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🧬 Giant DNA viruses encode their own eukaryote-like translation machinery, researchers discover

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-giant-dna-viruses-encode-eukaryote.html

#virus #microbes #molbio #translation #omics #genomics #giantvirus

Giant DNA viruses encode their own eukaryote-like translation machinery, researchers discover

In a new study, published in Cell, researchers describe a newfound mechanism for creating proteins in a giant DNA virus, comparable to a mechanism in eukaryotic cells. The finding challenges the dogma that viruses lack protein synthesis machinery, and blurs the line between cellular life and viruses.

Phys.org

Botany One Feb 12

Who gets to do 'omics?
https://www.botany.one/who-gets-to-do-omics/

A team of scientists has a survey. Their goal? To find out who gets to do science, and who has to be a spectator. Find out how you can help.

#PlantScience #Botany #omics

Who gets to do 'omics?

What’s the biggest barrier to participating in science: talent or your bank account?

Botany One

Paul Houle Feb 8

🌾 Innovations in spatial imaging could unlock higher wheat yields

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-spatial-imaging-higher-wheat-yields.html

#farming #plants #omics #biotechnology #agriculture #wheat #food #sensors #imaging

Innovations in spatial imaging could unlock higher wheat yields

Researchers at the John Innes Center and the Earlham Institute are pioneering powerful single-cell visualization techniques that could unlock higher yields of global wheat.

Phys.org

Teixi Feb 1

Sunday slow rereading on #neuroscience #drosophila #flybrain #electromicroscopy #connectomics #omics

Holy Molly forgot this top notch quotation!?

,There is a before and after connectome—B.C. and A.C.’

@albertcardona referencing a well-known quote from #columbiaun #TheoreticalNeuroscience Larry Abbott

with this follow-up:

,It’s the end of the beginning’

https://www.science.org/content/article/complete-map-fruit-fly-brain-circuitry-unveiled

Paul Houle Jan 22

🪅 Gut bacteria rapidly adapt to digest starches in ultra-processed foods, study finds

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-gut-bacteria-rapidly-digest-starches.html

#bacteria #food #microbiome #digestion #omics #microbes #diet #ultraprocessed

Gut bacteria rapidly adapt to digest starches in ultra-processed foods, study finds

Gut bacteria evolve rapidly in response to different diets, UCLA evolutionary biologists report in a new study. The researchers found that gene variants that help microbes digest starches found in ultra-processed foods have "swept" the genomes of some species of gut bacteria in industrialized parts of the world.

Dept of Translational Genomics Jan 15

new paper: "Single-cell transcriptomics of acetaminophen-induced responses in human 2D and 3D liver microtissues" https://doi.org/10.1007/s00204-025-04296-6

"Here, we applied single cell RNA sequencing to characterize cellular responses to acetaminophen exposure in two distinct liver cell culture formats: two-dimensional monolayers (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) spheroids composed of primary human hepatocytes, Kupffer cells, and liver endothelial cells."

#singlecell #omics #liver

Physalia-courses Jan 15

Are you interested in mastering #MachineLearning for biological data?
Join our online course Introduction to Machine Learning with R (16–20 Feb). Gain hands-on experience with R, tidymodels, & key ML techniques tailored for omics data analysis.

https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/course43/

#MachineLearning #Rstats #Omics

Introduction to Machine Learning with R

Dates 3-7 March 2025 To foster international participation, this course will be held online

physalia-courses

Physalia-courses Jan 9

🚀 Master Statistical Methods for Metatranscriptomics
🗓️ 27–29 Apr | Online

Hands-on R/Bioconductor workshop on data normalization, differential expression, networks & multi-omics integration.

https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/metatranscriptomics/

#Metatranscriptomics #Bioinformatics #RStats #Omics

Matthew Russell Jan 7

I have a paper on Biorxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... My first preprint! An instrument capablity comparison for #proteomics for #biomanufacturing. Working towards the economical appliction of #omics technologies to industrial life science.

From Discovery to Process Cont...

Paul Houle Dec 30

🖭 VIRE: A global data platform to better understand viruses

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-vire-global-platform-viruses.html

#virus #omics #bioinformatics #life #biology #environment

VIRE: A global data platform to better understand viruses

Researchers have developed VIRE, a database that integrates approximately 1.7 million viral genomes derived from more than 100,000 metagenomes worldwide. Metagenomic data is obtained by comprehensively sequencing all DNA present in an environment. This approach enables the recovery of genomic information from microorganisms and viruses that cannot be cultured in the laboratory.

Phys.org