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Guillaume Hummel 🌱 🇪🇺 🇫🇷 🥨 🇮🇹
@guillaumehummel.bsky.social
RNA biologist and physiologist studying how plants regulate the expression of invasive and foreign DNA elements, and how this regulation shapes tissue identity

IBMP-CNRS @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social, University of Strasbourg.

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The worst thing about the book is that it creates the impression that this hypercompetitive, no respect for rules or others, approach to science is normal or desirable.

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Watson was an opportunist. He took advantage of Crick’s command of crystallography and managed to get access to Franklin’s experimental data including the famous Photography 51 which reveal a simple cross-like diffraction pattern of DNA in high humidity.

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November 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Key results: loss of selenocysteine-decoding tRNAs in land plants, major intron shifts at terrestrialization, contrasting plastid vs mitochondrial trajectories, and lineage-specific expansion & clustering of nuclear tRNA genes.
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM