What a fun annual BBQ party for the Zhang lab at sunny La Jolla. Happy to see a few new faces, including @RArgelaguet from Cambridge UK. We had a few new games as well!

.UCSD Engineering and UC San Diego Bioengineering's Biotechnology & Bioinformatics undergraduate majors are ranked #2 by U.S. News & World Report! Thanks to all faculty, staff, and students for their hard work. usnews.com/best-colleges/…

So proud that UCSD Engineering and UC San Diego Bioengineering's Bioengineering #undergraduate major is ranked #8 by U.S. News & World Report! 3 TOP 10 DEGREES in our undergraduate programs. This is all due to the AMAZING work of our faculty, staff, and students. usnews.com/best-colleges/…

Our latest out today in nature. We profiled 12 million single cells from mouse embryos spanning gastrulation to birth, defined cell type tree from zygote to birth, and unexpectedly found crazy fast changes within first hour of extrauterine life. OA PDF: rdcu.be/dyDAg

Our spatial RNA mapping method is out. We first conceived the idea more than 10 years ago: link.springer.com/10.1038/s41467…

For the most part, life gives you so many decisions to make and so many opportunities to recover from your mistakes that, if you handle them well, you can have a terrific life. Of course, sometimes there are major influences on the quality of our lives that come from things

🔬✨ Congrats to Kian Kalhor, nominated by Dr. Kun Zhang, for receiving the 2023-2024 Engelson Ph.D. Thesis Award! To learn more about his work, check out Kian’s thesis, "Mapping Human Tissues with Spatial Transcriptomics"!

🔬💔Discovery of a novel mechanism of cardiac inflammation that may expand therapeutic opportunities from our very own Dr. Kevin King! He is a senior author of the study and faculty in the Shu Chien Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering.

Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍 NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations! all freely available in the public domain. Retweet and spread the message! bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Development of an “exercise pill”. 🧵1/12

This is pretty cool, a creative use of AI.

Happy to share our results on the largest multi-modal lung cell atlas, resulting from the HuBMAP lung cell mapping center: doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

DNA methylation goes spatial! Introducing Spatial-DMT: a technology that co-profiles DNA methylation and transcriptome in the same tissue section. A fantastic collaboration with Wanding Zhou lab. Kudos to Chin Nien Lee Chin Nien Lee and Hongxiang Fu! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

What if the blueprint for youth is never truly lost, just inaccessible? Today, we're excited to announce the publication of our "Cell Annealing" model in which cells can be rebooted to restore their optimal, youthful state and escape ageing. nature.com/articles/s4142…

🧬 BREAKING: Our CRISPR-GPT paper is out TODAY in Nature Biomedical Engineering Nature Biomedical Engineering ! 🤯 We built an AI agent that turns ANYONE into a gene-editing expert in 1 DAY instead of months. An undergrad with ZERO experience achieved 90%+ editing efficiency on their FIRST attempt. 🧵