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🇸🇪 Sweden's national center for molecular biosciences
👩‍🔬 Infrastructure with unique technologies and expertise
👥 Research community
🥼 Life science 🌱
💻 Often data-driven

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All 2,593 reference assemblies for #Arthropoda available on NCBI can be found in the Kraken2 database in the SciLifeLab Data Repository:
doi.org/10.17044/sci...

🧪🖥️🧬🌍⚒️

#metagenomics #evolutionarybiology #bioinformatics #computationalbiology @sam-siwatlaali.bsky.social @tvdvalk.bsky.social
Illustration of screens and a book with various arthropods, generated by AI.
August 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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What happens when a species becomes isolated and inbred, and how can #DNAsequencing help conservationists make better decisions? In Ep3 of our series, we explore how #genomics research is used to better understand the #endangered #CloudedApollo butterfly 🌍🧪🧬

Watch ↓
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bNT...
Illustration of clouded apollo butterfly on a double helix, blue colored tones, and the text "the DNA of survival"
August 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Reproducible signals in #Alzheimers disease identified in landmark #proteomics study—from @neuroproteome.bsky.social in @natmed.nature.com 🧪

“In memory clinics, they could help pinpoint the underlying disease when symptoms are unclear” says Jacob Vogel ↓

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Montage of colorful illustration of neurons in Alzheimer's disease, and a portrait of co-author Jacob Vogel, fellow at SciLifeLab based at Lund University.
August 13, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Ep2: We take a look at the wider #biodiversity crisis and the vital ecological roles butterflies play. 🌍🧪

▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=tTcqzUlwLsE

💬 Mariana Pires Braga, @jhog.bsky.social‬, Niclas Backström

@uu.se
@animecol-uu.bsky.social
@evobiouppsala.bsky.social
#EvoSKy #Conservation #ClimateChange
June 27, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Hear more about the weird—sorry, different—life history of the clouded apollo butterfly from Niclas Backström (@uu.se / @evobiouppsala.bsky.social) on YouTube! 🌍🧪 ↓
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObOH...

#EvoSKy #EvoBio #Conservation #BioDiversity #Ecology #Butterflies
June 26, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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🦋 The #CloudedApollo is disappearing – but scientists and conservationists are stepping in to help. 🌍🧪

Episode 1 of our new mini-documentary is out now! 🎬

▶️ Watch Episode 1 here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObOH...

#EvoSKy #EvoBio #Conservation #BioDiversity
June 25, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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What does belonging in STEM look like – and who gets to decide? This question sparked Code Couture: Breaking the STEM Dress Code, a visual arts project that explores how gender, appearance, and clothing intersect with perceptions of credibility and inclusion in science and tech. 🧪

#NonBinaryInSTEM
Collages from Code Couture: Breaking the STEM Dress Code, a visual arts project that explores how gender, appearance, and clothing intersect with perceptions of credibility and inclusion in science and tech. People from a distance at the FemTech + Feminist Tech Exhibition at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, where Code Couture: Breaking the STEM Dress Code project was displayed Quotes from the exhibition printed on small papers and laid out on a off-white surface
June 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Matthias Zepper & @phd-council.bsky.social recently organized a photography workshop. 🧪📸

“It was rewarding to see the participants bring their scientific mindset, including patience and curiosity, and apply it to photography” says Matthias Zepper, bioinformatician at @scilifelab-ngi.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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🌱 On this year’s #BiodiversityDay, five SciLifeLab researchers share how their work is helping us better understand – and protect – the living world around us. 🧪🌏

Full article ↓
www.scilifelab.se/news/scilife...
Close-up of SciLifeLab researcher Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich with a butterfly on her nose. The logo of the International Day for Biological Diversity is also visible
May 22, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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(1/2) The world’s smallest Dala horse! 🧪

What happens when you combine an #ElectronMicroscope with an artist's vision?

At UCEM, a SciLifeLab unit at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social, the tiny Dala horse was created using a FIB-SEM.

Photos: Erik Olof Wiklund, Nils Hauff, Mattias Pettersson.
#FIBSEM
Artist Erik Olof Wiklund, student at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, has together with staff scientist Nils Hauff pushed the boundaries of both technology and imagination – creating the world’s smallest Dala horse, the same size as a human red blood cell. Artist Erik Olof Wiklund, student at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, watch images of the Dala horse together with staff scientist Nils Hauff Close-up of the Dala horse Image of the Dala horse
May 13, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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“Drug safety evaluation is a difficult process, and AI-driven solutions help make things happen,” says @ospjuth.bsky.social, SciLifeLab #AI Lead and @uu.se professor, about his newly founded company working with automated microscopy and AI-based image analysis ↓🧪🖥️

www.uu.se/en/news/2025...
Ola Spjuth standing in a colorful room lookin into the camera
April 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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(1/2) “It’s fantastic that all this expertise exists in Sweden and I’m thrilled to have brought this team together” says @delemottelab.bsky.social who leads a project with researchers from 5 universities, aiming to develop a new strategy for designing drug molecules targeting #IonChannels 🧪
#MolBiol
SciLifeLab researcher and KTH Professor Lucie Delemotte sitts behind a microscope.
April 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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On the latest episode of the Flot.bio podcast, Mathias Uhlén, SciLifeLab Founding Director, joins Philip Hemme to discuss the power of an entrepreneurial mindset in academia and how AI is shaping the future of biology. 🧪🤖

