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Gätgens C et al., PNAS - This episode examines how DNA-intercalating molecules like daunorubicin block bacteriophage infection at an early stage, causing an abortive-infection-like outcome via toxic p...

9 Kesä 22min

PNAS - This study identifies crotonylation as a posttranslational modification of c-Myc that reduces its transcriptional and oncogenic activity. Key lysines K289 and K298 are crotonylated; loss of cro...

9 Kesä 25min

Huang X et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) - This episode summarizes a PNAS study reporting CD163‑targeted lipid nanoparticles that deliver FAP‑specific CAR mRNA to liver m...

9 Kesä 21min

Andrade J et al., PNAS - Analysis of three long-term cohorts in the Philippines and Thailand shows antibody titers wane over years and that homotypic dengue reinfections are common and required to exp...

9 Kesä 21min

Peeters MKR et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) - A perspective outlining how genome doubling (polyploidy) reshapes genomes, phenotypes, and ecological interactions and how ...

5 Kesä 24min

Sarabia Olivera L et al., PNAS - A perspective that surveys how diverse stresses trigger whole‑genome doubling (polyploidy) across fungi, plants, and animals, outlines common cell‑cycle mechanisms tha...

4 Kesä 24min

Haycocks JRJ et al., PNAS - This episode examines the discovery of CisR, a small RNA produced from the 3’UTR of prtV in Vibrio cholerae, which posttranscriptionally represses the CTXϕ-encoded cep mRNA...

3 Kesä 23min

Koprulu M et al., Cell - A 38-cohort proteogenomic meta-analysis of up to 78,664 people maps fine‑mapped protein quantitative trait loci (pQTLs) across 1,116 circulating proteins, uses machine learnin...

2 Kesä 23min