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Episode 385
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June 04, 2026
385: Growth under Pressure: Polyploidy Induced by Stress
Sarabia Olivera L et al., PNAS - A perspective that surveys how diverse stresses trigger whole‑genome doubling (polyploidy) across fungi, plants, and animals, outlines...
00:24:49
Episode 384
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June 03, 2026
384: RNA Brake on Cholera Phage: CisR Controls CTXϕ
Haycocks JRJ et al., PNAS - This episode examines the discovery of CisR, a small RNA produced from the 3’UTR of prtV in Vibrio...
00:23:10
Episode 383
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June 02, 2026
383: Genetics of the Circulating Proteome: pQTLs, Pathways, and Disease Links
Koprulu M et al., Cell - A 38-cohort proteogenomic meta-analysis of up to 78,664 people maps fine‑mapped protein quantitative trait loci (pQTLs) across 1,116...
00:23:10
Episode 382
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June 02, 2026
382: How animal blood cells evolved from unicellular ancestors
Nagahata Y et al., PNAS - A transcriptome-driven reconstruction of blood cell evolution shows modern animal blood lineages arose by repurposing an ancestral unicellular...
00:26:12
Episode 381
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June 01, 2026
381: Light-written spatial barcodes enable tunable multiomic sequencing (BALI)
Battistoni G et al., PNAS - This paper presents BALI, a light-driven method that writes combinatorial DNA spatial barcodes directly onto biomolecules in tissue...
00:26:00
Episode 380
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May 29, 2026
380: Prime-SGE maps drug-resistance variants at scale
Abadie FMC et al., Cell Genomics - Abadie et al. present prime‑SGE, a pooled prime‑editing framework that installs thousands of precise point mutations across...
00:11:38