Cellular Aging and Nutrition Laboratory

In a challenge to open-access publishers, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the world’s largest research institution, has told its researchers it plans to stop paying to publish their papers in dozens of international free-to-read journals it regards as too expensive. scim.ag/4tU6qD5

La Dra Marina García Macia, investigadora RyC e IP del Grupo MacPhagy en la Universidad de Salamanca @usal ha sido hoy la invitada a los Special Seminars de @uchceu para presentar sus avances sobre los mecanismos de la #autofagia en la modulación del sistema inmune @Aging_CEU 👇

A San Diego startup just made whole genome sequencing cost $100. It used to cost $1 billion + The Human Genome Project took 13 years (1990-2003), billions of dollars, and an international consortium of 20+ institutions to sequence one genome. My PhD advisor, @s_batzoglou, was one of the first MIT PHDs who worked on it. He helped build the computational foundations that made it possible. His career spans the entire arc — from assembling the first human reference genome to making sequencing routine. The 10,000,000x cost drop isn't just a number. It's the difference between a moonshot national project and a routine lab test. Previous generation proved it was possible. This generation proved it could be cheap. The question now: what happens when everyone's genome is a $100 blood test? The implications for medicine, privacy, insurance, human identity? We're not ready. Link: sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/02/19/scr…