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Three of my favorite papers published this week: 1. A mechanism for bacteria to create *new* repetitive toxic genes to kill themselves in response to infection (!!)

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2. Discovery of new viroid-like elements—which the authors call Obelisks—that nobody knew about, but are completely phylogenetically distinct and present in ~7% of human stool samples (!!)

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3. A deep dive into the mechanisms of eukaryotic gene-editing systems called Fanzors—the smaller, eukaryotic RNA-guided endonucleases that the Zhang Lab discovered last year.

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What a week. Biology is crazy. Toxic gene creation: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adq3977 Discovery of Obelisks: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.20.576352v1 Fanzor mechanisms: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.07.050

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Structural insights into the diversity and DNA cleavage mechanism of Fanzor Fanzor (Fz) is an ωRNA-guided endonuclease extensively found throughout the eukaryotic domain with unique gene editing potential. Here, we describe th… sciencedirect.com