What if any dataset, any size, any number of dimensions, opened in a browser tab from a link? 🔬🧪💻 Luxar is out today: write it in Python, share it as a link, explore it in any browser. Open source. 🧵 @biohub.org Preprint: doi.org/10.5281/zen... Code: github.com/royerlab/luxar

This work would not have been possible without the incredible snATAC-seq atlas of the Drosophila embryo from @diegoisworking.bsky.social @jshendure.bsky.social and @eileen-furlong.bsky.social which helped us discover that germ cells retain a totipotent chromatin state throughout development!

Arjuna Rajakumar PhD@arjunarajakumar.bsky.social · 4d ago

So proud of my lab mate @sagrill.bsky.social (whose on the job market 👀) for this magnum opus from @remlehmann.bsky.social lab @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social ScRNA-seq of 🪰 germ cells reveals new biology, answers age old questions, and proposes new paradigms! 1/8 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Maybe it’s time to say goodbye to UMAP and other low-dimensional embeddings (at least in many single-cell analyses). We developed MILK to encode single-cell populations into tree representations at unprecedented scales. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Here’s what MILK is: 🧵

Excited to share the first preprint from our lab! We combined a DNA Typewriter lineage recorder with clone-resolved founder profiling to find what makes metastatic potential heritable in lung cancer xenografts. 1/13 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Time-resolved lineage recording reveals a pre-existing, heritable cell state underlying metastatic potential

Metastasis causes most cancer deaths, yet no recurrent mutation specifically drives it, raising the possibility that metastatic potential is a non-genetic yet heritable cell state. Classic experiments...

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Must-know numbers in human genetics -- As many of you know, I'm writing a free online textbook in human genetics. In this blog post I cover a key skill for genome scientists from that book: how to use mental math to figure out key genome properties. jkpritchard.substack.com/p/on-fermi-p...

On Fermi Problems in Human Genetics

and some very useful numbers about human genomes to get you started!

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Huge faculty recruitment effort at the University of Chicago -- a division-wide, open-rank search looking to hire about 20 faculty across 5 research areas in biology. Come be our colleague! Full announcement: uchicago.app.box.com/s/ckih9zv3rj...

Come be our colleague. I have been in this Division for 27 years (4 as a postdoc and 23 as a PI). It is an amazing place to work, collaborate, and be inspired. If you are applying to be an Assistant or Associate Professor this Fall, don't miss this deadline.

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Join @FredHutch.org's Basic Sciences Division as an Assistant or Associate Professor and help shape the future of fundamental biology. We welcome applicants whose work will complement, extend, or bring new directions to the division.

Thrilled to post thread re: new single-cell lineage of mouse embryo reconstructed w/ DNA Typewriter. One animal, zygote to late organogenesis (E13.5). Tree has 1,340,794 transcriptionally profiled, annotated tips (cells), 1,142,588 dated internal nodes, rooted at zygote 1/n

New preprint from Shendure Lab on Locus-Scale aka Long-@$$ MPRAs led by the amazing Abby McGee & @carinabiar.bsky.social Most MPRAs test ~300 bp fragments next to a promoter. But real enhancers are bigger, act combinatorially and from a distance. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Spectacular preprint led by @sydsat.bsky.social in @ohnolog.bsky.social lab, @uwgenome.bsky.social. Neutrophils precede gastrulation in killifish and rapidly patrol the yolk. (1/2)

Early immune cell development precedes gastrulation in annual killifish

During embryogenesis, cell types arise in a predictable order because developmental regulators act sequentially. But how evolutionary changes in morphogenesis reshape the signaling environments that a...

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22/n On a personal note, I’ll soon start an independent research group in the Genome Biology Unit at EMBL Heidelberg. If you enjoy this type of work and want to engineer genomes at the largest scale, please reach out! jonas-koeppel.github.io/koeppellab/ www.embl.org/groups/koepp...

How much of the human genome is essential? Two pieces out today from our lab: 1) a method to map essential genomic intervals at gigabase scale, and 2) an argument that it's time to consider synthesizing a minimal human genome. biorxiv.org/content/10.6... nature.com/articles/d41...

Why a synthetic human genome is still worth building

A decade on from the launch of an ambitious project, it’s time to revisit the reasons for constructing a human genome from scratch.

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1/n What fraction of the human genome is essential for cells? Excited to share our preprint that explores this question by combining an unusual CRISPR system, phage promoters, and thousands of deletion launchpads. @sudpinglay.bsky.social @jshendure.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Brain disease is tragic, but it doesn’t have to be. It’s time for a new approach to #brainhealth research. That’s why we and our partners are launching the Brain Health accelerator. 🎥 youtu.be/wnTG5Sg8AKY?...

