William E. Theurkauf, PhD; Jeremy Luban, MD; Tianxiong Yu, PhD; and Zhiping Weng, PhD

A koala

Working with a team at the University of Queensland, UMass Chan scientists have discovered that a population of koalas has evolved genomic immunity to a retrovirus: direc.to/mDfy

#koalas @lubanlab.bsky.social @tianxiong-bear-yu.bsky.social

🌟 Check out this fascinating study exploring how genomes combat real-time virus invasions—a UNIQUE approach to studying evolution as it happens!

Huge congratulations to @tianxiong-bear-yu.bsky.social and the entire team for yet another set of remarkable findings! 🎉🎉

Thrilled to join this incredible project! Stay tuned for exciting discoveries ahead!

The human and non-human primate developmental GTEx projects - Nature The developmental Genotype-Tissue Expression (dGTEx) projects will catalogue and integrate gene expression, regulation and genetics data across 120 human donors from birth to adulthood with developmen...

Our new perspective article describing the human and non-human primate developmental GTEx projects is now out in
@nature.com! We outline the scope, vision, opportunities and challenges of these projects here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...