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Morning skypals! Tea-break time seems like a good time for a book review - how about it?
We will start with Medical Bondage, by Deirdre Cooper Owens, an American historian & reproductive rights activist
#womenshealthmonth
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reading time!
A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds?
Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines
Did you know that the malaria parasite can deliver its RNA directly into immune cells, causing 94 changes in gene splicing? This clever tactic makes it harder for our defenses to fight back. How can we combat such a sneaky invader? 🦠
You ever get the feeling that your sequence logo is talking about something other than base frequency....
#GTA #basefrequency #RNAsplicing #AccidentalGaming
Happy Friday y'all! Hope you all had a good week.
We've got some more #BookReviews for you for #WomensHealthMonth.
This morning we are talking about "Invisible Women - Exposing data bias in a world designed for men" by @ccriadoperez.bsky.social
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Really feels like 'checking the LLM didn't hallucinate your references' should be the lowest conceivable bar. We would suggest 'have read the actual paper' is a preferable standard, but even 'have skimmed the abstract' seems like the minimum you would want to be able to honestly include a reference!
FYI: New online! Tools and tactics for studying alternative splicing
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Schindler et al. report that RNA-binding proteins undergo widespread S-nitrosylation at evolutionarily conserved sites. S-nitrosylation of the master splicing regulator PTBP1 alters RNA-binding properties to reprogram the transcriptome and proteome. Nitric oxide thereby coordinates gene and protein regulation in cellular physiology and disease.
Mary Lyon FRS was born #OnThisDay in 1925. Lyon was the discoverer of X-chromosome inactivation, which the genetic process that leads to coloration like tortoiseshell cats. Read more about her discoveries in a @royalsocietypublishing.org biographical memoir. #WomenInSTEM https://bit.ly/4wutdqf
Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel discovered that Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite responsible for the deadliest type of malaria,
Nature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 17 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41576-026-00952-4In this Review, Sousa-Luís and Carmo-Fonseca discuss the various tools available to detect and quantify alternative splicing, functionally test splice isoforms and investigate the link between genetic variation, splicing and disease.
Hi sky-pals! We here at DDU towers hope you are keeping cool in these hot May days!
Let's continue our #BookReviews as part of #WomensHealthMonth, give you something to read over your lunch break! Today we're reading Meghan Rabbitt’s The New Rules of Women’s Health
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Drug Discovery Unit, University of Dundee
The Royal Society
I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?
