Genetics and Genomics

Genetics and Genomics

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    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Morphine regulates astrocyte transcriptional dynamics in the ventral tegmental area by stimulation of glucocorticoid signaling

    Jennifer J Tuscher, Angela Cleere ... Jeremy J Day
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Mechanistic insights into transcriptional regulation of ARHGAP36 expression identify a factor predictive of neuroblastoma survival

    Serhiy Havrylov, Armin M Gamper, Ordan J Lehmann
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Single-cell co-mapping reveals relationship between chromatin state and gene expression in early zebrafish development

    Vivek Bhardwaj, Alberto Griffa ... Alexander van Oudenaarden
    A robust and quantitative map links chromatin modification and gene expression of cells during zebrafish embryogenesis.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    In situ mutational screening and CRISPR interference define apterous cis-regulatory inputs during compartment boundary formation

    Gustavo Aguilar, Michèle Sickmann ... Martin Müller
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    The robust, high-throughput, and temporally regulated roxCre and loxCre reporting systems for genetic modifications in vivo

    Mengyang Shi, Jie Li ... Bin Zhou
    New mouse genetic tools, roxCre and loxCre, facilitate the study of gene function in cells of interest, allowing for simultaneous and efficient gene knockout and precise lineage tracing in vivo.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Adapting Clinical Chemistry Plasma as a Source for Liquid Biopsies

    Spencer C Ding, Jingru Yu ... Wei Gu
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Revealing global stoichiometry conservation architecture in cells from Raman spectral patterns

    Ken-ichiro F Kamei, Koseki J Kobayashi-Kirschvink ... Yuichi Wakamoto
    Conservation levels of gene expression abundance ratios are globally coordinated in cells, and cellular state changes under such biologically relevant stoichiometric constraints are readable as low-dimensional changes in Raman spectra.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Stranded short nascent strand sequencing reveals the topology of DNA replication origins in Trypanosoma brucei

    Slavica Stanojcic, Bridlin Barckmann ... Yvon Sterkers
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Mettl5 coordinates protein production and degradation of PERIOD to regulate sleep in Drosophila

    Xiaoyu Wu, Xingzhuo Yang ... Juan Du
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Useful
    • Solid
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Transposons contribute to splice-isoform diversity in the Drosophila brain

    Malak Choucri, Christoph D Treiber
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
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Highlights

    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Written out of history

    Lisa M Thomann, Julie Batut
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Chromosomes: Finding a role for non-coding DNA in trypanosomes

    Markus R Schmidt
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Raman Spectroscopy: Probing the proteome

    Wei-Hsiang Lin, Chia-Liang Cheng

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  1. Kathryn Cheah
    The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
  2. Murim Choi
    Seoul National University College of Medicine, South Korea
  3. Adèle L Marston
    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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