Zeynep Baharoglu

zeynepbaharoglu.bsky.social

18 October 2026 13:18

After tRNA, rRNA, mRNA, RluA apparently also modifies phage RNA (E. coli) 🦠 A host enzyme pseudouridylates an RNA bacteriophage genome and accelerates virus production www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Kenneth Loi

kenjmloi.bsky.social

18 October 2026 13:15

Viruses have parasites too. Our new preprint shows how phages use VIPR to silence parasitic satellites, and how the satellites fight back with its own decoy VIPR RNAs that redirect VIPR to DNA REP elements in the host genome!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Paul Frankland

franklandlab.bsky.social

17 October 2026 12:59

Fantastic article on Canuck memory legend Karim Nader by Samia Madwar. Karim’s 2000 reconsolidation paper was a game changer, reorienting neuroscientific studies towards a more reconstructivist view of memory. thewalrus.ca/karim-nader/

Ben Vezina

bananabenana.bsky.social

16 October 2026 11:30

Wanted to share a new preprint where we use #MALDITOF not just for species ID, but rapid Sequence Typing 🧬 Even without DNA sequencing we can determine strain lineage 🦠, enabling rapid + cheap outbreak detection Amazing work led by Hoai-An Nguyen #IDSky #MicroSky www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Roger Cruz-Vera

cruzveralab.bsky.social

15 October 2026 20:18

Great review of a hot topic! Ribosome roadblocks and traffic controllers in bacteria | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...