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CSBJ🧬 This study explores how nanopore sequencing transforms biochemical molecules into human-readable signals—revolutionizing how we decode protozoan genomes. 🔗 Nanopore sequencing of protozoa: Decoding biological information on a string of biochemical molecules into human-readable signals. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2025.01.002" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2025.01.002</a>📚 CSBJ: <a href="https://www.csbj.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.csbj.org/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NanoporeSequencing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NanoporeSequencing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Genomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Genomics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DNA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RNA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Metagenomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Metagenomics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Protozoa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Protozoa</a>

ScienceActuallyOctopuses (and some other cephalopods) can rewrite their RNA on the fly to adapt to changes in their environment. This allows them to tweak how their neurons function, helping them survive in different temperatures or even enhance their intelligence.<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sciencefacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sciencefacts</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/octopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#octopus</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/octopuses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#octopuses</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/geneediting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#geneediting</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/rna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rna</a>

Eugene F. BaulinThe coordination loop in group II introns forms a chimeric kink-turn that involves a long-range base pair (A251-U326).More weird kink-turns in our recent preprint: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.31.596898" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.31.596898</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RNA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ARTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ARTEM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kinkturn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kinkturn</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kturn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kturn</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Motif" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Motif</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bioinformatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bioinformatics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Research</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StructuralBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StructuralBiology</a>

Paul Houle🩻 RNA origami technique folds nanotubes to create artificial cytoskeletons for synthetic cells<a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-03-rna-origami-technique-nanotubes-artificial.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-03-rna-origami-technique-nanotubes-artificial.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/molbio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#molbio</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biotech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biotech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/syntheticbiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#syntheticbiology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rna</a>

Bose-Einstein-Kondensat3/n Especially <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/kids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kids</a> intuitively understood complex <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/molecular" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#molecular</a> relationships & had a lot of fun <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/playing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#playing</a> with colorful <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/protein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#protein</a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DNA</a> & <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RNA</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/structures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#structures</a> making our <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AR</a> tool a valuable <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/educational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#educational</a> companion. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MINT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MINT</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/STEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#STEM</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/school" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#school</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#education</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/chem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chem</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bioinformatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bioinformatics</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CompChem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CompChem</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AugmentedReality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AugmentedReality</a>

Soh Kam Yung"“RNA folding is a very tough problem,” concedes Shi-Jie Chen, a computational biophysicist at the University of Missouri in Columbia. But AI, he adds, is getting “better and better”."<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00920-8" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00920-8</a><a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/RNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RNA</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Structure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Structure</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Computation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Computation</a>

Dave MuthHere's a very cool <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Science</a> article! Octopuses change genes in strange ways.It's explained by <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Scientist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scientist</a> and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ScienceWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScienceWriter</a> Meg Mindlin at the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Octopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Octopus</a> web site OctoNation <a href="https://octonation.com/octopus-can-edit-their-rna-heres-how/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://octonation.com/octopus-can-edit-their-rna-heres-how/</a><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Octopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Octopus</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Genetics</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DNA</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/RNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RNA</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Mollusc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mollusc</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Octopoda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Octopoda</a>

CellBioNewsUniversal <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/RNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RNA</a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/barcoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#barcoding</a> system for tracking <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/gene_transfer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gene_transfer</a> in <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bacteria</a> created. <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-03-universal-rna-barcoding-tracking-gene.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-03-universal-rna-barcoding-tracking-gene.html</a>

LaborjournalSpezifische <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DNA</a>- oder <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/RNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RNA</a> -Sequenzen in lebenden Zellen detektieren? Eine neue Methode, die zirkularisierbare Einzelstrang-DNA als Sensor nutzt, macht es möglich. Andrea Pitzschke stellt sie vor: <a href="https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3209.php" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3209.php</a>

CellBioNewsProtecting <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/crops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#crops</a>: <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/RNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RNA</a>-based substances open up new avenue to combat a widespread <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/plant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plant</a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/virus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#virus</a>.<a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/mosaic_virus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mosaic_virus</a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#agriculture</a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/food_security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#food_security</a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/aphids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aphids</a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/vectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vectors</a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/siRNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#siRNA</a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/edsRNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#edsRNA</a> <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-03-crops-rna-based-substances-avenue.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-03-crops-rna-based-substances-avenue.html</a>

GeekooRNA editing could be the key to fighting cancer and autoimmune diseases. Scientists at Rice just unlocked its secrets. Find out how!<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cancer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Immunotherapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Immunotherapy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RNA</a><a href="https://geekoo.news/unlocking-the-code-rna-editing-breakthrough-could-revolutionize-cancer-treatment/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://geekoo.news/unlocking-the-code-rna-editing-breakthrough-could-revolutionize-cancer-treatment/</a>

mlolaicoAmazing work! <a href="https://beta.argyle.social/tags/RNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RNA</a> <a href="https://beta.argyle.social/tags/biotech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biotech</a> <a href="https://beta.argyle.social/tags/drugdelivery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#drugdelivery</a> <a href="https://beta.argyle.social/tags/drugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#drugs</a> <a href="https://beta.argyle.social/tags/nanotech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nanotech</a> 🧪🖥️🧬

Faraiwe<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RNA</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DNA</a>

Knowledge ZoneIs the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/World" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#World</a> Ready? - #2025 <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SolarStorm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SolarStorm</a> : Medium<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MIT</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Biologists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Biologists</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Discover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discover</a> a new type of control over <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RNA</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Splicing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Splicing</a> : MIT<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Physicists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Physicists</a> capture a strange <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Fractal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fractal</a> ‘<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Butterfly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Butterfly</a>’ for the first time : New SciCheck our latest <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/KnowledgeLinks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KnowledgeLinks</a><a href="https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks</a>

Marc Robinson-Rechavi"National Institutes of Health officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications" <a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/nih-grants-mrna-vaccines-trump-administration-hhs-rfk/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/nih-grants-mrna-vaccines-trump-administration-hhs-rfk/</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/NIH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NIH</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vaccine</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/RNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RNA</a>

Amelia Bellamy-Royds :progress:The biology nerd in me really, really likes this XKCD comic:<a href="https://xkcd.com/3056/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://xkcd.com/3056/</a>version with alt text via <a href="https://indieweb.social/@xkcdbot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@xkcdbot</a> : <a href="https://indieweb.social/@xkcdbot/114070598313130288" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://indieweb.social/@xkcdbot/114070598313130288</a>I've been debating what to say to post with this comic, but it's all either just repeating the joke or explaining the joke. Except, it's not even a joke. It's just facts, presented in a humorous manner. Anyway, if you are not a molecular biology nerd & you would like an explanation, let me know in how much detail.<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/RNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RNA</a>

eLife🧬 February's most-read Genetics paper looks at how <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/RNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RNA</a> travels between cells to control genes across generations <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/epigenetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#epigenetics</a>: <a href="https://elifesciences.org/articles/99149?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=submissions_organic&utm_content=top_paper" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://elifesciences.org/articles/99149?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=submissions_organic&utm_content=top_paper</a>Have a paper people should see? See what our Editors look for: <a href="https://elifesciences.org/about/aims-scope?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=submissions_organic&utm_content=top_paper#genetics-and-genomics" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://elifesciences.org/about/aims-scope?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=submissions_organic&utm_content=top_paper#genetics-and-genomics</a>

Science Updates“I think it will be a gamechanger very broadly, not just for people in my field,” said senior study author James Liu, a group leader at Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus. “It was a tool developed to answer a very obscure question, but I think all biologists can use the technique in their favorite samples.”<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biotechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biotechnology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RNA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/proteins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#proteins</a> <a href="https://www.labroots.com/trending/clinical-and-molecular-dx/28687/cutting-edge-tech-id-rna-protein-deep-tissues" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.labroots.com/trending/clinical-and-molecular-dx/28687/cutting-edge-tech-id-rna-protein-deep-tissues</a>

GQE-Le Moulon‪Seminar by Gaotian ZHANG at IDEEV↪️ Friday March 14, 2025 - 12:00"Transposon-mediated genic rearrangements underlie variation in small RNA pathways"▶️ <a href="https://www.ideev.universite-paris-saclay.fr/seminaires/2025/03/transposon-mediated-genic-rearrangements-underlie-variation-in-small-rna-pathways/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ideev.universite-paris-saclay.fr/seminaires/2025/03/transposon-mediated-genic-rearrangements-underlie-variation-in-small-rna-pathways/</a><a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/SemIDEEV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SemIDEEV</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/gene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gene</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/rna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rna</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/caenorhabditiselegans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#caenorhabditiselegans</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/transposon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transposon</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/dna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dna</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/gaotianzhang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gaotianzhang</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/ibens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ibens</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/@ENS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ENS</a>

Leszekshamelessly sharing our recent work: Rapid and accurate <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/demultiplexing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#demultiplexing</a> of direct <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/RNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RNA</a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/nanopore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nanopore</a> sequencing datasets with SeqTagger <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/paper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#paper</a> <a href="https://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2025/01/29/gr.279290.124.full.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2025/01/29/gr.279290.124.full.pdf</a>

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