1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬 But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯 Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread 🧵👇

Our paper out @CellCellPress: Structure guided discovery of viral proteins that inhibit host immunity Congrats Erez Yirmiya, Azita Leavitt, Gil Amitai, our collaborators at the Kranzusch lab, and coauthors A 🧵 1/10 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

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We're excited to announce the 2025 Nucleic Acid Tx meeting - on 5/2/25 at the Weizmann. Great speakers from academia/industry. Co-org with @sginossarlab.bsky.social @schraga.bsky.social Yaniv Erlich and Yogev Debbi. Abstract submission/free reg. link: bit.ly/3ODdRer