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How nucleolar stress accelerates aging in mice

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In a previous study, we showed that these peptides decorate all cellular RNAs and thus impair the binding of RNA-binding proteins to RNA. Initial works from the lab concentrated on exploring the role of replicative stress in cancer and ageing, for which the group combined cell biology, mouse models and drug development projects.

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Codon Digest: Injected Gene Editors

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A giant dataset about the rat brain, and how neurons connect to each other, was collected and pooled together from 20 different research laboratories. Read A new DNA polymerase variant, called RT-KTq I614Y, can directly detect RNA modifications, including pseudouridine (Ψ) and queuosine (Q). Communications Biology.

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Codon Digest: CAR-T Therapy for Neuroblastoma

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Small snippets of double-stranded RNA were sprayed onto hot pepper plants to control a pest, called Frankliniella occidentalis. The RNA strands shut down a specific gene in the insects, and killed half after 7 days. RNA may offer a safer form of pest control in the future. Nature Chemical Biology. Current Biology.

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Making Eggs Without Ovaries

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How Eggs and Sperm Get Made In the laboratory where I work, just down the street from the bustling Fenway Park in Boston, there is an incubator with a 96-well plate inside. Each well in the plate contains an ovarian organoid, a clump of cells similar to a miniature ovary. Sign up for Asimov Press.

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Levers for Biological Progress

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Today, we are largely unable to predict the outcomes of even “simple” biological questions, such as, “If I take this gene from an Arabidopsis plant, and insert it into Escherichia coli , will the cell express the gene and make functional protein?” ” Nobody really knows without trying it out in the laboratory.

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Codon Digest: GPT-4 Controls a Robot

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Read RIP-PEN-seq identifies a class of kink-turn RNAs as splicing regulators. Nature Cell Biology. Read *Open-endedness in synthetic biology: a route to continual innovation for biological design. Read An RNA-based system to study hepatitis B virus replication and evaluate antivirals. Nature Biotechnology.