We are thrilled to announce that Infinity Bio has closed our Series A investment, led by the amazing team at Illumina Ventures. As part of the deal, Infinity Bio has acquired Serimmune Inc, a complementary antibody reactome service provider. This event marks a major milestone towards better understanding human immune responses and their role in health and disease. Please contact @InfinityBioInc to learn more about how the antibody reactome can advance your research!
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๐๐ผ๐ต๐ผ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐๐๐ฑ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ธ - The article โ๐๐ช๐ด๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ข๐จ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ด ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ ๐ค๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ค๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ดโ published in @ScienceMagazine from corresponding authors Anshul Kundaje, @ScottBoydLab and first authors @zazius and Erin Craig developed an integrative model, Mal-ID (Machine Learning for Immunological Diagnosis), to address a gap in current diagnostic medical practices, which do not yet utilize the adaptive immune systemโs B cell receptor (BCR) and T cell receptor (TCR) sequences in diagnosis. Mal-ID integrates three models: analysis of overall repertoire composition, convergent clustering of antigen-specific sequences by edit distance and immune receptor sequence features extracted from a large protein language model.
Mal-ID outperformed similar classification approaches with AUROCs up to 0.98, representing a major advancement in diagnostic accuracy when applied to a study cohort of 542 samples. This high level of performance was supportive of the modelโs analysis of both BCR and TCR repertoire data, which provided more accurate classification than either receptor type alone, potentially reflecting variation in the roles of B cell and T cell responses in different diseases.
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๐๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐:
๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐๐ถ๐ฎ๐ด๐ป๐ผ๐๐๐ถ๐ฐ ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐: Mal-ID uses BCR and TCR repertoire data to effectively distinguish six distinct immune statesโCOVID-19, HIV, lupus, type 1 diabetes, recent influenza vaccination responses, and healthy controlsโin a study involving 542 individuals.
๐จ๐๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ด๐ฒ-๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น๐ฒ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ด๐๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ ๐ ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐น๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐
๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป: Mal-ID leveraged advanced protein language models to extract meaningful immune receptor sequence features for improved diagnostic classification.
๐ง๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ ๐ต๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ: By applying protein language models to BCR and TCR sequence data, Mal-ID demonstrates that AI can be used to realize powerful repertoire-based diagnostics.
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Thank you for highlighting our work @us_hupo ! Weโre very grateful for this recognition, especially since the project was such a labor of love that spanned many years and collaborations โ most notably with the amazing Martin Steinegger @thesteinegger .
The Larman lab developed a novel M13 phage display platform to screen venom libraries for therapeutic potential. They identified Kunitz-domain proteins that potentiate the human itch receptor MRGPRX4. doi.org/10.1016/j.mcpro.2024โฆ
This paper is the culmination of a herculean effort to enable peptide therapeutic discovery using M13 hyperphage, which involved the development of new library design principles, and new cell-based panning and NGS analysis workflows.
Weโre so excited to present LISH-LnR, a powerful spatial transcriptomic platform spawned in my lab at Johns Hopkins and then spun into a startup company called Portal Bioscience. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/โฆ
We also report a system of โmolecular rheostatsโ for tuning LISH-LnR assay performance, a complementary LISH-seq assay for probe panel qualification, and a QC method to determine the quality and availability of fixed tissue RNA.
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๐ Congratulations to @KateGrabowski , PhD (Associate Professor of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty) for winning the Apple Vision Pro raffle at our Open House! ๐ฅณย Thank you to everyone who joined us to explore our innovative MIPSA technology and antibody reactome profiling. Follow us and stay tuned for more exciting updates from Infinity Bio! โพ๏ธ
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Last week, we hosted students and faculty from Coppin Academy High School. It was inspiring to see Baltimore's best and brightest experience hands-on STEM experiments and immunology learnings- the future looks bright! ๐ซ
#STEM #Baltimore #Immunology #Reactome
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Replying to @EricTopol
Absolutely agree with @EricTopol ! ๐ Characterizing the "immunome"โfrom lifetime viral exposures to autoantibody reactivitiesโprovides critical insights into disease mechanisms and biomarker development. We are the leader in comprehensive antibody reactome profiling, and are actively supporting academic and industry translational discovery research ๐ค with our RUO assays: VirSIGHT (all human viruses) and HuSIGHT (all human protein isoforms). While direct-to-consumer applications are certainly on the horizon, today we are helping researchers lay the groundwork for better understanding of antibody reactomes.
Check out our RUO libraries here: infinitybio.com/infinity-proโฆ. ๐โพ๏ธ
#academia #Antibody #AntibodyReactomeProfiling #AntibodyResearch #BiotechInnovations #HumanStudies #Immunotherapy #BiotechStartups #Biotech
Calling local biomedical professionals!
Please attend our open house to learn how your cohort study can benefit from antibody reactome profiling. You'll get to see our beautiful Baltimore lab and can enter to win a new Apple Vision Pro ๐คฏ
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Calling all #biotech leaders and researchers in the greater Baltimore area! Get a behind-the-scenes look at the latest innovations in antibody profiling. Tour our state-of-the-art facility on July 23, during our open house.
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Taking Pharokka output as input, Phold uses the ProstT5 protein language model to rapidly convert amino acid sequences to Foldseek 3Di structural tokens, & then searches these with Foldseek against a database of 1M+ phage protein structures folded with Colabfold (2/n)
A fantastic collaboration with @thesteinegger and very excited about future projects using this type of approach to discover novel peptide therapeutics. If you have ideas for applications or indications, please reach out to us!
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Leveraging antibody profiling for advanced healthcare insights lifesciencesintelligence.comโฆ
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New paper (bit.ly/3TdtbS5) in @AdvSciNews (Advanced Materials) describes novel biomaterial scaffold, the โartificial lymph node matrix,โ to stimulate production of antigen-specific T immune cells. @Natalie_K_L @HopkinsMedicine @JHUPath @JHUBME @JHUMaterials @TTECJHU
Our novel MIPSA technique is used to create large libraries of DNA-barcoded peptides or full-length proteins. Both catalog libraries (currently virome, human proteome, allergome) and customer designed libraries can be mixed and matched for small to large scale studies.
Check us out at infinitybio.com/. We have a state-of-the art purpose-built lab in Baltimore, MD, USA. Our quality assurance system and management team ensure that your samples and data are tracked safely and securely throughout the entire process.
If you do epi or work on a cohort study, youโve probably captured nature (genetics ๐งฌ) --- now itโs time to capture nurture (exposures and infections ๐ฆ ), through the lens of the immune system! Please reach out to [email protected] for more info!


















