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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 28/09/2026

For his “ground-breaking contributions to #MolecularBiotechnology and #genomics, in particular the development of #SpatialTranscriptomics”, Joakim Lundeberg (SciLifeLab/KTH) is awarded the @scienceacademyswe.bsky.social Gold Medal 2026! 🧪 More ↓ www.iva.se/en/published...

Joakim Lundeberg close to the camera with blurry office environment and lab space with yellow walls in the background.

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 16/09/2026

Today, we were honored to welcome Nobel laureate Stefan Hell 🧪 “I hear Stefan speak about his research once a year, and I’m always amazed how much has happened,” says SciLifeLab Director Jan Ellenberg. Hell received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Stefan Hell smiling, standing in front of a crowd and giving a talk. Blurry people in the foreground.

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 27/08/2026

Are you working across biological scales, exploring how #ecosystems respond to global change, developing more #SustainableFood systems, or addressing #biodiversity loss? 🧪 Check out the great line-up of invited speakers and join us to share your work, exchange ideas and be part of the discussion!

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 27/08/2026

🧪 Speakers such as 🔸@arimolofskylab.bsky.social, @uofcalifornia.bsky.social 🔸@bergerslab.bsky.social, @vib-ccb.bsky.social 🔸José Ignacio Martín-Subero, @icreacommunity.bsky.social & @idibaps.bsky.social 🔸@bb-lab.bsky.social, University of Zurich & @ethz.ch More ↓ www.scilifelab.se/event/scilif...

Information about the keynote speakers at the Science Summit 2026 event. Pictured are speakers ↓
Ari Molofsky, University of California, San Francisco, US.
Gabriele Bergers, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology
José Ignacio Martín-Subero, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS)
Bernd Bodenmiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 19/08/2026

“You get some ideas about what people can do and how difficult it is ... It’s harder than it looks when you’re sitting at a conference and someone talks about what they’ve done,” says participant & research engineer Anton Sellerberg. 🧪

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 19/08/2026

"Structural biology is developing into more and more integration between techniques and therefore networking is crucial”, says Cecilia Persson, Platform Coordination Officer at the SciLifeLab Integrated Structural Biology Platform and organizer of the course. 🧪

Cecilia Persson is standing at a slight distance and looks into the camera. In the foreground, two persons she is standing together with are out of focused due to shallow depth of field.

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 25/05/2026

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

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 18/05/2026

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...

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 21/04/2026

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...

Julia Fernandez Rodriguez, Platform Scientific Director, and Rafael Camacho, Head of Unit, at the SciLifeLab Integrated Microscopy Technologies unit in Gothenburg. The two scientists are in a dark room with several screens showing microscopy images. Rafael points to one of the screens, at which both are looking.

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 17/04/2026

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-...

Group photo of around 40 SciLifeLab Data Centre members in front of red houses with white corners.

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 13/04/2026

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 🧪🎥↓

Split image with close-up portraits of Ulrika Warpman Berglund and Ulf Landegren, while giving their talks "Driving Innovation from the Lab to Patient Impact" and "Tools for Molecular Medicine"

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 31/03/2026

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

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 12/03/2026

(1/2) To study #SeasonalAdaptation, @mafaldaferreira.bsky.social (SciLifeLab / @stockholm-uni.bsky.social) do #fieldwork in remote parts of the world, measure color of specimens in museum collections and work in the wet lab and do computational work. ↓ 🖥️🧬🧪🌍 youtu.be/llCvotNH5to

SciLifeLab Fellow and Stockholm University researcher Mafalda Ferreira and PhD student Maja Svedberg photograph museum specimens of ptarmigans, to understand how they change colors. Visible: the two researchers are photographed from behind, when Mafalda Ferreira is setting up the camera that is standing on a tripod in a white photo tent.

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 13/02/2026

🧪 In two new studies on 28,000 individuals, researchers are able to show how 11 genetic variants affect gut microbiome. @tovefall.bsky.social (SciLifeLab/@uu.se) led one of the studies. Learn more in the Uppsala University press release here: www.mynewsdesk.com/uu/pressrele...

Portrait of Tove Fall, SciLifeLab Group Leader and Uppsala University Professor, with greenery all around.

