• The motivation for citizens' involvement in life sciences research is predicted by age and gender

  Lakomý, Martin; Hlavová, Renata; Machackova, Hana; Bohlin, Gustav; Lindholm, Maria; Bertero, Michela G.; Dettenhofer, Markus (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020)

  Open Science is an umbrella term encompassing multiple concepts as open access to publications, open data, open education and citizen science that aim to make science more open and transparent. Citizen science, an important ...
• RNA-binding and prion domains: the Yin and Yang of phase separation

  Lorenzo Gotor, Maria de las Nieves; Armaos, Alexandros, 1989-; Calloni, Giulia; Torrent Burgas, Marc; Vabulas, R. Martin; Sánchez de Groot, Natalia; Tartaglia, Gian Gaetano (Oxford University Press, 2020)

  Proteins and RNAs assemble in membrane-less organelles that organize intracellular spaces and regulate biochemical reactions. The ability of proteins and RNAs to form condensates is encoded in their sequences, yet it is ...
• FASTQINS and ANUBIS: two bioinformatic tools to explore facts and artifacts in transposon sequencing and essentiality studies

  Miravet Verde, Samuel; Burgos, Raul; Delgado, Javier; Lluch-Senar, Maria 1982-; Serrano Pubull, Luis, 1982- (Oxford University Press, 2020)

  Transposon sequencing is commonly applied for identifying the minimal set of genes required for cellular life; a major challenge in fields such as evolutionary or synthetic biology. However, the scientific community has ...
• Discovery of EMRE in fungi resolves the true evolutionary history of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter

  Pittis, Alexandros, 1982-; Goh, Valerie; Cebrián Serrano, Alberto; Wettmarshausen, Jennifer; Perocchi, Fabiana; Gabaldón Estevan, Juan Antonio, 1973- (Nature Research, 2020)

  Calcium (Ca2+) influx into mitochondria occurs through a Ca2+-selective uniporter channel, which regulates essential cellular processes in eukaryotic organisms. Previous evolutionary analyses of its pore-forming subunits ...
• Tracking of antibiotic resistance transfer and rapid plasmid evolution in a hospital setting by Nanopore sequencing

  Peter, Silke; Bosio, Mattia; Gross, Caspar; Bezdan, Daniela; Gutiérrez, Javier; Oberhettinger, Philipp; Liese, Jan; Vogel, Wichard; Dörfel, Daniela; Berger, Lennard; Marschal, Matthias; Willmann, Matthias; Gut, Ivo Glynne; Gut, Marta; Autenrieth, Ingo B.; Ossowski, Stephan (American Society for Microbiology, 2020)

  Infections with multidrug-resistant bacteria often leave limited or no treatment options. The transfer of antimicrobial resistance genes (ARG) carrying plasmids between bacterial species by horizontal gene transfer represents ...
• Science during lockdown - from virtual seminars to sustainable online communities

  Bottanelli, Francesca; Cadot, Bruno; Campelo, Felix; Curran, Scott; Davidson, Patricia M.; Dey, Gautam; Raote, Ishier; Straube, Anne; Swaffer, Matthew P. (Company of Biologists, 2020)

  The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted traditional modes of scientific communication. In-person conferences and seminars have been cancelled and most scientists around the world have been confined to their homes. Although ...
• Hi-C chromosome conformation capture sequencing of avian genomes using the BGISEQ-500 platform

  Sandoval Velasco, Marcela; Rodríguez, Juan Antonio; Pérez Estrada, Cynthia; Zhang, Guojie; Lieberman Aiden, Erez; Martí Renom, Marc A.; Gilbert, M Thomas; Smith, Oliver (Oxford University Press, 2020)

  Background: Hi-C experiments couple DNA-DNA proximity with next-generation sequencing to yield an unbiased description of genome-wide interactions. Previous methods describing Hi-C experiments have focused on the ...
• DiMSum: an error model and pipeline for analyzing deep mutational scanning data and diagnosing common experimental pathologies

  Faure, Andre J.; Schmiedel, Jörn M.; Baeza Centurión, Pablo, 1989-; Lehner, Ben, 1978- (BioMed Central, 2020)

  Deep mutational scanning (DMS) enables multiplexed measurement of the effects of thousands of variants of proteins, RNAs, and regulatory elements. Here, we present a customizable pipeline, DiMSum, that represents an ...
• Positive selection in admixed populations from Ethiopia

  Walsh Capdevila, Sandra, 1991-; Pagani, Luca; Xue, Yali; Laayouni, Hafid, 1968-; Tyler-Smith, Chris; Bertranpetit, Jaume, 1952- (BioMed Central, 2020)

  Background: In the process of adaptation of humans to their environment, positive or adaptive selection has played a main role. Positive selection has, however, been under-studied in African populations, despite their ...
• The shaping of immunological responses through natural selection after the Roma Diaspora

  Dobón Berenguer, Begoña, 1987-; Ter Horst, Rob; Laayouni, Hafid, 1968-; Mondal, Mayukh, 1989-; Bianco, Erica; Comas, David, 1969-; Ioana, Mihai; Bosch Fusté, Elena; Bertranpetit, Jaume, 1952-; Netea, Mihai G (Nature Research, 2020)

  Autoinflammatory diseases (AIDs) were first described as clinical disorders characterized by recurrent episodes of seemingly unprovoked sterile inflammation. In the past few years, the identification of novel AIDs expanded ...
• Case report: benign infantile seizures temporally associated with COVID-19

