Luana Branco
@luana-branco.bsky.social
WesternU MSc student. tRNA, mistranslation, stress response. Drosophila enthusiast 🪰🔬
Reposted by Luana Branco
Amazing work from the folks in my lab on the impact of making the wrong proteins (mistranslation) and how it INCREASES female lifespan, even when combined with reproduction! Of note, the lead author, Luana Branco, did this work as an undergrad (!!). Preprint here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Mistranslation protects against lifespan reduction due to mating in Drosophila melanogaster females.
Accurate translation of genes into proteins is critical to organism fitness, and errors in this process are usually detrimental and cause proteotoxic stress. Mistranslation occurs when the amino acid ...
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December 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Amazing work from the folks in my lab on the impact of making the wrong proteins (mistranslation) and how it INCREASES female lifespan, even when combined with reproduction! Of note, the lead author, Luana Branco, did this work as an undergrad (!!). Preprint here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...