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Steven Lloyd Salzberg is an American computational biologist and computer scientist who is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering,… more

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my co-author pointed out that our new Perspective piece in Cancer Research has 4 generations of mentorship for the 4 authors: Chia - Nagarajan - Pop - Salzberg (youngest to oldest) ;) brnw.ch/21wWgEi
Challenges and Opportunities in Analyzing Cancer-Associated Microbiomes
Abstract. The study of cancer-associated microbiomes has gained significant attention in recent years, spurred by advances in high-throughput sequencing and metagenomic analysis. Microbiome research h...
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it's been a while since I wrote a blog, but I had some thoughts: stevensalzberg.substack.com/p/academic-f...
Academic freedom and freedom of speech are under assault, from both the left and the right
Everyone is afraid to speak right now.
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Academic freedom and freedom of speech are under assault, from both the left and the right

Everyone is afraid to speak right now. The freedom to speak your mind, without fear of retribution, is fundamental to our society. It’s even more fundamental to academia, where the phrase “academic freedom” has long represented the ability of professors, students, and others in the academy to speak out on any topic, no matter how controversial.

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Congratulations to Dr. Lucy Shapiro for winning one of the Lasker Prizes this year! I was a co-author with her on a paper 25 years ago, on Caulobacter crescentus, the species she has studied for >50 years pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11259647/
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2025 #LaskerAward winner Lucy Shapiro asked: How do living organisms translate information from a linear genetic code into three-dimensional structures?
And with that, she broke open a new field. 🧪
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The Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science awarded to Lucy Shapiro | PNAS
Scientists can contribute to society in numerous ways. Some scientists discover new biological principles and found entirely new fields. Some scien...
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2025 #LaskerAward winner Lucy Shapiro asked: How do living organisms translate information from a linear genetic code into three-dimensional structures?
And with that, she broke open a new field. 🧪
@pnas.org
#Lasker2025 #systemsbiology
The Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science awarded to Lucy Shapiro | PNAS
Scientists can contribute to society in numerous ways. Some scientists discover new biological principles and found entirely new fields. Some scien...
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this is hilarious. AI fails again 🤣
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We're still not finding any good evidence for a microbiome in any cancer type: see our new paper in @ScienceTM led by PhD student Yuchen (Peter) Ge www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and the accompanying news piece, www.science.org/content/arti...
Comprehensive analysis of microbial content in whole-genome sequencing samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas project
An analysis of TCGA whole-genome sequencing samples yields a comprehensive resource for investigating the role of microbes in cancer.
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We also see the same patterns in other datasets:
📊 PCAWG
📊 TCGA - Cleaner signals produced by a fantastic paper today from Peter Ge, @stevensalzberg.bsky.social & team)

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Comprehensive analysis of microbial content in whole-genome sequencing samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas project
An analysis of TCGA whole-genome sequencing samples yields a comprehensive resource for investigating the role of microbes in cancer.
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Congrats @kuanhaochao.bsky.social ! It's been great having you in the lab, and I can't wait to see what you do next!
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fascinating article describing RNA sequencing results from living human brain tissue. Quite extraordinary how they were able to get the tissue ethically www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A study of gene expression in the living human brain - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - A study of gene expression in the living human brain
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A former CDC director on RFK Jr: "Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands...
Former CDC Director William Foege: How public health can fight back in a time of dangerous nonsense
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege.
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really, Jay Bhattacharya? Now you are writing an apologia for the anti-vax, anti-science policies of your boss, RFK Jr.? Have you no principles? wapo.st/41B0qCx
Opinion | Jay Bhattacharya: Why the NIH is pivoting away from mRNA vaccines
As a vaccine for broad public use, mRNA technology has failed to earn the public’s trust.
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