The search for authentic microbiome–disease relationships. A new study challenges the validity of previously reported microbial markers and serves as a wake-up call for the #microbiome research field. News and Views from Ruixin Zhu & colleagues nature.com/articles/s4159…

⚠ ONLY ONE WEEK FOR MARC GÜELL WEBINAR!! ⚠ It will be the opening of the GeneHumdi Young Researcher Webinar Series 🎉 😍 Are you not excited?? and more important: ⁉ Did you already sign up??!! if you didn´t: DO IT NOW❗ It is free , do it here: crisprmedicinenews.com/cmn-webinars/g…

Wanna move CRISPR genome editing to the clinics? Wanna to build tech to tackle the big challenges of cell therapy? 🧬✂️🩸 Join us as a Postdoc at Center for Cell and Gene Therapy BCMHouston - Please RT 🙏 jobs.bcm.edu/job/Postdoctor…

We are excited to share our latest preprint on a new solution to next-generation peptide/protein sequencing. Peptide sequencing via reverse translation of peptides into DNA biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Getting to the heart of the matter Malcolm Byrne 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 pressing Department of Further and Higher Education Patrick O'Donovan to honour the Gov commitment to fund the shortfall identified in Higher Ed funding. Two years on and the €307m gap is growing instead of reducing Irish Universities Assoc. @JimMiley Dept of Public Expenditure NDP Delivery & Reform Simon Harris TD

“A transformative funding programme-the Chuck Feeney-inspired Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI) which fostered world-class research &reversed a brain drain of top talent–was discontinued”⁦Hugh Brady⁩ ⁦Irish Universities Assoc.⁩ irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

The most recent European Commission Country Report on Ireland lists ‘Low levels of investment in research and development that hold back innovation, productivity and growth, especially in the domestic industry’ as a competitiveness threat. Read it here - shorturl.at/dTLI6

Breathing new life into in vivo lung editing go.nature.com/4cz7Rxu

Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that Arash Abi𝔃adeh writes The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The mantra that spatial transcriptomics is about location, location, location is catchy, but what does it really mean? We have just posted biorxiv.org/content/10.110…, work of Kayla Jackson et al., that describes the concordex method for identifying spatial homogeneous regions. 1/🧵

Paradigm challenged: gene expression is driven by DNA sequence variants with little contribution by methylation nature.com/articles/s4158… Nature Genetics deCODE genetics Oxford Nanopore nature.com/articles/s4158…

In a recent preprint biorxiv.org/content/10.110… we discussed major differences in results one obtains with different versions of Cell Ranger due to changes in the way reads are counted. Now another preprint corroborates the finding that results are very dependent on CR version.

A lantibiotic producing Bifidobacterium!! 🤩🤩🤩 Fantastic work from Rocío Sánchez with Paula O’Connor Ian O'Neill Brian McDonnell Ciaran Lee Rebecca Moore Fionnuala McAuliffe NMH & UCD DvS Research Group tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

So this plagiarism thing has happened to our lab.. again. This time it's plagiarism of our poseidon syringe pump paper Soroush booeshaghi et al., 2019 in Scientific Reports: nature.com/articles/s4159… Text has been plagiarized, as well as figures copied directly here: ijirset.com/upload/2024/ma… 1/🧵

"...the term ‘paper mill’ may fail to fully capture the diversity and scale of activities overseen by these hydra-like conglomerates." bit.ly/3zKCnq5 World Conf Research Integrity @NRIN_Integrity Elisabeth Bik Prof Jennifer Byrne 🧬 Publishing with Integrity Peer Review Congress #PRC10

My name is Bernard, living in Ireland. I have stage 4 stomach cancer. My medical consultants recommend Immunotherapy and chemotherapy. Despite best scientific and clinical evidence, my Irish healthcare insurer won't fund this. Am I alone?

This is great! NIAID News have launched a collection of public domain illustrations (currently 550 individual icons) bioart.niaid.nih.gov

🧵 A Thread on “Julia for Biologists” 🧵 1/ Introduction to Julia A 2023 perspective in Nature Methods highlights #Julia as a powerful programming language for computational biosciences! 🔗 Full article: nature.com/articles/s4159…

Check out our bioRxiv describing our efforts to treat a severe vascular disease 🫀: 1️⃣ Optimization of a target-specific base editor🧬 2⃣ A *must avoid* bystander edit prevalent with WT SpCas9 BEs! 🙅‍♂️😱 3⃣ Substantial extension of lifespan following in vivo base