History Job Klaxon. Join us at the University of Manchester!
In their Cell Science at a Glance article, @zeinabrekad.bsky.social Stavroula Mili, Ellen Van Obberghen-Schilling & Delphine Ciais highlight the ways in which RBPs & local RNA regulation impact adhesion-dependent processes, & the effect of their dysregulation.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Brexit was an act of “sabotage” that has made Britain up to £30bn a year worse off, former foreign secretary David Miliband has claimed.
He said the loss of income caused by leaving the EU is equivalent to imposing “a punishing tax every day” on the UK.
#RejoinEU #BrexitDisaster
Cryo-EM: the revolution continues doi.org/10.1107/S205...
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For decades, cellular aggregation was considered an evolutionary dead end.
Cells could come together temporarily.
But complex multicellular organisms like animals?
Our study, led by JP Gerdt, with Ruibao & @jennahed.bsky.social suggests it may be time to rethink that🧵 #ProtistsOnSKy
Journal of Cell Science
South-East London for Europe (Selfe)
1/ Our new crystal structure is now available in the PDB (9SR0).
It is the structure of the widely used A50I vinculin mutant bound to talin.
Which is slightly awkward, because A50I is supposed to be a talin-binding-null mutant.
rcsb.org/structure/9SR0
Speed of response is everything, and it's still lagging far behind. Essential explainer on the Congo Ebola outbreak from
@JeremyKonyndyk. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Alexey Amunts
Martin Humphries
Martin Humphries
The situation in eastern Congo and Uganda combines some of the most dangerous aspects of the 2014 and 2018 Ebola outbreaks.
Very excited to be sharing our new paper, just out in Nature Cell Biology!
The big question we investigate: How do migrating cells put their front 🔴 and back 🔵 in the right place?
Video
Paying peer reviewers works.
Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social:
• 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews
• ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript
• no reduction in editor-assessed review quality
• similar acceptance rates
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
