SciLifeLab
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🇸🇪 Sweden's national center for molecular biosciences 👩🔬 Infrastructure with unique technologies and expertise 👥 Research community 🥼 Life science 🌱 💻 Often data-driven https://www.scilifelab.se/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/scilifelab/
16 new Swedish funders are now represented in the #OpenAIREGraph. Connecting funding with #publications, #datasets, and #software helps create a more complete picture of research activity. 🔗 See how we worked with @scilifelab.se to make it happen shorturl.at/CswoS
🔝 What great news! 🥇Professor @tuuliel.bsky.social (@nygenome.org, @scilifelab.se) has received the prestigious European Society of Human Genetics Award Really proud of this well-deserved recognition of a member of our Scientific Advisory Board at CNAG #ESH2026 #ESHG @eshg.bsky.social
FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS: Tamina Weiss, inspired by previous data from @ppagella86.bsky.social found that beta-catenin is more than an adaptor protein downstream of #WNT It is an orchestrator that scouts and opens enhancers for transcriptional activation @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 2mo agoEnhancer pioneering activity of Wnt/β-catenin signaling https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.12.731851v1
Hepatoblastoma is a nasty childhood liver cancer driven by mutant β-catenin How tumor cells get different and more or less aggressive? We found this out w Peng & Thomas from the Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology & @annanordin.bsky.social @liu.se @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Differential Wnt/β-catenin signaling via TCF7L2/LEF1 binding specificity shapes cellular and tumor phenotypes | PNAS
The mechanisms by which Wnt/β-catenin signaling regulates gene expression in a tissue- and context-specific manner remain poorly understood, limiti...
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After #sailing to #Antarctica through the world’s harshest waters, Jean Hausser (SciLifeLab/@ki.se) releases a book about his journey and #leadership lessons 🧪 Hear about freezing temperatures, teamwork under pressure, and the mental clarity that comes from complete isolation: youtu.be/ZELWHhGq8jg
Sailing the world’s harshest waters to Antarctica – Jean Hausser's learned self-leadership
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Ny forskning av @iskrapollak.bsky.social m fl visar att antidepressiva läkemedel påverkar olika serotoninceller i hjärnan på olika sätt. Detta kan förklara varför biverkningar ofta uppstår i början av en behandling, medan förbättringen kommer först senare. @scilifelab.se www.su.se/enheter/inst...
My collaborator @ospjuth.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc in cell biology to work on CRISPR perturbation and high-content imaging as part of our TIMED NEST project. Amazing team, please share! For information on how to apply, see the ad below: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... #chemsky #chemjobs
Postdoc in Cell Biology – CRISPR Perturbation and High-Content Imaging - Uppsala University
Postdoc in Cell Biology – CRISPR Perturbation and High-Content Imaging, Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University
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Despite the prize money, what most winners highlight each year is the week in Stockholm. Here, they get to see the city during Nobel week and mingle with the laureates, get to see some cool instruments at SciLifeLab and meet with high-level researchers in their fields. 🧪 youtu.be/HJzPbuP8xvE
The future of life science: insights from the Science & SciLifeLab Prize 2025 winners
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FINAL CALL! Register by the end of May to this year's edition 23-26 June 2026 Focus will OMICS data integration, with hands-on computation🧬 💻 Check out the program and your stellar teachers: www.trippus.net/summerschool... @scilifelab.se @kawresearch.bsky.social @remeseiro-lab.bsky.social
Summer School 2026
Come to this beautiful Swedish inland scenario to learn the most advanced technologies to study transcriptional regulation.
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Claudio Cantù@claudiocantu81.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe PALS Summer School in Transcriptomics, I promise, will be a unique experience www.trippus.net/summerschool... 23-26 June 2026 in a hidden Swedish paradise 🇸🇪🫎 We have extended the deadline to May 15 or until availability @scilifelab.se @kawresearch.bsky.social @remeseiro-lab.bsky.social
High school students will help the Andermann group (SciLifeLab/@uu.se) collect #environmentalDNA, to investigate the #biodiversity composition of forests 🧪🌍 Help a scientist (Forskarhjälpen) is funded by @strategiska.bsky.social, under the auspices of the @nobelprize.org museum. #CitizenScience
'Acting locally for global impact' is this year’s theme for International Day for #BiologicalDiversity 🧪🌍 So, we thought we would highlight efforts and research you might have missed – from short articles to longer videos ↓ www.linkedin.com/pulse/scilif... #BiodiversityDay #IDB2026 #biodiversity
The SciLifeLab Snapshot #2 - Exploring biological diversity
“Acting locally for global impact” is the theme for this year’s International Day for Biological Diversity. “Major changes begin on a small, local scale.
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How did the Atlantic herring adapt to brackish water? 🧪🌍🐟 A Leif Andersson (SciLifeLab/@uu.se) led study finds that mutations in four specific genes were particularly important. Learn more in the UU press release ↓ www.uu.se/en/press/pre...
I'm coming to Stockholm! I'll be at @scilifelab.se, hosted by Xesùs Abalo and Eduardo Sagredo. If you're around, please come say hi! 😊 www.scilifelab.se/event/the-go...
