🎂This year we’re celebrating @EMBL’s 50th anniversary and 30 years of excellence in bioinformatics at EMBL-EBI! We’re thrilled to unveil an anniversary edition of EMBL-EBI's Highlights report showcasing our achievements in 2023. #EMBLEBI30 #EMBL50

Millions of people living in unmapped areas around the world are vulnerable to disasters. We partnered with Freethink to highlight these community stories and help close map data gaps. Watch more: buff.ly/4aus85G

This #WorldEnvironmentDay the team from Humanitarian Open Street Maps (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team) are shining a light on the millions of people that live in unmapped regions around the globe and why it’s critically important that we help close map data gaps: lnkd.in/gu62UsAq

A brilliant account of the art of the possible in urban mapping + climate change; slum dwellers capturing drone imagery + mapping to improve resilience of their communities

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We show this highly conserved cation channel acts on hypothalamic pomc and oxytocin neurons to regulate instinctive behaviours including food hoarding, food seeking, fear, social interaction and maternal care.

Could oxytocin - the 'love hormone' - help treat postnatal depression? Scientists Inst Metabolic Science-Metabolic Research Labs BCMHouston have found a gene that can cause obesity & postnatal depression when impaired. Follow-up work in mice suggests oxytocin may alleviate these symptoms. cam.ac.uk/research/news/…

Woman of the Day biologist and geneticist Nettie Stevens born OTD 1861 in Vermont. She discovered the chromosomes we now know as X and Y, and published a research paper in 1905 establishing that XX chromosomes = female and XY = male. Nettie’s father was keen for his daughters to

📅Save the date! ✅Feb 3-5 2025 🧬Fundamentals 🧬of Variant Interpretation 🧬in Clinical Practice 📌Hinxton, nr Cambridge A cutting-edge update on evolving topics for experienced geneticists as well as a foundation for those new to the subject. DM for further information

UTRannotator scores are displayed on annotation tabs for variants in 5’untranslated regions that create/disrupt upstream open reading frames Nicky Whiffin Xiaolei Zhang 张小蕾 #noncoding

This will be hugely helpful for variant interpretation and clinical diagnosis of rare disease.

GnomAD 4.1 is a major innovation in the data available to assist in variant classification and clinical diagnosis of rare disease.

Congratulations to Professor Nik-Zainal for winning the 2024 ESMO Award for Translational Research | Oncology Awards: esmo.org/about-esmo/awa…

The incredible entries from previous years can be seen on the Centre for Personalised Medicine, Oxford website: cpm.ox.ac.uk/art-and-scienc…

There are currently over 100 dedicated variant effect predictors available! How can we choose the best? Learn how in this talk by Dr. Ben Livesey (Marsh Lab, The University of Edinburgh). tinyurl.com/VEPBenchmark

Well done Caroline Wright! What an achievement to have not only tackled ‘Relent’ by Graham Fitkin, but to be able to play this from memory and REALLY well! Caroline is a scientist by profession but a wonderful amateur pianist participating on the Chetham’s piano course. 👏👏

Many congratulations Julia! Great to see you taking on this important new role! 🎉

In our latest work, we explore the contribution of rare, typically inherited, damaging genetic variants to the risk of severe developmental disorders (DDs) and establish a major role for incompletely penetrant rare variation. Now out on medRxiv: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Another thoughtful piece from Anneke Lucassen and Rachel Horton on newborn genome sequencing in European Journal of Human Genetics nature.com/articles/s4143…

Join the DECIPHER team and leading experts at the Clinical Genomics - Fundamentals of Variant Interpretation in Clinical Practice course in February 2025. Application deadline 26 November 2024