Crick PACE postdoctoral fellowship with King's College London and @sj-marzi.bsky.social mapping epigenetic signatures of air pollution and microplastics in Parkinson's. Closing date: 6th January www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/postdoct...

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Zeng et al, 2026. Transcription factors read a second regulatory code in chromatin www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... "our findings establish that TFs interpret two complementary layers of genomic information: the primary DNA sequence and a second code written into the nucleosome architecture"

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Thrilled to see this published today! Truly special because we made the initial discovery >15 yrs ago! We found two copies of a human gene called BC200 embedded in a human poxvirus. BC200 blurs the line between gene & transposon—both functional & mutagenic! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵1/n

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Alzheimer’s disease doesn’t happen all at once – and neither does progress in understanding it. For #WorldAlzheimersDay, we’re looking back at a year of King’s research, from diagnostic tools to fundamental discovery science. Find out what we've discovered in 2026 ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/a-year-in-al...

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What can scientists learn from the brains of centenarians? 🧠 @sj-marzi.bsky.social, Dr Alexi Nott & Prof Henne Holstege investigate what makes some people resilient to dementia into old age, in a major new project 👏 ukdri.ac.uk/news-and-eve... @alzheimersresearchuk.org

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