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Ben 🦠
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Molecular biology, directed evolution, recombinant proteins, genome editing and some ghoulish tinkering. Formerly @INRAE_PACA and @Michiganstateu . Now @LRSV_Toulouse
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Time to put this here 🌱
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The eukaryotic OMEGA-Fanzor system allows for precise and efficient #genome #editing due to its compact size and lower collateral activity, but its use in #PlantScience has been limited-until now! Read more in this #FreeAccess Brief Communication!
doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
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Engineer the eukaryotic OMEGA−Fanzor systems for genome editing in plants
The activity of the eukaryotic OMEGA-Fanzor genome editing system remains limited in plants. We engineered the Fanzor nucleases SpuFz1, GtFz1, NlovFz2, and MmeFz2 in plants, with NlovFz2 being the mo...
doi.org
December 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Europe cannot afford to fall behind on innovation!
We join 25 EU agri-food organizations urging policymakers to conclude #NGTs trilogue talks now.
Science-based rules = resilient crops & global competitiveness. Act today! 🌱
euroseeds.eu/app/uploads/...
November 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Réseau des plateformes académiques CRISPR
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Delighted to report that our group's passion project over the last 6+ years to make DNA cloning more accessible, efficient, and scalable using a software-assisted workflow called CloneCoordinate is now out in ACS Synbio!

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
CloneCoordinate: Open-Source Software for Collaborative DNA Construction
Custom DNA constructs have never been more common or important in the life sciences. Many researchers therefore devote substantial time and effort to molecular cloning, aided by abundant computer-aide...
pubs.acs.org
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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A synthetic transcription cascade enables direct in planta shoot regeneration for transgenesis and gene editing in multiple plants #resource #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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1/9 Metagenomics lets us read microbiomes in nature without cultivation, but writing (editing) them in their native context is still a major challenge.

Meet MetaEdit: a platform for pathway-scale metagenomic editing inside the gut microbiome. science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases
Although metagenomic sequencing has revealed a rich microbial biodiversity in the mammalian gut, methods to genetically alter specific species in the microbiome are highly limited. Here, we introduce ...
science.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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🔥 At conferences, who asks the questions shapes who gets seen. Across 24 ID&CM meetings, women were 55% of delegates but asked 36% of questions.
💬 When women moderate or speak first, others follow.
Let’s change the pattern

bit.ly/47VL0eH
🙏 @maudsalmona.bsky.social & MicroID EmpowHERment consortium
November 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Site-specific DNA insertion into the human genome with engineered recombinases - @pdhsu.bsky.social @arcinstitute.org go.nature.com/43kdvBg
Site-specific DNA insertion into the human genome with engineered recombinases - Nature Biotechnology
Engineered DNA recombinases efficiently and specifically insert genetic cargos without the use of landing pads.
go.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Molecular cloning be like
November 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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PSA: Many of you may have noticed a website floating around called formatmypaper(dot)com. People rightly noted something was fishy. I dig into what happened here:
open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...
Beware giving this site your unpublished data
Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.
open.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Here's the link to the system, try it! qedscience.com
@qedscience.bsky.social
q.e.d Science
Critical Thinking AI for constructive criticism and science evaluation
qedscience.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
October 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Kickstarting our Bluesky🦋 account with great news!
Our REPAIRome study finally out today in
@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A comprehensive genetic catalog of human double-strand break repair
The analysis of DNA sequence outcomes provides molecular insights into double-strand break (DSB) repair mechanisms. Using parallel in-pool profiling of Cas9-induced insertions and deletions (indels) w...
www.science.org
October 4, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Engineered geminivirus replicons enable rapid in planta directed evolution | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Engineered geminivirus replicons enable rapid in planta directed evolution
Directed evolution can rapidly generate genetic variants with new and enhanced properties, yet efficient platforms for performing such evolution directly in plant cells have been lacking. We developed...
www.science.org
October 3, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91.

In 2020, Goodall spoke with Science Editor-in-Chief H. Holden Thorp for a #ScienceEditorial reflecting on the 60th anniversary of her arrival in Gombe to study wild chimpanzees. Read more: https://scim.ag/472Chb8
October 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Reduction of prime editing errors by engineered Cas9 variants with relaxed nick positioning. #NBThighlight www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Engineered prime editors with minimal genomic errors - Nature
Engineered prime editor systems with reduced occurrences of unwanted insertions or deletions during genome editing are developed.
www.nature.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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You like engineering T cells, but you are missing the right flavor?

Check out 'one-pot' PASTA recipe 🔥🍝: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.10.675267v1

We combined a unique mix of CRISPR knock-in with serine integrases for easy-to-adopt
𝐏rogrammable
𝐀nd
𝐒ite-specific
𝐓ransgene
𝐀ddition
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Versatile and efficient non-viral integration of large transgenes in human T cells via CRISPR knock-in and engineered integrases
Current gene transfer methods often lack the precision, versatility, or efficiency when integrating large transgenes, limiting the ability to engineer therapeutic T-cells with more complex payloads. H...
www.biorxiv.org
September 19, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Happy to share the published version of our genetic toolbox, EASY-edit, for simple, flexible and efficient targeted editing in E. coli!

Feel free to to try it, we can send strains and plasmids!

academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
EASY-edit: a toolbox for high-throughput single-step custom genetic editing in bacteria
Abstract. Targeted gene editing can be achieved using CRISPR–Cas9-assisted recombineering. However, high-efficiency editing requires careful optimization f
academic.oup.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Co-discoverer of reverse transcriptase at 32, Nobel Prize at 37, played a key role at the 1975 Asilomar comference.
David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87
www.nytimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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De novo engineered guide RNA-directed transposition with TnpB-family proteins reveals features of naturally evolved systems www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
De novo engineered guide RNA-directed transposition with TnpB-family proteins reveals features of naturally evolved systems
Programmable DNA integration using CRISPR-associated transposons (CASTs) offers powerful capabilities for genome engineering. The single effector Cas12k CAST examples evolved from a fixed guide TnpB n...
www.biorxiv.org
August 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM