Alexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪

alexis-verger.cpesr.fr

16 October 2026 14:30

Currently reading it, this is brilliant 👌

Giulia Paci

giuliapaci.bsky.social

16 October 2026 09:47

One week left to apply for ECR places to our workshop on developmental robustness!

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

mpi-cbg.de

16 October 2026 09:43

We hosted together with @poldresden.bsky.social a course for the Physical Biology of the Cell, Oct 5-9. The course was held by two leading biophysicists: Rob Phillips @caltech.edu, and Jane Kondev @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Will Ratcliff

wcratcliff.bsky.social

16 October 2026 09:17

1/ There are a ton of cool papers coming out on evolutionary transitions in individuality right now! Here are five recent ones I've really enjoyed, spanning Snowball Earth, volvocine algae, plasmids that fuse into a new individual, the relatives of animals, and... water kefir

Philip Ball

philipcball.bsky.social

16 October 2026 09:16

This is a truly startling paper. It shows that mRNA can perform regulatory functions *in addition to* its role in encoding a protein. In other words, the distinction between protein-coding RNA and noncoding regulatory RNA is fuzzy. /1 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...