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An open access journal for the molecular & cellular life sciences. The journal’s rigorous peer review process focusses on the technical & ethical quality of papers rather than subjective judgements of significance. Part of FEBS Press @febspress.bsky.social

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febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · Sep 3

🍂 Our September Issue is out🍁

📣 This “In the Limelight” issue features Review articles on non-coding RNAs in cancer, as introduced by Guest Editor Marcin Majka

🖱️ Access it here
🔓https://buff.ly/Ay5RGfz

#RNAbiology #NoncodingRNA #ncRNA #Oncology #CancerResearch

febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · 1d

Did #FEBS2025 fly by too fast? 🏃

Don't worry! You can now browse through all abstracts from the event in our latest Supplement Issue 🫡📚

✨ Check them out here: buff.ly/OKXEFUt

#FEBS2025 #Biochemistry #MolecularBiology

febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · 2d

🎗️In honour of Breast Cancer Awareness month:

🧬The breast cancer microenvironment and lipoprotein lipase: Another negative notch for a beneficial enzyme?

🔓https://buff.ly/3jmy1NQ

@drrobertjbrown.bsky.social

#BCSM #TumourMicroEnvironment #MolecularOncology

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febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · 2d

🔦 Have you seen this new Research Protocol?

Homologous expression and purification of human HAX-1 for structural studies

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#StructuralBiology #HAX1

febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · 5d

Lactoferrin treatment activates acetylcholinesterase, decreasing acetylcholine levels in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cell culture supernatants, inhibiting cell survival

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#Lactoferrin #NSCLC #Acetylcholine

febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · 6d

📣 We recently launched a Call for Papers on Host-Pathogen Interactions

FEBS Open Bio invites submissions spanning the fields of host-pathogen crosstalk, pathogen tolerance and resistance🦠🧬

📆 Deadline: 11th Feb 2026
🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/qfAx82d

#Microbiology #CallForPapers #SciComm

febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · 7d

Tryptophan metabolite atlas uncovers organ, age, and sex-specific variations

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@Sorrell_Lab #Metabolism

febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · 8d

👇 Want some tips on how to get your research noticed?

🎦You can now watch our webinar on making research visible and enhancing its impact on-demand

🖥️https://buff.ly/aHsCn3d

#PhDChat #ECRchat #PostDocChat #NewPI #ECRchat @FEBSnews
#YoungFEBS #FEBSJuniorSection #FEBSnet

febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · 9d

📣 Don't miss this new Review!

Interplay between RNA-protein interactions and RNA structures in gene regulation

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🖊️ @rnaminni.bsky.social

#RBPs #RNA #RNAbiology #RNAbindingproteins #RNAbinding #RNAstructure

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febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · 12d

📑 Reading for your weekend!

Rethinking plastic waste: innovations in enzymatic breakdown of oil-based polyesters and bioplastics

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#PlasticWaste #Polyesters #Bioplastics

febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · 13d

A unified model for Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene involvement in cancer: context-dependent tumour suppression and oncogenicity

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🥼 @drleemachado.bsky.social

#CancerResearch #DuchenneMuscularDystrophy

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febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · 14d

#CancerResearchNeedsUsAll. When patients, clinicians, researchers, and journals come together, progress in cancer moves further and faster 🔬💗

🎗️ Explore recent publications in cancer biology in our dedicated Cancer Section: buff.ly/bj5LbQK

@wcrd24sept.bsky.social

#WorldCancerResearchDay

febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · 14d

📢FEBS Open Bio is an affiliate journal in @ReviewCommons

📩We can receive your refereed preprint with no need to re-submit!

🔎Focus on technical and ethical quality
📖Publish #OpenAccess
👐Not-for-profit: net income supports science

#BioPhysics #Biochemistry #CellBiology

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febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · 15d

Phosphomimetic mutations near active sites of proteins in Thermus thermophilus suggest a widespread regulatory mechanism

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#Phosphorylation

febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · 16d

📚 New Review online

Stromagenesis and cancer-associated fibroblast heterogeneity in primary tumors and metastasis: focus in non-small cell lung cancer

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🖊️ @jalcaraz_ub

#TumorStroma #CAFs #NSCLC

febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · 19d

In celebration of #PeerReviewWeek, here's a schematic illustrating the integration of #AI tools in editorial workflows 🧠📊

What do you think about the growing presence of AI in peer review?💡

For more insightful resources, check out: buff.ly/laxHNZ4

#AcademicPublishing #PRW25

febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · 19d

🛋️ In need of some weekend reading suggestions?

🪧Metabolic disrupting chemicals in the intestine: the need for biologically relevant models

What can we learn from environment-sensitive #zebrafish?🐟

👉https://buff.ly/4cSsyUo

@coumoulx.bsky.social

febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · 19d

🏆 Congrats to Veronika Kočárková @CzechAcademy, winner of the FEBS Open Bio Speed Talk Prize at the 49th FEBS Congress, Istanbul, Turkey with the talk "A study of putative transcription factors reveals how Bacillus subtilis outsmarts antibiotic D-cycloserine" 👏 🍾

febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · 20d

✍️Do you have hints and tips on how to effectively perform a particular method?

🗣️Want to share these with the wider scientific community?

You can do so via the Research Protocols article type 👉https://buff.ly/bTP4Sbv

#Biosciences #Biochemistry
#Biophysics #CellBiology

febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · 21d

💭 In the mood for something thought-provoking?

📐 An approach for coherent periodogram averaging of tilt-series data for improved contrast transfer function estimation

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@williamnwan.bsky.social

#cryoEM #StructuralBiology #CryoET

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febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · 21d

Establishment and optimization of the two-step induction system for generating primordial germ cell-like cells from chicken embryonic stem cells

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#StemCells #DevBio

febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · 22d

➡️DNA on the move: mechanisms, functions & applications of transposable elements

🔓https://buff.ly/3RF0nRG

💭 Exploring the challenges of CRISPR-Cas system and opportunities based on CRISPR-associated transposons

@irmaquerques.bsky.social @doconco.bsky.social

#CRISPR #GenomeEditing

febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · 22d

🐁 tVNS alters inflammatory response in adult VPA-induced mouse model of autism: evidence for sexual dimorphism

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🧑‍🔬 @mbahcelioglu.bsky.social

#tVNS #SexualDimorphism #NLRP3 #ValproicAcid

febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · 22d

Structural and functional characterization of chitinase from carnivorous plant Drosera adelae

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#DroseraAdelae #Chitinase

febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · 23d

📣 Catch up on extracellular vesicles research in Europe

Report on the 2nd MObility for Vesicle research in Europe (MOVE) symposium—2024

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#MOVESymposium #ExtracellularVesicles @NLSEV_ @SrbEVs_office #2ndMOVESymposium #MOVE_EVs

febsopenbio.bsky.social @febsopenbio.bsky.social · 25d

🍬Extracellular glucose triggers metabolic reprogramming of cultured human bronchial epithelial cells and indirect fibroblast activation

🔗https://buff.ly/45XpXXB

🥼 @lipiditsaso.bsky.social

#GlucoseMetabolism #Fibroblast #MetabolicReprogramming