Listen now on YouTube, Spotify of Apple podcasts (link in thread)!
February 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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“We love #microscopy and thanks to the infrastructures at SciLifeLab we can develop new methods and establish original views on human #CellBiology” says Bennie Lemmens (SciLifeLab & @ki.se) 🧪

Image: #SuperResolutionMicroscopy image of replicating human epithelial cell with two nascent #DNA labels
The image shows a microscopy image of a replicating human epithelial cell with two different nascent DNA labels in cyan and magenta, which was imaged with super resolution microscopy (3D-SIM) at the SciLifeLab Advanced Light Microscopy unit.
February 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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#AI Virtual Cells could revolutionize biological science ↓🧪

Biology and #ArtificialIntelligence are coming together to change the way we do biological science, writes Stanford/SciLifeLab/KTH researcher Emma Lundberg & colleagues in a @cp-cell.bsky.social perspective article

#AI #WomenInSTEM
January 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Erik Lindahl is the new director of Sweden’s #supercomputer infrastructure #NAISS 🧪🖥️🧬

SciLifeLab researcher @eriklindahl.bsky.social (Stockholm University/KTH) is also moving some of his operations to Linköping University.

More at www.linkedin.com/posts/scilif...

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence
December 13, 2024 at 8:30 AM
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In this interview, Professor Thomas Sakmar from @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social shares his views on infrastructures like SciLifeLab & how #technology drives progress in #LifeScience 🧪

Longer video: www.linkedin.com/company/scil...
December 12, 2024 at 9:40 AM
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“It was an empowering moment when I received the news. Being accepted as part of such a vibrant community felt like … a significant achievement that comes with great responsibility” says @sciezgin.bsky.social (SciLifeLab/KI) after being elected member of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme 🧪
close-up portrait of Erdinc Sezgin with blurry dark greenery in the background.
December 3, 2024 at 1:02 PM
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Calling Recent PhDs! The PULSE postdoc program at SciLifeLab is opening soon, matchmaking portfolio now published! 🧪🌍🖥️🧬

The program welcomes researchers from all over the world – 48 in total, in an academic and an entrepreneurial track.

#MolBiol #AcademicSky #PlantSciJobs
The face and upper body of a young scientist in bright laboratory environment. In the foreground: a blurry out of focus vial with red liquid.
November 26, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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Three cameras captured everything – from testing out the squeeze method of preparing a sponge to troubleshooting a low yield, to the celebration of samples passing the first quality assurance step. All groups were in the end successful in preparing the organisms for #sequencing🌾🧪🌍🧬

#PlantGenomics
Scientist with blue gloves and a GoPro in harness on her chest sitting on a chair in a white lab environement. The scientist has dark har in a hair scrunchie and is surrounded by other scientists with white lab coats.
November 20, 2024 at 11:58 AM
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The #Biodiversity #Genomics #Europe consortium and SciLifeLab held its first course in preparing Hi-C libraries. The entire course was filmed and will be openly available to anyone once produced 🔓🧪🌾🌍🧬

www.scilifelab.se/news/changin...

#ERGA #sequencing #Genome #OpenAccess
GoPro photographed from behind. The screen on the GoPro shows that a scientist with white labcoat and blue gloves is being filmed while holding lab equipment, preparing some sort of sample. It is hard to tell exactly what the scientist is doing.
November 20, 2024 at 11:58 AM
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“For an organ that ‘starts to do its job’ with a newborn's first breath, it looks intricately sophisticated. And it looks stunningly beautiful” says @burcuayoglu.bsky.social 🧪

More ↓
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#MolBiol #PCCM #Microscopy
November 19, 2024 at 10:34 AM
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That did not go too well, did it? Here's a map you can hopefully see the platform names on 🙈
Map of Sweden and the name of ten platforms with lines shooting across the map to illustrate where the platforms are located in the country. The lines are busy and hard to tell where exactly they are leading to, the illustration rather shows that the platforms are located across Sweden. The ten platform names are: Bioinformatics, Genomics, Clinical Genomics, Clinical Proteomics & Immunology, Metabolomics, Spatial Biology, Cellular and Molecular Imaging, Integrated Structural Biology, Chemical Biology and Genomce Engineering, Drug Discovery and Development
November 18, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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As Sweden's National Infrastructure for Molecular Life Sciences, SciLifeLab aims to:
Five goals are listed with an icon illustrating each. The goals are: Develop and provide excellent life science infrastructure; strengthen scientific communities, capabilities, and international collaborations; Transform life science data into knowledge; attract and foster scientific excellence and provide advanced training; support innovation and bridge-building for the benefit of society. The icons are: a wrench; test tubes; data servers; a brain with cogwheels; a light bulb.
November 18, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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Our research community consists of more than 300 affiliated group leaders. We currently have two fellows programs and an upcoming postdoc program recruiting 48 postdocs.
Busy room with people talking to eachother, some with coffee mugs in their hands making their way through the crowd, scientific posters in the distance
November 18, 2024 at 3:05 PM