UBCO scientists develop breakthrough tools | News
UBC Okanagan resarchers have unveiled two innovations that could transform how scientists study the mechanical forces that drive…
Positive association between Internet use and mental health among adults aged ≥50 years in 23 countries
Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx) (Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, accessed 1 November 2023); https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-results Mental Health…
Morphological map of under- and overexpression of genes in human cells
Mattiazzi Usaj, M. et al. High-content screening for quantitative cell biology. Trends Cell Biol. 26, 598–611 (2016). CAS …
The Platinum Pedigree: a long-read benchmark for genetic variants
Gonzaga-Jauregui, C., Lupski, J. R. & Gibbs, R. A. Human genome sequencing in health and disease. Annu. Rev.…
Deep-learning-based gene perturbation effect prediction does not yet outperform simple linear baselines
The success of large language models in knowledge representation has spawned efforts to apply the foundation model concept…
GeneAgent: self-verification language agent for gene-set analysis using domain databases
Model setting and data collection In this work, we utilized GPT-4 (version 20230613) as the backend model via…
Recognify’s Phase IIb trial of schizophrenia therapy fails to meet primary goal
atai Life Sciences (ATAI) company Recognify Life Sciences has reported that its Phase IIb trial of oral compound,…
Population-level gene copy number variations reveal distinct genetic properties of different Malus species | BMC Genomics
Weischenfeldt J, Symmons O, Spitz F, Korbel JO. Phenotypic impact of genomic structural variation: insights from and for…
Healthy Life: Ancient viruses in our DNA may hold clues to what makes us human | Healthy Life
Fragments of ancient viral DNA once dismissed as “junk” may play a role in controlling our genes, according…
Shotgun sequencing of airborne eDNA achieves rapid assessment of whole biomes, population genetics and genomic variation
Permitting The analysis of human-derived eDNA from field obtained samples and human-related sampling was conducted with University of…