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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬

@carmonation.bsky.social
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Computational biologist, associate professor at University of Geneva, Department of Pathology and Immunology. Single-cell omics, bio data science, immunology & cancer research

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Paul Thomas @pgtimmune.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
TCR specificity prediction is advancing rapidly. The central question is not only which TCR sequence recognizes an antigen, but also which TCR pairings make recognition possible & where is the binding boundary? Our new paper tackles these questions. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Uneven TCR chain pairing constraints govern epitope recognition
Combinatorial pairing of independently recombined T cell receptor (TCR) α- and β-chains is central to diversifying the TCR repertoire. Although sequence motifs in one chain correlate with epitope reco...
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Latest preprint from the lab! Evaluating cell type annotations in single-cell omics in the absence of ground truth www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Evaluating cell type annotations in single-cell omics in the absence of ground truth
Accurate cell type annotation is essential for single-cell transcriptomics, directly shaping downstream analyses and biological interpretations. Yet, objective evaluation of annotation quality remains...
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
KLRG1 identifies circulating cytotoxic CD4 T cells with selective anti-tumor function in human cancer @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @carmonation.bsky.social
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Cell type composition drives patient stratification in single-cell RNA-seq cohorts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
One month to go! For 30 more days, you will be able to register and present in a session whose whole premise is to give Postdocs the opportunity to ramble about their very particular niche. Register. Participate. Go for it! RT appreciated 🐟🧪
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
UCell (v2) and pyUCell: single-cell gene signature scoring for R and Python. We discuss updates and key parameters academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
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UCell and pyUCell: single-cell gene signature scoring for R and python
AbstractSummary. Gene signature scoring provides a simple yet powerful approach for quantifying biological signals within single-cell omics datasets. UCell
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Atomically accurate de novo design of antibodies with RFdiffusion www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Atomically accurate de novo design of antibodies with RFdiffusion - Nature
The combination of computational design, laboratory-based screening and biophysical validation enables the de novo generation of variable heavy-chain antibody fragments and antibodies that precis...
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Tumour-reactive heterotypic CD8 T cell multiplets from clinical samples www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Tumour-reactive heterotypic CD8 T cell clusters from clinical samples - Nature
Tumour-reactive CD8+ T cells are enriched in functional clusters with tumour cells and/or antigen-presenting cells and can be isolated and expanded from clinical samples.
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
@natrevimmunol.nature.com Guidelines for T cell nomenclature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
beautiful work, contrats!!
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David Gfeller @dgfeller.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Very happy to share our latest manuscript about TCR-epitope recognition specificity: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Cool paper on scRNA T cell annotation. However, a note for ProjecTILs users: I wouldn’t rely on the ProjecTILs benchmark in this work, as it was run using a mouse reference map to classify human T cells (even though human CD4/CD8 T cell maps are available github.com/carmonalab/P...)
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GitHub - carmonalab/ProjecTILs: Interpretation of cell states using reference single-cell maps
Interpretation of cell states using reference single-cell maps - carmonalab/ProjecTILs
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Your favourite single-cell gene signature scoring method now in Python #scverse and much faster! pypi.org/project/pyuc...
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Client Challenge
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Saez-Rodriguez Group @saezlab.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Introducing ParTIpy, a python package for Pareto Task Inference that scales to large-scale datasets, including single-cell and spatial transcriptomics. 🔗 Manuscript: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 💻 Code: partipy.readthedocs.io
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Evaluating the practical aspects and performance of commercial single-cell RNA sequencing technologies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Evaluating the practical aspects and performance of commercial single-cell RNA sequencing technologies
The rapid development of updated and new commercially available single-cell transcriptomics platforms provides users with a range of experimental options. Cost, sensitivity, throughput, flexibility, a...
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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Mechanical confinement governs phenotypic plasticity in melanoma - Nature
Mechanical confinement of cancer cells at the tumour–microenvironment interface induces phenotype switching through chromatin remodelling by HMGB2, leading to a more invasive and drug-resistant state ...
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Communications Biology @commsbio.nature.com · 25/08/2025
A new review on the challenges of identifying cancer cells in single-cell data, summarizing current computational solutions as well as underexplored features of malignancy. From scientists ‪@sib.swiss‬ www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Identification of malignant cells in single-cell transcriptomics data - Communications Biology
This review article discusses the challenges of identifying cancer cells in single-cell data, summarizing current computational solutions as well as underexplored features of malignancy.
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Identifying malignant cells in single-cell transcriptomics data – from first principles to computational solutions, framed around the hallmarks of cancer www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Identification of malignant cells in single-cell transcriptomics data - Communications Biology
This review article discusses the challenges of identifying cancer cells in single-cell data, summarizing current computational solutions as well as underexplored features of malignancy.
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Mahdad Noursadeghi @mnoursad.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Interested in T cell immunity in TB? Check out our new pre-print on antigen-agnostic identification of generalisable human in vivo Mtb-reactive T cell responses: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... with @qimmuno.bsky.social & @innate2adaptive.bsky.social
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Evolution of T cell responses in the tuberculin skin test reveals generalisable Mtb-reactive T cell metaclones.
T cells contribute to immune protection and pathogenesis in tuberculosis, but measurements of polyclonal responses have failed to resolve correlates of outcome. We report the first temporal…
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Foundation Model Attributions Reveal Shared Inflammatory Program Across Diseases www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Foundation Model Attributions Reveal Shared Inflammatory Program Across Diseases
Determining a gene’s functional significance within a specific cellular context has long been a challenge. We introduce a framework for quantifying gene importance by leveraging attributions learned b...
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
📢 We have an open position at University of Geneva for a PhD student with CS/Math/Physics background to study adaptive immune responses using deep learning. If interested please contact me directly!
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Hannah Meyer @hannahvmeyer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Check out how we tackled one of the fundamental challenges in immunology, out today @cp-cellsystems.bsky.social: www.cell.com/cell-systems.... Our major innovations are BATCAVE and BATMAN, two new players to get us closer to solving TCR-pMHC predictions!
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T cell receptor cross-reactivity prediction improved by a comprehensive mutational scan database
Banerjee et al. present a comprehensive T cell receptor cross-reactivity database and a hierarchical Bayesian framework to predict T cell receptor targets. Together, they reveal structural and biochem...
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Thank you for supporting our project!
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Exciting, congrats!
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
AI-driven predictive biomarker discovery with contrastive learning to improve clinical trial outcomes: Cancer Cell www.cell.com/cancer-cell/...
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AI-driven predictive biomarker discovery with contrastive learning to improve clinical trial outcomes
Arango-Argoty et al. introduce the Predictive Biomarker Modeling Framework (PBMF), an AI-driven contrastive learning framework to identify putative predictive, rather than prognostic, biomarkers for c...
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Uri Alon @urialonlab.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Excited to share our new study revealing the intricate dynamics of pregnancy & postpartum physiology! We analyzed 40M lab tests from 300K pregnancies and 160K women (cross-sectional) and mapped week-by-week changes starting from preconception to months-long postpartum recovery.
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Juan Fuxman Bass @fuxmanlab.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Exited to share our recent work on TF isoforms! Amazing work by @kaiamattioli.bsky.social Luke Lambourne and Clarissa Santoso and many other collaborators.
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Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
scRepertoire 2: Enhanced and Efficient Toolkit for Single-Cell Immune Profiling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Damon May @the-dee-em.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The recent "Mal-ID" paper in Science diagnoses diseases from immune repertoires. But a powerful model like Mal-ID can learn differences between groups of immune repertoires that are unrelated to the diseases of interest. We explore these pitfalls in our eLetter response.
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Disease diagnostics using machine learning of B cell and T cell receptor sequences
Clinical diagnosis typically incorporates physical examination, patient history, various laboratory tests, and imaging studies but makes limited use of the human immune system’s own record of antigen ...
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Bo Wang @bowang87.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
🔥 Unveiling the Future of Genomics with Genome Language Models (gLMs)! 🔥 Our comprehensive review, "Transformers and genome language models," is finally published in Nature Machine Intelligence! ​ Link: nature.com/articles/s42...
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Transformers and genome language models - Nature Machine Intelligence
Micaela Consens et al. discuss and review the recent rise of transformer-based and large language models in genomics. They also highlight promising directions for genome language models beyond the tra...
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Comparison and evaluation of methods to infer gene regulatory networks from multimodal single-cell data | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Comparison and evaluation of methods to infer gene regulatory networks from multimodal single-cell data
Cells regulate their functions through gene expression, driven by a complex interplay of transcription factors and other regulatory mechanisms that together can be modeled as gene regulatory networks ...
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Great news, Congratulations!
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danapeer.bsky.social @danapeer.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
1) I am delighted to share a manuscript long in the making (7 years), elucidating the forces that shape metastatic adaptation PDAC using scRNA-seq across multiple organs from a rapid autopsy combined with a powerful new clonal phylogeny inference algorithm www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Transcriptomic plasticity is a hallmark of metastatic pancreatic cancer
Metastasis is the leading cause of cancer deaths; nonetheless, how tumor cells adapt to vastly different organ contexts is largely unknown. To investigate this question, we generated a transcriptomic ...
