Thrilled to announce our #preprint on a new factor in the last line of defense in #translation quality control out on #bioRXiv! Spearheaded by fantastic PhD student @kaushikiyer.bsky.social, supported by Chloé Walter, Alina Kraft, Max Müller and Lena Tittel.

Deep generative models design mRNA sequences with enhanced translational capacity and stability. #Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New Banksy artwork appears on court building showing judge attacking protester

A new review on suppressor-tRNA therapies, we wrote with Suki Albers 👇🏻 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Here, we show that bacterial ribosomes—often viewed as conserved drug targets—actually vary across species due to extensive sequence variation in their drug-binding residues. In some cases, this divergence may lead to intrinsic drug resistance in certain bacterial clades: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Want to know how lipidation of some nascent chains takes place by NMT2-- Check our latest work on how NAC couples Protein Synthesis with Nascent Polypeptide Myristoylation on the Ribosome out today @embojournal.org‬: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

I am excited to share the second half of my postdoctoral work in the Yeo lab at UCSD! We found that neuronal aging leads to the accumulation of mitochondrial double-stranded RNA, which triggers the chronic stress response. 1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our RAPPL purification of ribosomes and associated material is out. I am really proud of this study in collaboration primary with Pavlovic-Djuranovic lab, as well as Jovanovic and Hashem Labs. This method aims to replace 60 years old purification of ribosomes by sucrose cushions rdcu.be/ezlhg

Die #Exzellenzcluster stehen fest: Heute hat die Exzellenzkommission 70 Projekte zur Förderung ausgewählt. 45 Cluster werden fortgesetzt, 25 neu eingerichtet. Die Förderung beginnt ab 1. Jan. 2026 für 7 Jahre, die Fördersumme beträgt insg. 539 Mio. €/Jahr. Die Liste: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3

Delighted to share our newest publication - beautiful collaboration with Ya-Ming Hou’s lab. If you wonder whether bacterial mRNAs contain m6A (yes they do) and whether it matters (does not seem to) look here 👇🏻 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

EMBO is #hiring a Scientific Editor (Absence cover) to join @emboreports.org. Apply by 8 June: buff.ly/seVUgYW 🧪

Mammalian cells eliminate nascent chains stalled during co-translational protein translocation by activating a ribosome UFMylation-dependent TAQC process at the ER. Ennis, Wang, Ye et al. establish a role for NEMF-mediated CAT tailing in TAQC. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #ER_literature

Cells are swapping mitochondria. Wondering whether they also swap much smaller cellular entities, e.g. ribosomes? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Very compelling study showing the association between herpes zoster vaccination and dementia prevention. The authors leveraged a unique cohort for this natural experiment which shows a reduction in dementia risk of 20% in vaccinated individuals. #MedSky #IDSky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The CRC1678 is offering medical research fellowships for medical students! Conduct cutting-edge research & transition into a doctoral thesis under the mentorship of esteemed CRC1678 project leaders like @muellerrom.bsky.social Apply now! Find both calls 👉 uni.koeln/MUMFG #MedicalResearch #Fellowship

“The most fundamental resource for progress in science is not the technologies or the buildings. It’s all the good people who do it,“ says former NIH director Francis Collins. “They are all of you who are here today to declare your support for this noble human enterprise.”

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Retracted papers had a higher number of self-citations and higher co-authorship numbers - clearly not a causation, but an interesting correlation.