Great discussion this morning on tandem repeats - exploring new long read approaches, candidate loci in disease cohorts, association testing frameworks, and ancestry-specific distributions! David Nelson Emily Nelson, Egor Dolzhenko, Dale Annear, Andrew Sharp, Helia (Helyaneh) Ziaei Jam #ASHG24

2 GRAMMY noms for Polaroid Lovers!!!!! 🥲🥲 Beyond thrilled and so grateful to everyone who was involved in the making of this album 💛

The splendor of Notre Dame after 5 years of renovations following the 2019 fire. Set to reopen in a few days on December 8, 2024.

In Tahiti. Far from the Houston snowpacalypse. Stay warm all!

Sledding at Hermann Park Conservancy! I love Houston

Baylor College of Medicine's uncertainty over health research funding is prompting the school to scale back research and reduce its incoming class size. trib.al/ad6ck1t

Today is Dr. Normal Borlaug's birthday. Dr. Borlaug was the father of the Green Revolution that is credited with preventing over 1 billion deaths. the figure below confirms the success of the Green Revolution for India. ted.com/talks/sara_men…

As a co-founder of 23andMe, with all the recent news I felt it was time to express my views on the company, after witnessing the downfall of an idea and brand that could have become the world’s leading digital health platform. The idea for 23andMe came to me after years working

We’re Colossal Biosciences, the de-extinction company responsible for bringing back the first animals from extinction. Our dire wolf pups, Romulus and Remus, were born on October 1, 2024. Watch these pups grow up on our YouTube channel. Link in bio. These two wolves were

Nature research paper: Complete sequencing of ape genomes go.nature.com/3YpukIh

Species-defining differences (governmental and scientific) include a mixture of physical & physiological measures, breeding/food/ecosystem preferences, and DNA.  There is no magic number of changes in any of these categories. A single genetic change can cause speciation ... while

Our Nature paper (rdcu.be/ei1NM) deep sequencing a 4-generation, 28-member family using multiple sequencing technologies to study transmission of all classes of genetic variation is out! Evan Eichler UW Genome Sciences HHMI

Two of the great sentences of Watson and Crick's paper on the structure of DNA, published on this day in 1953:

🎉Happy #DNADay!🧬Today we celebrate the amazing impact of genetics on science, health & society by answering your questions on AI + genetic testing. Plus, we're celebrating our #DNADay25 Essay Contest winners at noon! 🏆👏 Join the convo here: redd.it/1k7i3t1 #ASHG

🧬 80% of #RareDiseases have a genetic cause. At #SimonsSearchlight, we study individuals with single gene conditions & CNVs—160 gene changes + 24 CNVs tied to rare neurodevelopmental disorders. On #NationalDNADay, we celebrate research that helps families find answers. 💡

🎉Congratulations to our incredible #DNADay25 winners — your words inspired, educated, & wowed us! Well done to our honorable mentions for their perspectives & creativity. You all made this year’s contest truly amazing. Read the winning essays now → ashg.org/discover-genet… #ASHG

April 25 is #NationalDNADay. A day to commemorate the successful completion of Human Genome Project in 2023 and the discovery of DNA's double helix in 1953. Cheers to those who discovered and study DNA!

Due to NIH cuts I’m on the job market. Computational biologist, data scientist, human geneticist targeting industry in Seattle or remote. Python, R, SQL, Linux cluster computing, command line, data viz plus deep genetics and bio expertise. PhD from Columbia University. Please RT!

Today, we’re announcing the first major discovery made by our AI Scientist with the lab in the loop: a promising new treatment for dry AMD, a major cause of blindness. Our agents generated the hypotheses, designed the experiments, analyzed the data, iterated, even made figures

For 50 years, pessimists have been wrong. In this interview, The Rational Optimist author Matt Ridley walks us through the miracle of human advancement, from lighting a room to transforming entire economies. This is the story you’ve never been told about how the modern world