Itai Yanai

itaiyanai.bsky.social

18 October 2026 19:07

Using AI to write for you - start to finish - is really just you robbing yourself of one of life’s greatest joys: to think through a problem and figure out what you think about it, and in the process becoming passionate enough to take on the new challenge of solving it.

Philip Ball

philipcball.bsky.social

18 October 2026 19:05

This is a truly startling paper. It shows that mRNA can perform regulatory functions *in addition to* its role in encoding a protein. In other words, the distinction between protein-coding RNA and noncoding regulatory RNA is fuzzy. /1 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

David Suter

davidsuter.bsky.social

18 October 2026 15:46

IMO the paper of the year in the gene regulation field - such a clean and clear study, showing how promoter-enhancer contacts mediate transcriptional activation. www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

James Briscoe

jamesbriscoe.bsky.social

17 October 2026 14:50

New commentary from the lab - can we identify principles of transcriptional regulation & cis-regulatory element (CRE) control of gene expression? With @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social & @joadelas.bsky.social in @cp-molcell.bsky.social A thread 🧵 doi.org/10.1016/j.mo...

Hubrecht Institute

hubrechtinstitute.bsky.social

16 October 2026 16:22

The @sonnenlab.bsky.social discovered a functional role for oscillation frequencies in keeping the gut cells in balance. They experimentally changed the frequency of Hes1 oscillations in intestinal organoids and showed that this altered cell-type composition.https://www.hubrecht.eu/cells-got-rhythm/