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“We’re at a point,” Sarah Teichmann continued, “where we can start to assemble the data sets and provide reference atlases for different tissues, different organs, different systems around the body.”
www.genengnews.com/topics/omics...

The Single-Cell Club Is Rapidly Expanding

As single-cell RNA-Seq meets AI, and DNA sequencing prices drop, projects are becoming much (much) larger.

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July 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM

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Nature

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This project is an unprecedented dataset of high resolution anatomical images of individual cells in mouse visual cortex, mapped on to their responses

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The MICrONS Project

An unprecedented dataset of high resolution anatomical images of individual cells in mouse visual cortex, mapped on to their responses. This integrated view of function and structure lays a foundation for discovering the computational bases of cortical circuits.

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April 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD

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Thanks so much to @ddiamond.bsky.social for his excellent, detailed coverage of how medical research is being harmed by federal instability. We need to keep talking about this and help the public understand the scope of damage that is happening and how this will impact future medicine and technology

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · Mar 28

Also spoke with researchers like
@docsirianni.bsky.social who have turned to Bluesky and other outlets to amplify the situation facing scientists.

Heard story after story about heart-wrenching decisions affecting their labs now — and the consequence of fewer cures for patients and families later.

Rachael Sirianni, a bioengineer at U-Mass. Chan Medical School working on treatments for pediatric brain cancer, said her lab is among the many teams that have been effectively paralyzed as funding has dried up. In an interview, she listed the ramifications: no new supplies; no new experiments; no guarantee that she can retain her staff, let alone recruit new team members. “It’s unbearable,” she said, adding that the consequences of the research slowdown will eventually affect all Americans. Sirianni pointed to paused studies and clinical trials that she said offered hope to cancer patients and their families. “Right now, what’s happening is that hope is being yanked away,” she said.

March 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM

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Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics

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🔔 Save the date!
Join us for the next IICD Seminar on April 9 at 2 PM ET with Jean Fan @jef.works from @jhu.edu

🔬 Multi-Sample Comparative Spatial Omics Data Analysis
📍 In person: Schermerhorn 603
💻 Remote: Register 👉 bit.ly/4j0RwEM

March 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM

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Eric Topol

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A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

March 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM

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Waggoner Lab

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Perturb-FISH, a method that combines high-throughput imaging spatial transcriptomics with in situ guide RNA detection, allows for the analysis of molecular and functional states, with spatial resolution at the single-cell level @cellcellpress.bsky.social
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