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5/5 Solving the mystery of DNA rings: Anton Henssen and scientists from 🇺🇸 and 🇬🇧 research the role that ring-shaped strands of DNA play in the development of #cancer, and how to fight them.

https://www.mdc-berlin.de/news/press/cancer-grand-challenge-henssen

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4/5 Antibodies can "steal" pieces of other #genes: Kathrin de la Rosa (@bih_charite) analyzes how the body creates a diverse set of #antibodies to fight off #infections. Her team reports: It's not just mutations @PNASNews

https://www.mdc-berlin.de/news/press/stolen-dna-strengthens-immune-diversity

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3/5 Abnormalities in DNA folding presumably cause learning disorders. Ana Pombo and Alexander Kukalev have received a DFG grant to test this hypothesis.
https://www.mdc-berlin.de/news/news/cracking-chromatin-code

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2/5 The fins of skates: The key to their #evolution lies in the non-coding bits of the animals’ #genome and the 3D complexes it folds into: TADs. #mdcBerlin scientist @dariloops is among the lead authors of the @nature paper.
https://www.mdc-berlin.de/news/press/how-skates-learned-fly-through-water
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🧬 #DNA sequencing technologies on a European level: On May 4, the EASI-Genomics Summit in Berlin will be a grand finale for the project!

Janine Altmüller (#mdcBerlin & @bih_charite) is talking about the past 4 years: https://www.mdc-berlin.de/news/news/grand-finale-european-genome-project

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