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 15/12/2025

Our call for 27 PULSE #postdocs is OPEN! PhD within the last 3 years looking to grow your life science career? SciLifeLab PULSE (MSCA Cofund) offers 3-year postdoc fellowships at Swedish universities with academic & industry secondments 🧪 🖥️ 🧬 📅 Apply Dec 15, 2025-Mar 16, 2026 👉 bit.ly/3MD7Pwz

A photo of a researcher looking into a microscope. On top of the photo, a text reading: "Apply now to the SciLifeLab PULSE Postdoc program. Application period open: December 15, 2025–March 16, 2026" and two logotypes: SciLifeLab's, and a version of the EU logotype reading "Co-funded by the European Union"

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 27/11/2025

Researchers from e.g. SciLifeLab & @embl.org have visualized, in unprecedented detail, how a large #RNA molecule assembles itself into a functional machine, revealing a dynamic choreography that helps better understand structural folding and misfolding. 🧪 More ↓ www.scilifelab.se/news/rna-in-...

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 20/11/2025

Top three tips on using Human Protein Atlas data, from SciLifeLab PhD students @buenoalvez.bsky.social , Josefin Kenrick, Emil Johansson, Manolis Apostolakis who recently held a bioinformatics workshop at the @hupo-org.bsky.social World Congress! 🧪 @proteinatlas.bsky.social #Proteomics

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 28/08/2025

All 2,593 reference assemblies for #Arthropoda available on NCBI can be found in the Kraken2 database in the SciLifeLab Data Repository: doi.org/10.17044/sci... 🧪🖥️🧬🌍⚒️ #metagenomics #evolutionarybiology #bioinformatics #computationalbiology @sam-siwatlaali.bsky.social @tvdvalk.bsky.social

Illustration of screens and a book with various arthropods, generated by AI.

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 26/08/2025

What happens when a species becomes isolated and inbred, and how can #DNAsequencing help conservationists make better decisions? In Ep3 of our series, we explore how #genomics research is used to better understand the #endangered #CloudedApollo butterfly 🌍🧪🧬 Watch ↓ www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bNT...

Illustration of clouded apollo butterfly on a double helix, blue colored tones, and the text "the DNA of survival"

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 13/08/2025

Reproducible signals in #Alzheimers disease identified in landmark #proteomics study—from @neuroproteome.bsky.social in @natmed.nature.com 🧪 “In memory clinics, they could help pinpoint the underlying disease when symptoms are unclear” says Jacob Vogel ↓ www.scilifelab.se/news/buildin...

Montage of colorful illustration of neurons in Alzheimer's disease, and a portrait of co-author Jacob Vogel, fellow at SciLifeLab based at Lund University.

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 27/06/2025

Ep2: We take a look at the wider #biodiversity crisis and the vital ecological roles butterflies play. 🌍🧪 ▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=tTcqzUlwLsE 💬 Mariana Pires Braga, @jhog.bsky.social‬, Niclas Backström @uu.se @animecol-uu.bsky.social @evobiouppsala.bsky.social #EvoSKy #Conservation #ClimateChange

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 26/06/2025

Hear more about the weird—sorry, different—life history of the clouded apollo butterfly from Niclas Backström (@uu.se / @evobiouppsala.bsky.social) on YouTube! 🌍🧪 ↓ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObOH... #EvoSKy #EvoBio #Conservation #BioDiversity #Ecology #Butterflies

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 25/06/2025

🦋 The #CloudedApollo is disappearing – but scientists and conservationists are stepping in to help. 🌍🧪 Episode 1 of our new mini-documentary is out now! 🎬 ▶️ Watch Episode 1 here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObOH... #EvoSKy #EvoBio #Conservation #BioDiversity

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 18/06/2025

What does belonging in STEM look like – and who gets to decide? This question sparked Code Couture: Breaking the STEM Dress Code, a visual arts project that explores how gender, appearance, and clothing intersect with perceptions of credibility and inclusion in science and tech. 🧪 #NonBinaryInSTEM

Collages from Code Couture: Breaking the STEM Dress Code, a visual arts project that explores how gender, appearance, and clothing intersect with perceptions of credibility and inclusion in science and tech.

