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Ish's outstanding work entitled: "Persistent changes in the dorsal root ganglion nociceptor translatome governs hyperalgesic priming in mice: roles of GPR88 and Meteorin" is now online in PAIN
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Persistent changes in the dorsal root ganglion nociceptor... : PAIN
. We hypothesized that hyperalgesic priming occurs because of reorganization of translation of mRNA in nociceptors. To test this hypothesis, we used paclitaxel treatment as the priming stimulus and tr...
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January 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Very neat paper from Andy Bellemer's lab at App State doing a screen for RNA binding proteins in flies to find mediators of thermal nociception pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... key takeaway for me is that regulators of translation are the top hits (including some already known)...
A nociceptor-specific RNAi screen in Drosophila larvae identifies RNA-binding proteins that regulate thermal nociception
Nociception is the process by which sensory neurons detect and encode potentially harmful environmental stimuli to generate behavioral responses. Nociceptor neurons exhibit plasticity in which their s...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
January 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Excellent review from @khannalabuf.bsky.social and his team published in Neurobiology of Pain!
January 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Happy to share the fully reviewed and revised version of our recent study, where we focus on recurrent mutations in cleavage and polyadenylation sites in tumor suppressor genes. Huge congrats to @ykainov.bsky.social and Fursham Hamid!

doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Recurrent disruption of tumour suppressor genes in cancer by somatic mutations in cleavage and polyadenylation signals
Somatic mutations frequently disrupt cleavage and polyadenylation signals in tumour suppressor genes in human cancers, likely contributing to tumour progression.
doi.org
December 12, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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Delighted to write for the Times Education Supplement.

Timms: Could a focus on spatial reasoning improve maths scores?

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For more: www.surrey.ac.uk/spatial-reas...
Timss: could a focus on spatial reasoning improve maths scores?
The latest Timss international rankings show English pupils' weakness in key areas of maths – and our lack of focus on spatial reasoning is a major factor, argues Emily Farran
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December 8, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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Attentional failures after sleep deprivation represent moments of cerebrospinal fluid flow https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.15.623271v1
Attentional failures after sleep deprivation represent moments of cerebrospinal fluid flow https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.15.623271v1
Sleep deprivation rapidly disrupts cognitive function, and in the long term contributes to neurologi
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November 15, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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KDM2B is required for ribosome biogenesis and its depletion unequally affects mRNA translation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.22.595403v1
KDM2B is required for ribosome biogenesis and its depletion unequally affects mRNA translation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.22.595403v1
KDM2B is a JmjC domain lysine demethylase, which promotes cell immortalization, stem cell self-renew
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May 23, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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knowledge of the underlying molecular mechanisms remains limited.

Here, we show that
➡️ RNA G-quadruplexes (RG4s)

regulate mitochondrial function by modulating cytoplasmic
➡️ mRNA translation of nuclear-encoded mitochondrial proteins.
April 15, 2024 at 1:20 PM
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Focal adhesion-derived liquid-liquid phase separations regulate mRNA translation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.22.568289v1
Focal adhesion-derived liquid-liquid phase separations regulate mRNA translation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.22.568289v1
Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) has emerged as a major organizing principle in cells. Recent w
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November 23, 2023 at 2:31 AM