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Mindblowing work by our collaborator Achilleas Frangakis and colleagues - one of the body's most complex structures has just become a little less enigmatic!

Deeply disturbed and saddened by news of the death of Alexei Navalny. Putin fears nothing more than dissent from his own people. A grim reminder of what Putin and his regime are all about. Let's unite in our fight to safeguard the freedom and safety of those who dare to

OK Go recorded this music video shot in near-zero gravity aboard a parabolic airliner without using CGI, wires or green screen: the video was cut from one take filmed over 45 minutes of continuous flight.

The use of the phrase “ancestry-specific variant” is increasing, particularly to describe rare Single-nucleotide variants (SNVs). But these alleles are not ancestry-specific. They have not yet been found elsewhere, but they will be. 1/n

Beating #KidneyFailure needs #RareDisease cures. @RenalRaDaR data out today reveals a staggering 28x higher 5-year kidney failure risk in 28k people with #RareKidney diseases c/w 2.8 million with #CKD. Trajectories in 28 diseases included for reference tinyurl.com/yvybsvx2

Fantastic work by group members Katie Wong and David Pitcher working at RaDaR, with many others in the U.K. renal community. Outcomes for 27285 patients in 28 rare disease group, showing outsize contribution to prevalence of endstage kidney disease tinyurl.com/yvybsvx2

New grant success 🎉 Dr Gabriel Doctor from @UCL has received a Kidney Research UK clinical training fellowship award of £300,000 to investigate the genetic causes of idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS). Read more below 👇 bit.ly/48Y6I03

Fantastic work Melanie Chan - I can’t wait to see you answer these mysteries over the next few years!

The primary piece from my PhD on cystic kidney disease is out today in Journal of Clinical Investigation! jci.org/articles/view/… The full thread discussing the paper is linked in the tweet below. As always many thanks to Medical Research Council and Genomics England, UCL Renal Genomics and many more!

Now open! Incl an IgA nephropathy project in my group. We will fill in gaps in pathogenesis, aiming to better match new/upcoming drugs to each patient, and to find angles for next generation of treatments to remedy. Please get in touch if you want more info.

We are heartbroken to announce that Prof (Stephen) Ben Walsh, died peacefully on 30th Sept while surrounded by family & friends. Both his family & UCL Renal are raising funds to find a way to honour his memory and achievements. More info below: justgiving.com/page/in-memory… Ben's

PhD opportunity for a clinician in my lab! Co-supervised by Mike Devine crick.ac.uk/careers-study/…

As always thanks to UCL Renal Genomics Melanie Chan Gabriel Doctor Prof Danny Gale and others for your support, Medical Research Council for funding the work, and to the patients and families who have taken part in #100GKP Genomics England. Link to the pre-print below: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congratulations Omid Omid S. Alavijeh ! I’m delighted to see you win this very well deserved award and excited about what will come next in your career!

“These types of insights – the ones that you can only really get from large cohorts - are really valuable” ... Prof Danny Gale discusses how RaDaR can support projects like PARASOL with longitudinal data. Listen to the full episode of #KidneyCompass now: hcplive.com/view/kidney-co…