  García Howard, Marcos; Herranz Aguirre, Mercedes; Moreno Galarraga, Laura; Urretavizcaya Martínez, María; Alegría Echauri, Josune; Gorría Redondo, Nerea; Planas Serra, Laura; Schlüter, Agatha; Gut, Marta; Pujol, Aurora, 1968-; Aguilera Albesa, Sergio (Frontiers, 2020)

  Background: Non-febrile illness seizures may present in previously healthy children as afebrile seizures associated with minor infections, such as mild gastroenteritis or respiratory tract infections, and are linked to a ...
• The penile microbiota in uncircumcised and circumcised men: relationships with HIV and human papillomavirus infections and cervicovaginal microbiota

  Onywera, Harris; Williamson, Anna-Lise; Ponomarenko, Julia; Meiring, Tracy L. (Frontiers, 2020)

  While the human microbiota especially that of the gut, cervix, and vagina continue to receive great attention, very little is currently known about the penile (glans, coronal sulcus, foreskin, and shaft) microbiota. The ...
• Alternative enhancer usage and targeted polycomb marking hallmark promoter choice during T cell differentiation

  Maqbool, Muhammad Ahmad; Pioger, Léo; El Aabidine, Amal Zine; Karasu, Nezih; Molitor, Anne Marie; Dao, Lan T.M.; Charbonnier, Guillaume; van Laethem, François; Fenouil, Romain; Koch, Frederic; Lacaud, Georges; Gut, Ivo Glynne; Gut, Marta; Amigorena, Sebastian; Joffre, Olivier; Sexton, Thomas; Spicuglia, Salvatore; Andrau, Jean-Christophe (Elsevier, 2020)

  During thymic development and upon peripheral activation, T cells undergo extensive phenotypic and functional changes coordinated by lineage-specific developmental programs. To characterize the regulatory landscape controlling ...
• In utero and childhood exposure to tobacco smoke and multi-layer molecular signatures in children

  Vives Usano, Marta, 1990-; Hernández-Ferrer, Carles; Maitre, Léa; Ruiz Arenas, Carlos, 1990-; Borràs, Eva; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Estivill, Xavier, 1955-; González, Juan Ramón; Sabidó Aguadé, Eduard, 1981-; Vrijheid, Martine; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona (BioMed Central, 2020)

  Background: The adverse health effects of early life exposure to tobacco smoking have been widely reported. In spite of this, the underlying molecular mechanisms of in utero and postnatal exposure to tobacco smoke are only ...
• Zooming in on protein-RNA interactions: a multi-level workflow to identify interaction partners

  Colantoni, Alessio; Rupert, Jakob; Vandelli, Andrea; Tartaglia, Gian Gaetano; Zacco, Elsa (Portland Press, 2020)

  Interactions between proteins and RNA are at the base of numerous cellular regulatory and functional phenomena. The investigation of the biological relevance of non-coding RNAs has led to the identification of numerous ...
• Severe autoinflammatory manifestations and antibody deficiency due to novel hypermorphic PLCG2 mutations Martín-Nalda, Andrea; Casals López, Ferran; Gimeno, Ramon; Pujol Vallverdú, Ramon Maria; Aróstegui, Juan Ignacio

  Martín-Nalda, Andrea; Casals López, Ferran; Gimeno, Ramon; Pujol Vallverdú, Ramon Maria; Aróstegui, Juan Ignacio (SpringerOpen, 2020)

  Autoinflammatory diseases (AIDs) were first described as clinical disorders characterized by recurrent episodes of seemingly unprovoked sterile inflammation. In the past few years, the identification of novel AIDs expanded ...
• Genomic analysis of the natural history of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder using Neanderthal and ancient Homo sapiens samples

  Esteller-Cucala, Paula; Maceda, Iago; Børglum, Anders D.; Demontis, Ditte; Faraone, Stephen V.; Cormand, Bru; Lao Grueso, Oscar, 1976- (Nature Research, 2020)

  Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is an impairing neurodevelopmental condition highly prevalent in current populations. Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain this paradox, mainly in the context of ...
• The embryonic linker histone dBigH1 alters the functional state of active chromatin

  Climent-Cantó, Paula; Carbonell, Albert; Tatarski, Milos; Reina García, Óscar, 1976-; Bujosa, Paula; Font Mateu, Jofre, 1977-; Bernués, Jordi; Beato, Miguel; Azorín Marín, Fernando (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020)

  Linker histones H1 are principal chromatin components, whose contribution to the epigenetic regulation of chromatin structure and function is not fully understood. In metazoa, specific linker histones are expressed in the ...
• Genomic adaptations to aquatic and aerial life in mayflies and the origin of insect wings

  Almudí, Isabel; Wyatt, Christopher Douglas Robert, 1988-; Cruz, Fernando; Gómez-Garrido, Jèssica; Gut, Marta; Alioto, Tyler; Irimia, Manuel; Casares, Fernando (Nature Research, 2020)

  The evolution of winged insects revolutionized terrestrial ecosystems and led to the largest animal radiation on Earth. However, we still have an incomplete picture of the genomic changes that underlay this diversification. ...
• β-Catenin safeguards the ground state of mousepluripotency by strengthening the robustness of the transcriptional apparatus

  Zhang, Meng; Arumugam, Karthik; Di Vicino, Umberto; Cosma, Maria Pia, 1970-; Esteban, Miguel A. (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2020)

  Mouse embryonic stem cells cultured with MEK (mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase) and GSK3 (glycogen synthase kinase 3) inhibitors (2i) more closely resemble the inner cell mass of preimplantation blastocysts than ...

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