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Jeff Mold @jeffmold.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Cool www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Clonal dynamics and somatic evolution of haematopoiesis in mouse - Nature
Isolating and studying haematopoietic stem cells in young and aged mice demonstrates evolutionary processes related to blood production and provides a framework for interpreting future work using labo...
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Roychoudhuri Lab @roychoudhurilab.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Thrilled to share new work led by @jieyang437.bsky.social in the lab published today in @Nature. We find that Aspirin prevents metastasis by releasing T cells from immune suppression by platelet TXA2. @Cambridge_Uni @CRUKCamCentre rdcu.be/eci1U
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Alex Schier @schierlab.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The Biozentrum in Basel, Switzerland @biozentrum.unibas.ch welcomes students from all over the world. You can apply directly to individual labs or through our fellowship program. It is very similar to US programs. Rotations followed by choice of lab. www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/phd/internat...
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PhD Program - Biozentrum
PhD students can expect an extraordinary wealth of research expertise, a wide range of courses, intensive individual mentoring, an international community of researchers from over 40 countries and a l...
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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Here is our centralized Calls for PhD students at University of Geneva. lifesciencesphd.unige.ch
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University of Geneva - PhD School of Life Sciences | Welcome to the PhD School in Life Sciences at the Faculties of Medicine and Science
The University of Geneva Faculties of Medicine and Science join their forces to offer an outstanding study and research environment in Life Sciences. Highly motivated students with a Master’s degree o...
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Gracias, Fer! Te esperamos
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Thank you, Joana!!
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Thanks Máté!
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Thank you, Damian!
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Thanks, Josh!
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
We will soon be recruiting a postdoc (or experienced PhD candidate) with a strong quantitative background to work at the intersection of single-cell spatial transcriptomics, machine learning, and immuno-oncology. Please message me if you are interested
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I'm really excited to join the University of Geneva as associate professor. I look forward to expanding our research program in systems immunology within the Department of Pathology and Immunology and contributing to advance the Faculty's data science capabilities! JOB OPPORTUNITY👇
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Science Magazine @science.org · 26/02/2025
In a new Science study, researchers present ESM3, a protein language model that enables the programmed generation of protein structure and sequence in response to user prompts. Learn more: scim.ag/40l2z3J
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Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model
More than 3 billion years of evolution have produced an image of biology encoded into the space of natural proteins. Here, we show that language models trained at scale on evolutionary data can genera...
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Saez-Rodriguez Group @saezlab.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Applying LLMs to biomedical research today can go one of two ways: we either use a closed-source web app, or we get coding ourselves. Many researchers lack training for the latter, so their only choice is the former. We want to change that. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Graphical abstract of BioChatter
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Arc Institute @arcinstitute.org · 25/02/2025
Today, we're launching the Arc Virtual Cell Atlas, a growing resource for computation-ready single-cell measurements. arc-website-git-ben-virtual-cell-atlas-tool-arc-institute.vercel.app/news/news/ar...
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Arc Virtual Cell Atlas launches, combining data from over 300 million cells | Arc Institute
Arc Institute today launched the Arc Virtual Cell Atlas, a growing resource for computation-ready single-cell measurements, starting with data from over 300 million cells. The initial release of the A...
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Hani Goodarzi @genophoria.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
@thejohnnyyu.bsky.social, @therealnima.bsky.social, and I, are excited to tell you about Tahoe-100M! The largest publicly available single-cell dataset that measures the effect of 1200 genes on 50 cell line models. The Vevo team has outdone itself. #Tahoe100M www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Tahoe-100M: A Giga-Scale Single-Cell Perturbation Atlas for Context-Dependent Gene Function and Cellular Modeling
Building predictive models of the cell requires systematically mapping how perturbations reshape each cell's state, function, and behavior. Here, we present Tahoe-100M, a giga-scale single-cell atlas ...
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Maria Brbic @mariabrbic.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Thrilled to share LUNA🌕 – our new generative AI model that reassembles tissue structures from dissociated cells! LUNA learns spatial priors over existing spatially resolved datasets with the aim to predict cell locations de novo. Check out our paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Altered immune landscape of cervical lymph nodes reveals Epstein-Barr virus signature in multiple sclerosis | Science Immunology www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Altered immune landscape of cervical lymph nodes reveals Epstein-Barr virus signature in multiple sclerosis
Deep cervical lymph nodes of patients with MS have an altered B cell compartment that, in part, transcriptionally resembles an EBV infection.
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