate THEIR success, and promote THEM. They ran a far harder race and still won! -MERIT. 4/5.
Vanessa Yanez, PhD retweeted
Excited to share this pre-print on recent developments in non-viral delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 to the mouse brain, following up on work from the @doudna_lab published in 2017 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Vanessa Yanez, PhD retweeted
I have always considered my work in science to be a service to my community. Sickle cell disease commonly affects people of African descent, so it has been the honor of a lifetime to contribute to, and now lead, efforts to establish potentially therapeutic strategies for SCD.
Vanessa Yanez, PhD retweeted
Very excited to announce the publication of our corrective prime editing strategy for sickle cell disease! It was an honor to lead this work with David’s support and in collaboration with colleagues from St. Jude and the NIH.
Today we report in @natBME ex vivo prime editing of blood stem cells from sickle cell disease (SCD) patients, followed by transplantation into mice, correcting the SCD mutation to wild-type hemoglobin and rescuing SCD blood abnormalities.
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