Elena Bernabeu

“Without data resources, the life sciences would grind to a halt” Peer Bork, then Interim Director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), gave a keynote talk at the 2025 edition of SIB’s flagship biennial event, the [BC]2 Basel Computatio...

SIB is deeply saddened by the passing of Peer Bork, a bioinformatics pioneer and long-time collaborator at EMBL @ebi.embl.org. We are honoured to have spoken with him late last year, following his keynote talk at our [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference. See his interview here 👇

Most bacterial gene families are biased toward specific chromosomal positions The arrangement of genes along bacterial chromosomes influences their expression through growth rate–dependent gene copy number changes during DNA replication. Although translation- and transcription-...

I was waiting two years to see this out!! The genomic location of bacterial genes is not random!!! Congratulation on the authors (Martin Lercher and Team!). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The below walks you through how to delete your DNA data from 23andMe before it goes bankrupt.

📢 new preprint alert: So so excited to share our analysis on the impact of common and rare variants on single-cell gene expression in blood, using WGS and scRNA-seq data from nearly 2,000 individuals and 5.4m cells as part of TenK10K phase 1 🧬 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Integrating the environmental and genetic architectures of aging and mortality - Nature Medicine Based on a systematic analysis of environmental exposures associated with aging and mortality in the UK Biobank, the relative contributions of such exposures and genetic risk for mortality and a range...

Our lifestyle and environmental exposures are the predominant influencers of healthy aging and premature mortality, compared with polygenic risk, in the first comprehensive assessment
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Almost 90% of people would agree to genetic testing to tailor… Find the contact, social media, service desk, and other important information for Genomics England.

Nearly 90% of people would take a genetic test to ensure their medications work effectively and reduce the risk of side effects, according to the first national survey of public attitudes towards pharmacogenomic testing.

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The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

📣📣Genomic data sharing: you don’t know what you’ve got (till it’s gone) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A comment @natrevgenet.bsky.social from @katholt.bsky.social and me

1st post! Been lurking for a while, and still getting to grips with this, but my bird-app emmigration has been successful. 🐥👋 Hoping to reconnect with the scientific community via paper sharing, discussions, and memes (the latter is v important).