People from a distance at the FemTech + Feminist Tech Exhibition at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, where Code Couture: Breaking the STEM Dress Code project was displayed

Quotes from the exhibition printed on small papers and laid out on a off-white surface

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 05/06/2025

Matthias Zepper & @phd-council.bsky.social recently organized a photography workshop. 🧪📸 “It was rewarding to see the participants bring their scientific mindset, including patience and curiosity, and apply it to photography” says Matthias Zepper, bioinformatician at @scilifelab-ngi.bsky.social

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 22/05/2025

🌱 On this year’s #BiodiversityDay, five SciLifeLab researchers share how their work is helping us better understand – and protect – the living world around us. 🧪🌏 Full article ↓ www.scilifelab.se/news/scilife...

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 13/05/2025

(1/2) The world’s smallest Dala horse! 🧪 What happens when you combine an #ElectronMicroscope with an artist's vision? At UCEM, a SciLifeLab unit at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social, the tiny Dala horse was created using a FIB-SEM. Photos: Erik Olof Wiklund, Nils Hauff, Mattias Pettersson. #FIBSEM

Artist Erik Olof Wiklund, student at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, has together with staff scientist Nils Hauff pushed the boundaries of both technology and imagination – creating the world’s smallest Dala horse, the same size as a human red blood cell.

Artist Erik Olof Wiklund, student at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, watch images of the Dala horse together with staff scientist Nils Hauff

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 29/04/2025

“Drug safety evaluation is a difficult process, and AI-driven solutions help make things happen,” says @ospjuth.bsky.social, SciLifeLab #AI Lead and @uu.se professor, about his newly founded company working with automated microscopy and AI-based image analysis ↓🧪🖥️ www.uu.se/en/news/2025...

Ola Spjuth standing in a colorful room lookin into the camera

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 28/04/2025

(1/2) “It’s fantastic that all this expertise exists in Sweden and I’m thrilled to have brought this team together” says @delemottelab.bsky.social who leads a project with researchers from 5 universities, aiming to develop a new strategy for designing drug molecules targeting #IonChannels 🧪 #MolBiol

SciLifeLab researcher and KTH Professor Lucie Delemotte sitts behind a microscope.

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 25/02/2025

On the latest episode of the Flot.bio podcast, Mathias Uhlén, SciLifeLab Founding Director, joins Philip Hemme to discuss the power of an entrepreneurial mindset in academia and how AI is shaping the future of biology. 🧪🤖 Listen now on YouTube, Spotify of Apple podcasts (link in thread)!

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 14/02/2025

“We love #microscopy and thanks to the infrastructures at SciLifeLab we can develop new methods and establish original views on human #CellBiology” says Bennie Lemmens (SciLifeLab & @ki.se) 🧪 Image: #SuperResolutionMicroscopy image of replicating human epithelial cell with two nascent #DNA labels

The image shows a microscopy image of a replicating human epithelial cell with two different nascent DNA labels in cyan and magenta, which was imaged with super resolution microscopy (3D-SIM) at the SciLifeLab Advanced Light Microscopy unit.

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 21/01/2025

#AI Virtual Cells could revolutionize biological science ↓🧪 Biology and #ArtificialIntelligence are coming together to change the way we do biological science, writes Stanford/SciLifeLab/KTH researcher Emma Lundberg & colleagues in a @cp-cell.bsky.social perspective article #AI #WomenInSTEM

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 13/12/2024

Erik Lindahl is the new director of Sweden’s #supercomputer infrastructure #NAISS 🧪🖥️🧬 SciLifeLab researcher @eriklindahl.bsky.social (Stockholm University/KTH) is also moving some of his operations to Linköping University. More at www.linkedin.com/posts/scilif... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 12/12/2024

In this interview, Professor Thomas Sakmar from @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social shares his views on infrastructures like SciLifeLab & how #technology drives progress in #LifeScience 🧪 Longer video: www.linkedin.com/company/scil...

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 03/12/2024

“It was an empowering moment when I received the news. Being accepted as part of such a vibrant community felt like … a significant achievement that comes with great responsibility” says @sciezgin.bsky.social (SciLifeLab/KI) after being elected member of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme 🧪

close-up portrait of Erdinc Sezgin with blurry dark greenery in the background.

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 26/11/2024

Calling Recent PhDs! The PULSE postdoc program at SciLifeLab is opening soon, matchmaking portfolio now published! 🧪🌍🖥️🧬 The program welcomes researchers from all over the world – 48 in total, in an academic and an entrepreneurial track. #MolBiol #AcademicSky #PlantSciJobs

The face and upper body of a young scientist in bright laboratory environment. In the foreground: a blurry out of focus vial with red liquid.

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 20/11/2024

Three cameras captured everything – from testing out the squeeze method of preparing a sponge to troubleshooting a low yield, to the celebration of samples passing the first quality assurance step. All groups were in the end successful in preparing the organisms for #sequencing🌾🧪🌍🧬 #PlantGenomics

Scientist with blue gloves and a GoPro in harness on her chest sitting on a chair in a white lab environement. The scientist has dark har in a hair scrunchie and is surrounded by other scientists with white lab coats.

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 20/11/2024

The #Biodiversity #Genomics #Europe consortium and SciLifeLab held its first course in preparing Hi-C libraries. The entire course was filmed and will be openly available to anyone once produced 🔓🧪🌾🌍🧬 www.scilifelab.se/news/changin... #ERGA #sequencing #Genome #OpenAccess

GoPro photographed from behind. The screen on the GoPro shows that a scientist with white labcoat and blue gloves is being filmed while holding lab equipment, preparing some sort of sample. It is hard to tell exactly what the scientist is doing.

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 19/11/2024

“For an organ that ‘starts to do its job’ with a newborn's first breath, it looks intricately sophisticated. And it looks stunningly beautiful” says @burcuayoglu.bsky.social 🧪 More ↓ www.scilifelab.se/news/new-stu... #MolBiol #PCCM #Microscopy

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 18/11/2024

That did not go too well, did it? Here's a map you can hopefully see the platform names on 🙈

Map of Sweden and the name of ten platforms with lines shooting across the map to illustrate where the platforms are located in the country. The lines are busy and hard to tell where exactly they are leading to, the illustration rather shows that the platforms are located across Sweden. The ten platform names are: Bioinformatics, Genomics, Clinical Genomics, Clinical Proteomics & Immunology, Metabolomics, Spatial Biology, Cellular and Molecular Imaging, Integrated Structural Biology, Chemical Biology and Genomce Engineering, Drug Discovery and Development

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 18/11/2024

As Sweden's National Infrastructure for Molecular Life Sciences, SciLifeLab aims to:

Five goals are listed with an icon illustrating each. The goals are: Develop and provide excellent life science infrastructure; strengthen scientific communities, capabilities, and international collaborations; Transform life science data into knowledge; attract and foster scientific excellence and provide advanced training; support innovation and bridge-building for the benefit of society. The icons are: a wrench; test tubes; data servers; a brain with cogwheels; a light bulb.

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 18/11/2024

Our research community consists of more than 300 affiliated group leaders. We currently have two fellows programs and an upcoming postdoc program recruiting 48 postdocs.

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 18/11/2024

In 2022, SciLifeLab supported about 100 international users.

A world map with some regions colored teal and some colored grey and the text "~100 international users. In 2022, projects from Asia, Africa, Europe, Oceania, North America and South America.

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 18/11/2024

Our over 600 staff scientists provide expertise, user guidance and technology development. #WomenInSTEM

Barely visible dark microscope in the background. A text says "In 2023, SciLifeLab employed 631 infrastructure personnel. 52% women 48% men"

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 18/11/2024

The infrastructure contributed to 891 scientific publications in 2023. On top of this, researchers affiliated to SciLifeLab published a bunch of articles.

Research instrument with needles, an automated patch clamp, in the background. A text says "and contributed to 891 scientific publications"

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 18/11/2024

Dedicated staff scientists can offer support throughout the experimental process – from study design to data handling. 🖥️ Most of our technologies can be used to address questions in a range of life science disciplines, such as #PrecisionMedicine, #ecosystem surveillance and #EvolutionaryBiology.

Darkened background with green gloves grabbing a test tube among a many test tubes. A text is placed on top of the image that says "The SciLifeLab infrastructure supported 4300 research projects in 2023"

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 18/11/2024

Our 10 platforms with 40 units enable the endeavors of users from academia, industry and health care.

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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 18/11/2024

Hey Bluesky! Given that we are new here, we thought an introduction might be in place. So, what is SciLifeLab? In short, we are a nonprofit research infrastructure based in Sweden, enabling life science research that would otherwise not be possible. 🧪🌍🖥️🧬

Scientist with short dark hair and green gloves holding a pipette in a busy laboratory full of lab equipment

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