ALL BABIES ARE GOOD BABIES. THERE ARE NO BEST BABIES YOU ABSOLUTE MORONS.
Surprised by this endorsement by The Economist for these companies selecting embryos for up to $50K, "designer-ish babies," whose IQ, height & other features, can supposedly be accurately predicted by polygenic risk scores. They can't. economist.com/leaders/2026... www.economist.com/business/202...
Se llamaba Faten Ben Omar El Azizi, era jugadora en el Mogreb Atl.Tetuán y una de las promesas del fútbol marroquí. Es una de las fallecidas ahogadas nadando la costa de Ceuta. Se contabilizan ya 72 víctimas mortales, mientras se difunden todo tipo de discursos de odio xenófobos.
The big picture: admixed and related samples are common in biobanks and cohorts around the world, but researchers have lacked a dedicated tool to analyze both features together. Tractor-Mix opens the door to more powerful GWAS without excluding relatives or losing ancestry-specific insight.
Watch @prsmethods.bsky.social investigators Dave Conti and Sara Cromer present on "Incorporating Polygenic Risk Scores and Social Determinants of Health Across Populations" from the May @ajhgnews.bsky.social journal club, now added to our PRIMED video collection: primedconsortium.org/education#en...
📢 #TOPMed e/sQTL atlas is out in @science.org today! Happy to contribute to this amazing team effort and rich resource for the genomics community: 69k cis-eQTL + 35k cis-sQTL across 6 tissues/cell types and diverse ancestries. Still more to discover 😉🧬 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cross-cohort analysis of expression and splicing quantitative trait loci in TOPMed
Most genetic variants associated with complex traits are hypothesized to regulate gene expression. To understand the genetics underlying gene expression variability, we characterized 14,324 RNA-sequen...
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So excited to see this published! This method was a long time in the making and is now being widely used to balance scale with depth, especially for participants where unbiased sequencing approaches are so much more useful than arrays
Broad Institute@broadinstitute.org · last mo.Broad scientists developed the Blended Genome Exome (BGE) sequencing method, which delivers high-quality, unbiased data at a lower cost than existing gold-standard methods and makes large-scale genetic studies more feasible. @genetisaur.bsky.social
Broad scientists developed the Blended Genome Exome (BGE) sequencing method, which delivers high-quality, unbiased data at a lower cost than existing gold-standard methods and makes large-scale genetic studies more feasible. @genetisaur.bsky.social
Low-cost genome sequencing approach is powering genetics research on mental illness and many other studies
The Blended Genome Exome approach delivers high-quality, unbiased genetic data at a quarter of the cost of the leading sequencing method.
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Are you one of the >150,000 people in Geneva who have signed a general consent to allow researchers to securely reuse your data for medical research ? See below to find out how your data and samples could be helping us understand disease www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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BioHUG Biobank: 10,000 DNA samples and counting! Launched in February 2025, BioHUG (UNIGE Faculty of Medicine & HUG) aims to collect 20,000 DNA samples by 2027 — a milestone that will place it among ...
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After 4 years, it's rather nice to finally present our work on genetic's model trait, height, in >1.4M WES/WGS samples (826k discovery; led by Adam Locke & Goncalo Abecasis where we found (amongst many other things) 207 genes (P<1.75e-9). A thread of findings below⬇️ www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
La Dra. Núria López-Bigas (@nlbigas.bsky.social), investigadora a l'#IRBBarcelona, a la llista de @forbes.com Espanya com una de "Les 50 dones més influents de Catalunya 2026". Lidera el @bbglab.bsky.social, centrat en l'estudi de mutacions del càncer. Enhorabona! ➡️ https://shorturl.at/H9cgs
I am very excited to see this paper out, which has been an Herculean effort, led by @aliciahuerta.bsky.social and Joohyum Kim and co-supervised by Maggie Ng and myself, now published in the The Lancet Group (Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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Don’t reach for ChatGPT Images or Nano Banana as your first option when creating scientific images There are multiple free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations. #plantscience @stephenturner.us blog.stephenturner.us/p/free-open-...
Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations
Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics
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This just out in Diabetes Care. The need to highlight the destructive plans of the administration continues. Everyone needs to post comments to the OMB website. Relevant links in the article. Don’t delay!! diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
Please Tell Me It Is Only a Nightmare—The Proposed Dismantling of the United States Federal Research Infrastructure
Steven E. Kahn, Cheryl A.M. Anderson, John B. Buse, Elizabeth Selvin, Vanita R. Aroda, Seth A. Berkowitz, Matthew J. Crowley, Stephanie L. Fitzpatrick, Meg
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I grew up in apartheid S Africa, where muzzling of speech and encroachment on academic freedom were the norm. I came to the USA to pursue a career in science. I never thought that at this stage of my career, I would ever experience my youth again. #StandUpForScience #ADA #ADA2026
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Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
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We commend Steven Kahn, MBChB, Aaron Kelly, PhD, Desmond Schatz, MD, Justin Ryder, PhD, and Irl Hirsch, MD for Standing Up for Science at the ADA meeting. They were forcibly removed by police for handing out the following editorial. diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
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Extremely dark days for science, for freedom of speech, and for America. If the US ADA is not safe for its flagship journal editor in chief, then imagine how un-safe it is for others. One of many reasons I’m not at the #ada2026 . Missing my friends/colleagues but not the pervasive fascism.
Sscience-resist.bsky.social@science-resist.bsky.social · 2mo ago
Editor-in-Chief of Diabetes Care, @sekahn.bsky.social, and colleagues have been removed from the #ADA2026 SciSessions for doing journal outreach. #resist #freedomofspeech #diabetes #NIH
@omicspred.bsky.social centralises imputation models from multiple resources (PredictDB, Zenodo, INTERVAL/UKB-trained scores) and multiple omics layers (transcriptomics, metabolomics, proteomics) to make analyses easier and more comprehensive, e.x. this multi-ancestry multi-omics MVP PheWAS!
Some thoughts on where AI in genomics stands right now, building on a symposium we recently hosted at UChicago. Seven points, ranging from why scaling DNA models hasn't delivered, to why metadata is the real bottleneck, to the weird backlash against AI in academia open.substack.com/pub/blekhman...
Seven points on the current state of AI in genomics
A grounded take from the messy middle of an AI revolution
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#TalDíaComoHoy en 1988, a Patricia Bath se le otorga la patente por su tecnología que usa láser para eliminar cataratas, convirtiéndose en la primera mujer afroamericana en recibir una patente para un dispositivo médico. #WomenInSTEM
The authors take the mic. In this upcoming May 13 Journal Club Webinar, @ajhgnews.bsky.social’s paper authors Sara J Cromer, MD, MS, and David Conti, PhD, unpack what it takes to integrate PRS and SDoH across genetically and socially varied populations—LIVE: https://bit.ly/4chGKtr #ASHG
👀🧬🫀 ICYMI - updated data release from the OurHealth study of Cardiovascular Disease in South Asians now available on @anvilproject.org! anvilproject.org/releases/202... 1/
March 2026 Release - AnVIL Portal
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Funding for BGE sequencing and analyses are provided through the NIH-funded @prsmethods.bsky.social consortium For more information and how to apply for access, visit primedconsortium.org/research/our... 3/
OurHealth study | PRIMED Consortium
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This week on The Genetics Podcast, @andganna.bsky.social joined host Patrick Short to discuss advances in genetics and data-driven medicine, including the the promise and limits of polygenic risk scores for disease prediction and clinical trials. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/e...
