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

https://www.scilifelab.se/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/scilifelab/
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Hey Bluesky! Given that we are new here, we thought an introduction might be in place.

So, what is SciLifeLab? In short, we are a nonprofit research infrastructure based in Sweden, enabling life science research that would otherwise not be possible. 🧪🌍🖥️🧬
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Extremely happy that two postdoctoral scientist from our lab have been awarded the prestigious @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social starting grant to stablish their independent research group at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social and SLU Huge congratulations for Eduardo Sagredo and Anna Toldrà @scilifelab.se
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
About fifteen years ago, scientists at SciLifeLab and @umeaplantsciencecentre.se teamed up to sequence the enormous spruce genome 🧪 🖥️ 🧬

youtu.be/5eO0C3tDNDM

Featured here: @forsbergnilsson.bsky.social (UU), Pär Ingvarsson (SLU, prev. @umeauniversitet.bsky.social) & Björn Nystedt (@nbis.se)
A "bold move": The story of the first spruce DNA map
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November 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Heart ‘blueprint’ made openly available in unique resource 🧪

A detailed map showing how different groups of cells are arranged and how they interact in fetal #HeartDevelopment, now published by SciLifeLab and KTH researchers. ↓
www.scilifelab.se/news/cellula...

#OpenAccess #SpatialTranscriptomics
Heart ‘blueprint’ made openly available in unique resource
A detailed map of the developing human heart, showing different groups of cells and how they interact in fetal heart development, have been published by a team led by SciLifeLab and KTH Royal Institut...
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October 30, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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🧬 The #BGE continent-wide network behind the sequencing and assembly of these genomes includes @genoscopeumr.bsky.social opeumr.bsky.social, @cnag-eu.bsky.social u.bsky.social, @sangerinstitute.bsky.social, @scilifelab.se b.se, Università degli Studi di Firenze, and Università degli Studi di Bari.
October 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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🎉 This month we celebrate an important milestone for @biogeneurope.bsky.social: more than 100 genomes have been sequenced as part of the project!!
👏 Congratulations & thanks to all project partners for their dedicated work!

www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/celebra... @ebpgenome.bsky.social
Celebrating 100+ BGE genomes!
In October 2025, Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) reached a milestone: over one hundred genomes have been sequenced and publicly released as part of the project. More than simply collecting samples ...
www.erga-biodiversity.eu
October 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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@raquelgarza.bsky.social from the Jakobsson Lab presented our recent work on single-cell omics (transcriptomics+ proteomics) within our ASAP project at the SciLifeLab Lund day. This work is being done in collaboration with #BioMS and @scilifelab.se. We are looking forward to the discoveries ahead 🌟
October 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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At this week's #VirtualPub, we welcome Ilaria Testa, @scilifelab.se and KTH, for a talk on "Caught in a moment: dynamics of proteins at the nanoscale."
All are welcome!
Join us!
🗓️ Friday, Oct 24 @ 13:00 CEST
Register 🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/explo...
October 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The joy of #science! Yesterday, scientists from SciLifeLab Campus Solna came together to share snapshots of their research to inspire knowledge exchange, ignite new collaborations and strengthen the community. 🧪

#ScienceCommunity #SciComm #CollaborativeScience

youtu.be/I-14_7BQPyg
Scientists form new collaborations and strengthen the community | Campus Solna Science Talks 2025
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October 17, 2025 at 7:52 AM
SciLifeLab supports new therapeutic strategies for #cancer and #AntimicrobialResistance 🧪↓

A project at @lund-university.bsky.social, aims to detect and kill hidden tumors through modified natural killer cells, to improve survival in acute myeloid #leukemia.

www.scilifelab.se/news/scilife...

#AML
SciLifeLab DDD supports new projects in cancer immunotherapy and antimicrobial resistance
In late 2024, the national SciLifeLab Drug Discovery and Development platform (DDD) steering group approved new projects for support by the SciLifeLab DDD infrastructure. Two of these projects are led...
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October 14, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Thank you for attending the GA4GH 13th Plenary meeting, co-hosted by @scilifelab.se. Whether you joined in Uppsala, Sweden or tuned in virtually, your participation is crucial in advancing responsible and global genomic and health data sharing.

