The 5th NCCR RNA & Disease Summer School will focus on "RNA Heterogeneity in Chemistry, Space and Time" and take place from August 26-30, 2024, in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
In a "Science Advances" paper, the Allain (IBC) and Leitner (IMSB) groups present the extension to condensates of their mass spectrometry-based approach to study RNA-protein interactions. They find that specific interactions in the liquid phase…
The group of Rory Johnson (former member of the NCCR, now at University College Dublin) in collaboration with Panagiotis Chouvardas (University of Bern) have developed TranCistor - a new tool to define and identify long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) that…
FMI News Article Gene expression is controlled by numerous small RNA molecules called microRNAs, or miRNAs. However, specific functions of most miRNAs remain poorly understood. Working in worms, FMI researchers created an encyclopedia of miRNA…
The lab of Magdalini Polymenidou (University of Zurich) has just published a study in Nature, in which they describe a new model of human neural networks to study neurodegenerative diseases. Using this model, they were able to identify NPTX2, a new…
Stefanie Jonas is the 2024 recipient of the Eliza Izaurralde Award for Innovation in Research, Teaching and Service by the RNA Society. Congratulations!!!
A "Nature Communications" paper by five ETHZ groups reported an approach for the integrative structure determination of protein RNA complexes containing flexible regions, resulting in several conformations. This approach revealed that PTBP1 acts as a…
The Chao lab wrote a review "Following the Birth, Life, and Death of mRNAs in Single Cells" published in Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology, in which they discuss single-molecule techniques to follow the life cycle of an mRNA and the…