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Phillip Grote
@phillipgrote.bsky.social
Scientist, mostly interested in genetics, lncRNAs and .... well, in everything that I deem relevant. (he/him), find me at https://georg-speyer-haus.de/en/
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its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
March 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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This is a fascinating paper that reveals defined and clear mechanism for a phenomenon that for some seemed unbelievable- the up regulation of genes paralogous to those with specific types of inactivating mutations. This is called transcriptional adaptation 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Mechanisms linking cytoplasmic decay of translation-defective mRNA to transcriptional adaptation
Transcriptional adaptation (TA) is a genetic robustness mechanism through which mutant messenger RNA (mRNA) decay induces sequence-dependent up-regulation of so-called adapting genes. How cytoplasmica...
www.science.org
February 16, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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Attention RNA biology and antisense therapy folks: this is HUUUUUUGE!!! Termination windows as therapeutic opportunity!
Interested in antisense oligonucleotides?
Check our story about downstream-of-gene ASOs (DG-ASOs)!
Together with the Roche Innovation Center we
identified transcription termination windows of protein-coding genes as ASO target regions.

link to BioRxiv:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
February 11, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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February 3, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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Our atlas of lncRNAs associated with M1 and M2-like phenotype in TAMs in lung cancer is out www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Association of tumour-associated macrophage states with non-conserved lncrnas in lung cancer - Genes & Immunity
Genes & Immunity - Association of tumour-associated macrophage states with non-conserved lncrnas in lung cancer
www.nature.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:11 AM
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Wir sind bei der Kinotour von "BLAME" in Köln, München und Berlin mit dabei! Der erste Termin findet am 3.2. im Odeon Kino in #Köln statt. Nach der Filmvorführung spricht Regisseur Christian Frei mit Leon Wansleben. Er ist Forschungsgruppenleiter @mpifg.bsky.social 📽️ www.mpg.de/25990221/dok...
January 29, 2026 at 9:29 AM
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AlphaGenome is out in @nature.com today along with model weights! 🧬

📄 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

💻 Weights: github.com/google-deepm...

Getting here wasn’t a straight path. We discussed the story behind the model, paper & API in the following roundtable: youtu.be/V8lhUqKqzUc
January 28, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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Human heart organoids reveal a regenerative strategy for mitochondrial disease https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.18.695153v1
December 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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CISTR-ACT was the 1st lncRNA involved in inter-chromosomal contacts and in Mendelian disease (brachydactyly). We now revealed CISTR-ACT’s molecular mechanism: tinyurl.com/CISTR-ACT, @sickkidsto.bsky.social, @uoftpress.bsky.social, @natcomms.nature.com, @natureportfolio.nature.com
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67591-x
tinyurl.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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A systems genetics approach to uncover mitochondrial drivers of heart failure reveals mitochondria-nuclear cross talk in genetically diverse mouse strains https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.12.693865v1
December 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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First day of the #Microbiome Symposium at #Georg-Speyer-Haus organized by LOEWE-FCI professor Canan Arkan was a great success.
Thanks to all speakers & supporters (Cathrin Schleussner from Schleussner Stiftung and Martin Zörnig, Else-Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung).
Looking forward to the second day!
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Now online! RNA innate immunity constitutes a barrier for interspecies chimerism
RNA innate immunity constitutes a barrier for interspecies chimerism
Interspecies PSC co-culture induces horizontal RNA transfer that activates innate immunity in “winner” mouse cells, a response that is alleviated by Mavs deletion, thereby enhancing “loser” human PSC survival and chimerism.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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🍾🥂 @melanietichet.bsky.social of @loewe-fci.bsky.social is an awardee of the Metastasis Prize of the Beug Foundation 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣. We congratulate👏🏼 and look forward to the progress the research will bring to the treatment of metastatic melanoma in older patients➡️https://www.beugstiftung-metastase.de/tichet/
Mélanie Tichet (@melanietichet.bsky.social)
Cancer biologist - Group Leader at the Georg-Speyer-Haus Institute (GSH) and FCI in Frankfurt - Passionate about tumor microenvironment & immunology
melanietichet.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Happy to welcome Wael Mansour from MSNZ Hamburg / Universitätsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf on November 25 2025; 1:30 p.m.

"From mutation to medication: Personalizing prostate cancer
treatment via targeting DNA repair pathways"

Venue: Georg-Speyer-Haus, Lecture Hall
Hosts: Anne Fassl & Henning Reis
November 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Are you looking to establish yourself as a scientific group leader? BRIC is recruiting 1-2 junior group leaders to join our research centre in the heart of Copenhagen.
See more at www.bric.ku.dk

Please repost and get in touch if you are curious.
November 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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1 Milliarde Euro gehen der Allgemeinheit jedes Jahr durch Steueroasen verloren. Mit dem @zdfmagaz.in haben wir Gemeinden in Deutschland ausfindig gemacht, in denen Konzerne & Promis von einem extrem niedrigen Gewerbesteuerhebesatz profitieren. Klickt euch durch auf steueroasen.watch!
November 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Regulated decay of microRNAs plays a critical role in controlling body size in mammals! Check out our new paper in @genesdev.bsky.social and see thread previously posted with our pre-print 👇 for more info. Congrats to Collette LaVigne, Jaeil Han, and all authors!
genesdev.cshlp.org/cgi/content/...
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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🧬Science Minister Timon Gremmels today presents the 🆕funding notification to @loewe-fci.bsky.sociall, which will continue to receive state funding in 2026+2027 – a recognition of the outstanding achievements of the LOEWE Center!💪🏼🔬➡️ www.linkedin.com/posts/goethe...
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Our latest paper has just been published in Cell!

doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

We developed a new method called MCC ultra, which allows 3D chromatin structure to be visualised with a 1 base pair pixel size.
November 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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📢 Paper Alert: tinyurl.com/yzy2d864. We characterized tRNA-overlapping lncRNA loci = tROLs! tROL perturbations silence
codon-biased genes in inter-chromosomal proximity. tROLs bridge the non-coding
and coding genomes. @sickkidsto.bsky.social @uoftpress.bsky.social
tRNA-overlapping long non-coding RNA loci repress codon-biased genes
Ahmed et al. define tRNA-overlapping lncRNAs (tROLs). tROLs in gene-dense regions interact between chromosomes and depend on each other’s transcription. tROL perturbations silence codon-biased genes i...
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October 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Two group leader positions available in the broader areas of RNA science, RNA technologies, and RNA medicine. Attractive packages and a great environment. Come and join us at Helmholtz RNA Würzburg, Bavaria.
October 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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A paper in Nature Communication reports on a new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapeability, and thermal stability but can biodegrade in soil within 50 days. go.nature.com/4h1xv0X 🧪
October 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Integrated prediction of RNA secondary structure jointly with 3D motifs and pseudoknots guided by evolutionary information.
@aakaran31.bsky.social and @rivaselenarivas.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
All-at-once RNA folding with 3D motif prediction framed by evolutionary information - Nature Methods
Structural RNAs exhibit a vast array of recurrent short three-dimensional (3D) elements found in loop regions involving non-Watson–Crick interactions that help arrange canonical double helices into tertiary structures. Here we present CaCoFold-R3D, a probabilistic grammar that predicts these RNA 3D motifs (also termed modules) jointly with RNA secondary structure over a sequence or alignment. CaCoFold-R3D uses evolutionary information present in an RNA alignment to reliably identify canonical helices (including pseudoknots) by covariation. Here we further introduce the R3D grammars, which also exploit helix covariation that constrains the positioning of the mostly noncovarying RNA 3D motifs. Our method runs predictions over an almost-exhaustive list of over 50 known RNA motifs (‘everything’). Motifs can appear in any nonhelical loop region (including three-way, four-way and higher junctions) (‘everywhere’). All structural motifs as well as the canonical helices are arranged into one single structure predicted by one single joint probabilistic grammar (‘all-at-once’). Our results demonstrate that CaCoFold-R3D is a valid alternative for predicting the all-residue interactions present in a RNA 3D structure. CaCoFold-R3D is fast and easily customizable for novel motif discovery and shows promising value both as a strong input for deep learning approaches to all-atom structure prediction as well as toward guiding RNA design as drug targets for therapeutic small molecules.
link.springer.com
October 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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The world has lost its most powerful advocate for nature and hope. Yet many remain who will continue her legacy and I know she will continue to inspire generations more.
October 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM