4. A new @narjournal.bsky.social paper from senior author @danyarango.bsky.social that revealed a transcript- and site-specific inhibitory role for 2'-O-methylation in translation initiation. ACS supported this work through co-author Dr. Yang Yi's Research Scholar Grant. doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

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Four letters. That's the difference between a suppressor tRNA that barely registers and one that restores full-length dystrophin. Nobody had ever restored full-length dystrophin in Duchenne. Not once. Until today. Our paper is out in Science Advances. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Start-Codon Recognition: The inhibitory effect of 2'-O-methylation In their #preprint, Adam Suh, @danyarango.bsky.social & team examine the function of the epitranscriptome specifically in relation to the initiation of translation #preLight by Leonie Brüne prelights.biologists.com/highlights/s...

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Amid the rush to burn DEI infrastructure to the ground, it’s worth remembering that the goal was never favoritism. It was a fair shot for people long excluded by unconscious or real bias — prominent scientists, including Nobel laureates, openly argued some “races” were innately unsuited for science.

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Huge faculty recruitment effort at the University of Chicago -- a division-wide, open-rank search looking to hire about 20 faculty across 5 research areas in biology. Come be our colleague! Full announcement: uchicago.app.box.com/s/ckih9zv3rj...

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