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Yu Xu

@IamYuXu

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Senior Researcher at University of Cambridge; Ex-member of Trinity College Dublin. Computational Genomics, Health Data Science, Machine learning, Data Mining

Cambridge, England
Joined December 2013
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@IamLinghua
Linghua Wang, MD, PhD
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📢It’s now out in ⁦@NatureGenet⁩! 🎉Congratulations to our amazing team ⁦@Yibo_Dai⁩ ⁦@GreenLymphoLab⁩ and wonderful collaborators ⁦⁦@MDAndersonNews#SpatialOmics #TME #inflammatory niches 🌟Data & Code are publicly available
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Nature Genetics - Analysis of the immune microenvironment of diffuse B cell lymphomas using spatial transcriptomics, proteomics and genomics highlights discrete cellular niches with divergent...
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@BrandonLuuMD
Brandon Luu, MD
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If you don’t exercise, just do 3x1 minute bursts of intense movement daily (rush up the stairs, walk briskly, bike hard, etc) In a UK Biobank study, this was associated with a 40% reduction in mortality
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@JunhaoWen
Junhao (Hao) Wen
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New paper from LABS freshly out at @NatureBME: Brain–heart–eye axis revealed by multi-organ imaging genetics and proteomics. Great team effort from @chrisdav66 at Penn, Keenan Walker, and Michael Duggan, PhD, from NIA! https://t.co/QIRVKSHTOG
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Nature Biomedical Engineering - A brain–heart–eye axis is generated through integration of multi-omics and multi-organ data from UKBB, BLSA, FinnGen and PGC, revealing phenotypic...
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@MariosGeorgakis
Marios Georgakis
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Great study comparing genetics of disease susceptibilty vs. disease progression 👉at same sample size more loci identifiable in GWAS of susceptibility vs. progression 👉 genetic architecture of disease susceptibility largely different from that of disease-specific mortality
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@pdhsu
Patrick Hsu
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Today in @ScienceMagazine, we report a new DNA editing technology to seamlessly write massive changes into the right place in the human genome. The reason gene editing hasn't transformed human health is that current gene editing technologies like CRISPR are very limited. The
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Patrick Hsu
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What if we could universally recombine, insert, delete, or invert any two pieces of DNA? In back-to-back @Nature papers, we report the discovery of bridge RNAs and 3 atomic structures of the first natural RNA-guided recombinase - a new mechanism for programmable genome design
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@fabian_theis
Fabian Theis
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🚀 Excited to share scPortrait! Led by Sophia Mädler & Niklas Schmacke w/ the Mann lab — a new @scverse tool for standardized single-cell image data. Enables ML-ready extraction, >1B cell processing, cross-omics, & cancer macrophage insights. 🔗 https://t.co/VXHrCBgdDh
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@NatureBiotech
Nature Biotechnology
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Single-cell polygenic risk scores dissect cellular and molecular heterogeneity of complex human diseases https://t.co/Hx86TBZrwG
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@EricTopol
Eric Topol
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The human proteome and organ age clocks across the lifespan, a tour de force report @CellCellPress https://t.co/0mlEr8YmOy
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@denny_zhou
Denny Zhou
4 months
Slides for my lecture “LLM Reasoning” at Stanford CS 25: https://t.co/WDI6w0HN8A Key points: 1. Reasoning in LLMs simply means generating a sequence of intermediate tokens before producing the final answer. Whether this resembles human reasoning is irrelevant. The crucial
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@KKCheng4
KK Cheng
4 months
I am humbled to be recognised alongside my distinguished colleagues. The recognition belongs also to my collaborators in the UK and China, and @unibirmingham, an institution that inspires and empowers its people to make a global difference. https://t.co/jM1HZbIIpi
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The University of Birmingham has announced the winners of the 2025 Founders’ Awards for Excellence, including a unique anniversary award.
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@jure
Jure Leskovec
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Announcing Biomni — the first general-purpose biomedical AI agent. Biomni is a free web platform where biomedical scientists can immediately delegate their tasks to Biomni, starting today! Biomni automates literature reviews, hypothesis generation, protocol design,
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@jyang1981
Jian Yang
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gsMap paper online. Source code: https://t.co/J1YnfnJ1j6. Results visualisation website: https://t.co/mVKmv21wbZ.
@Nature
nature
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Nature research paper: Spatially resolved mapping of cells associated with human complex traits https://t.co/0d0HWN7KpY
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@MariosGeorgakis
Marios Georgakis
9 months
An in-depth analysis of organ-specific proteomic aging clocks in the Whitehall cohort (n=6,235, follow-up 20 years)⏱️ 👉modest correlations (max r=0.37) across organ age gaps 👉larger organ age gaps linked to higher risk of 30/45 age-related diseases 👉only a few aging clocks
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@BrandonLuuMD
Brandon Luu, MD
9 months
Lifestyle is a stronger predictor of aging and mortality than genetics. A new Nature study of ~500,000 people found: 🎯 17% of mortality variation was linked to lifestyle (exposome). 🧬 <2% of was explained by genetics. Here’s what you need to know 👇🧵 1/10
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@IamYuXu
Yu Xu
9 months
We are introducing a major upgrade to our OmicsPred platform ( https://t.co/yzCepjWZpG)—a resource to enhance the accessibility and usability of genetic scores for multi-omic traits and their phenotypic associations. For more details, please follow us on https://t.co/MCYLpnfKv3
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@MariosGeorgakis
Marios Georgakis
10 months
Interesting study❗️ 🔗link to preprint: https://t.co/Y1kXubrsXI
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@BoWang87
Bo Wang
10 months
Thrilled that ‘Foundation Models for Biology’ has been named one of the top 7 technologies to watch by @Nature! Thanks for highlighting our scGPT work! Also honored to contribute to such a visionary piece. 2025 will be an exciting year for AI & biology!
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Nature - Sustainability and artificial intelligence dominate our seventh annual round-up of exciting innovations.
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@zheng_jusheng
Ju-Sheng Zheng
10 months
Our work of MetaboQTLs in Han Chinese: Genetic mapping of serum metabolome to chronic diseases among Han Chinese: Cell Genomics
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cell.com
Cheng et al. present a landscape of the genetic regulation of 2,759 serum metabolites in four cohorts among Han Chinese individuals, offering valuable insights into the role of serum metabolites in...
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@MariosGeorgakis
Marios Georgakis
10 months
Cross-omics links enabled by deep phenotyping in UKB❗️ 👉2,923 proteins & 1,051 organ imaging traits 🧠🫁🫀 👉5,067 protein-imaging associations 👉proteins associated with most organ imaging traits tended to be expressed in these organs 👉in MR 8,116 protein-imaging trait links
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