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Day 15 of #ArtAdventCalendar is for @barunlz thesis cover. His research focuses on retrotransposition in cancer. The idea was to visualize retrotransposons in parachutes that launch and land back in different areas of the genome and become parts of it.
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#Arc, a master regulator of #synapticplasticity, contains sequence elements related to #retrotransposon Gag genes. Here, 2 studies show that Arc retains retroviral-like capsid-forming ability and can transmit mRNA between cells. https://t.co/TlTC1YwyLB , https://t.co/mDYZSNzGyg