"Shapiro’s point, throughout the book, is that we’ve always meddled with nature; the answer is not to stop meddling, but to meddle better." nature.com/articles/d4158…

Our prioritisation of Covid-associated genes using COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative GWAS and Capture Hi-C is now a paper! Updated and expanded since first release: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… Co-led by Enhanc3D Genomics' M.Thiecke and our ex-MSc student Emma Yang, co-supervised with Helen Ray-Jones.

Omicron is now a super enhancer

Back in the day, William Orchard and I seriously considered buying an old Illumina machine from a department down the road from us.

Whoever made this should receive an award

Excited to share my postdoctoral work that was published today @cellstemcell. We find that trisomy 21 (#Downsyndrome) induces reorganization of the #3Dgenome in Neural progenitors similar to #senescence and can be ameliorated with #senolytics. cell.com/cell-stem-cell…

When this is over every single glasses wearer who has consistently worn a mask should get a bottle of champagne as a thank you

Glowing plants are here! ✨ Bioluminescent petunia is the first product of Light Bio: enchanting everyone who sees it, glows from seeds to flowers, now being grown for commercial sales. Currently fundrasing – to see these plants in person, DM me or [email protected]

Following up on the sad news of the death of Professor Mark Warner, Tom McLeish has written this touching obituary for The Guardian. theguardian.com/science/2022/j…

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How many new drug opportunities are buried in Supplemental Tables?: "Through a detailed re-analysis of our previously described RNA-seq dataset, we found that in addition to the previously reported splice-in events, branaplam induces other splicing changes."

4/14 We can observe rapid shifts in the evaluation of Russia’s role in the war. The share of respondents who view Russia as the aggressor doubled, while the share of those considering Russia a “peace-maker” halved.

It would be an amazing gesture if a European University would openly welcome Russian students kicked out for protesting war in Russia, signaling that Europe stands with those in Russia that oppose Putin and oppose the war. That not all Russians are treated as Putin&Co

I am horrified by the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Ukraine. It is hard not to suspect that rather than collateral damage, it is being used as a weapon of war. I feel lost and powerless about how this can be stopped, but it simply cannot continue.

Forget gold, forget crypto, start buying FBS, the price is going to the moooooon

Why not new imperial measurements for molecular biology? kiloWindsor instead of kiloDalton, crown-pairs instead of base-pairs etc. Calling The Royal Society theguardian.com/politics/2022/…

New preprint from our lab, led by Helen Ray-Jones (Helen Ray-Jones). In this story, we probe the link between enhancer activity, enhancer-promoter contacts and gene expression using genetic variation as "nature's perturbation experiment". biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Thread...

Chris, you’re a legend

New year, new building! 🎉 The @mrc_lms has celebrated the opening of its new state-of-the-art building at our Hammersmith Campus with a visit from The Princess Royal The Royal Family Their new home houses 400 scientists working across themes including genes and the environment;