A little fun with numbers on this Sunday, showing just how successful DNA really is. First, here's what DNA looks like. I'll draw your attention to the "rise" in DNA, that is, the distance between two basepairs, which is 3.4 Angstroms, also known as 3.4x10^-10 meters...

🧬 New in @Nature: Our team found that fat cells keep a “memory” of their previous obese state even after weight loss, helping explain why maintaining weight loss is so challenging. Excited to share this work!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Seems that @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social ought to consider adding links to @bsky.app posts given the mass transfer of scientists from Twitter to @bsky.app that is taking place.

Really cool model from Brian Hie and Patrick Hsu! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Registration is open for the EMBO workshop Lymphatic Tissues and Germinal Centres in Immune Reactions! Deadline is 2nd April 2024. meetings.embo.org/event/24-lym...

In this interesting LSE Impact Blog post, Carrigan analyzes the options the academic audience has in the increasingly fragmented social media landscape. Is Bluesky the next go-to social media platform for academics? @drmarkcarrigan.bsky.social #AcademicSky blogs.lse.ac.uk/impa...

New accessibility pilot on bioRxiv pilot: AI-generated paper summaries at 3 levels (general -> expert). Click Automated Services in the dashboard to view these. We welcome feedback. connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/11...

Bluesky is offering journalists and newsrooms direct access to this platform. Spread the word. 🗞

The current v1 Bluesky system is designed to scale to 1M users. And today we're going to hit 1M users! We will, of course, keep pushing things and *try* to smoothly transition to the v2 Bluesky system later this year. It's designed for >10M users. We just have to finish building the v2 system!

Working on #RNA processing and #cancer? We are looking for #phd #postdocs to apply for short talks and travel awards and join us in November #RNACancerSRC Register now: bit.ly/3Z3jqau

What a neat paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Women accumulate about 15 mutations in their healthy breast tissue every year, so mutational burden increases with age. Then you throw in pregnancy, and it suppresses mutation accumulation. In the epithelium but not in the stroma!

Check out this beautiful in vivo perturb-seq study from Luke Gilbert, David Raleigh, and Bill Weiss at the Arc Institute and UCSF cancer center! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...