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Aakriti Jain

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As seen in: Medium, Nature, Science Magazine, BioRxiv, Cell Press, The Morning Call, Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia
assistant professor at @utswmedcenter. interested in organelles & metabolism.

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Aakriti Jain’s Journalist Portfolio

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Gal Science: The Science of B.O.

Gal Science: The Science of B.O.

This post is generously sponsored by Randi Ellias. As The Toast searches for its one true Gal Scientist, we w…

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Engineering Cells for Medicine and Science: The Mammalian Synthetic Biology Workshop 2.0

Engineering Cells for Medicine and Science: The Mammalian Synthetic Biology Workshop 2.0

Last weekend, approximately 300 scientists, industry professionals, and students gathered at MIT Building 26 …

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Tom Ellis Chat Recap

Tom Ellis Chat Recap

Thank you our viewers and participants for another great Google Hangout. We are especially grateful to Tom El…

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A Perspective on Design

A Perspective on Design

Ever since I moved to Paris a few months ago, I have taken a significant interest in pushing the traditional …

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A New Kind of Learning

A New Kind of Learning

Unexpectedly, I became a part of the best experiment in education. Here is what it is, and why you should wan…

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Revolution Bioengineering Chat Recap

Revolution Bioengineering Chat Recap

Thanks everyone for joining us today during our chat with Keira Havens and Nikolai Braun from Revolution Bioe…

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LASER couples damage sensing to ESCRT assembly for lysosome repair

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By Aakriti Jain, Samira Yitiz, Zahra Soltani, Serim Yang, Simon Rapp, Scot Federman, James Sacco, Huinan Li, Lauren Enriquez, Nalan Liv, Laralynne Przybyla, Roberto Zoncu, Claire S. Goul, Martina Spacci
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Abstract Lysosomal membrane integrity is essential for cell survival, but how damage sensing is spatiotemporally coupled to repair remains poorly understood. Recruitment and assembly of endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) I–III rapidly counteracts membrane damage, but it is unclear how ESCRT-I recognizes defective lysosomal membranes.
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Lysosomes as hubs of metabolic sensing and cellular homeostasis

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By Aakriti Jain, Roberto Zoncu
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Keywords lysosome signaling metabolites mTORC1 organelle contacts inflammation neurodegeneration amyloid autophagy Introduction Long thought of as purely degradative compartments, in recent years, lysosomes have emerged as key nodes of metabolic regulation via their ability to both act as a nutrient source for the cell and as platforms that links nutrient sensing to downstream anabolic and catabolic pathways.
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How A Long-Distance Love Found Stillness In Ljubljana

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By Aakriti Jain
| Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia Verified
The Triple Bridges or the Tromostovje in Ljubljana (Photo Credit: Mietro Patropoli, Unsplash) Just a month after our wedding, we met in Singapore when we found out that my visa for Canadian immigration hadn’t come through. And then after a month in Japan. But when the application didn’t seem to make any progress at all, we started to bridge the bureaucratic gap by meeting in some of the most romantic places in the world.
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