Pendas' Lab

Happy Thanksgiving across the pond!

This can be a BREAKING TECHNOLOGY!! Small Sequencer Developer GenapSys Completes $90M Series C Financing clinicalomics.com/topics/molecul… vía @clinicalomics

Polio Vaccination Causes More Infections than Wild Virus the-scientist.com/news-opinion/p… Again, is a problem of money ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

Fertility treatment, not maternal #age, causes #epigeneticchanges in mouse offspring medicalxpress.com/news/2019-11-f…

All the living things on earth right now are caught in the act of evolution – and evolution is messy. What exactly makes a species? Find out how science is getting on with the business of taxonomy. With @GenSocUK #genetics #podcasts geneticsunzipped.com/news/2019/11/2…

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New insights into the process of DNA-looping change our view of how the genome is organised within cells: #cohesin actively extrudes #DNA into loops. A major breakthrough from Jan-Michael Peters' lab, reported in @Sciencemagazine today. Full story: imp.ac.at/news/detail/ar…

The high rate of mutations in paternal germlines is NOT directly related to number of cell divisions... new evidence from a comparison of humans to baboons: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Six surprising animal cancer facts – Wellcome Sanger Institute Blog. What about our favorite Drosophila ? Is it a right model? sangerinstitute.blog/2019/04/12/six…

PhDs: the tortuous truth nature.com/articles/d4158…

We thought this tiny deer-like animal, called a silver-backed chevrotain, was extinct for almost 30 years. Turns out, not so much newscientist.com/article/222292…

Cancer is, at its core, a genomic disease. The hunt for the precise DNA changes that turn a healthy cell into a cancerous one has led to new understanding and new treatments. @cosmic_sanger #CancerGenomics #BigData sangerinstitute.blog/2019/07/17/cos…

Analysis of more than 700,000 manuscripts submitted to the Royal Society of Chemistry has found that women are less likely to get papers accepted for publication than their male colleagues. go.nature.com/2O9bpwD

Lectura recomendada para todos los políticos que, como @AITOR_ESTEBAN, consideran inútil toda aquella Ciencia que no es aplicada. Siento que venga en inglés (a los científicos sí se nos exige el conocimiento de este idioma). blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/w…

Mutations in the stromal antigen 3 (STAG3) gene cause male infertility due to meiotic…|Hum Reprod•Tüttelmann F pubmed.gov/31682730

Meiotic Kinetochores Fragment into Multiple Lobes upon Cohesin Loss in Aging Eggs |Curr Biol•Schuh M pubmed.gov/31679939

Chiste para bioquímicos: vía @sketchscience

Scientists found that only some bees can figure out how to do this on their own. But 60% of inexperienced bees watching this, learned the new skill buff.ly/2XGvsFZ

Vampire bats vaaaant to suck the blood of other animals ... and share it with their friends! A super cool study shows that social bonds forged in the lab endured when bats were released into the wild. My latest for @ScienceNews sciencenews.org/article/vampir…

@Raph_Mercier What about: Mutations in a infertility family with POF in HSF2BP and characterizing the mutation in a humanized mouse model?