Plaschka lab

plaschkalab.bsky.social

08 October 2026 11:26

After excising an intron, the spliceosome gets trapped on the branched intron-lariat RNA. How are such dead-end spliceosomes terminated? Our latest paper led by @vytaute.bsky.social investigates the mechanism of spliceosome termination www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/6)

Vytaute Boreikaite

vytaute.bsky.social

08 October 2026 11:25

I’m very excited to share my postdoc work in the @plaschkalab.bsky.social, where we investigated the very final act of splicing – spliceosome termination, revealing the stepwise dismantling of the spent spliceosome www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/11)

Anton Strezhnev

astrezh.bsky.social

07 October 2026 07:43

At least no mathematician has ever had an extreme reaction to the rapid development of technology.

Shrew

shrewshrew.bsky.social

07 October 2026 05:27

Today I am wondering about the insights we could have about the brain if we didn't insist that it recapitulates western power structures For example, to what degree are our hypotheses about prefrontal cortex limited because we call its processes "executive functions" instead of like, "mothering"

worm

rfksbrainworm.bsky.social

03 October 2026 08:31

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent