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Nucleic Acids Research (NAR), from Oxford University Press, publishes the results of leading-edge research into physical, chemical, biochemical and biological aspects of nucleic acids and proteins involved in nucleic acid metabolism and/or interactions
📣 Authors wanted! Submit to NARMME's Special Collection on Repeat Expansion Diseases by Jan 2026🧬

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#CallForPapers #Genomics #RareDiseases #NARMME
October 30, 2025 at 10:28 AM
🧬 New in NARGAB: A fast, scalable CHT method identifies genomic regions with shared effects across traits. Applied to psychiatric pleiotropy and cucumber virus resistance.

Read: doi.org/10.1093/narg...

#CHT #MultiTraitAnalysis #PsychiatricGenetics #PlantGenomics
October 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
🧬 New in NARMME: RNA splicing tweaks rescue tau toxicity in C. elegans. Modifying tri-snRNP proteins rescues tau-induced deficits in transgenic C. elegans, restoring behaviour, neurodegeneration and extending lifespan.
Read: doi.org/10.1093/narm...
#Alzheimers #RNAsplicing #Neurodegeneration
October 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
⭐ NAR Breakthrough! ⭐
🔬 How do #kinetochores rebuild each #cellcycle?
A new study reveals the order of assembly, hidden interdependencies, and a new regulatory mechanism.
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#NARbreakthrough #ChromosomeSegregation
October 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Five years ago, Dr. Doudna @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social and Dr. Charpentier won the #NobelPrize for #CRISPR/Cas9, revolutionizing gene editing and science as we know it. 🎉🎉Celebrate this milestone with our #specialcollections academic.oup.com/nar/pages/cr... and academic.oup.com/nar/pages/cr...
October 7, 2025 at 5:48 AM
🧬 New in NARGAB: authors compared human exome sequencing kits, showing how design differences impact capture efficiency and downstream analysis. Useful insights for choosing the right kit!

📖 Read: doi.org/10.1093/narg...

#ExomeSequencing #Genomics #Bioinformatics #NARGAB
September 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🧬New in NARGAB: a composite hypothesis testing (CHT) method to find genetic regions affecting multiple traits is described which is efficient, scalable and applied to psychiatric disorders and viral resistance in cucumber.

Read here: doi.org/10.1093/narg...

#Genomics #CHT #Bioinformatics #NARGAB
September 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
🤰 New research in NARMME reveals that uterine glands, not just eggs, are sensitive to maternal aging. 🧬 FOXC1 marks early dysfunction, reshaping how we understand fertility decline.

📖 Read more: lnkd.in/eahrVbMt

#FertilityResearch #FOXC1 #ReproductiveScience #NARMME #OpenAccessPublication
September 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
💡 New in NARMME: TRL1 enzyme from Candida glabrata changes shape to control RNA repair, vital for fungal survival. Its absence in humans makes it a promising antifungal drug target.

📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1093/narm...

#TRL1 #RNARepair #AntifungalResearch #DrugDiscovery #NARMME #OpenAccess
September 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
🔬 New study in NARMME explores how azvudine (FNC) targets HIV-1 RT & SARS-CoV-2 RdRp🧬

📖 doi.org/10.1093/narm...

#Azvudine #AntiviralAgents #HIVResearch #SARSCoV2 #NARMolecularMedicine #OpenAccessPublication
September 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
💡A new RNAi strategy described in NARMME embeds miR-based shRNAs into a gamma-retroviral intron, enabling gene knockdown and protein coexpression with high viral titers.

📖 doi.org/10.1093/narm...

#RNAi #GeneTherapy #RetroviralVectors #MolecularBiology #NARMME #OpenAccessPublication
September 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🧬 A new review in NARMME explores how chromatin preserves cell identity and how its breakdown may drive diseases like neurodegeneration and cancer.

📖 doi.org/10.1093/narm...

