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Vy Wien Lai

@vywien-lai.bsky.social
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DPhil student in Medical Sciences (Spatial Transcriptomics) at the University of Oxford researching prematurity in gut development 🧬🔬💻📊

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 13/11/2025
#WIMMReads: New @nature.com study, led by the Simmons & Antanaviciute Groups, used advanced single-cell and spatial analysis techniques to map the cells that drive #Crohn's fistulas - paving the way for targeted treatments 🧪 Learn more 👇 @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk
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Oxford scientists map the cells that drive Crohn’s disease fistulas
Researchers at the MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit have identified how rare populations of abnormal cells drive the formation and persistence of fistulas - painful, tunnel-like tracts that dev...
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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 12/11/2025
#WIMMinFocus Not a T.rex but a pretentious gut tissue! Spatial transcriptomics mapped 5,100 genes at subcellular resolution. Captured by @vywien-lai.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 WIMM Image Competition ( #SciArt). Proof that science doesn’t just uncover life’s mysteries — it gives you dinosaurs 🦕
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