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Itai Yanai

New York
As seen in: Night Science, Nature, Genome Biology, Science Magazine, BioRxiv, Cell Press, Aeon, eLife, FEBS Network
Professor at the NYU School of Medicine. Co-host of the 'Night Science Podcast' @nightsciencepod and Co-founder of the Night Science Institute night-science.org
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How to give a bad talk

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By Itai Yanai
| Nature Verified
It is crucial to know how to communicate your work by delivering an effective talk, but our training for doing so is limited, so it is a skill often learned by watching others — who sometimes do it badly.
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A mechanism for adaptive genome regulation in cancer

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By Gustavo Franca, Itai Yanai
| Nature Verified
Abstract The ability of cancer cells to consistently escape therapy highlights their remarkable adaptive potential. A longstanding debate in cancer research concerns whether drug resistance originates primarily from mutational processes or through cellular plasticity. Emerging evidence has suggested that adaptive cellular states arise through phenotypic plasticity triggered by intracellular stress signals.
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Nature at its weirdest: what metamorphosis reveals about science and ourselves

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By Itai Yanai
| Nature Verified
Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History Oren Harman Basic Books (2025) “Metamorphosis is wild,” marvels historian Oren Harman. A caterpillar completely dissolves inside its chrysalis, before reconstructing itself in the shape of a butterfly. The ‘immortal jellyfish’ (Turritopsis dohrnii) reverts from its mature, floating form into a polyp that dwells on the ocean bed when threatened, only to eventually turn back into a mature jellyfish again — never dying of old age.
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