#Epigenetics #Chromatin #CellBiology #Genomics #Neuroscience #MolecularBiology #OpenAccess #NARMolecularMedicine
September 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🐟 New in NARMME: malat1 in zebrafish triggers signaling for retinal repair guided by Notch, Wnt & TGF-β pathways. In mammals, TGF-β blocks regeneration revealing a key difference in healing potential.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/narm...

#Zebrafish #RetinaRepair #Malat1 #MolecularBiology #NARMME #OpenAccess
September 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
🦟 New in NARMME: for the first time, microRNA in tsetse fly saliva carrying Trypanosoma brucei were profiled. Infected flies carry less diverse microRNAs, hinting roles in how the disease spreads.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/narm...

#SleepingSickness #TsetseFly #MicroRNA #Trypanosomes #NARMME #OpenAccess
September 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
#NARBreakthrough in #RNAengineering!⭐
University of Utah @utah.edu chemists show that a single dye can emit two colors with engineered #Broccoli #aptamers (Golden = yellow, Red = red).
They built the first ratiometric biosensor to track #glycine dynamics!
Read more 👉 doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
September 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
🌟 Discover NARGAB Editor's Choice articles, hand-picked by our Editor-in-Chief for their quality and impact.

👉 All articles are free to read and download, explore the full collection now!

🔗 academic.oup.com/nargab/pages...

#NARGenomicsandBioinformatics #EditorsChoice #OpenAccess
September 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
⭐NAR Breakthrough!⭐

🧬 New study shows Prp22 has a dual role in #splicing—an ATP-independent function that promotes #exonligation by stabilizing Slu7, and an ATP-dependent role that drives Slu7 dissociation + #mRNArelease.
📖 ttps://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf823

#NARBreakthrough #RNA #RNAHelicase
August 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🧬 IQ2 could be a new approach to treating visceral leishmaniasis (VL) via c-MYC gene silencing and immune cell reactivation!🥊

📖 Read in NARMME: doi.org/10.1093/narm...

#VisceralLeishmaniasis #KalaAzar #Parasitology #MolecularBiology #OAPublication
August 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
🧬 DM1 is a complex genetic disease affecting multiple body systems. A fast, reliable method to measure DMPK & MBNL1 proteins across diverse cell models is described in NARMME: doi.org/10.1093/narm...
@varechavala.bsky.social
#DM1Research #MyotonicDystrophy #MolecularBiology #OAPublication
August 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Dr. Yoshikazu Hattori generated the mutants and performed NMR analysis, while Prof. Yoshiyuki Tanaka directed and conceptualized the entire project.
August 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Prof. Masaki Unno led the crystallographic analysis, while Dr. Masayuki Morikawa contributed kinetics and mass spectrometry to uncover the mechanism.
August 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
⭐NAR Breakthrough!⭐

AlphaFold2 predicted LSI–RDF interactions and experimentally validated several new functional pairs.

@phoeberice.bsky.social @femijohn.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

#NARBreakthrough #SyntheticBiology #AlphaFold2 #GenomeEditing #ComputationalBiology
July 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
⭐NAR Breakthrough!⭐

🧬Mutation rates at the 3' end of DNA primer strands vary with run length. 4 TIM pathways in yeast DNA replication may be universal and linked to human disease.

📖 doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

#YeastGenetics #Genomics #DNAReplication #MolecularBiology
July 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
📢 The 23rd annual NAR Web Server Issue is live!

🧬 Featuring 72 new web servers across scientific & medical fields.

👏 Huge thanks to all authors, editors and reviewers!

🔗 Issue: lnkd.in/dVyUdAVN
📝 Editorial: lnkd.in/d9qh3QEh

#NARWebServer #GeneticSoftware #MolecularBiology #OpenAccessIssue
July 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🔬 A new study in NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics compares short-read and long-read sequencing, aligning results at the cDNA level using UMIs 🧬

📖 Dive into the full article: doi.org/10.1093/narg...

#Sequencing #Bioinformatics #GeneExpression #Genomics #UniqueMolecularIdentifier #NARGAB
July 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM