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10 Questions with Professor Petra Van Damme

Q1. Who inspired you to become a scientist? Quite unexpectedly, I was inspired by the professor who taught biochemistry during my bachelor’s studies in physical education. I had to retake the exam, which forced me to dive deeper into the material — and instead of being discouraged, I became intrigued. That experience sparked a growing […]

10 Questions with Dr. Asier González

Q1. Who inspired you to become a scientist? I have always been fascinated by understanding how life works. Along the way, my school social sciences teacher and high school physics teacher encouraged my curiosity. Q2. What drives your research interest? Curiosity drives me, wanting to uncover how things work and why. Passion for discovery keeps […]

Translatomics for phasiRNAs, pigeon crop, and mitochondria

Recent Publications Harnessing the Power of Translatomics Every week we provide a digest of a small number of recent interesting papers in the field of translatomics. In this week’s Sunday papers, Han et al. investigate the role of translation machinery in the biogenesis of phased, secondary, phasiRNAs during maize anther development. Liu et al. use […]

Translatomics for cancer, neurons and Alzheimer’s

Recent Publications Harnessing the Power of Translatomics Every week we provide a digest of a small number of recent interesting papers in the field of translatomics. In this week’s Sunday papers, Li et al. revealed that DDX41 acts as an oncogene in liver cancer by promoting ribosome biogenesis and enhancing protein synthesis. Zhou et al. […]

Translatomics for poly(A), rG4s, and Eif5a

Recent Publications Harnessing the Power of Translatomics Every week we provide a digest of a small number of recent interesting papers in the field of translatomics. In this week’s Sunday papers, Yang et al. demonstrate MARTRE inhibits CCR4-NOT deadenylation, preserving maternal poly(A) tails to sustain embryonic translation Lu et al. uncover dynamic RNA G-quadruplex resolution […]