Curious paper!
„Accessory microRNA byproducts expand RNA interference via microprocessor-mediated cleavage activation“
I was thinking offset reads first, but this does not look like it? Thoughts?
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
One of the biggest questions in biology is how complex cells evolved about 2 billion years ago. Here's my new story on how scientists are solving the mystery of eukaryotes like us. Gift link: nyti.ms/4qMbo22
Trying to sort out a vexing issue:
What a Gene Regulatory Network Is — and What It Is Not ! thenode.biologists.com/what-a-gene-...
See who is back!! @pedromartinezserra.bsky.social
new paper from the Lai lab! Renfu Shang performs careful mechanistic dissection of miRNA cluster assistance and reveals many insights and surprises to this enigmatic regulatory strategy that gives suboptimal miRNAs a boost. if you love Northerns, you'll ♥️ this! 🧬
genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl...
Happy to see our study out! We define the sequence determinants for miRNA-target interactions in flies and provide a foundation for improving computational prediction of miRNA-mediated regulation in Drosophila.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#miRNA, @natcomms.nature.com, @rti-umasschan.bsky.social
A #parasitic wasp suppresses host pupation by #microRNA-mediated transcriptional silencing of OfE93
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
‘Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters.
A small team of volunteers is tracking thousands of falsified studies, including cases of bribery, fraud and plagiarism’
Ivan Oransky @retractionwatch.com, @alicedreger.bsky.social @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
For the model species for sure!!
Poster of the EM course in Naples with marine samples. The Electron Microscopy Hands-On Course: sample preparation and imaging of marine environmental samples arises from a very strong and active collaboration between the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn and the EMBL in Heidelberg. The aim of the course is to provide a theoretical and practical training on electron microscopy starting from the basics to the preparation of samples with high pressure freezing and image acquisition using TEM and SEM.
If you are interested in electron microscopy, registration is still open for the
"Electron Microscopy Hands-On Course: sample preparation and imaging of marine environmental samples"
at Stazione Zoologica in Naples.
WIth great teachers from Naples […]
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Wow! 167.2 Gb HiFi yield from a PacBio SMRT cell🎉 Are we getting close the record? This run was for the “Genome of Sweden” project, where we're building a national reference dataset from 10 year old biobanked DNA samples🧬🧪
Dreaming of a de novo assembly of your pesky short ancient sequences? 🧬 A new tool, CarpeDeam, may just help your dreams come true. 🧬🖥️
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#MetagenomicsMonday #ancientDNA #aDNA #paleogenomics #bioinformatics
cool Oleks! Have you tested what those ultra conserved loci are?
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I can only second this. BUT, what people often are not aware of: Frontiers in Zoology does NOT belong to the rest of the Frontiers in journals. It is the official journal of the German Zoological Society, a BMC journal and founded BEFORE the other Front in. We suffer a lot from this hijacking.
Permanent Research Group Leader Position, Crete, Greece: Interested to assume long-term responsibilities for the Biodiversity Computing Group www.biocomp.gr I have set up in Crete? Apply now via apella.minedu.gov.gr/en/node/5998 (PDF also in English) - for questions email to stamatak@ics.forth.gr
Awesome two day course on microRNA annotation and differential expression analysis done in Oslo last week (#OsloBioinformaticsweek2025) done.
Participants (and tutors!) were so committed that this turned out a microRNA hackathon and we are drafting a paper!!!!
Thanks for the invite!!
Check RNA, DNA and disease (separately)
so what is it??
Peracarid crustaceans contain multitudes - at least 26000 species. In the open ocean, some have transparent eyes up to half the body size (they see more contrast but less precision). In caves, they lose eyes and enhance their smell processing.
Papers next #Crustmas 🧪🦑
Two days of teaching everything about microRNAs in Oslo (#OsloBioinformaticsWeek) ahead.
WOW❗🤯
The amount and quality of the abstracts we've received have completely blown us away! More than 300 abstracts from researchers at all levels and from 33 countries.
We will communicate the selected talks and open registration soon 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
#ICP2026 will be UNMISSABLE 😍💪
@projectpsyche.bsky.social is there a way to get samples of Morpho from you?
The course is aimed at all levels of researchers with projects and interest in microRNAs and free of charge.
Signup here:
www.mn.uio.no/bils/english...
#check also all the other great courses!! 2/2
#FREECOURSE-announcement
Want to learn about microRNA annotation and differential expression analyses? Within the Oslo Bioinformatics week 2025, we will be teaching a two-day course on the 9th and 10th of December at the University of Oslo. 1/2
Ever seen priapulids?
Latest work out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social
We find the fly development gene bicoid is much older than previously thought (~20 million yrs older!) 🪰🧬
To pinpoint its origins we tackled the Diptera phylogeny, providing some resolution (many open questions remain).
🔗 tinyurl.com/2vyuevpy
Out today, our take on 6-methyladenine #6mA evolution in Eukaryotes @natgenet.nature.com. We asked a simple question, is really DNA 6mA common across the eukaryotes? The answer is "yes" if you're a unicellular eukaryote 🦠, not so if you're multicellular 🐝🌱🍄. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/9