Read our press release to learn more:
buff.ly/9HaEwtM
October 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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A new study has mapped the distinct molecular “fingerprints” that 59 diseases leave in blood protein – which would enable blood tests to discern troubling signs from those that are more common #research supported by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation @proteinatlas.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/5x8wfurm
Pan-disease atlas maps molecular fingerprints of health, disease and aging | KTH
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October 10, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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This is a landmark paper and resource describing circulating proteome variation in human diseases. Congrats to many colleagues in 🇸🇪 @proteinatlas.bsky.social @scilifelab.se !
October 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
There is a position open in our lab, within this network. Our project deals with assessing identification and quantification errors for MS-based proteomics. www.protaiomics.eu/project/dc13...
Please check out all the project descriptions at the site below:
October 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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A dual breakthrough in #CancerResearch: ASPIRE awardees Bennie Lemmens & Jira Bartek of @ki.se & @scilifelab.se developed tech to visualize DNA replication in stunning detail AND uncovered a key protein that acts as an “on-switch” for the replication process.
themarkfoundation.org/blog/aspire-...
ASPIRE Awardees Uncover DNA Replication Dynamics with Unprecedented Precision | The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research
DNA replication is a critical biological process that cells use to copy their genome – but when it goes wrong, those failures can have dire consequences. Missteps in the replication process are key…
themarkfoundation.org
October 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
We’re launching a major #recruitment call for staff scientists in #ComputationalBiology, #DataScience, and #AI to strengthen Sweden’s life science research. 🧪🖥️

Positions are based at SciLifeLab sites across Sweden’s leading universities.

Learn more and apply ↓
www.scilifelab.se/news/scilife...
SciLifeLab launches major recruitment call for staff scientists in computational biology, data science and AI
Computational methods and artificial intelligence on large-scale molecular data are transforming the study of biological systems and processes, ranging from molecular structures and cellular processes...
www.scilifelab.se
October 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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New method paper:
Bennie Lemmens et al @scilifelab.se describe 3D-SPARK, a super-resolution microscopy method that maps changes in DNA replication nanostructures in response to genetic perturbations or drugs, linking spatial cell biology with DNA synthesis dynamics
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
October 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Today, we highlight the co-host of the GA4GH 13th Plenary meeting: @SciLifeLab.se!

SciLifeLab is a collaborative effort between Swedish universities that aims to build a national research infrastructure to advance life science research.

We look forward to welcoming the community in Sweden soon!
October 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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A new study by @broberger.bsky.social Lab Stockholm Univ published in Nature Communications found a system in the brain that explains why female mice, who are not normally aggressive, suddenly exhibit this behaviour after becoming pregnant and giving birth. @scilifelab.se
www.su.se/english/news...
Activation of “silent” nerve cells explains aggressiveness in mouse mothers - Stockholm University
Activation of “silent” nerve cells explains aggressiveness in mouse mothers A new study has found a system in the brain that explains why female mice, who are not normally aggressive, suddenly exhibi...
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October 2, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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💡 #KnowledgeHighlight | Biodiversity Genomics Europe + @scilifelab.se Digital Hi-C Course
🔗 scilifelab-training.github.io/BGE-HiC-cour...

Explore open-access training materials in the ERGA #KnowledgeHub ➡️ knowledge.erga-biodiversity.eu

#HiC @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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So flattering! Thanks @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social for this deeply meaningful award! All credit goes to my lab members and collaborators.
@scilifelab.se @ki.se
Erdinc Sezgin to Receive 2026 Early Independent Career Award
www.biophysics.org/news-room/er...
September 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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@scilifelab.se Group Leader retreat 2025 was a blast! Productive discussions, new collaborations, problems solved!! When we get together the magic happens 💪💪

Proud of @gmkov.bsky.social and I’s Tech Session on Planetary Biology research, that brought PIs, Platforms and Leadership together to TALK!
September 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Let's finish the day with the round table discussion 🗣️💬 fantastically led by @ahklemm.bsky.social and Suganya Sivagurunathan from @scilifelab.se & Uppsala University!

So many interesting comments about reproducible science 🧪 and commercial vs open-source software 👩‍💻 in image facility projects 🔬
September 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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September 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM