As President Donald Trump deploys National Guard troops to American cities and ICE arrests pick up, some international scholars are opting out of U.S. travel.

In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.

scFLUENT-seq is a single-cell method that sensitively captures nascent nuclear transcriptomes to reveal mRNA and ncRNA dynamics, heterogeneity across chromatin compartments, and transcriptional divers...

Genes burst. Instead of being monotonously transcribed by a steady stream of RNA polymerases, active genes undergo transient and random pulses of transcription that are referred to as gene bursting. This property is ubiquitous and evolutionarily conserved from bacteria to humans, and reflects the inherent stochastic nature of most biological processes. The frequency and duration of gene busting events varies greatly between genes and is now recognized to be controlled by an intricate interplay between transcription factors, chromatin features, and the transcription machinery. Recent findings also point to proximal regulation of bursting by epigenetic chromatin states, a novel role of non-histone modifications, and of distal control of bursting patterns by enhancers. Uncovering the regulatory mechanisms of gene bursting sheds light on how cells maintain a diverse range of gene-specific expression by modulating the different kinetic parameters of bursting.

Apurinic/Apyrimidinic (AP)-sites are common and highly mutagenic DNA lesions that can arise spontaneously or as intermediates during Base Excision Repair (BER). The enzyme apurinic/apyrimidinic endonu...

Nature - Excised signal circles are circular DNA by-products of V(D)J recombination that form a complex with the V(D)J recombinase, and when increased in abundance, result in increased mutagenesis,...

Nature - Mouse models show that respiratory infections from viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can trigger metastasis of dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs, a finding supported by...

Understanding the dynamics of how drug resistance originates in cancer remains crucial, but it is not possible to observe them directly. Here, the authors construct a mathematical framework to infer d...

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Blood Cancer Journal - Exploring BCL2 regulation and upstream signaling transduction in venetoclax resistance in multiple myeloma: potential avenues for therapeutic intervention

ADP-heptose binds to ALPK1, triggering transcriptional reprogramming and NF-κB activation, endowing pre-leukaemic cells with a competitive advantage due to excessive clonal proliferation.

Nature - Combinatorial CRISPRi screening was used to map genetic interactions in DNA damage response pathways, revealing known and new connections, including the roles of WDR48 and USP1 in...