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The ever amazing @art_egorov in our group has made a new visualisation tool for comparative genomics. Makes particularly beautiful images of phages, plasmids, other MGEs or regions of prokaryotic genomes 😍 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…
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The events in Springfield, i.e., weaponizing against a community using false allegations & 'othering' them, threatening their safety & that of others in the community (schools, hospitals), is from the Project 2025 playbook for all of the US; great senator you have there, Ohio!
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Introducing PaperQA2, the first AI agent that conducts entire scientific literature reviews on its own.
PaperQA2 is also the first agent to beat PhD and Postdoc-level biology researchers on multiple literature research tasks, as measured both by accuracy on objective benchmarks and assessments by human experts. We are publishing a paper and open-sourcing the code.
This is the first example of AI agents exceeding human performance on a major portion of scientific research, and will be a game-changer for the way humans interact with the scientific literature.
Paper and code are below, and congratulations in particular to @m_skarlinski, @SamCox822, @jonmlaurent, James Braza, @MichaelaThinks, @mjhammerling, @493Raghava, @andrewwhite01, and others who pulled this off. 1/
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Excited and honored to lead this team of amazing scientists to understand the neurobiology of marine animals in changing environments. Thank you Paul G. allen Frontiers Group and @AllenInstitute for trusting us with this urgent task
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Hate being stuck in the lab sorting your transgenic #zebrafish? You’re gonna love the Fishpicker, from the clever folks at #CZBiohubSF!
Check out this video and learn more here:
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The resurrection of strings of extinct molecules raises intriguing questions of patentability and bioethical considerations in an emerging area of patent law go.nature.com/4cz9f2k
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We tracked a pandemic decimating beetle colonies and used cryoEM for sequencing-free discovery of the new virus that caused it. This virus is crazy; parvoviruses aren't supposed to have such structured protein-DNA interactions. We fulfilled all 4 of Koch's postulates for etiology
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Stable germline transgenesis using the Minos Tc1/mariner element in the sea urchin Lytechinus pictus
Read this #DevSIDiversity Techniques & Resources Article by Elliot Jackson @ewaltjackson, Amro Hamdoun @Hamdounlab and colleagues @Scripps_Ocean:
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ALT Figure 6: Transgene expression in F1 animals is ubiquitous across the body. Live imaging of nine unique F1 juveniles. Top and middle rows are aboral views; bottom row is the oral view. Juveniles were stained with CellMask plasma membrane orange to create contrast with nuclear CFP signal. Scale bar: 250 μm.
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If you’re looking for a postdoc and you are interested in applying AI to imaging data, and would like to have a fancy fellowship, reach out :-) postdoc.ucsd.edu/funding/sch…
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🌊 Last weekend, some lucky kayakers and snorkelers came across a rare deep-sea dwelling fish in La Jolla Cove. The seagoers spotted a 12-foot #oarfish and to give you an idea of how rare this encounter is, only 20 oarfish have washed up in California since 1901!
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Out today at @ScienceMagazine - giant PKZILLA proteins spew huge polyketide marine toxins, just like #Godzilla! Witnessed by @photocyte & @VikShende at @Scripps_Ocean science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Congratulations to @svenja_kling for winning UCSD's art of Science Competition with a photo of a transgenic sea urchin larva! library.ucsd.edu/news-events…
Im surprised by how much these two variables correlate here and also unsurprised they do.
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If you're affected by today's airline tech issues, bookmark FlightRights.gov. We created an easy-to-use dashboard in 2022 to show which airlines cover meals and hotels, and provide free rebooking when an airline causes a major delay or cancellation.
This is a lovely way to show the progress, change, and history of a lab. Love this!
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Finally, we emphasize the utility (and beauty!) of using Lytechinus pictus to study sea urchin late larval development due to their fast developmental time and relatively high optical transparency.
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🤩 Scientific breakthrough! Discover how @Hamdounlab's new study highlights transgenic sea urchins underneath fluorescent light to further researchers in tracking cell movement. (ORIP support through R21OD034075)
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