
222: snaR-A disrupts mRNA splicing in cancer
Zhou S et al., Nat Commun - This episode examines how the cancer-associated Pol III transcript snaR-A binds core splicing factors, localizes near nuclear speckles, perturbs U2-dependent splicing to in...
8 Joulu 202517min

221: Allele-resolved nanopore tour of the human placental methylome
Kindlova M et al., Nat Commun - Using phased long-read nanopore and short-read sequencing across eight trios, the study maps allele-specific DNA methylation and transcription in female human placentas...
7 Joulu 202520min

220: AML cell states reveal NPM1 immune-evasion subtypes
Lilljebjörn H et al., Nat Commun - Single-cell and bulk sequencing of 120 AML cases reveal two NPM1-mutated subtypes with distinct immune evasion mechanisms and divergent responses to hematopoietic st...
6 Joulu 202515min

219: Multi-omic mapping of lipid dysregulation in Parkinson’s brain
Hällqvist J et al., Nature Communications - Targeted multi-region lipidomics with proteomic and mitochondrial data reveals region- and stage-specific lipid alterations in Parkinson’s disease that conv...
6 Joulu 202516min

218: SIM1 and the multi-ancestry genomics of erectile dysfunction
Bright U et al., Nat Commun - A large multi-ancestry GWAS meta-analysis identifies a dominant SIM1-linked locus and multiple genetic connections between electronic health record-defined erectile dysfu...
4 Joulu 202519min

217: Multiscale triads of meiotic crossover patterning
White MA et al., Nature Communications - FFT and inverse-FFT analysis of Zip3/Zip2, Hop1 and Zip1 on yeast pachytene chromosomes reveals two interdigitated tiers of evenly spaced protein triads that c...
3 Joulu 202517min

216: 53BP1-RIF1 and DNA-PKcs: distinct interactions in chromosomal break repair
Makins K et al., Nature Communications - This episode reviews a study showing that 53BP1-RIF1 and DNA-PKcs have different genetic relationships across blunt end joining, deletion patterns, HDR, and ra...
2 Joulu 202518min

215: Protein Set Transformer for high-diversity viromics
Martin et al., Nat Commun (2025) - Protein Set Transformer (PST) is a protein-based genome language model that represents genomes as sets of proteins to improve genome and protein representations acro...
1 Joulu 202520min















