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17 Jul 2024
Super excited to share that ENGRAM is out today! ENGRAM cells are programmed to write their histories into the genome, recording the intensity, duration, and order of biological events simultaneously. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Could the folding of synthetic gene circuits in 3D shape how genes are expressed? Today @ScienceMagazine we report on the role of gene syntax in shaping feedback between transcriptional activity and genome folding for advanced circuit design🧵 (1/n)
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New preprint! @JShendure @CXchengxiangQIU Can we learn regulatory grammars of human cell types we'll never be able to profile - by training on mouse development and transferring across 241 mammalian genomes?biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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absolutely excited to see @CXchengxiangQIU starting his own lab at Dartmouth! Great adventure awaits!
Thrilled to share I’ve started my lab at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine! We focus on mapping cellular trajectories & TF networks in development and Mendelian disorders, exploring new therapies. Join us—postdocs, grads, and scientists welcome! sites.dartmouth.edu/qiulab/
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The Wilkinson Lab is open for science! @MSKCancerCenter 🧬We'll be finding funky new RNA biology, mainly by looking at reverse transcriptases (i.e. the Best Enzymes In The World)🧬
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Super excited re: first Shendure/Baker Lab collaboration & preprint on a multiplex sequencing-based strategy for screening de novo proteome editors in mammalian cells. Kudos to brilliant Chase Suiter & @Green_Ahn @UWproteindesign on the work! Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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We are pleased to share our new preprint: “De novo design of RNA and nucleoprotein complexes”. This work extends the principles of de novo protein design to RNA and DNA, enabling the generative design of complex multi-polymer structures! (1/6) doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.01.6…

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1 Oct 2025
pH gradients are central to physiology, from vesicle acidification to the acidic tumor microenvironment. But how do we program proteins to respond to pH? In our new preprint biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…, we developed computational methods to rationally design pH-sensitive binders. 🧵
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We sought to make proteins both potent and FAST. We used #proteindesign to design precise control over protein interaction lifetimes, enabling us to construct rapid-response circuits, biosensors, and switchable cytokines. Now published @Nature! Links to paper and tutorial below.
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Phosphorylation on tyrosines control key pathways in immunity, cancer, and metabolism. For the first time, we can now design proteins that specifically recognize individual phosphotyrosines, even in disordered regions. (1/8) Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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27 Aug 2025
Congrats @JingchuanLuo. Really novel way to study localized translation.
I'm thrilled to share our work from @JswLab (sciencedirect.com/science/ar…). We developed LOCL-TL, an optogenetic approach for monitoring localized translation in mammalian cells. LOCL-TL revealed two mechanistically distinct strategies for mitochondrially localized translation.
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10 May 2025
Molecular recording is an emerging field with exciting applications. In this review, @_Choi_Junhong and I outline major challenges that the community should address to fully realize the potential of this technology, and highlight promising directions that we are heading.
Molecular circuits for genomic recording of cellular events dlvr.it/TKcVLr
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10 May 2025
I am thankful for the feedback from @JShendure, the support from @UWproteindesign and @DamonRunyon.
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10 Apr 2025
Beautiful work! congrats @yodai_takei !
Excited to share our new paper out in @Nature revealing cell-type specific nuclear organization and its link to gene regulation using new spatial multi-omics technologies! nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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31 Jan 2025
Congrats @JONA. such beautiful paper
I’m delighted to share our work on scrambling the human genome using prime editing, repetitive elements, and recombinases @ScienceMagazine! @ferreira_raph_ @LeopoldParts @ProfTomEllis, @geochurch @SangerInstitute science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… Lots of changes from the preprint. A🧵
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31 Jan 2025
Congrats on this beautiful paper! @sudpinglay
Now out in @ScienceMagazine we present 'Genome-shuffle-seq': a method to shuffle mammalian genomes and characterize the impact of structural variants (SVs) with single-cell resolution in one experiment. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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29 Nov 2024
Finally out in @ScienceMagazine! Utilizing the cost-effective EasySci to profile 21 million single-cell transcriptomes across five life stages and diverse sexes/genotypes, we reveal aging as distinct, development-like transitions, with dramatic cell population changes in specific time windows. We also demonstrate how highly scalable single-cell genomics enables "Functional Cell-omics" to unravel Cell Regulatory Networks at the whole-organism scale. Congratulations to the incredible Zehao Zhang (@Tommyz626) from our lab @RockefellerUniv for leading this work! science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
5 Mar 2024
What if 1 million scRNA-seq libraries can be prepared within $1k? Here we go 👉 21 million cells from 623 mouse tissues, spanning 5 life stages & 3 genotypes, all in a SINGLE study by ONE remarkable student Zehao @Tommyz626 from our lab @RockefellerUniv! shorturl.at/epsz7
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25 Nov 2024
Such an enjoyable journey to write this review with all the amazing scientists. glad to see it's finally out. A big shout out to Lucia and @tranmartink on their amazing illustrations!
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25 Nov 2024
clarify: the editorial team made the final figures based on the amazing figures made by the above two.
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