Conventional Wisdom: One of the key differences btwn animals and plants is that most animals are highly mobile, whereas plants typically stay rooted in place. You'll never see, like, a massive herd of migrating plants lol that would be absurd Tumbleweeds: x.com/texan40/status…

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Lichen colonies often remind me of thriving coral reefs. 🐠 #photography #PhotoOfTheDay #nature #NaturePhotography #naturelover #photography #NatureBeauty

🎉 Proud to announce our work is out now! Here, we report a cascade of caspase-associated proteolytic activities activated by type III-B CRISPR-Cas signaling upon target RNA detection, leading to a strong defense response. Short 🧵: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

7/7 More details in our paper. Congrats to all authors! Jurre Steens, Jack Bravo, Caglar Yildiz, Afonso Amieiro, Stephan Köstlbacher, Stijn Prinsen, Ane Sanz Andres, Constantinos Patinios, Andreas Bardis, Arjan Barendregt, Scheltema lab @[email protected], Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺, John van der Oost, David Taylor, Raymond Staals

Paper out today: “RNA-guided RNA Silencing by an Asgard archaeal Argonaute”. A wonderful, multidisciplinary project co-led with Daan C. Swarts Joo_Lab, spearheaded by Carolien Bastiaanssen Pilar B U Kijun Kim giadafinocchio & Yanlei Feng. nature.com/articles/s4146… Nature Communications