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G&D publishes high-quality research in molecular biology, cancer biology, development, neuroscience and related fields. In addition, G&D also publishes comprehensive Review Articles, Perspectives and Outlooks written by leading scientists.
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🚨 NEW ISSUE ALERT!!! 🚨

New Outlook, Review, and Research articles online now at Genes & Development. Also in this issue, an In Memoriam on the life and work of John B. Gurdon.

Click on the link to learn more:
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/23-24.toc
Best wishes and holiday cheer to our amazing G&D community...
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
⏪ G&D RECAP ⏪

🗓️ September 2025
RESEARCH PAPER: Bystander activation across a #TAD boundary supports a cohesin-dependent #transcription cluster model for #enhancer function
By Williamson et al., Wendy Bickmore, and Laura Lettice
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/17-18/1012.full

Wendy Bickmore
December 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
⏪ G&D RECAP ⏪

🗓️ August 2025
REVIEW: Studying ovarian aging and its health impacts: modern tools and approaches
By Bérénice Benayoun, Alison Kochersberger, and Jennifer Garrison
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/15-16/975.full

Bérénice A. Benayoun, PhD Jennifer Garrison
#aging #womenshealth
December 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
⏪ G&D RECAP ⏪

🗓️ July 2025
RESEARCH PAPER: Ribosome association inhibits stress-induced gene mRNA localization to stress granules
By Noah Helton, Benjamin Dodd, and Stephanie Moon
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/13-14/826.full

Stephanie Moon
#ribosome #stressgranule #translation
December 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
📽 G&D Tapes 📽

G&D Author, Jon Muncie-Vasic tells us about their new study in #genesdev that defines the role of MEF2C in cardiac tract development.

Read the full story here:
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/23-24/1451.abstract

Jon Muncie-Vasic Benoit Bruneau Gladstone Institutes
December 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
⏪ G&D RECAP ⏪

🗓️ June 2025
RESEARCH PAPER: Aneuploidy generates enhanced nucleotide dependency and sensitivity to metabolic perturbation
By Magesh et al., Stephen Elledge, and Emma Watson
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/11-12/770.full

#aneuploidy #cancer #metabolism #chemotherapy
December 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
⏪ G&D RECAP ⏪

🗓️ May 2025
RESEARCH PAPER: MRN–CtIP, EXO1, and DNA2–WRN/BLM act bidirectionally to process DNA gaps in PARPi-treated cells without strand cleavage
By Seppa et al., and Alessandro Vindigni
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/9-10/582.full

#DNArepair #BRCA1 #nucleases #PARP #cancer
December 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
⏪ G&D RECAP ⏪

🗓️ April 2025
OUTLOOK: Where and why have so many metabolic enzymes gone from developing spores of Bacillus subtilis?
By Peter Setlow
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/7-8/426.full

#bacteria #sporulation #protease #metabolism #dormancy
December 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
⏪ G&D RECAP ⏪

🗓️ April 2025
RESEARCH PAPER: MdfA is a novel ClpC adaptor protein that functions in the developing Bacillus subtilis spore
By Massoni et al., Rivka Isaacson, and Amy Camp
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/7-8/510.full

#bacteria #sporulation #protease #metabolism #dormancy
December 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
⏪ G&D RECAP ⏪

🗓️ April 2025
RESEARCH PAPER: Developmentally regulated proteolysis by MdfA & ClpCP mediates metabolic differentiation during B. subtilis sporulation
By Riley et al., Javier Lopez-Garrido and Kit Pogliano
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/7-8/524.full

#bacteria #spore #dormancy
December 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
⏪ G&D RECAP ⏪

🗓️ March 2025
RESEARCH PAPER: Two unrelated distal genes activated by a shared enhancer benefit from localizing inside the same small topological domain
By Huang et al. and Wouter de Laat
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/5-6/348.full

