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What a nice place for the #Ribored2026!

Super nice! Congrats!!!

Amazing talk and incredible visit today from @AgamiLab. RNA translation is full of surprises!!! Million thanks Reuven!

#AptOx26 starting tomorrow - 23rd March - at St Edmund Hall, #Oxford. Vew agenda here: libpubmedia.co.uk/aptamers-2026/…

📢 Los fondos son limitados. Ayúdanos a que #científicas en países de desarrollo tengan los recursos que merecen. ¡Cualquier aporte hasta 50€ se multiplica!! 👉¡Dona aquí! globalgiving.org/projects/empow…

Super nice story! Do not miss this! I am still amazed about how a small protein extension can turn PTMA protein into more oncogenic! It is great to collaborate with the great Mar Alba lab! Mar… will there be a third preprint this month? 😳

New preprint from the group! Here we use Nanopore dRNA and Ribo-Seq data from multiple yeast species to discover tens of highly conserved microproteins encoded by uORFs in polycistronic transcripts/alternative isoforms. @the_prbb biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

"Zorevunersen es el primer tratamiento diseñado para actuar específicamente sobre la causa de #Dravet". Nuestro científico Rubén Hernández comenta en @elmundosalud los resultados de un estudio internacional publicado en @NEJM 📰 Un reportaje de @cglucio elmundo.es/ciencia-y-salu…

Nature research paper: GlycoRNA complexed with heparan sulfate regulates VEGF-A signalling go.nature.com/4qfSq3C

Online Now: Why m⁶A? An RNA surveillance model dlvr.it/TQbZpD

Congrats!!! Even mooore work!

More than 2700 3′UTRs are highly conserved. These 3′UTRs are essential components in mRNA templates, as their deletion decreases protein activity without changing protein abundance. Highly conserved 3′UTRs help the folding of proteins with long IDRs. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Super nice! Congrats

Las terapias de RNA… nos pueden llevar hasta el infinito y mas alla!

Prkra dimer senses double-stranded RNAs to dictate global translation efficiency dlvr.it/TKnKD5

Wow!!! Maite! Seguro que les dejas super impresionados! Congrats!!!

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology. Lately, I’ve focused on unravelling the reasons why diets high in ultra-processed food are linked to epidemic proportions of chronic diseases such as diabetes and obesity. Our research leads the world on this topic. Given recent bipartisan goals to prevent diet-related chronic diseases, and new agency leadership professing to prioritize scientific investigation of ultra-processed foods, I had hoped to expand our research program with ambitious plans to more rapidly and efficiently determine how our food is likely making Americans chronically sick. Unfortunately, recent events have made me question whether NIH continues to be a place where I can freely conduct unbiased science. Specifically, I experienced censorship in the reporting of our research because of agency concerns that it did not appear to fully support preconceived narratives of my agency’s leadership about ultra-processed food addiction. I was hoping this was an aberration. So, weeks ago I wrote to my agency’s leadership expressing my concerns and requested time to discuss these issues, but I never received a response. Without any reassurance there wouldn’t be continued censorship or meddling in our research, I felt compelled to accept early retirement to preserve health insurance for my family. (Resigning later in protest of any future meddling or censorship would result in losing that benefit.) Due to very tight deadlines to make this decision, I don’t yet have plans for my future career. The NIH has been a wonderful place because it allows scientists to take risks, form unique collaborations, and do studies difficult to conduct elsewhere. I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished and I’m fortunate to have had such wonderful colleagues and scientific collaborators. I hope to someday return to government service and lead a research program that will continue to provide gold-standard science to make Americans healthy.

Amazing supervisor 👍

Don't think I've ever met scientists as terrified/depressed as I've seen in the US this week (and I live in a war zone).

If you work in the area of the TGF-beta pathway , consider to send your publication to this special issue , where Prof. Gianluigi Giannelli and I are guest editors. TGF-β Signaling in Immunity, Inflammation, Fibrosis and Cancer mdpi.com/si/221331 #mdpiijms @IJMS_MDPI