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This guy was considered a sex symbol back in the day. www.iflscience.com/maybe-we-nev...
February 27, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Would love to know what genes make mosquitos love me so much
Ecological genomics of preference for human hosts in the native range of the dengue mosquito https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.11.705442v1
February 13, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Learning about Hunchback in class right now, super cool!
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RESEARCH PAPER: Hunchback functions in the post-mitotic larval MDN to restrict axon outgrowth, synapse formation, and backward locomotion
By Lee et al., and Chris Doe
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/early/2025/11/20/gad.353223.125.abstract

#neuron #drosophila #locomotion

February 6, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Super interesting!!
I learned about this dark side of syphilis when I took a history of medicine course. It is a remarkably resistant disease that brought armies to their knees and wrought tremendous societal damage.
Ancient DNA Reveals Twisted Roots of Syphilis Go Back 5,500 share.google/V15zBbvnvlbf...
Ancient DNA Reveals Twisted Roots of Syphilis Go Back 5,500 Years
The first known outbreak of syphilis in Europe began at the turn of the 16th century, but on the distant continent of South America, the pathogen's history goes much deeper than that.
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January 23, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Never heard of this organism before!!! Cool
Discovery of the most intron-rich eukaryotic genome phys.org/news/2025-12...

New #ISEPpapers: Nuclear #genome sequencing reveals the highly intron-rich architecture of the chlorarachniophyte alga Amorphochlora amoebiformis academic.oup.com/dnaresearch/...

#Protists #Algae #Microbes #Genomics
January 16, 2026 at 3:45 PM