The interdisciplinary program project grant, "Tipping points in cancer" has been funded for five years by the National Cancer Institute and awarded to John Lowengrub, Devon Lawson, and Arthur Lander. The grant starts today, and...

Congratulations to Sydney Prange, a graduate student in the lab of Prof. Katie Thompson-Peer. Sydney Prange earned second place in the UCI Grad Slam, a competition that showcases and awards the best three-minute research presentations...

Abstract: Conventionally, the size, shape, and biomechanics of cartilages are determined by their voluminous extracellular matrix. By contrast, we found that multiple murine cartilages consist of lipid-filled cells called lipochondrocytes. Despite resembling adipocytes, lipochondrocytes were molecularly...

Olivier Cinquin has published a new paper in Briefings in Bioinformatics on the pitfalls and possibilities of using large language models like ChatGPT to help with bioinformatic analysis.   Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) leverage factual knowledge from pretraining....