Brain Health accelerator: a new way to study brain disease to find new treatments for it

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This week’s launch of the #BrainHealth accelerator marks an important step forward for neuroscience. I’m excited to see this ambitious effort rally teams around a shared goal: building a deeper understanding of brain disease and accelerating progress toward better therapies.

allen institute@alleninstitute.org · 4mo ago

Brain disease is tragic, but it doesn’t have to be. It’s time for a new approach to #brainhealth research. That’s why we and our partners are launching the Brain Health accelerator. 🎥 youtu.be/wnTG5Sg8AKY?...

“AlphaFold 3's representational coherence is deeply tied to evolutionary scaffolding, suggesting it functions similarly to an advanced fold-recognition system and highlighting that protein structure prediction from sequence alone is not yet fully solved.”

And, here, in much more detail. This is an absolutely critical read for all federally funded scientists and institutions. Now is not the time to sit in the corner, hoping you won't be noticed - now is the time for action. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Russell Vought is going destroy American Science

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NIH funded peeps: This is insane and coming for us.

Game over, phylogeneticists! New DNA foundation model "Carbon" reconstructs the tree of life. 🙃 huggingface.co/spaces/Huggi...

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Widespread DNA off-targeting confounds RNA chromatin occupancy studies - Nature Biotechnology

Many long noncoding RNA–DNA binding peaks detected using common assays arise from technical artifacts.

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Last year two preprints from @jshendure.bsky.social and @arjunraj.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... perhaps began to shed light on this question. One of them has been updated. Their findings are important.

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

An important piece from my neighbor, colleague and friend Will DeWitt et al. @wsdewitt.github.io www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New preprint! 📣We performed the largest multi-ancestry GWAS of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the most common autoimmune disease, by analyzing the VA Million Veteran Program (MVP) with international RA cohorts.

medRxivpreprint@medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Multi-ancestral GWAS with the VA Million Veteran Program enables functional interpretation of rheumatoid arthritis alleles https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.22.26351423v1

Pool-packaged AAV libraries exhibit extensive length-dependent and homology-dependent chimerism - @jshendure.bsky.social @uwgenome.bsky.social go.nature.com/4cMTnLP

Pool-packaged AAV libraries exhibit extensive length-dependent and homology-dependent chimerism - Nature Biotechnology

Pooled production of recombinant AAV vectors leads to frequent genetic recombination.

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1/ Thrilled to share our latest: an exciting collaboration across the @jshendure.bsky.social, @leastarita.bsky.social, @nobuhamazaki.bsky.social and @dschweppe.bsky.social labs! 🧵 below- #SystemsBiology #SCBEM #MultiOmics #Gastruloids www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The proteomic landscape and temporal dynamics of human and mouse gastruloid development - Nature Cell Biology

Garge et al. use experimentally matched mass spectrometry and RNA-sequencing to quantify proteins, phosphosites and transcripts across four key stages of human and mouse gastruloid development.

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Excited to see @riddhiman.bsky.social's gastruloid multiomics paper out now at Nature Cell Bio! Riddhiman used proteomics, phosphoproteomics, and RNAseq to profile stem-cell-derived embryo models to identify protein, complex, and signaling regulators of development. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The proteomic landscape and temporal dynamics of human and mouse gastruloid development - Nature Cell Biology

Garge et al. use experimentally matched mass spectrometry and RNA-sequencing to quantify proteins, phosphosites and transcripts across four key stages of human and mouse gastruloid development.

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@hhmi-science.bsky.social's #FreemanHrabowski Scholars Program offers early career faculty up to $10M over 10 yrs, plus salary & benefits Stable, sustained support can transform your career: Senior Postdoc? This year's competition has a program for you too. Applications open 11/3! bit.ly/4vhC0LA

Early Career Faculty Program | Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI

The Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program offers comprehensive support to outstanding early career faculty committed to scientific excellence in their own research, and to fostering labs that expand the ...

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HHMI CEO: "diamond funding should be deployed to sustain repositories [i.e. preprint servers] and connective infrastructure that focus on researcher-shared outputs" zenodo.org/records/1960...

Excited to share our new paper @nature.com! We developed PerturbFate, a scalable single-cell platform to discover how diverse genetic perturbations converge on a shared drug-resistant cell state, and key programs driving it, led by our incredible Zihan Xu from @rockefeller.edu rdcu.be/fdC14