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Researchers have discovered a new spider species in the Indian Himalayas, Theridion himalayana, which displays a striking "happy-face" pattern and polymorphic color variations nearly identical to its famous Hawaiian relative. Despite the physical resemblance, DNA analysis confirms it is a distinct lineage that evolved independently, prompting new questions about the evolutionary purpose of these patterns and the spider's specific association with ginger plants.
A new Thought Leaders invited review in Genomic Psychiatry synthesizes more than two decades of work on HuD, a neuronal RNA-binding protein encoded by the ELAVL4 gene. Drawing on RIP-seq and CLIP-seq data from embryonic and adult mouse brain, the authors compare close to 4,000 HuD-bound messenger RNAs and identify 1,926 shared targets. Despite different molecular casts at different ages, fifteen canonical pathways and thirty-one disease and function categories recur across development and maturity. The synthesis suggests that adult neuronal plasticity is, at the molecular level, a recapitulation of early development.A new Thought Leaders invited review in Genomic Psychiatry synthesizes more than two decades of work on HuD, a neuronal RNA-binding protein encoded by the ELAVL4 gene. Drawing on RIP-seq and CLIP-seq data from embryonic and adult mouse brain, the authors compare close to 4,000 HuD-bound messenger RNAs and identify 1,926 shared targets. Despite different molecular casts at different ages, fifteen canonical pathways and thirty-one disease and function categories recur across development and maturity. The synthesis suggests that adult neuronal plasticity is, at the molecular level, a recapitulation of early development.A new Thought Leaders invited review in Genomic Psychiatry synthesizes more than two decades of work on HuD, a neuronal RNA-binding protein encoded by the ELAVL4 gene. Drawing on RIP-seq and CLIP-seq data from embryonic and adult mouse brain, the authors compare close to 4,000 HuD-bound messenger RNAs and identify 1,926 shared targets. Despite different molecular casts at different ages, fifteen canonical pathways and thirty-one disease and function categories recur across development and maturity. The synthesis suggests that adult neuronal plasticity is, at the molecular level, a recapitulation of early development.
For the first time, scientists have directly measured how smoking changes the mechanical behavior of human lung tissue. The researchers found that smoking substantially stiffens this tissue in ways resembling fibrosis, a disease that scars and toughens the lungs.