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John Doench @johndoench.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

A little fun with numbers on this Sunday, showing just how successful DNA really is. First, here's what DNA looks like. I'll draw your attention to the "rise" in DNA, that is, the distance between two basepairs, which is 3.4 Angstroms, also known as 3.4x10^-10 meters...

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vonMeyenn Lab @ ETH Zurich @vonmeyennlab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

🧬 New in @Nature: Our team found that fat cells keep a “memory” of their previous obese state even after weight loss, helping explain why maintaining weight loss is so challenging. Excited to share this work!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss - Nature

Stable epigenetic changes indicate the existence of an obesogenic memory in mouse adipocytes that primes cells for pathological responses in an obesogenic environment and potentially contributes to th...

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Lior Pachter @lpachter.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Seems that @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social ought to consider adding links to @bsky.app posts given the mass transfer of scientists from Twitter to @bsky.app that is taking place.

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Hani Goodarzi @genophoria.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Really cool model from Brian Hie and Patrick Hsu! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Michelle Linterman @linterman.bsky.social · 04/02/2024

Registration is open for the EMBO workshop Lymphatic Tissues and Germinal Centres in Immune Reactions! Deadline is 2nd April 2024. meetings.embo.org/event/24-lym...

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Helsinki University Press @helsinkiupress.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

In this interesting LSE Impact Blog post, Carrigan analyzes the options the academic audience has in the increasingly fragmented social media landscape. Is Bluesky the next go-to social media platform for academics? @drmarkcarrigan.bsky.social #AcademicSky blogs.lse.ac.uk/impa...

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Could Bluesky be the replacement for Academic Twitter?

Elon Musk’s unanticipated acquisition of Twitter (X), and the rapid alterations he has instituted have led many academics to look for alternative social media platforms. Mark Carrigan propose…

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

New accessibility pilot on bioRxiv pilot: AI-generated paper summaries at 3 levels (general -> expert). Click Automated Services in the dashboard to view these. We welcome feedback. connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/11...

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

Bluesky is offering journalists and newsrooms direct access to this platform. Spread the word. 🗞

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 12/09/2023

The current v1 Bluesky system is designed to scale to 1M users. And today we're going to hit 1M users! We will, of course, keep pushing things and *try* to smoothly transition to the v2 Bluesky system later this year. It's designed for >10M users. We just have to finish building the v2 system!

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Hani Goodarzi @genophoria.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Working on #RNA processing and #cancer? We are looking for #phd #postdocs to apply for short talks and travel awards and join us in November #RNACancerSRC Register now: bit.ly/3Z3jqau

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Svasti Haricharan @svasti.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

What a neat paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Women accumulate about 15 mutations in their healthy breast tissue every year, so mutational burden increases with age. Then you throw in pregnancy, and it suppresses mutation accumulation. In the epithelium but not in the stroma!

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Hani Goodarzi @genophoria.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

Check out this beautiful in vivo perturb-seq study from Luke Gilbert, David Raleigh, and Bill Weiss at the Arc Institute and UCSF cancer center! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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