Today is the day! Our first Purdue RNA Club Symposium. Thanks to support from @rnasociety.bsky.social and #Lexogen.
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A thriving RNA community at Purdue. This account is for highlighting the outstanding RNA science and RNA Club events at Purdue University. This is not an official account of the institution.
Nice story from Purdue RNA Club's Jason Hanna's lab! @hannalab.bsky.social www.bio.purdue.edu/news/article...
Purdue Researchers Identify New Pathway for Treating Aggressive Vascular Cancer
New research identifies how the loss of small molecules that help control gene activity- called microRNAs- can trigger tumor growth, and how an existing drug may help restore their function.
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Congratulations to the superhero microRNA's and @kasinskilab.bsky.social ! www.purdue.edu/newsroom/202...
Small segments of RNA halt cancer in multiple ways
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Like tiny superheroes, small, naturally occurring segments of RNA can block multiple molecular paths that cancer cells use to grow and spread, a substantial advantage over even…
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Junior RNA Scientists, today Feb 25th at 4PM ET is the RNA Collaborative Seminar Series hosted by Alberta RNA & UNSW RNA Institutes! Join us to hear about emerging RNA research. Sign up for zoom registration here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Congratulations to Addison Young from the @kylecottrell.bsky.social lab on winning the 2025 RNA Journal Prize. rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/32/3...
2025 Recipients of the RNA Journal Prize
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Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · 7mo agoBiochemist/molecular biologist Joan Steitz was born #OTD in 1941. She (& team) figured out how our cells read/use genetic instructions to make proteins. A key person who helped crack the code on RNA—the molecule that acts like a messenger between DNA & and the proteins our bodies need. #WomenInSTEM
The RNA Society is welcoming submissions of original infographics about any and all things RNA! Scan the QR for details!
@rnasociety.bsky.social now offers an "undergraduate" category for membership! rnasociety.memberclicks.net/membership #RNA@PUI
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Come to ABE B061 tomorrow at 3:30 to see talks from Wenying Liao from Feng Wang's lab and Sharjeel Anjum from @kasinskilab.bsky.social!
Calling all rising juniors & seniors: Interested in biological or biomedical research? Applications for our ’26 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program are now open! Nine weeks, hands-on research, & mentorship from some of the nation’s top scientists — learn more: bit.ly/CechFellows
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Next up at Purdue's RNA Club, Addison Young from @kylecottrell.bsky.social 's lab and Zheng Zhang from Andy Tao's lab will present. See you 3:30 Friday November 14 in ABE B061!
Attention Junior RNA Scientists - The deadline to apply for RNA Junior Scientist Representative positions with the RNA Society @rnasociety.bsky.social is midnight tomorrow! We are so excited to review your applications and to recruit the next cohort of Jr RNA Scientists Representatives 🤩
Junior RNA scientists@jrrnascientists.bsky.social · 10mo agoCalling all Jr RNA Scientists: We are recruiting 2 new RNA Society Jr Sci Reps to lead existing and new initiatives for engaging junior members over the next two years! Details for submitting applications below. @rnasociety.bsky.social
Calling all Jr RNA Scientists: We are recruiting 2 new RNA Society Jr Sci Reps to lead existing and new initiatives for engaging junior members over the next two years! Details for submitting applications below. @rnasociety.bsky.social
Current Purdue RNA researcher @kylecottrell.bsky.social and former Purdue graduate student (Kasinski Lab) and RNA researcher Esteban Orellana together at the FASEB - RNA Processing in Cancer meeting.
RNA Club returns on Friday with Iman Mevaa from the @kasinskilab.bsky.social presenting a talk titled Targeted Delivery of Tumor-Suppressive miR-34a for Osteosarcoma Treatment. We will meet in ABE B061 at 3:30 on October 10.
RNA journal Call for Papers on RNA-based Therapeutics, Diagnostics, and Disease!
When I was at NIH and shutdowns loomed, it was discovered that the administration was planning to shut down PubMed. The head of NCBI called the powers that be and pointed out that this would threaten patient safety Who knows what will happen now Just in case, remember Euruope-PMC (europepmc.org )
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🚨🚀 Save the date! Applications for two @RNASociety Junior Representative positions open October 16. Stay tuned for how to apply! #RNASociety #RNA
Proud to share a new paper in Developmental Cell! This project spans over a decade of work and it's been amazing to see it all come together. Huge cheers to Randy, @hatleylab.bsky.social and the rest of the team! www.cell.com/developmenta...
Non-cell-autonomous tumor promotion in DICER1 cancer predisposition
Patients with DICER1 cancer predisposition typically harbor a germline heterozygous inactivating mutation in DICER1. Whether DICER1 mutant non-cancerous cells contribute to tumor promotion was previou...
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This preprint was accepted @rnajournal.bsky.social! It is now online ahead of print! @cancer-inst-purdue.bsky.social @purduernaclub.bsky.social rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/earl...
ZYS-1 is not an ADAR1 inhibitor
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Kyle Cottrell@kylecottrell.bsky.social · last yr.Our second preprint is out today! Post thread to come later.
Great turnout for our first meeting of fall 2025! We got to learn about miRNAs, Drosha, phase separation, and IDRs from Bing Yang, a new assistant professor in Purdue Biology.
Amazon Rankings: #1 New Release in Biotechnology (#3 overall) #2 New Release in Medical Research (#25 overall) #3 New Release in Genetics (#10 overall) I have been assured by the publisher that it will be available in the first week of October. Thank you all for pre-ordering! everydayrna.com
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Co-discoverer of reverse transcriptase at 32, Nobel Prize at 37, played a key role at the 1975 Asilomar comference.
David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87
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On Friday September 12, Bing Yang, a new assistant professor in Biological Sciences will give a talk entitled “An intrinsically disordered region of drosha selectively promotes miRNA biogenesis, independent of tissue-specific Microprocessor condensates.” Location: ABE B061.