David Baltimore, giant of molecular biology, has died.

Lovely New Yorkers!! Dropped my wallet on a bus in a low-income neighborhood of NYC last week. Bus driver handed it to me when I returned with $200 and credit cards inside. Great hosts of US Open 🎾.

NEWS & VIEWS: Balancing sweetness: regulatory insights into sugar accumulation in peach fruit (Saadia Bihmidine , Thu M Tran) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

Enjoyed a lovely week of scientific discussions at #PlantBio2025. Heading home inspired with a long list of new manuscripts to dig into and some new friends.

📢 Excited to share our work out now in @nature.com! 📢 We present the phased pan-genome of tetraploid European potato, based on 10 historical cultivars representing 85% of European potato diversity. Learn more below! 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/7

THE POTATO LAB Here it is at last, the story of Mi-Kyeong a passionate potato researcher…👩‍🔬 🥔 🧬 💪 🇰🇷 youtu.be/eGXxozmh7ug?...

Francis Collins is leaving NIH www.npr.org/sections/sho...

If you're interested in chromosome biology (DNA folding, gene regulation, replication, polymer modelling and more) we're organising the below this autumn. It'd be great to see you there. Please share if you can. :-)

Our recent collaborative publication…starch granule initiation and morphology is quite fascinating with industrial and food applications. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A microRNA solves an evolutionary mystery of butterfly and moth wing coloration A microRNA is the effector gene of a classic evolutionary hotspot locus 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Shows that a miRNA can drive repeated instances of adaptive evolution in animals www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsjl...

Exciting advancement in cancer vaccine technology. The scariest thing about vaccines is the magnitude of their potential positive impact on human (and animal) health. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Magazine #Scicomm