Check out the latest Genomics Week in Brief – full of intriguing news and research from the genomics space!
Top stories from the past week:
- Researchers develop a computational model to study humoral immune memory and uncover two complementary features which confer protection against antigens (PNAS)
- Research into bacterial transposons shows that selective recruitment of TnsC enhances the fidelity of RNA-guided transposition (Nature)
- New study shows that long non-coding RNA CHROMR regulates the process of antiviral immunity in humans (PNAS)
- Multi-omics study reveals the epitranscriptomic landscape of oral squamous cell carcinoma (BMC Genomics)
- Single-nucleus transcriptomics study reveals the molecular and cellular evolution of the primate dorsolateral pre-frontal cortex (Science)
- New study elucidates the mechanisms behind DNA recombination via the RuvAB complex (Nature)
- Researchers have developed “Craspase”, a CRISPR RNA-guided, RNA-activated protease (Science)
- Multi-omics study reveals a moderate to high genetic overlap between schizophrenia and cadiometabolic traits (BMC Genomics)
- Genome-wide association study has identified new genes linked to word-reading and ability (PNAS)
- Genomics study maps the evolutionary history of genetic changes, revealing that animals and fungi evolved under two divergent genomic trajectories that predate the origin of both groups (Nature)
- New computational biology study suggests that keratinocyte evolution is limited by homeostatic processes (PNAS)
- Researchers have developed “EnteroBase” which automatically clusters genomic profiles into hierarchical clusters (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B)
In other news:
- NASA’s Artemis Moon mission is getting ready to launch (Nature)
- James Webb Space Telescope has found carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet (New Scientist)
- Smallpox drug Tecovirimat may be a promising treatment for Monkeypox (Scientific American)