#enhancer #3Dgenome #CTCF #TADs #chromatin
December 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
⏪ G&D RECAP ⏪

🗓️ February 2025
RESEARCH PAPER: LINE1 elements at distal junctions of rDNA repeats regulate nucleolar organization in human embryonic stem cells
By Ataei et al. and Miguel Ramalho-Santos
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/3-4/280.full

#retrotransposons #genome #chromosome
December 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
⏪ G&D RECAP ⏪

🗓️ January 2025
REVIEW: Genetics and biology of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
By Ying et al. and Ronald DePinho
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/1-2/36.full

#pancreaticcancer #PDAC #tumor #genetics #tumormicroenvironment #cancertherapy
December 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
OUTLOOK: MEF2C networks in heart tube development
By Hassan Abdulrazzak and Mark Mercola
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/23-24/1397.full

Learn more here:
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/23-24/1451.abstract

#transcriptionfactor #embryonicdevelopment #heartdevelopment #cardiactract
December 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
RESEARCH PAPER: Mice carrying homologous human shelterin POT1-L259S mutation linked to lung fibrosis show a telomerase deficiency-like phenotype with telomere shortening with increasing mouse generations
By Sánchez-Vázquez et al & Maria Blasco
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/23-24/1490.full
December 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
RESEARCH PAPER: Multiple human enhancer RNAs contain long translated open reading frames
By Vlasov et al. and James Manley
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/23-24/1468.full

#protein #translation #enhancerRNA #openreadingframe #chromatin #DNAdamage #RNAprocessing #nucleus
December 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
RESEARCH PAPER: MEF2C controls segment-specific gene regulatory networks that direct heart tube morphogenesis
By Muncie-Vasic et al. and Benoit Bruneau
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/23-24/1451.abstract

Jon Muncie-Vasic Benoit Bruneau

#transcriptionfactor #embryodevelopment #cardiactract
December 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
G&D Executive Editor, Dr. Eric Sawey is at #cellbio2025!
If you’d like to share your work with us or learn about the journal, drop by the CSHL Press booth or reach out at sawey@cshl.edu
#genesdev Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
December 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
REVIEW: Transcription quality control at the promoter-proximal checkpoint
By Daniel Blears and Jesper Svejstrup
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/23-24/1399.full

Jesper Svejstrup
Center for Gene Expression (CGEN)

#transcription #promoterproximalpausing #RNApolymerase #elongation #mRNA
December 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
RESEARCH COMMUNICATION: A critical affinity window for IgSF proteins DIP-α and Dpr10 is required for proper motor neuron arborization
By Lopez et al. and Richard Mann
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/23-24/1426.full

#neuron #motorneuron #neurodevelopment #celladhesion #synapsis #Drosophila
December 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
RESEARCH PAPER: UPR deficiency leads to poor growth, aneuploidy, and a trade-off between ER and general proteostasis in yeast
By Bartolutti et al. and Gloria Brar
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/23-24/1434.full

#aneuploidy #unfoldedproteinresponse #UPR #proteinfolding #proteostasis #yeast
December 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
RESEARCH COMMUNICATION: Igf2 regulates early postnatal DPP4+ preadipocyte pool expansion
By Altun et. al and Siegfried Ussar
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/23-24/1414.full

#adipose #stemcells #adipogenesis #insulinsignaling #celldifferentiation #IGF
December 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🚨 NEW ISSUE ALERT!!! 🚨

New Outlook, Review, and Research articles online now at Genes & Development. Also in this issue, an In Memoriam on the life and work of John B. Gurdon.

Click on the link to learn more:
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/23-24.toc
December 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🌟G&D SPOTLIGHT 🌟

REVIEW: RNA granules: functional compartments or incidental condensates?
By Andrea Putnam, Laura Thomas and Geraldine Seydoux
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/37/9-10/354.abstract

#RNAmetabolism #RNAgranules #phaseseparation #RiboNucleoProteins #condensates
November 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM