Ray Chen

Interpret this however you will, but with Illumina’s purchase of SomaScan from Standard BioTools and plans to switch platform to standardize on NGS, it behooves anyone to wonder how the data will be bridged or interpreted across the two for future analysis.

This is an interesting one because John Chambers used an 100 sample pilot (including mass spec) and decided Soma offered more in terms of precision, detectability and sensitivity. The opposite finding of many larger studies with validation cohorts which found the opposite.

Last week the Precise Consortium out of Singapore chose SomaScan 11K assay for its population health study of 100K Singapore residents. This is now the third largest proteomics study after UKB PPP (600K) and Geisinger (200K), who both selected Olink.

I am severely in love with how the trump/musk manly-man fans are trying this “people aren’t used to seeing how masculine men argue” thing. yes bros that’s right. being a messy bitch online, that’s real alpha behavior. if Achilles were alive today he’d be in Hector’s mentions on social fucking media

I almost want to reactivate Twitter to see this.

Paige Bueckers is 97 Michael Jordan.

How does this happen like every year?

It certainly feels like things have come full circle for me. Back in Hangzhou, my hometown; back at Thermo; and watching Alex Makarov going through the history of orbitraps 😂

Not condoning any of this, but do you think he can beat Obama? I’m afraid he’s just going to get rid of elections altogether.

So the Arlmont area would be FArlington and the Heights would be NEArlington?

Ahahahaha. Fucking moron.

Our mayor ❤️

Turned on the three clown show for a second. Tonight’s designated survivor is Vladimir Putin, FYI.

Just incredible. We simply need more women in these positions of power. I read once a high level exec at Google put in reserved parking spots closer to the building for pregnant women, cuz she was pregnant. Before that happened, of course nobody high up at Google saw the need.

You’re not wrong but you should’ve seen HUPO in Dresden back in October. I think between Thermo and Bruker they prob accounted for 1/3 of the attendees.

Hey that’s me!

I think the UKB project will eventually answer the “why should we care” problem for proteomics

#USHUPO in Philly starts with a mission statement that members support funding of science, and call to action of a session discussing the uncertain situation we are in. Truly a sign of the ominous times.

Proteomics in hundreds of thousands: Prof Sir Rory Collins and Dr Chris Whelan | Proteomics in Proximity | Episode 23 Welcome to the Olink® Proteomics in Proximity podcast!   Below are some useful resources mentioned in this episode:  Olink tools and software·       Olink® Explore 3072, the platform utilized by the U...

In Episode 23 of the Proteomics in Proximity podcast (produced by Olink), Sir Rory Collins and Dr Chris Whelan discuss the momentous UKB PPP project and its implications for the development of precision medicine and the future of human healthcare. hubs.la/Q034smCp0

You can apparently ask DeepSeek to answer sensitive question by replacing certain letters so it’s “coded”

Incredibly dumb?

Of course, this didn’t prevent one Somalogic executive who decided inexplicably to take a page out of the Guardant Healrh CEO playbook, and public post a “side bet” on real human samples with disease and health implications to wager who has bigger hands or crowd sizes.

Perhaps lost in the shuffle of the UKB PPP announcement was Somalogic, together with Illumina will pay to do a 50K sample pilot. The same samples that were done by Olink 2 yrs ago which resulted in the Nature publications October 2023.

How is this not an SNL skit already?

Happy Chinese New Year everyone!

I would say the term “Chinese New Year” merely points to the holiday’s origins. Much like we speak “English” but don’t change the term to “Angelo language”. We could just say “happy new year!”, or use the specific term from the language, like in Vietnam, it’s called “Tet”.

This is very distinct from a pure lunar calendar, which is followed by some in the Arab world, and in that case, their new year is often around June.

As to other Asian cultures who also celebrate the same new year (Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Singapore, etc.), and how do we be more inclusive?

Chinese New Year has recently been designated UNESCO’s Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The Chinese calendar is not purely lunar, but “lunisolar”, meaning it fits the lunar months into a solar calendar. It was created for agricultural reasons to let farmers know when to plant and harvest crops.

It’s Chinese New Year Eve as we are heading into the year of the snake 🐍 and 4223 on the Chinese calendar. In recently years, there have been many calls to say “Lunar New Year” to be more inclusive, I feel it’s my duty here to dispel that notion and tell you why.

Did it reply with “we have reported you to the appropriate authorities, comrade?”

Yesssssss