Prarthana Mohanraju

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Today in @cellpress.bsky.social we report the structure and function of the Shedu anti-phage defense system.

tinyurl.com/4crj6dnx

A long 🧵...

Congrats, Luuk!

A modular platform for bioluminescent RNA tracking - Nature Communications Studying RNA dynamics in vivo often relies on fluorogenic approaches, but these can be hampered by factors such as limited sensitivity and sample autofluorescence. Here, the authors describe an ultras...

Cool new work from Jenn Prescher and coworkers @ucirvine.bsky.social, “RNA lantern” technology for bioluminescence imaging of RNA transcripts

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I took biochem in 2001, and for nearly 20 years read amino acid sequences daily… and I never knew Dayhoff named them or even the logic behind things like Q until last Friday (h/t Mike Janech). Also, this is another big Dayhoff moment for me. She was incredible!

#proteomics #bioinformatics