The flies arrived in Cambridge this morning—healthy and happy! So nice to see another successful shipment! And great to draw one of our all-time-best customers out of retirement long enough to recreate our first order! Here’s to another 40 years of the BDSC helping to make fly genetics happen!

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you're not the only one who has a citric acid cycle 😉

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🐜 Ant societies meet embryonic mechanics! Join @arjunarajakumar.bsky.social and @surajshankar.bsky.social for two fascinating talks exploring caste determination and robust fate timing. 📅 Oct 2 | ⏰ 10 AM ET / 7 AM PT 🔗 Scan the poster’s QR code to join us and bring your questions! #evodevo #dev

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Active Motif is accepting research abstracts for the 2026 Epigenetics Services Grant, offering three grants toward Single-Cell CUT&Tag Multiome Services. Submit your abstract before the deadline: bit.ly/4dMVxfN 🚨 Abstract submission deadline: Oct 23, 2026 _____ #scCUTandTAG

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This is a really cool finding, congrats! It also reminds me of a recent paper from John Lis's lab showing that LTR promoter transcription in the NMU enhancer attenuates its activity: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42468524/. So it appears to be a broader mechanism?

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