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Year of the Mollusk (Season 4: Episode 1)

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Get ready for RNA lanterns, fungal batteries, punk rock mollusks, supercharged hornworts, the top 10 DO LOOP posts of 2024, vanishing sentences in R, and a Trailblazer award from the NIH. Science On.


References:

  • A modular platform for bioluminescent RNA tracking
  • 3D Printed Cellulose-Based Fungal Battery
  • Redox-activatable inhalable mucoadhesive proteinic nanotherapeutics for targeted treatment of lung cancer
  • New Silurian aculiferan fossils reveal complex early history of Mollusca
  • Electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in the closest relative of animals
  • Repetitive injury induces phenotypes associated with Alzheimer’s disease by reactivating HSV-1 in a human brain tissue model
  • Hornworts reveal a spatial model for pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanisms in land plants
  • Diverse plant RNAs coat Arabidopsis leaves and are distinct from apoplastic RNAs
  • Two decades of bacterial ecology and evolution in a freshwater lake
  • Top 10 posts from The DO Loop in 2024
  • Your Classifier Is Broken, But It Is Still Useful
  • Little useless-useful R functions – Vanishing sentences
  • NIH: Trailblazer Award for New and Early Stage Investigators
  • NSF: Enabling Discovery through GEnomics


    • R Packages:

    • ellmer: Chat with Large Language Models
    • utf8ify: Format Text Using Unicode
    • creepyalien: Puzzle Game for the R Console
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      Science Research WeeklyBy Mark R Williamson