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Jovana Maksimovic

@jovmaksimovic.bsky.social
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Senior Research Associate in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology in the Oshlack Lab @petermaccc.bsky.social Australia. Mum. Sci-fi nerd. Cat person. Really loves cheese. And dancing.

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Sean Bresnahan @seantbres.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Our new preprint introduces ✨ICONIC✨: an R package making causal inference accessible for observational omics. It unifies genetic instruments (Mendelian randomization) and negative controls (proximal inference) for mediation analysis under unmeasured confounding. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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ICONIC: An R Package for Integrating Instrumental Variable- and Negative-Control-Informed Causal Discovery and Diagnostics in Multiomic Studies
Unmeasured confounding threatens causal inference and replicability in observational multi-omic studies across variable environments. Genetic instrumental variables (Mendelian randomization) and negat...
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Jovana Maksimovic @jovmaksimovic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Teresa Sadras @sadras-t.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Ever wanted to interrogate fusion gene expression at single-cell resolution? Turns out, you can! 🧬 A fun collaboration with the Oshlack lab, spearheaded by Jovana Maksimovic, and a huge team effort! Check out our preprint 👇 @jovmaksimovic.bsky.social @aliciao.bsky.social @10xgenomics.bsky.social
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RLadies+ @rladies.org · 21/05/2026
Making visible what's always been true. Underrepresented genders are part of this community — and always have been. Our new name RLadies+ makes that clearer than ever. Join us → rladies.org #RLadies #RStats
RLadies+ logo in purple on a light background. Purple text reads 'Making visible what's always been true' followed by 'Underrepresented genders are part of this community.'
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Ana Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Finishing your PhD, or thinking of starting one? The Conesa Lab (I2SysBio, CSIC–UV, Valencia) hosts PhD students and postdocs on competitive personal fellowships: long-read transcriptomics, single-cell, multi-omics, ML for genomics. Calls close Sep 2026–Apr 2027. → conesalab@csic.es
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Lior Pachter @lpachter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
One of the major pains of academia is having to click through labyrinths of webpages to submit papers. Now, thanks to Joe Rich (and AI), problem solved! His tool is called PaperPush and is available at github.com/pachterlab/p... It's super easy to use! 1/🧵
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GitHub - pachterlab/paperpush
Contribute to pachterlab/paperpush development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Jovana Maksimovic @jovmaksimovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
💯 this!!!
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Jovana Maksimovic @jovmaksimovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Gene fusions drive ~16% of all cancers & 50-70% of childhood ALL. But standard scRNA-seq can't see them — the assays aren't built to capture fusion breakpoints. We built a way to fix that. @aliciao.bsky.social @sadras-t.bsky.social @petermaccc.bsky.social @onjcri.org.au @10xgenomics.bsky.social 🧵
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Australian BioCommons @ausbiocommons.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
World-leading Aussie science fighting #AntimicrobialResistance! PhD student George Bouras added 17M bacterial protein predictions to the #AlphaFold database. This was made possible by a partnership between BioCommons & @pawseycentre.bsky.social to containerise #ColabFold on Setonix. Read more 🔗
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World-leading Australian science: 17M protein structures added to the AlphaFold Database to accelerate the fight against antimicrobial resistance  — Australian BioCommons
Australian researcher, George Bouras, has recently contributed an extraordinary 17 million protein predictions to the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database. This work was possible thanks to the availability of the ColabFold tool on Setonix AMD, the result of collaboration between BioCommons and the P
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Jovana Maksimovic @jovmaksimovic.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Enjoying some sunshine ☀️ and science 🧪🧬 in Brisbane at the @cancerbioinfoau.bsky.social conference! Come and say hi at poster 27 - especially if you want to know how to easily detect fusion transcripts in single cells! #CBA2026
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Anthony Beckhouse @antobeck.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Been years since I commuted to work. Off to the @cancerbioinfoau.bsky.social conference today in Brisbane. Still working out what #ConferneceSwag we will have #illumina #bioinformatics #DRAGEN
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MIG @mig-unimelb.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
📢 MIG Seminar: From Single Cells to Clinical Insights: Spatial Multi-Omics and the Future of Precision Oncology 🗓️ Fri, May 29 | ⏰ 12 - 1 pm AEST 📍 Agar Theatre (G003), Biosciences 4 (147) 🎙️ Associate Professor Arutha Kulasinghe, University of Queensland 🧍‍♂️In-person only #Immunotherapy #Biomarkers
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MIG Seminar: Associate Professor Arutha Kulasinghe, University of Queensland
Title: From Single Cells to Clinical Insights: Spatial Multi-Omics and the Future of Precision Oncology Abstract Resistance to immunot...
