The human genome contains 3 billion bases. Reading them all, in the right order, is one of the greatest challenges in modern biology. For decades, Illumina ruled genomics: precise, cheap, scalable. But with one major blind spot it reads fragments of just ~150 bases at a time.

Chronic inflammation increases the risk of colon cancer. This inflammation drives epigenetic changes in the nucleus of stem cells that promote tumour formation go.nature.com/4bLQMl0

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Chronic inflammation increases the risk of colon cancer. This inflammation drives epigenetic changes in the nucleus of stem cells that promote tumour formation.

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From AlphaGo’s “Move 37” to AlphaFold, and now systems like AlphaProof and AlphaEvolve: in just a decade, AI has moved from defeating human champions to contributing to science, mathematics, and code optimisation. #AlphaGo #AI

🚀 New resource for epigenomics! UCSC Genome Browser released the Human Methylation Atlas tracks (hg38 & hg19). 🔬 Genome-wide DNA methylation 🧬 39 cell types 🧑‍🔬 205 healthy samples 👉 genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/n... #Genomics #Epigenomics #DNAme #UCS @genomebrowser.bsky.social

Imagine having this in your kitchen or your school science room. 🧬 Bento Lab is a full PCR + centrifuge + gel electrophoresis kit in one portable box. As a uni researcher, I call this a very cool toy. bento.bio/product/bento-lab @bento.bio

🧬 GW — a new ultra-fast genome browser for chromosome-scale visualisation in @natmethods.nature.com Unlike IGV, it handles megabase-scale regions with ease. SV analysis with long-read sequencing! 🔬 nature.com/articles/s41592-025-02749-5 #Genomics #Nanopore #StructuralVariants

GW: ultra-fast chromosome-scale visualization of genomics data - Nature Methods

Nature Methods - GW: ultra-fast chromosome-scale visualization of genomics data

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