Laura Landweber
@LandweberLab
Scientist | solo mom to 3 amazing girls | occasional chocolatier | aficionado of microbial eukaryotes with scrambled genomes | views my own
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Congrats Blake et al.! Programmable break-and-repair RNA editing is nicely reminiscent of the original guide RNA-mediated RNA editing in trypanosomes by U insertion and deletion, where "guide" RNAs all began: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1688737/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov A model for RNA editing in kinetoplastid mitochondria: "guide" RNA molecules transcribed from... A class of small RNA molecules possibly involved in RNA editing is present in the mitochondrion of Leishmania tarentolae. These "guide" RNA (gRNA) molecules are encoded in intergenic regions of the... View quoted post on X
the secret to a strong endowment? Get thousands of people to pray for it. Surprised Princeton asked all students & parents to recite this at opening exercises. Made some uncomfortable. Could add grants and prizes. Pre-tenure I thought that sacrificial courage meant work all night
Congratulations to the newest minted PhD from the lab, Danylo Villano!
