Thank you to the @anzscdb.bsky.social NSW Branch Committee for an excellent symposium today! I was grateful for the invitation to share our work & am delighted for Sonia Goozee who won the best ECR talk award! #anzscdbnsw2025 @biologists.bsky.social @unswbabs.bsky.social @merlincrossley.bsky.social
“[If] it looks like a dire wolf and acts like a dire wolf, I'm going to call it a dire wolf,” Beth Shapiro, Colossal's chief science officer, told Wired. Oh no - I think my dog might be a Dire Wolf!
Like the leaves that fall from the trees, such are the generations of men
Came across a plant with many 4 and 5 leaf clovers. Is this common? #4leafclovers #fourleafclovers #5leafclovers
Across Australia the amount of black on the back of Magpies varies dramatically. In Sydney their backs are almost completely black.
The UNSW Bilby has dressed up for Easter
I’ve never noticed this before but it looks like I’ve been living near the house of the dragon
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our latest paper in collaboration with Mitch Weiss’s lab. We showed DNA methylation turns off fetal globin expression. I’m still not sure how important methylation is in regulating individual human genes but it represses this one.#sicklecelldisease #crispr #epigenetics
Our latest paper, my 9th in one of my favourite journals
@narjournal.bsky.social
- transcriptional cofactors don’t just help in gene activation, they also help guide their partner transcription factors to target genes academic.oup.com/nar/article/... ##zincfingers #chromatin #epigenetics #KLF
Several friends urged me to write about the non-Dire Wolves, so I have. But my piece is really about the fact that you can trust the process of science but not individuals or teams. Loyalty to teams is a major factor that causes misinformation to persist: crossleylab.wordpress.com/2025/04/28/2...
DNA methylation is a critical component for repression of fetal haemoglobin in adult blood cells. Removing DNA methylation from the fetal haemoglobin promoter effectively upregulates the gene, opening...
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Nucleic Acids Research (NAR), from Oxford University Press, publishes the results of leading-edge research into physical, chemical, biochemical and biological aspects of nucleic acids and proteins inv...
Science works but it requires unwavering adherence to a system. The pollution that is misinformation is science’s enemy. As G.K. Chesterton said “If you leave a white post alone it will soon …
