Transcriptomics – Genomics News and Views

Unveiling a Genetic Symphony: mRNA the Maestro of Novel Proteomic Discoveries

News and Views by: Gabe Jones (gajones@davidson.edu) Primary Article: Oikonomou et al. 2020 This web page was produced as an assignment for an undergraduate course at Davidson College. Join me on a journey through the genome where novel vivo mRNA display reveals the orchestrated dance between genetic transcripts and protein phenotypes. By use of this…

Unraveling the Silken Minds: Single-Cell Transcriptomics of Web-Building Spider Brains

“This web page was produced as an assignment for an undergraduate course at Davidson College.” About the author: John Ready Believe it or not, spiders weren’t always aerial web-building arachnids. Through a single-cell transcriptomics approach, Jin et al. investigates how the the nervous system of web-building spiders evolved, shedding light on the molecular basis of…

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Who Watches the Watchmen? New Insights into Regulatory T Cells

Transcriptomic analysis has shown that the transcription factor Ikaros is essential for regulatory T cell function. This web page was produced as an assignment for an undergraduate course at Davidson College. The immune system is the body’s defender from harmful microorganisms. The immune system must maintain a delicate balance between providing powerful responses to pathogens…

Elucidating the nature of cancer cell dynamics: A foray into single-cell multi-omics

Read more about the author of this post here. This web page was produced as an assignment for an undergraduate course at Davidson College. Recently, researchers at the Shenzhen Key Laboratory have worked to unveil the molecular basis of cancer cell heterogeneity. Their data reveal that copy number variations and epigenetic variation are responsible for…

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