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Group Leader at Spark Therapeutics @Spark_Tx developing gene therapies. Previously Investigator at Princeton Univ @Princeton @Princetonideas @PrincetonNeuro

NJ, PA ; USA
Joined April 2010
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Esteban Engel retweeted
Letter from the association of university heads in Israel, asking academic institutions to renounce the barbaric actions of Hamas terrorists. #HamasMassacre #HamasisISIS #Gaza #Palestine #StandsWithIsrael
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Great to see our manuscript with two great mentors as co-authors: Lynn Enquist and Pat Card. If your lab does viral transsynaptic tracing, please take a look.
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🐙 ALERT! So when you put an octopus in cold water it recodes 13,000 codons (1/3 of all recoding sites!) via massive RNA editing in the brain!! And this apparently alters the function of synaptic proteins! 🤯🤯🤯 That’s insane (but not for the octopus) cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
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Hello @TMobile @TMobileHelp, your coverage in the Princeton Junction, NJ area is really bad. One-bar if you are lucky. Any way it can be improved? Otherwise you will loose a lot of frustrated patrons. Thanks much!
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Replying to @TheEconomist
@TheEconomist just so you know, the Astra Zeneca COVID-19 vaccine is based on an Adenoviral vector (chimpanzee adenovirus Y25 (ChAdOx1)) and not an AAV vector. They are completely different viral species. 🍎and 🍊are not the same.
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Super disappointed of @SamsungUS @SamsungusaUSA @SamsungSupport. Purchased a fridge 3+ weeks ago and delivery keeps getting canceled for lame reasons/lies like "the truck broke" or "truck is full" R E A L L Y? They just don't care about customers and just lost (another) one.
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And just like that @SamsungUS takes ZERO accountability for not delivering a fridge ordered one month ago. They don't seem to mind loosing another customer nor had they reimbursed the $ so that I can order from another vendor that is reliable and cares about their customers
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A huge congratulations to our scientific co-founders, @adam_k_glaser and @jonliu123, on their publication in Nature Methods! The article presents an innovative approach to pathology with high-throughput, AI-powered 3D spatial biology. #3DInsights #NatureMethods
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This is how a nerve ending looks. It has been broken open to reveal vesicles (orange and blue) containing chemicals used to pass messages in the nervous system: #neuroscience by T. Carvalho
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Esteban Engel retweeted
For musician and actress Soko, living a full life feeds the motivation it takes to hone your craft every day.

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Esteban Engel retweeted
Migrating cell leaves a trail: The migrasome is an organelle produced by migrating cells. As cells migrate, they leave long and thin retraction fibers #biology
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Nature does open access
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Here is our Snapshot of Human Endogenous Retroviruses (HERVs) that I wrote together with @JakobssonLab for Cell (@CellCellPress). Enjoy reading here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1eS8a… - @HelmholtzMunich @Lund_Stem
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Birth of a neuron. Stem cell differentiating into a brain cell: #neuroscience
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In a first-of-its-kind surgery, @UMMC researchers and @UMmedschool clinicians have successfully transplanted a #geneticallymodified pig heart to a 57-year-old patient with #endstageheartdisease. 📸: Jamie Chung medschool.umaryland.edu/news…
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Esteban Engel retweeted
Opening a lab during corona teapawt.net/andrewfx_51/status/148…
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On early exit from isolation at day 5 ** There is likely NO single identifiable group of ppl who pose a greater risk of spreading virus than those leaving isolation at 5 days w/out a Neg test Rate of being infectious at d5 may be >40% *Test-to-Exit* It’s smart Public Health
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Esteban Engel retweeted
Researchers have discovered that one population of white-faced capuchin monkeys in Panama have entered the Stone Age. The monkeys have started using stone tools to break nuts and shellfish, making them the fourth type of primates to do so after us [more: buff.ly/3EVdTqB]
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Esteban Engel retweeted
Remember that time in 2008 where the FDA created general public N95 for use during pandemics? How two years into this that @US_FDA and @CDCgov still have not done this?
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Esteban Engel retweeted
Ignoring the word limit
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