Aug 2026· American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology· 0 citations
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Endosomal dysfunction and polarity loss are established as drivers of SFTPC-I73T-mediated epithelial injury and mechanisms that may underlie AT2 dysfunction in disease more broadly are highlighted.
It is argued that formation of a tumour-intrinsic niche is a prerequisite for BRAF-mutant CRC seeding to distant organs and that interference with niche formation may help avoid metastatic relapse.
J. Bugter, L. El Bouazzaoui, E. Küçükköse et al.· bioRxiv· 2 citations
It is concluded that bridging the gap between foundational CRISPR research and its real-world applications is imperative and future efforts should focus on democratizing tools via open-source platforms, advancing delivery systems, and fostering sustainable innovation through synthetic biology integration to fully realize the transformative potential of genome editing in organisms beyond model organisms.
S. Sarsaiya, Archana Jain, Jishuang Chen et al.· Biotechnology Advances· 2 citations
A virus-like particle (VLP)-based toolkit that delivers diverse CRISPR editing modalities to human monocytes, macrophages and dendritic cells with high efficiency while preserving viability and innate immune responsiveness is presented.
Hyuncheol Jung, Pascal Devant, Carter Ching et al.· Nature Biotechnology· 0 citations
Findings provide direct functional evidence that szl regulates median caudal patterning in goldfish and suggest that szl-dependent modulation of the Chordin/BMP network can generate twin-tail-like caudal morphology.
Huijuan Li, Xiaoying Zhang, Xiaowen Wang et al.· International Journal of Mol...· 0 citations
Variants of uncertain significance (VUS) in the LMNA gene represent a major challenge in clinical genetics, as insufficient functional evidence limits their interpretation and clinical decision-making in laminopathies, including dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Here, we generated two isogenic induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines carrying homozygous LMNA variants, c.293A > G (p.Glu98Gly) and c.439G > A (p.Ala147Thr) by prime editing of a healthy donor iPSC line. Both variants are located within Coil 1B domain of lamin A. The edited iPSC lines retain normal morphology, pluripotency, genomic integrity, and trilineage differentiation capacity, providing a valuable platform for functional characterization and potential clinical reclassification of LMNA VUS.
A new method for surgically removing training examples from a model reveals that as datasets grow, the link between what a model learns and what it produces dissolves.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduAug 17, 2026