Multiscale Systems Biologist • Bridging micro and macro levels • @MathCancer Lab and @IULuddy Alumni • @PhysiCell user • Open-Source

Joined April 2017
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Hello World ! Starting today, I will share one great tool/software related systems biology/comp biology on each mondays.
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My university lab (shanghai jiao tong @sjtu1896 ) just made an “agentic” AI system for diagnosing rare diseases really well. It doesn’t just guess either, it shows traceable reasoning linked to evidence so you can verify. This specific paper looks really cool too, it works like a team (multiple agents not just one chatbot). It takes messy clinical data and outputs a really nice list with reasons, exactly whats needed! The west very rarely makes AI for rare diseases because it’s not profitable, so its nice to see China doing lots of work on it. This is the type of work that will help save lives (not chatgpt/claude chatbots..) and its where China is absolutely leading in
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Excited to share our new paper in Nature Methods! 🚀 We present iSCALE, a “Google Map” for spatial transcriptomics, scaling cellular-resolution gene expression mapping to large-sized tissues beyond the reach of current platforms. 👉nature.com/articles/s41592-0…
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Having difficulties segmenting your 3D🔬 datasets ? You can try the CellposeSAM plugin🧑‍💻directly in MorphoNet in one click ! No python required 😌
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Human endometrial tissue mapped using CODA and InterpolAI Red: endothelial cells; yellow: epithelial cells; purple: stromal cells More about this here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… More about CODA: nature.com/articles/s41592-0… More about InterpolAI: nature.com/articles/s41592-0…
In our new paper, we produced a 3D single-cell reference map to guide the design and validation of a new multi-compartment assembloid that mimics the function and architecture of the human endometrial tissue, exhibiting stromal decidualization. More here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Linking tumour angiogenesis and tumour immunity bit.ly/3HmulHV

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7 Aug 2025
im sorry but what is this graph
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A periodic reminder to leave behind simplistic & naive notions.
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23 Jun 2025
Changing your map’s resolution can change your conclusions. It’s called the Support Effect. And it distorts everything from poverty estimates to climate models. Here’s how it works:
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31 May 2025
GPT-6 will have the intelligence to open a bakery instead of doing a PhD
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Our latest work, led by @__btjackson and Angela Montero @MSKCancerCenter demonstrates how intracellular metabolic gradients induce dependence on exogenous pyruvate in embryonic stem cells
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The end of the genetic paradigm of cancer.
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I am happy to share that I have organized my first symposium. I look forward to many exciting contributions! ⬇️ sites.google.com/view/ymatrs…
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💾 Save this review for a literature recap on vascularized #organoids. Scientists provide an in-depth overview of the current landscape of vascularized organoid fabrication and functionality, addressing challenges and opportunities within the field. bit.ly/3FnsNfc
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Delighted to announce the publication of our 10 hallmarks of AI in precision oncology Review paper in Nature Cancer! This work provides a comprehensive, up-to-date synthesis of AI’s transformative role in cancer care. Check it out here: nature.com/articles/s43018-0…
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Ever wondered why we do all these #Omics? Here is your answer: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 📜 Multi-Omics integration of a Human Cell Atlas (@humancellatlas ) of the Kidney, coordinated by the #HCA Standards and Technology Working Group and co-led by @eli_mereu. Datasets: 10x Genomics scRNA 3´and 5 plus single-nuclei 3´ RNA-seq. Special guests: Smart-seq2 and scNMT-seq. Highlights: 1. Identification of rare and clinically relevant cell types, such as WFDC2 thick ascending limb cells and Norn cells (EPO-producing fibroblasts). 2. Improved kidney disease trait heritability analysis and enhanced functional annotation of disease-associated loci. Extra feature: scOMM, an interpretable machine learning tool for multimodal cell-type classification and benchmarking. Enjoy reading bioRxiv & medRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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New online! Beyond the black box with biologically informed neural networks bit.ly/3DhWUUH
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We’re living in a golden age of open science for those who don’t want to be left behind by their scarcity mindset. Not just for AI but for everything. Hoard at your peril
Experimental validation is of course important for foundation and task-specific model predictions in biology. But so is getting things out there that can be validated by many more people. It’s going to take everyone
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