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Hi everyone Instats is excited to offer a 1-day seminar, Cell and Gene Therapy: Design, Estimands, Operations, and AI, livestreaming October 6 and sponsored by the American Statistical Association’s Cell and Gene Therapy Scientific Working Group.

Researchers at the University of East Anglia have identified shared biological mechanisms that may help explain chronic exhaustion in conditions including long Covid and PTSD. A new paper published in the Journal of Translational Medicine reveals biological similarities between five major illnesses long viewed as separate disorders: chronic fatigue syndrome (also known as ME), long Covid, post-traumatic stress disorder, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis.

Scientists have long understood that each of the roughly 20,000 genes in the human body carries the instructions for a single kind of protein. Researchers at Harvard Medical School have now found that instructions from separate genes—even genes on different chromosomes—can combine into chimeric mRNAs that produce previously unknown, functional proteins.

Dear all, We are pleased to announce Introduction to Computational Biology, a five-day online hands-on training course taking place 28 September–2 October. Course website: https://www.physalia-courses.org/cou...ional-biology/ The course provides an introduction to modern computational approaches used in genomics, transcriptomics, and multi-omics research, combining short lectures with practical, project-based learning using real biological datasets.

The immune system’s power comes from its genetic diversity, allowing myriad threats to be neutralized through first recognizing foreign antigens. That diversity is also what makes the immune system so difficult to study. Recent advances in sequencing technology and computational biology, however, are giving researchers new tools to understand immune responses and immune-related diseases in greater detail.

Hi everyone Instats is excited to offer a 1-day seminar, Machine Learning for Computational Biology, livestreaming September 8th and led by Nikolay Oskolkov from Lund University. As biological data continue to grow in scale and complexity, machine learning has become essential for analyzing and interpreting data in biostatistics, genetics, bioinformatics, ecology, genomics, and related fields.

Hi everyone Instats is excited to offer a 1-day seminar, Single Cell Data Analysis 3.0, livestreaming September 9th and led by Nikolay Oskolkov from Lund University. As single-cell methods become central to biological and health research, mastering computational approaches for single-cell RNA sequencing data is essential for investigating cellular heterogeneity and advancing discovery in areas such as cancer research, developmental biology, and immunology.

Hi everyone Instats is excited to offer a 5-day seminar, Accessible Bioinformatics for Windows Users, livestreaming October 2nd - 6th and led by Andres Zhou Tsang from Adelaide University.

Researchers at the Land Institute and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology have produced the first chromosome-scale, haplotype-phased genome assemblies for two wild North American prairie plants: Silphium integrifolium and Silphium. The work, published in Nature Communications, lays the genomic groundwork needed to domesticate these deep-rooted giant sunflower species into perennial crops.

A study published in Science Advances by researchers at the University of Vienna maps how genome architecture has been reshuffled across the animal kingdom, showing that animal genomes evolve along a limited set of irreversible “evolutionary highways.” The findings offer a new basis for conservation of animal biodiversity. Since all animals split from a common ancestor more than 600 million years ago, their chromosomes have fused, split and rearranged repeatedly.