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Vy Wien Lai
@vywien-lai.bsky.social
DPhil student in Medical Sciences (Spatial Transcriptomics) at the University of Oxford researching prematurity in gut development 🧬🔬💻📊
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#WIMMReads: New @nature.com study, led by the Simmons & Antanaviciute Groups, used advanced single-cell and spatial analysis techniques to map the cells that drive #Crohn's fistulas - paving the way for targeted treatments 🧪

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Oxford scientists map the cells that drive Crohn’s disease fistulas
Researchers at the MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit have identified how rare populations of abnormal cells drive the formation and persistence of fistulas - painful, tunnel-like tracts that dev...
www.imm.ox.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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#WIMMinFocus
Not a T.rex but a pretentious gut tissue!
Spatial transcriptomics mapped 5,100 genes at subcellular resolution.
Captured by @vywien-lai.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 WIMM Image Competition ( #SciArt).
Proof that science doesn’t just uncover life’s mysteries — it gives you dinosaurs 🦕
November 12, 2025 at 10:07 AM