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Ciliates represent a unique system to study nuclear biology, as they have a micro- and a macronucleus. Formation of the macronucleus requires the excision of thousands of transposon related sequences, which is guided by small RNAs. The Nowacki lab could now show that in ciliates the excision of…

The Thiel lab with collaborators studied the phenotype of the SARS-CoV-2 variant Omicron-BA.1 in several models of infection and the contribution of the spike protein to this phenotype. These experiments included assessing the evasion of the immunity provided by mRNA vaccines desgined against the…

Joining forces with the Ciaudo and Hall labs, the Allain group (all three group ETHZ) gained structural insights into the unusual mode of RNA recognition by the Dead End protein complemented by biochemical and cellular experiments. The results were published in Nature Communications.

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It is not only classical genes that determine our predisposition to obesity. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now shown that microRNA molecules play a central role in the regulation of body weight.

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