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This science thread follows biotechnology through original research, public projects, and source reports. Read the evidence below to see which developments are represented in SYMTRI’s archive.
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Up to ten sources with readable evidence, ordered by their feed timestamp. These archive sources can be older than the live fourteen-day window. This list is a sample, not a measure of total activity. Dates distinguish paper publication, repository creation, model/dataset activity, Hacker News posts, and KEV catalog additions. “First archived” records when SYMTRI first stored the signal.
- OpenAlex · Published · First archived
Protein secretion by the type IV pilus machinery in Francisella tularensis ↗
ABSTRACT Francisella tularensis is a highly virulent, Gram-negative bacterial pathogen that causes the zoonotic disease tularemia. F. tularensis infects a variety of host cells and replicates intracellularly while evading and interfering with host immune responses. The molecular mechanisms that facilitate the intracellular replication and virulence of F. tularensis are poorly understood. The Francisella genome contains a set of pil genes that code for the assembly of surface fibers termed type IV pili (T4P). T4P are major bacterial virulence determinants but the function of the pil system duri…
- Europe PMC · Published · First archived
CRISPR-Cas9 Editing of Myeloid Lectins Reveals Target-Dependent Transcriptional Remodeling in Tumor-Associated Macrophages ↗
Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) integrate multiple microenvironmental signals, including lectin-mediated recognition of tumor-associated glycans. Although several myeloid lectins have been implicated in tumor-macrophage interactions, their contributions to immunosuppressive TAM phenotypes remain poorly defined. We implemented a CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoprotein (RNP) workflow in primary human monocytes to enable comparative loss-of-function interrogation of five potentially immunosuppressive lectins we previously reported. CRISPR-Cas9 RNP delivery conditions were benchmarked in freshly isolate
- Europe PMC · Published · First archived
CRISPR/Cas9 knockout of PtaAGL16 improves post-drought recovery and shoot vitality in hybrid poplar ↗
Drought stress severely limits tree growth and survival, a problem intensifying under climate change due to the rising frequency of extreme weather events. Identifying genetic variants that modulate drought stress responses and enhance resilience is therefore of great interest for developing climate-adapted trees. While the MADS-box transcription factor AGL16 has been implicated in drought responses and stomatal regulation in herbaceous species, the function of its homolog in woody perennials remains largely unexplored. Here, we investigate the role of PtaAGL16 in the poplar hybrid Populus tre
- Europe PMC · Published · First archived
Complete genome sequence of Aquificaceae bacterial strain NHSK-567, isolated from Nakabusa Hot Springs, Japan ↗
We report the complete genome sequence of Aquificaceae bacterial strain NHSK-567 isolated from Nakabusa hot springs. The genome comprises 1.47 Mb with a 46.1% guanine-cytosine (GC) content.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
TurboPairFormer: Fast and Stable Protein Folding Model Training with an Optimized Triangle Attention Kernel ↗
Triangular attention is a core computation in AlphaFold3-style biomolecular models, with cubic cost in token count. Its shared pair bias adds a gradient reduction across attention slices to the usual reductions over queries and keys. The open-source backends we examine handle these reductions through repeated probability recomputation, floating-point atomics, or full score-gradient storage. Separately, computing the softmax backward correction from BF16-rounded forward outputs loses numerical precision. We present TurboPairFormer, a triangular attention implementation for NVIDIA Hopper GPUs th…
- OpenAlex · Published · First archived
Genetic Insights into Cumin (Cuminum cyminum L.): First Draft Genome Sequencing and Mining of SSR Markers ↗
Cumin (Cuminum cyminum L.) is a globally significant spice crop, highly valued for its distinctive aromatic volatile oil content and its natural drought tolerance. To accelerate molecular breeding for these traits, this paper presents the first de novo draft genome assembly of the widely cultivated Indian variety Gujarat Cumin 4 (GC-4), a cultivar known for its high yield. The genome was sequenced using a hybrid strategy, combining high-accuracy Ion S5 short reads with long-read PacBio sequencing technology to generate an initial draft genome resource. More than 69 million sequencing reads con…
- OpenAlex · Published · First archived
PRIZM: Combining Low-N Data and Zero-shot Models to Design Enhanced Protein Variants ↗
Abstract Motivation Machine learning has repeatedly shown the ability to accelerate protein engineering, but many approaches demand large amounts of robust, high-quality training data as well as substantial computational expertise. While large pre-trained models can function as zero-shot proxies for predicting variant effects, selecting the best model for a given protein property is often non-trivial. Results Here, we introduce Protein Ranking using Informed Zero-shot Modelling (PRIZM), a two-phase workflow that first uses a high-quality low-N dataset to identify the most suitable pre-trained…
- OpenAlex · Published · First archived
Probing protein structures in solution via concentration- and temperature-dependent small- and wide-angle x-ray scattering ↗
Understanding how biomolecules execute their functions requires knowledge not only of their static ground-state structures but also of the conformational dynamics, solvation, and intermolecular interactions that they sample under physiological conditions. High-resolution crystallography, the dominant source of atomic-resolution structures, captures the molecule within a rigid lattice that can favor particular conformations and is largely silent on the structural dynamics present in solution. Here, we develop temperature-dependent small- and wide-angle x-ray scattering as a probe of biomolecula…
- OpenAlex · Published · First archived
Multigenerational stability and environmental safety of transgenic rice expressing a dimeric HN protein as a plant bioreactor for poultry Newcastle disease vaccine antigen production ↗
Abstract Newcastle disease (ND) remains among the most economically important viral diseases in poultry, and novel thermostable, low-cost and genotype VII-matched veterinary vaccine platforms are urgently needed to overcome the limitations of conventional vaccines, such as cold chain dependency, high application cost and insufficient cross-protection against prevailing genotype VII strains. Rice endosperm has emerged as an ideal plant bioreactor for veterinary vaccine antigen manufacturing owing to its low production cost, cold chain-independent antigen storage, high biomass yield and great po…
- OpenAlex · Published · First archived
Whole-genome profiling of hereditary cancer risk in a highly admixed cohort from Northeast Brazil: clinical, genomic, and ancestry findings ↗
Hereditary cancer syndromes account for 5–10% of all cancers, yet access to genetic testing remains limited in many low- and middle-income countries, including Brazil. The contribution of clinical and population factors to diagnostic outcomes remains poorly understood in admixed populations. This study investigated the socio-demographic, clinical, and genomic characteristics of 400 individuals at risk for hereditary cancer recruited at a Reference Service for Rare Diseases in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, who underwent germline whole-genome sequencing through the Brazilian Rare Genomes Project. Par…
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