How can we better reveal cellular 🦠and sample🧍variation from large-scale scRNA-seq studies? We have released a new and improved deep generative model, #MrVI, in scvi-tools and on bioRxiv, accompanied by real-world use cases. A thread... 🧵1/ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Exciting News! Registrations for the #scverse2024 Conference at the Technical University of Munich, Sep 10-12, 2024 are OPEN! 🎉Join us to advance methods for single-cell omics research. 👉 Register now: scverse.org/conference2024… Follow us for more on Zulip: scverse.zulipchat.com

#snakemake 8.14 has been released. It supports setting the shell to use per rule if needed (e.g. if your analysis step runs in a container that does not have bash shell). #sciworkflows #reproducibility snakemake.github.io

Papers from our Space Omics and Medical Atlas (SOMA) package, built upon the extraordinary data from the Inspiration4 mission with SpaceX are now coming online. With more civilian crews going to space, this is truly the opening of the Second Space Age: nature.com/articles/s4158…

The Space Omics and Medical Atlas (SOMA) package, published across Nature Portfolio journals, provides insights into how spaceflight affects human biology. It represents the largest compendium of data for aerospace medicine and space biology to date. go.nature.com/4bWzEaP

Have you ever wondered why there are so many subtypes of immune cells? In our work published today at nature, we offer one possible reason – the capacity to evolve. 1/n nature.com/articles/s4158…

Imagine growing a miniature version of the human intestine in the lab to study gut biology in great detail and test medicines before clinical trials? We are happy to share our latest publication on bioengineered human mini-intestines: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S19… Let’s dive in!

Nice work deciphering the footprint of commensal antigens on specific B cell responses cell.com/immunity/abstr…

.NEJM paper: H5N1 bird flu virus can survive pasteurization The more virus there is in milk, the longer/hotter pasteurization needs to be to kill all the virus. We don't know what % of dairy cows have no/minimal symptoms from bird flu & whose milk is entering the milk supply.

Diets - A Review nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Our paper on the linguistics-based formalization of antibody language is out in Nature Computational Science. Work led by Mai Ha Rahmad Akbar and Philippe A. Robert . Summary thread: x.com/PRobertImmodel….

We have an open 2-year postdoc position focusing on computational approaches to identify antigen-specific immune receptors from adaptive immune repertoire data. Application deadline: Nov 6. jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

Happy to share our latest work by Yexin Yang et al. on antibody-mediated control of endogenous retroviruses in mice. In the process, we found “natural antibodies” with broad reactivity against enveloped viruses. Here is how “panviral” antibodies work 🧵(1/) science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Massive effort by Kerry Mullan to recontextualize data is now out in Science Advances! We developed a new system STEGO to do a TCR-first analysis, and reanalyzed 12 studies and more than 500 000 individual T-cells. Supported by CZI Science ELIXIR Belgium doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…

At least 143 people in DR Congo have died from an unidentified illness, according to local officials. Victims reported flu-like symptoms, including high fever, severe headaches, cough and anaemia. Samples are being taken to identify the illness.

🚨Looking for a job in immunology and biotech research? IMPRINT is #hiring! Join us to help revolutionize how we decode the body’s immune memory, uncover the causes of chronic diseases, and drive breakthroughs in autoimmunity and neuropsychiatric research. IMPRINT is seeking

🧵 Today, IMPRINT, a pioneering new nonprofit initiative, is announcing $15 million in philanthropic funding to advance our work to decode the body's immune memory and uncover the causes of chronic diseases. imprint.org/press-release-… With teams in Europe and North America, we are

New FRO launches for decoding immune memory!

🎉 Excited to be welcoming our sibling FRO IMPRINT today! Their mission is to create scalable, cost-efficient forensic immunology research tools. ➡️ Learn more about FROs and how Convergent Research accelerates scientific progress here: convergentresearch.org

Grateful for @Cornell_Tech’s new article on IMPRINT! Dr. Beck Brachman was a fellow in Cornell Tech’s Runway Program, which supplied crucial support for the earliest stages of IMPRINT’s development. The Runway program is a NYC-based deep-tech incubator and provides substantial