📢 Upcoming Seminar | Join us for our #seminar tomorrow, with Dr. @timcoorens.bsky.social, from @ebi.embl.org. 🤝 Hosted by Dr. @nlbigas.bsky.social (@bbglab.bsky.social, #IRBBarcelona) ➡️ https://shorturl.at/g5Kxz

Welcome @timcoorens.bsky.social ‪ ‬🇳🇱, our new Research Group Leader. Find out how Tim’s group is exploring using large-scale single-cell and spatial data to trace cell lineages, understand cancer origins, and uncover how mutations drive disease. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/p... 🖥️🧬

Welcome: Tim Coorens

EMBL-EBI’s newest Research Group Leader is investigating how somatic mutations reveal the hidden histories of human cells.

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The cells in our bodies constantly acquire mutations. But what are the patterns of mutations across tissues? How do mutations in normal cells lead to cancer and disease? These are questions we will tackle within the Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues (SMaHT) Network, now described in @nature.com

The Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues Network - Nature

The Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues Network aims to create a reference catalogue of somatic mosaicism across different tissues and cells within individuals.

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Upcoming #CiMUSseminar on Monday ⤵️ 🗣 Dr. @timcoorens.bsky.social from @ebi.embl.org : 🧪 "Somatic mutations across normal tissues: past, present, future" 📅 June 30, 1 PM 📍 Theatre room, CiMUS #RedeCiGUS #FondosEuropeos ‪@mobilegenomes.bsky.social‬ @usc.gal ‪

🚨Chemo treatment upgrade!🚨 Check out our approach to modernise chemotherapy treatment published today in @natgenet.nature.com. From @cniostopcancer.bsky.social #TailorBio @cruk-ci.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... More details 👇

Social media grump Kamila has finally made it onto Bluesky! Please check out my new perspective on metastasis evolution in @natrevcancer.nature.com if you need a reprieve from the news. I tried my best to develop some new conceptual thoughts here, you be the judge whether I succeeded.

Nature Reviews Cancer@natrevcancer.nature.com · last yr.

🚨 PERSEPCTIVE Naxerova explains how genetic analysis of primary tumors & metastases can distinguish competing metastasis models, arguing that quantifying whether metastasis occurs through nonrandom lineage selection could offer insights into metastasis biology. 📖 👇

If you’ve ever wondered about the statistical significance of differences among mutational signature profiles, check out our new Aggregate Mutation Spectrum Distance (AMSD) preprint co-led by Sam Hart and @alisonfeder.bsky.social with @nalcala.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

A signature-agnostic test for differences between tumor mutation spectra reveals carcinogen and ancestry effects

Mutational signatures contain valuable information about the mutational processes shaping cancer genomes. However, despite dozens of tools to identify signatures in cancer samples, there is not an est...

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Keeping you in the loop! ➰ Our Linktree includes all SMaHT websites and social media accounts for easy and consistent access. Find all our social media accounts in one place: linktr.ee/smahtnetwork

Thrilled to see my #MITS25 talk brought to life by the brilliant 🎨 @atjcagan.bsky.social! Dive into the stellar science from @g-agarwal.bsky.social & co - fresh on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Genomics #SomaticEvolution

Read ‘The somatic mutation landscape of normal gastric epithelium’ from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social, @broadinstitute.org, The University of Hong Kong & others in @nature.com ⤵️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The somatic mutation landscape of normal gastric epithelium - Nature

Whole-gene sequencing of microdissected gastric glands from individuals with and without gastric cancer reveals distinct patterns of somatic mutations and provides insights into influen...

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The stomach is an organ unique in its function, environment and exposures. How does this affect the mutations that normal cells in the stomach acquire? What does this reveal about the origins of stomach cancer? These questions and more in our @nature.com paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The somatic mutation landscape of normal gastric epithelium - Nature

Whole-gene sequencing of microdissected gastric glands from individuals with and without gastric cancer reveals distinct patterns of somatic mutations and provides insights into influen...

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Excited to share our new preprint demonstrating somatic rescue mutations in a genetic liver disease! [1/12] www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Selection for somatic escape variants in SERPINA1 in the liver of patients with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency - Nature Genetics

The expansion of clones with distinct SERPINA1 somatic mutants in the livers of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (A1AT) patients is consistent with convergent evolution. These variants interfere with th...

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@timcoorens.bsky.social diving into the Bostonian wing of the SMaHT program (a.k.a. 'wicked SMaHT), detailing new sequencing solution for ultra high accuracy duplex sequencing, essential for detecting somatic variation #AGBTgm

Awesome talk by @timcoorens.bsky.social on the detection and interpretation of somatic mutations. Now hiring postdocs! #AGBT25 | #AGBTGM

First large-scale analysis of chemical toxicity in primary human hepatocytes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cell Painting for cytotoxicity and mode-of-action analysis in primary human hepatocytes

High-throughput, human-relevant approaches for predicting chemical toxicity are urgently needed for better decision-making in human health. Here, we apply image-based profiling (the Cell Painting assa...

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Building on our discovery of #LesionSegregation, @mikespencerchapman.bsky.social and colleagues from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social find that some DNA lesions can persist in humans for months or years! "Prolonged persistence of mutagenic DNA lesions in somatic cells" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Prolonged persistence of mutagenic DNA lesions in somatic cells - Nature

Persistent DNA lesions can occur throughout the human lifespan and can remain in the genome of affected cells for several years and generate a substantial proportion of the mutational burden.

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Our new perspective article describing the human and non-human primate developmental GTEx projects is now out in @nature.com! We outline the scope, vision, opportunities and challenges of these projects here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The human and non-human primate developmental GTEx projects - Nature

The developmental Genotype-Tissue Expression (dGTEx) projects will catalogue and integrate gene expression, regulation and genetics data across 120 human donors from birth to adulthood with developmen...

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The abstract deadline for "Mutations in Time and Space 2025" is in a week! Please register here: broadinstitute.swoogo.com/mits2025

Spread the word! Registration for the "Mutations in Time and Space" conference is open. The meeting is all about the origins, patterns, and consequences of mutations across cells, individuals, populations, species. Abstract submission deadline is Jan 17th broadinstitute.swoogo.com/mits2025/597...

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