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White MA et al., Nature Communications - FFT and inverse-FFT analysis of Zip3/Zip2, Hop1 and Zip1 on yeast pachytene chromosomes reveals two interdigitated tiers of evenly spaced protein triads that c...

3 Joulu 202517min

Makins K et al., Nature Communications - This episode reviews a study showing that 53BP1-RIF1 and DNA-PKcs have different genetic relationships across blunt end joining, deletion patterns, HDR, and ra...

2 Joulu 202518min

Martin et al., Nat Commun (2025) - Protein Set Transformer (PST) is a protein-based genome language model that represents genomes as sets of proteins to improve genome and protein representations acro...

1 Joulu 202520min

Kaur M et al., Nature Communications - Reconstitution of asymmetric membranes and matched cell experiments show that transbilayer asymmetry of PI(4,5)P2 lowers the energetic barrier for FGF2-driven li...

30 Marras 202518min

Deng R et al. - BRAIN-MAGNET couples a ChIP-STARR-seq atlas of 148,198 neural regulatory elements with a validated convolutional neural network to predict enhancer activity and prioritize disease-rele...

29 Marras 202520min

Raven A et al. - This study shows that hepatic zonation determines whether mutant β-catenin drives proliferation and liver cancer by forcing differentiation to a non-permissive zone 3 fate or, when re...

28 Marras 202516min

Sankar et al. - This episode explores the discovery of genetic elements that promote the retention of extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) in cancer cells, enhancing their survival and evolution. Key terms: e...

27 Marras 202519min

Tumour-Reactive CD8 T Cell Clusters in Human Melanoma Music:Enjoy the music based on this article at the end of the episode. DOI:10.1038/s41586-025-09754-w License:This episode is based on an open-...

26 Marras 202518min