Are plant roots really made up of concentric layers of homogeneous, differentiating cell types? In our new study, out now in @nature.com, we show a more complex picture: two distinct cell states within root lineages, shaped in part by the environment. 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra

jrossibarra.bsky.social

23 October 2026 05:47

There are certainly animals with weird complex genomes. But let me update your graph with the maize numbers.

James Boocock

theboocock.bsky.social

22 October 2026 20:22

Excited to share our preprint! “Genome-scale base editing reveals the functional effects of variants in yeast” Using high-throughput base editing, we measured the growth effects of 308,461 variants, identifying 18,009 with significant effects. #Genomics #CRISPR 1/8 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Loesje v/d Posters

loesjevdposters.bsky.social

22 October 2026 05:56

** herfststorm een beetje heks laat zich niet van de bezem blazen **

Randall Munroe

xkcd.com

22 October 2026 05:52

Vulnerability xkcd.com/3314/