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MIG @mig-unimelb.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
📢 MIG Workshop: Multivariate analysis for omics data 🗓️ Thur, Jun 4 | ⏰ 9:30 am - 12:00 pm AEDT 📍 Online Event 🎙️ Prof. Kim-Anh Lê Cao 💰 Booking fee fully refunded #MultiOmics #DataIntegration #mixOmics #R
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MIG Workshop: Multivariate analysis for omics data
About the Event Technological improvements have allowed for the collection of data from different molecular compartments (e.g. gene expression,...
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nf-core @nf-co.re · 11/05/2026
Pipeline release! nf-core/raredisease v3.0.0 - 3.0.0 - Mario! Please see the changelog: github.com/nf-core/raredisease/rele…
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Release 3.0.0 - Mario · nf-core/raredisease
What's Changed nf-test for subworkflows - I by @ramprasadn in #695 Important! Template update for nf-core/tools v3.3.2 by @nf-core-bot in #712 Resolve inconsistencies in schema JSON definitions by...
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Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre @petermaccc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Today, on #InternationalNursesDay, we celebrate the extraordinary nurses at Peter Mac and beyond. Our #nurses provide some of the most specialised cancer care in the world - constantly pushing the boundaries of what exceptional cancer care looks like.
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Dr Daniel Duke @djduke.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
We have colleagues who put their blood, sweat and tears into detailed proposals for this funding scheme, only to find out they will all go in the bin. We still have no clarity on what ARC funding schemes are going to look like next year either. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Australian science under strain - ABC listen
Australia’s research potential is not matched by funding. Belinda Smith speaks to scientists impacted and science minister Tim Ayres responds.
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Viroscope @viroscope.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The high-speed logistics of a lung cancer cell. Watch GFP-Rab25 (Gold) move cargo through the internal recycling pathway of A549 cells. Static maps are great, but time-lapse shows the real traffic. Want your science/tech to be highlighted? DM me at Viroscope!
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#SingleCell preprints @prepub-singlecell.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
SpatialBench: Comparative cross-platform benchmarking of high-resolution spatial transcriptomics using matched mouse lymphoid tissue #SingleCell 🧪🧬🖥️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 01/05/2026
roxygen2 8.0.0 out now: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05... ! So many goodies in this release including S7 support, tons of R6 improvement, a new config style, fewer dependencies, and so so many bug fixes #rstats
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roxygen2 8.0.0
roxygen2 8.0.0 is now on CRAN, with first-class support for S7, a bunch of R6 improvements, a new configuration style, and a slimmer dependency footprint.
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Bioconductor @bioconductor.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🚀 We’re excited to share the release of Bioconductor 3.23, featuring: ✅2418 software packages (94 new) ✅437 experiment data packages (5 new) ✅928 annotation packages ✅8 books (2 new) ✅28 workflows 🔗 Please see the full release announcement here: bioconductor.org/news/bioc_3_...
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Jovana Maksimovic @jovmaksimovic.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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Te Pūnaha Matatini @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We're looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work at the intersection of ecology and data science 🧪 www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/posts/postdo... #movingtonewzealand #movingtonz
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Postdoctoral fellowship in ecology and data science
Join the Centre for Sustainability Research at the University of Otago as a postdoctoral research fellow in ecology and data science.
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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
We are recruiting a PI in biomedical data science at @bakerresearchau.bsky.social in Melbourne! A fantastic opportunity and do get in touch if any q's! www.seek.com.au/job/91619982...
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Laboratory Head in Biomedical Data Science Job in Melbourne VIC - SEEK
Lead a biomedical data science lab, secure funding, publish research and collaborate globally to drive impactful cardiometabolic outcomes.
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Bioconductor @bioconductor.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
🚀 After BioC2026 in Seattle, we’ll host a Bioconductor hackathon for the two days following the conference. This is a great opportunity to collaborate, build, and contribute to open-source bioinformatics projects. 📅 13–14 Aug 2026 Find more info here: bit.ly/4sHMe5m Apply here: bit.ly/4cuQQpr
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BiocNA2026 Hackathon Participation
A Bioconductor-themed hackathon is going to held in the two days after Bioc North America (August 13th and 14th). If you are interested in attending, please supply some brief information about your…
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Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Blog post on "The AI Rewrite Dilemma": lh3.github.io/2026/04/17/t...
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The AI Rewrite Dilemma
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Jovana Maksimovic @jovmaksimovic.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Embrace laziness 😴 "Laziness drives us to make the system as simple as possible (but no simpler!) — to develop the powerful abstractions that then allow us to do much more, much more easily."
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Mapping nerves in a whole embryos. We find that across species and development stages, embryonic nerves display (beautiful) fractal geometry. More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Dr Andrew Lonsdale @lonsbio.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The almost best thing about this is that Bioinformatics Twitter is back!
Sickos meme, with "rewrites.bio flamewars" caption
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Wajdi @wajdi.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I've made a blogpost with a comprehensive list of all #Python data viz tools and libraries, for anyone wanting to try them out for the #30daychartchallenge Check them out! #DataViz #DataVisualization medium.com/@wajdi.ben.s...
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The Complete Guide to Python Data Visualization Libraries
Python has become the go-to language for data visualization, and for good reason. Its ecosystem offers a tool for every situation, whether…
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Female octopuses throw rocks at males that bother them, documented in Octopus tetricus
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Stein Aerts @steinaerts.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
We launched a new Group Leader vacancy in our Center for AI & Computational Biology - VIB.AI @vibai.bsky.social - with a Professorship at Ghent University. Join us with your most creative AI+Biology research plan! Apply before 31st May vib.ai/en/group-lea...
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Group leader vacancy
We are looking for a Group Leader in applied artificial intelligence in (bio)medical research at VIB.AI & UGent, Belgium
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026
Oh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)
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Lunar Flyby - NASA
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Yoav Gilad @ygilad.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Preprint now available. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Super excited to be launching two things today: #RustQC 🦀🧬 and rewrites.bio 🚀 I used AI to rewrite 15 RNA-seq QC tools into a single Rust binary (I've never written any Rust). It ended up being over 60x faster. Here's the story 🧵 seqeralabs.github.io/RustQC/
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Welcome to RustQC
Fast quality control tools for sequencing data, written in Rust.
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Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre @petermaccc.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Huge congrats to Professor @loisher.bsky.social who was awarded the @nhmrc.bsky.social Elizabeth Blackburn Award - recognising the nation’s top-ranked Investigator Grant application - her work securing $2.9M to advance immunotherapy in breast cancer. More: www.petermac.org/about-us/new...
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James Ferguson @psy-fer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Cooking up a cool feature for kuva with --interactive, where it adds a search, and group highlighting and coordinates on mouse, all within the native SVG file, when looking at it with a browser. This is just the minimal working prototype. What do you think?
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Bioconductor @bioconductor.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
📣 Call to Host EuroBioC2027! Interested in bringing the European Bioconductor Conference to your region? Applications are now open to host EuroBioC2027 or to join the planning committee to gain experience for future editions. 👉 Apply here by 20 April 2026: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Bioconductor promotional graphic announcing a “Call to Host EuroBioC2027.” The image features a green speech bubble with text inviting applications to host the European Bioconductor Conference in 2027 or join the planning committee, with a deadline of April 20, 2026. A megaphone illustration appears in the lower left.
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Bioconductor @bioconductor.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
📣 Last chance! BioC2026 abstract submissions are closing soon. Submissions are welcome for workshops, posters, package demos, and short talks highlighting tools, research, and workflows in open-source bioinformatics. ⏰ Deadline: 20 Mar 2026 👉 Submit here:https://bit.ly/4lF62oh #BioC2026
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Will Macnair @willmacnair.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I've only skimmed the paper but this looks pretty impressive!
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The Government released the final report of the Strategic Examination of R&D yesterday. It's called "Ambitious Australia"🙃 Haven't read much, yet, but it says we should fund the ARC more. Like every single previous review. Can we got on with it & do that, now? www.industry.gov.au/publications...
Front cover of the Strategic Examination of Research & Development review report. Purple background with pink title text "Ambitious Australia". The graphics below the text are some curvy, bubble-like shapes with what seems to be a sunset viewed through some drops of liquid. That is, a distorted view of the horizon … a metaphor?
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Join my campaign to properly fund medical research in Australia 🔬 www.moniqueryan.com.au/medical_rese...
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Josh Levy @josh-levy.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Open question for anyone that develops/maintains of bioinformatics tools, especially those used for public health - what do you think is the right way to fund this long term? Grants are great for new research directions, but aren't really appropriate for most tool dev/maintenance.
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Dr Andrew Lonsdale @lonsbio.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Some background to this, and an example I think of Phil's attitudes towards fostering students and encouraging others. I never got a chance to meet Phil in person, but will share his act of generosity that helped myself and @hdashnow.bsky.social and I think had in indelible mark on our careers. 1/8
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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
'Phil was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Computational Biology, where he created the beloved Ten Simple Rules series. He was so prolific in the series that the meta-article “Ten Simple Rules for Writing a PLOS Ten Simple Rules Article” literally includes, as Rule 4: “Be Philip E. Bourne.”
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Remembering Phil Bourne
Personal reflections on a legendary scientist, leader, builder, and mentor
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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
While we've been somewhat successful in spurring adoption of alevin-fry/simpleaf for scRNAseq processing, an impediment Dongze brought to our attention (now working directly w/ many experimentalists) was the need for a nice QC report for it's output; hence QCatch www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/x
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QCatch: A framework for quality control assessment and analysis of single-cell sequencing data
Motivation: Single-cell sequencing data analysis requires robust quality control (QC) to mitigate technical artifacts and ensure reliable downstream results. While tools like alevin-fry and simpleaf (...
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Australian BioCommons @ausbiocommons.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Help shape the future of AI in Aussie life sciences! 🤖🧬 Whether you’re an expert or a complete beginner, we need your input to guide our priorities in this space. Find out how to take the survey or join a focus group today: buff.ly/PbOWzE6 #Bioinformatics #NCRISImpact
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Help shape the future of AI in life sciences research and training — Australian BioCommons
We are inviting community input to help shape the future of AI in life sciences. By participating in our survey and focus groups, you’ll help guide infrastructure priorities and shape our training…
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Nav @naveed-ishaque.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Check out our new preprint describing the extensions to SpatialLeiden clustering: - it's atlas scale (supporting intergration, and fast) - it's 3D ready (it accepts connections over serial sections) - it's multiomic ready (it accepts multiple omics layers) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Valentine Svensson @nxn.se · 02/03/2026
Improving SCVI for low-count cells through self-supervised augmentation - www.nxn.se/p/improving-...
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Improving SCVI for low-count cells through self-supervised augmentation
To improve utility of cells with low UMI counts, I wanted to optimize KL weighting in SCVI models.
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Jonathan Coxhead @4130chromo.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Review | Charting single-cell lineages with synthetic and natural barcodes www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Charting single-cell lineages with synthetic and natural barcodes - Nature Reviews Genetics
In this Review, Rodriguez-Fraticelli and Parreno discuss advances in single-cell lineage-tracing methods and how their application to diverse biological processes, such as development, ageing and canc...
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