Our News and Views article discussing @mfels.bsky.social et al's work on how a giant virus manipulates its host's translation during infection is out today in Nature Microbiology. PhD student Danae Stephens is a co-author.
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War, right? Shame on Israel!
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Someday,
When the madness is done,
And there is a true accounting,
Of the lives that were saved,
And those that were lost,
I know we will find the name of Ralph Baric
On the right side of the ledger.
I, for one, am grateful.
Now this is the cinema that i wanna watch.
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I teared up reading this. Jake really did my story justice and understood my message, when I could have been very easily treated as "just a joke"
Let's do this, y'all
Time to fight for trans rights with the powers of science and whimsy combined! 🏳️⚧️ 🧬 💖
@beyondxandy.bsky.social
Latent endogenous giant viruses drive active infection and inheritance in a multicellular algal host www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Just published! Check out our review of the Nucleocytoviricota infection cycle. Great teamwork! @mkrupovic.bsky.social @willemsenanouk.bsky.social @fischerlab.bsky.social @puffy-virus.bsky.social
New Work out!
A multilayered network reveals the centrality of newly discovered #Nucleocytoviricota in wastewater treatment plant communities
w/ @dominikluecking.bsky.social & @amanzanom.bsky.social
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@erc.europa.eu @univie.ac.at @dome-vienna.bsky.social
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Durante su participación en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Cannes, Pedro Almodóvar calificó como “monstruos” a personalidades como Trump y Netanyahu. El cineasta, que presentó la cinta “Amarga N...
Soldados israelíes mataron a tiros a un bebé palestino de siete meses en la Ribera Occidental ocupada el viernes e hirieron a sus padres, según el Ministerio de Salud palestino.
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A giant mimivirus encodes its own cap-binding translation initiation complex, revealing an unexpected level of viral autonomy in rewiring host translation towards viral protein production.
Giant endogenous viral elements integrated into the multicellular alga Ectocarpus are reactivated by specific temperature cues, driving productive latent viral infections.
Chicago scientist to launch a ‘transquake’ to counter anti-trans misinformation
Chicago scientist Jey McCreight is marking DNA Day on April 25 by testing a simple, provocative question: What happens if trans people become “too powerful” all at once? It’s not a serious hypothesis. But the…
Breaking @theassemblync.bsky.social: UNC-Chapel Hill coronavirus researcher Ralph Baric is retiring in June www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...
New online! Infection cycles of viruses of the phylum Nucleocytoviricota
Baric’s life’s work paved the way for vaccines against COVID-19. But it brought scrutiny to him, his lab, and UNC in the process.www.theassemblync.com
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 29 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41579-026-01319-6In this Review, Abergel et al. overview infection cycles across the Nucleocytoviricota phylum, highlighting shared mechanisms and lineage-specific features spanning viral entry, viral factory formation, genome replication, virion morphogenesis and egress, and discuss key unresolved questions in the field.
With Eugene Koonin, we wrote a rather comprehensive review on the origin, evolution and organization of the #virosphere. We describe all 10 viral realms and the logic behind them, and so much more. Check it out! comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/biologies/ar...
Chicago scientist Jey McCreight is marking DNA Day on April 25 by testing a simple, provocative question: What happens if trans people become “too powerful” all at once? It’s not a serious hypothesis. But the experiment—dubbed a “transquake”—is very real. The transquake is part of a worldwide day of action with an in-person event in Chicago that doubles as the launch of…
We are incredibly excited to see our most recent story out @nature.com today:HIV triggers CD4-signaling to remodel nuclear pores and license infection!A heroic effort led by our very own @d-mesner.bsky.social & @mattvxwhelan.bsky.social! @blizardinstitute.bsky.social Link: tinyurl.com/HIVNup 1/11
