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Haojia Wu
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A researcher in #WashU nephrology using computational ways to understand the kidney.
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GitLab: https://code.haojia-wu.com/users/root/projects
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Another nice prime editing paper in Nature

Prime editing-installed suppressor tRNAs for disease-agnostic genome editing | Nature share.google/JbEgGmuXohSb...
Prime editing-installed suppressor tRNAs for disease-agnostic genome editing - Nature
A new strategy that uses prime editing to convert an endogenous tRNA into a suppressor tRNA shows therapeutic potential for multiple genetic diseases that are caused by premature stop codons.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
A unified cell atlas of vascular plants reveals cell-type foundational genes and accelerates gene discovery
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A unified cell atlas of vascular plants reveals cell-type foundational genes and accelerates gene discovery
A cross-species single-cell atlas highlights a core subset of cell-type foundational genes associated with major vascular plant cell types, enabling the identification of hidden cell types and the dev...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Generation of modified cows and sheep from spermatid-like haploid embryonic stem cells go.nature.com/42wdD05
Generation of modified cows and sheep from spermatid-like haploid embryonic stem cells - Nature Biotechnology
Haploid embryonic stem cells for cattle and sheep are produced, opening new reproductive possibilities.
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October 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
RAEFISH - Sequencing-free whole-genome spatial transcriptomics at single-molecule resolution
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Sequencing-free whole-genome spatial transcriptomics at single-molecule resolution
RAEFISH delivers whole-transcriptome (>20,000 genes) imaging at single-molecule resolution in cells and tissues and enables direct gRNA detection for high-content, image-based CRISPR screens.
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October 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Mind blowing mechanotherapy of aged embryo 🤯👹
See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...
October 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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🚀 Excited to share scPortrait! Led by Sophia Mädler & Niklas Schmacke w/ the Mann lab — a new @scverse tool for standardized single-cell image data. Enables ML-ready extraction, >1B cell processing, cross-omics, & cancer macrophage insights.
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September 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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The creator of the NumPy and SciPy libraries reflects on their supporting role in the story of Python, now the subject of a documentary

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Python, the movie! The programming language’s origin story comes to the silver screen
The creator of the NumPy and SciPy libraries reflects on their supporting role in the story of Python, now the subject of a documentary.
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September 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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🗳️ Election results are in! Join ASN in congratulating Benjamin D. Humphreys, MD, PhD, FASN, as Executive Councilor and Rasheed A. Gbadegesin, MBBS, MD, FASN, as At-Large Councilor. Their terms begin January 1, 2026.
September 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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1. Bluesky doesn’t downrank links
2. You can choose your own algorithm from among thousands
3. The whole app is open source

This keeps it a free and open platform by design, leading to better click-throughs and traffic to your site.

We 💙 the open web.
September 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Excited for a major milestone in our efforts to map enhancers and interpret variants in the human genome:

The E2G Portal! e2g.stanford.edu

This collates our predictions of enhancer-gene regulatory interactions across >1,600 cell types and tissues.

Uses cases 👇

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September 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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A large consortium of researchers introduces the term 'translon' to denote any transcriptome region that is decoded by ribosomes.

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Translon: a single term for translated regions - Nature Methods
Nature Methods - Translon: a single term for translated regions
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September 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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A prototype of bifocal eyeglasses uses liquid crystals and electric fields to switch between modes that aid in nearby and distance vision
Liquid crystal lenses could make better bifocal glasses
A prototype of bifocal eyeglasses uses liquid crystals and electric fields to switch between modes that aid in nearby and distance vision
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September 5, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Target sequence-conditioned design of peptide binders using masked language modeling - @pranam.bsky.social go.nature.com/3UtVc7N
Target sequence-conditioned design of peptide binders using masked language modeling - Nature Biotechnology
PepMLM designs peptide binders against diverse targets using masked language modeling.
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August 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Co-profiling of in situ RNA-protein interactions and transcriptome in single cells and tissues
Co-profiling of in situ RNA-protein interactions and transcriptome in single cells and tissues - Nature Methods
This work presents MAPIT-seq, an antibody-guided RNA editing method that enables co-profiling of RBP-RNA interactions and gene expression at single-cell resolution and in tissue contexts.
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August 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Just out in @science.org
Silencing mitochondrial gene expression in living cells | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Silencing mitochondrial gene expression in living cells
Mitochondria fulfill central functions in metabolism and energy supply. They express their own genome, which encodes key subunits of the oxidative phosphorylation system. However, the central mechanis...
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August 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Two papers in today's issue of @nature.com ‬: 1) we assemble 65 genomes to near completion, including centromeres and the MHC. tinyurl.com/3huhax6w. 2) we sequence 1,019 genomes from the 1kGP with long reads, revealing SVs down to low allele frequencies tinyurl.com/wbx3we9x.
Complex genetic variation in nearly complete human genomes - Nature
Using sequencing and haplotype-resolved assembly of 65 diverse human genomes, complex regions including the major histocompatibility complex and centromeres are analysed.
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July 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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📢ONLINE @natgenet.nature.com

📰Germline genetic variation impacts clonal hematopoiesis landscape and progression to malignancy.

By Jie Liu, @kellybolton.bsky.social and colleagues.

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Germline genetic variation impacts clonal hematopoiesis landscape and progression to malignancy - Nature Genetics
The relationship between pathogenic germline variation, clonal hematopoiesis (CH) and risk of hematologic malignancy is explored in 731,835 individuals across 6 cohorts. Carriers of variants in certai...
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July 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Topological velocity inference from spatial transcriptomic data
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Topological velocity inference from spatial transcriptomic data - Nature Biotechnology
TopoVelo infers cell differentiation stages and rate parameters of gene expression using spatially coupled differential equations.
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July 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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📰Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics of stricturing #Crohn’s disease highlights a fibrosis-associated network.

By Lingjia Kong, ‪@thexavierlab.bsky.social‬ and colleagues.

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Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics of stricturing Crohn’s disease highlights a fibrosis-associated network - Nature Genetics
Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics analysis of stricturing Crohn’s disease highlights cellular heterogeneity in fibrotic tissue and identifies neighborhoods of fibroblasts and immune cells contri...
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June 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM