Preferential insertion into the late-replicating inactive X explains L1 accumulation in this chromosome

The term ‘housekeeping gene’ evokes a sense of banality. These are the boring genes that hum in the background, impervious to cell state or stress. For a developmental biologist captivated by the impa...

You just identified a new mutations in your favourite but don't know whether it's functional Marina Abakarova 's PhD project, with the help of Maria Ines Freiberger Arnaud Liehrmann, and under the sup...

Certains virus minuscules, appelés deltavirus, ne peuvent se propager qu’en s’appuyant sur d’autres virus.

The ability to discriminate thousands of odors in our environment requires each olfactory neuron to express a single olfactory receptor from hundreds of available genes. The biochemical mechanism enfo...

From reptiles and Tasmanian devils to humans, one researcher zooms in on unseen features of the brain and liver cells, like the cytoskeleton.

Here Schwämmle et al. develop CRISPR reporter screens to map transcription-factor-regulatory element interactions at the Xist locus, revealing a two-step mechanism integrating developmental and X-dosage signals to initiate X-chromosome inactivation.

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With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...

A study reports on the DNA methylation dynamics during embryogenesis in marsupials, showing that these differ from those occurring during embryogenesis in eutherian mammals.

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology - Programmed reactivation of the inactive X chromosome in mammals happens in female primordial germ cells (PGCs) to prepare for meiosis and the generation...