Finally, extracellular RNA is coming of age. Great progress in our OncoRNALab at CRIG with Pieter Mestdagh Annelien Morlion

BIOTECH IS A TEAM SPORT When George Yancopoulos, the Cofounder and CSO of Regeneron, was a postdoc at Columbia and received a faculty position offer, the Department Chair took him out to dinner and said: "I want to be clear with you about one thing. Once you start your own lab,

Now you can accurately predict responses to immune checkpoint inhibitors using only RNA-sequencing data. Discover the computational pipeline making it possible — and how you can use it in your research: bit.ly/44izirb #PrecisionMedicine #Bioinformatics

Our manuscript: "Effective methods for bulk RNA-seq deconvolution using scnRNA-seq transcriptomes" has just been published in Genome Biology! 🥳 genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… With Mohammad Najaf-Panah, Pavel Sumazin, Pieter Mestdagh et al. BCMHouston, National Cancer Institute, UGent & iPC_H2020

If you do RNA-Seq from blood or EVs, than you need to read this: Benchmarking blood collection tubes and processing intervals for extracellular vesicle performance metrics - Dhondt - 2023 - Journal of Extracellular Vesicles - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our article ‘RNA biomarkers from proximal liquid biopsy for diagnosis of ovarian cancer’ has been included in the Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month article collection. 👉 elsevier.com/health/medicin… Eva Hulstaert Jo Vandesompele @OncologyAdvance

Very exciting work and happy we were able to contribute with RNA-seq of single muscle fibres.

Registrations are open for our #EUDIP2024 European Digital PCR Symposium and Workshop in Feb 2024 dpcr.ugent.be/EUDIP2024/ with Jim @GuroLind Stephanie Fraley Roche QIAGEN Thermo Fisher Stilla Technologies Bio-Rad Genomics Sniper,

Deze ochtend aan de eettafel: ‘Papa, waarom werk je eigenlijk in het weekend?’ ‘Omdat ik nog werk heb.’ ‘Krijg je dat niet af in de week?’ ‘Nee.’ ‘Dus je werkt te weinig?’ Zo had ik het nog niet bekeken…

And … we're hiring! The Hendrix lab is also recruiting a #Postdoc funded by European Research Council (ERC) to explore #ExtracellularVesicles in #cancer. Interested to work on this exciting project UGent CRIG? Read & apply here: jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Post…

Immune checkpoint inhibitor response prediction improves patient selection, but is time-consuming and costly. Read about a more accurate model that uses only RNA-sequencing data, making it simpler and cheaper: bit.ly/48vmwsc #PrecisionMedicine #ClinicalTrials

Amazing venue to talk science. First time ever I presented in a church. Thank you BRIC-Bordeaux for organising.

The authors dealt with a special sample type: muscle fibers isolated from human biopsies. To understand the true heterogeneity of human skeletal muscle fibers, they used #QuantSeq-Pool to transcriptionally profile over 1000 single muscle fibers. bit.ly/493WPit

📽 As we start our last project month, we want to make this something special That's why we worked on a video that will illustrate you the impact of #iPC We don't want to spoil too much, so watch how we are bringing hope back to children with cancer 🎬👉 vimeo.com/873965269/d336…

Immune checkpoint inhibitor response prediction improves patient selection, but can be time-consuming and costly. Read about a new and accurate model that uses only RNA-sequencing data, making it simpler and cheaper: bit.ly/48vmwsc #PrecisionMedicine #ClinicalTrials

Welcome to Prof. Tosar Juan Pablo Tosar's talk on January 12th in Gent at 13:00. "Uptake and recognition of naked extracellular RNAs & potential diagnostic applications" CRIG #OncoRNALab

**please share** #Opportunity We are hunting for a special #CEO to drive an exciting project to develop new #rna medicines for #cancer patients

If you read 1 thread this week, read this one. BTW, this all got accelerated by a preprint on bioRxiv that Vijay Ganesh saw before our Chaserr paper came out + big shoutout to GeneMatcher which helped finding other cases that otherwise would take a decade to locate.

📣New paper alert! 📣 Our paper “Identification and validation of #extracellular_vesicle #reference_genes for the normalization of #RTqPCR data” is out in #JEV! ISEV-Journals 🧬 Here’s a summary of our findings: 🧵 isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/je…