Keith Robison

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Deltaviruses spread through a viral Trojan Horse Hepatitis D-like satellite viruses, known as deltaviruses, have been recently discovered in a wide range of animals. These viruses are thought to expr…

We found a viral Trojan Horse: a virus can hide inside another virus.This one surprised us: deltaviruses don’t just borrow a helper virus. They can travel inside it.
A literal Trojan Horse “virus-in-a-virus” route into cells. 🤯 Kudos to 1st author @viroscope.bsky.social and co-authors !

Complete Genomics Sale: Gruyère or Emmental? A bit of interesting news during AGBT was the announcement of the sale of Complete Genomics to Swiss Rockets, a Basel-based company which ha...

Complete Genomics Sale: Gruyère or Emmental?

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Ultima Genomics Solaris 2.0: Greater Version, Smaller Beads, Lose A Box

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Element Previews High-Throughput VITARI

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2. The flowcell is a special C8, not the 10B, or the smaller C2 version with 2 lanes
3. I omitted that TruPath requires version 1.4 of the NovaSeq software. The TruPath connectivity analysis is on software running on the cloud or local server, not the onboard DRAGEN

Illumina Constellation Becomes TruPath Genome Illumina is rebranding their Constellation mapped read technology to TruPath Genome and launching it into the marketplace. Priced at $395 pe...

Ooof - I was sloppy on the Illumina TruPath Genome piece - easy to blame AGBT fatigue but that's a lazy excuse. The following errors have been corrected

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1. TruPath doesn't have an "e" in it. About 14 mistakes = including the title!

Illumina Constellation Becomes TruePath Genome

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Canal Biosciences: Ligation Libraries without Distortions from End Repair Canal Biosciences is a small startup in the library prep space that is making a debut at AGBT this year as a contributing sponsor.  Based in...

Canal Biosciences: Ligation Libraries without Distortions from End Repair

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Wish: Scientific Poster Snap Organizer App

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Or dodge me?

Look for Youdee the chicken, mascot of the University of Delaware

I link the preprint in the first paragraph

AI Agent -Driven Biochemical Optimization

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Reflections on the Human Genome Diversity Project: a conversation with Marcus W. Feldman, Henry T. Greely, and Mary-Claire King Abstract. The Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) began in 1991 as an initiative to study genetic variation from human populations worldwide. In 2002, th

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AGBT 2026 Preview

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Saying there's no singular anti-vaccine movement is like saying there are no democrats or republicans. Sure, everyone has a unique viewpoint, but there is an organized and well-funded outfit furthering a specific set of priorities.

RFK Jr's $497,000 salary came from somewhere.

Drug-Target Interaction Prediction with PIGLET https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.18.706530v1

Cancer Driver Gene Discovery: A Patient-Level Statistical Framework https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.16.706129v1

PRIZM: Combining Low-N Data and Zero-shot Models to Design Enhanced Protein Variants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.08.704628v1

Its still so baffling that in the age of Ai and wide access to information, more people are not interested in amateur biology. I'm not even talking bioengineering.

Tissue culture, breeding, microbial prospecting, biochemistry, etc.

The world lays before you undescribed, and yet

Vibe Coding Biology: The Collapsing Cost of Curiosity From DNA synthesis ceilings to new assembly architectures, and the converging stack that promises to make rapid biological iteration reality

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Vibe Coding Biology: The Collapsing Cost of Curiosity

@kuhnbobio.bsky.social might have ideas

Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Mutation Trajectories at Single Cell Resolution

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Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the concentration camp where she was imprisoned.

Multiple measles exposures in DC: Check sites and dates DC Health said Saturday it was notified of multiple people with confirmed cases of measles visited a variety of locations in the District. Officials did not specify exactly how many infected people th...

So, the March for Life appears to have brought Measles to DC.

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Not something you see in textbooks very often: tripolar mitosis.

I have always liked watching ski jumping and I particularly enjoy watching this opening round of women’s ski jumping because of how long the men at the ski jumping association insisted women couldn’t do it and blocked them for years.

I wonder how many plant species have gone extinct, but their genomic legacy lives on as intact subgenomes of extant allopolyploids.

If this works, we can essentially produce two species out of a single allopolypoid (de-hybridization). If the original donor of a subgenome has already gone extinct, we would be able to de-extinct it for real.

Wow. Sounds so cool in my head.