The good life of a science editor
Dr. Alejandro Montenegro-Montero, Executive Editor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Abstract Editors at scientific journals occupy a unique position at the interface between research, communicat...
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@scilifelab.se & OpenAIRE built a co-created monitor that turns fragmented data into a connected view of research. 🔹 publications, data & software linked 🔹 built through real collaboration 🔗 www.openaire.eu/how-scilifel... #OpenScience #ResearchIntelligence #EOSC
🧪 How do receptors tell apart signaling molecules that look almost identical, like adrenaline and dopamine? Researchers at SciLifeLab and Uppsala University, have mapped how this selectivity works at the molecular level, read more: www.scilifelab.se/news/sheddin...
Shedding light on receptor selectivity: “one of the most comprehensive projects in my entire scientific career”
Researchers have shown how receptors selectively recognize chemical messengers, insights that could guide protein engineering and drug design going forward.
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🧪 NanoSIMS Sweden at the University of Gothenburg is now part of SciLifeLab. The facility provides nanoscale mass spectrometry imaging to map elements, isotopes, and molecules at very high resolution. It is the only facility of its kind in the Nordic region. www.scilifelab.se/news/new-uni...
New units presentation: NanoSIMS Sweden
NanoSIMS Sweden, based at the University of Gothenburg, is now part of SciLifeLab through the Cell and Molecular Imaging (CMI) platform. The facility provides access to nanoscale mass spectrometry…
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🧪 Integrating multi-omics data reveals hidden risk in childhood leukemia. Researchers identified a subgroup that appears low risk but has a higher relapse risk when combining drug response and DNA methylation data. A step toward more precise patient stratification. www.scilifelab.se/news/integra...
How can modeling and #AI help build predictive, cell-scale theoretical frameworks? CB@S – a one-day symposium on AI-driven modeling & the future of #CellBiology. 📍 Stockholm, Sweden. 📅 June 3, 2026 🤝 Co-hosted by SciLifeLab and @biohub.org Info & registration ↓ www.scilifelab.se/event/cell-b...
“We make sure that the hospital and the research infrastructure are fully connected, especially when it comes to handling small biopsies and preserving viable cells” says Ghazaleh Assadi at Karolinska University Hospital. 🧪 #multiomics Q&A ↓ www.scilifelab.se/news/where-p... @ki.se
Where precision medicine begins: the sample
Here, we explore how the PMSC center addresses one of the most significant barriers in modern science: sample handling.
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Want to set up and maintain AI/ML services for the life science community? 🧪🖥️🧬 We are #Hiring up to 5 new team members for SciLifeLab Data Centre. 📃Employed by @uu.se 📍Work in Stockholm or Uppsala. #MachineLearning #SystemsDevelopment #AIengineering More ⬇️ www.scilifelab.se/career/data-...
How do we turn groundbreaking research into real-world solutions? This was the central theme when our PULSE postdocs got to meet two veteran innovators who shared their journeys in commercializing #LifeScience research 🧪🎥↓
We stumbled upon an unusual gene called 'rqua' in the genome of some freshwater sponges. In microbes, this gene confers the ability to make a ubiquinone analog - rhodoquinone - which can help the respiratory chain run without oxygen.
Prof David Drew and colleagues at Stockholm University and @scilifelab.se uncover how glucose transporters achieve specificity, bridging a long-standing gap between structure and function in membrane biology. The study is published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. www.su.se/english/divi...
After 3 great years with a fantastic consortium, the funded @paradise-project.bsky.social project ends with an excellent meeting in @scilifelab.se. Thanks to hosts Peter Nilsson, Elisa Pin and Lotta Prager. The concept of relapse prediction in AAV and the PARADISE consortium live on! #vasculitis
Still cannot fully believe it, but today is officially my first day as a PI at @scilifelab.se and Stockholm University! The lab is open, time to fill it with science.. #newPI
Applications open for the @science.org & SciLifeLab Prize For Young Scientists 2026! 🧪 Have you recently finished your #LifeScience #PhD? How would you like $30,000 USD and having your thesis essay published in Science Magazine? Learn more and apply ↓ 🌍🖥️🧬⚒️ scienceprize.scilifelab.se
Did you see?? 👀 We're on the ROR blog! We teamed up with @scilifelab.se to link their ROR ID to 16,500+ articles in our corpus, making years of supported research more discoverable! Read all about it here: ror.org/blog/2026-03... #OpenScience #OpenMetadata
Research Organization Registry (ROR) 🦁@ror.org · 4mo agoIn @EuropePmc.org's latest admirable use of ROR, they've partnered with @SciLifeLab.se to make over fifteen years' worth of SciLifeLab-supported research discoverable. Read more on the ROR blog. doi.org/10.71938/swy...
New atlas shows how adult brain cells retain traces of their development. 🧪 “For this #SingleCell #epigenomic mapping of the human brain, extensive #DNAsequencing was required,” says @gocastelobranco.bsky.social More here ↓ www.scilifelab.se/news/new-atl...
New atlas shows how adult brain cells retain traces of their development
A new study from Karolinska Institutet and SciLifeLab presents a detailed map of how gene activity is regulated in individual cells of the adult human brain and spinal cord. Published in Nature Neuros...
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