Congratulations Sanjee!

UKHSA launches new metagenomic surveillance for health security The UK launches mSCAPE, a world-first metagenomics initiative by UKHSA to enhance health security through rapid pathogen detection and surveillance.

It's great to see the proper announcement of something we have been working on for so long!
@pathogenomenick.bsky.social @meerac.bsky.social @rmcolq.bsky.social @arambaut.bsky.social and many others 😁

Cervid Squad has arrived!

Day 1 for me here at the Gault Nature Reserve and the instrumenet FINESSE is already going strong!

To honour Antje Boetius for her outstanding contributions to marine microbiology, DSMZ researchers named the strain Streptomyces boetiae (DSM 44917) after her.

#herstory #HonoringWomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #marinebiology #expedition

Confronting risks of mirror life Broad discussion is needed to chart a path forward.

Life isn't even-handed: many cellular components are all either left or right handed. But we are now (uncomfortably) close to being able to make flipped "mirror" cells. A group of us consider and highlight the risks and call for collective effort before we get there.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...