#TEsky Fun Friday thing: we were in a meeting talking about a PCA with different human retrotransposon subfamilies on it, and someone described one as a 'weird Alu', which prompted at least three of us to say 'Weird Alu Yankovic', so that's fun

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Super excited to share my postdoctoral work at @imbavienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social - We discovered that some retrotransposons, or "jumping genes" 🧬, are able to spread from cell to cell via a new viral infectivity route. A short thread: 🧵👇 (1/7)

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🚨New preprint from the Benayoun lab!🚨 LINE-1 (L1) #retrotransposons become transcribed with #aging and #senescence, and are thought to contribute to #inflammaging. But what actually happens to a healthy, non-senescent human cell when #L1 turns on? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A 🧵, 1/7

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Acute LINE-1 overexpression rewires the transcriptome, proteome and secretome of primary human fibroblasts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.03.749265v1

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Acute LINE-1 overexpression rewires the transcriptome, proteome and secretome of primary human fibroblasts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.03.749265v1

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