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Victor V. Lobanenkov

@boris_ctcf

Verifiable facts, personal commentaries, and references related to CTCF & CTCF Like BORIS factors sharing 11 near-identical DNA-binding Zn fingers

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(A much younger) Me presenting discovery of CTCF and identification of CTCF Like BORIS at the Nobel Symposium in 2004, while talking of their tentative functions in germline vs. cancer, and of secrets beyond... What a journey in 22 years after that! #Epigenetics #CTCF #BORIS
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Cardinal Fencing Academy (@cardinalfencingacademy) • Instagram reel

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Fishing on the lake in Virginia mid August
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James Webb telescope captures never-before-seen glimpse of 'Centaur' galaxy's battle wounds — Space photo of the week livescience.com/space/astron…
James Webb telescope captures never-before-seen glimpse of 'Centaur' galaxy's battle wounds — Space...

James Webb telescope captures never-before-seen glimpse of 'Centaur' galaxy's battle wounds — Space...

A JWST image of the nearby Centaurus A galaxy reveals star dust, collision scars and the fingerprint of a black hole.

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👻 This ant species is composed of only queens — no workers or males nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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🗣️ Discovery of an Endonuclease G-inhibitory Ku80-peptide protecting against leukemogenic rearrangements at the MLL breakpoint cluster Nature Commun (17 April 2026). doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-7…
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⏯️Transposable Element Activation: A Hallmark of Cancer KB Chiappinelli and KH Burns - Cancer Discovery, Apr 17, 2026, PDF in press aacrjournals.org/cancerdisco…
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🎶 A recipe for chaos: Extrachromosomal DNA and the hallmarks of cancer Cell (Apr 16, 2026, review by Ivy Tsz-Lo Wong et. al. with Howard Chung and Paul Mischel) cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
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Artemis 2 LIVE: NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts prepare for splashdown today space.com/news/live/artemis-…
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Barriers to public outreach — and why scientists need to overcome them asbmb.org/asbmb-today/career…
Barriers to public outreach — and why scientists need to overcome them

Barriers to public outreach — and why scientists need to overcome them

When the author began to research why some scientists were hesitant to do this work, four main themes emerged.

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👻 Chronic morphine treatment induces a conserved Smchd1-dependent epigenetic memory that disrupts X-chromosome inactivation and genomic imprinting biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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April full moon 2026 dazzles as 'Pink Moon' lights up skies worldwide (photos) space.com/stargazing/april-f…
April full moon 2026 dazzles as 'Pink Moon' lights up skies worldwide (photos)

April full moon 2026 dazzles as 'Pink Moon' lights up skies worldwide (photos)

"we have a beautiful moon rise, we're headed right at it."

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🆕 ADNP regulates chromatin architecture and lineage fidelity during neural differentiation PLoS Genet (Apr 1, 2026) doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen…
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🧶 ♨️ Organ-System Disease Identity Is Encoded in the Physical Grammar of Regulatory DNA Preprint doi: 10.20944/preprints202603.1746.v1 posted by A Pande, R Sharma, and C Garbe preprints.org/frontend/manus…
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⚠️ Interferon-independent STING enforces epithelial genome-integrity checkpoint to restrain tumor evolution biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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Chromatin buffers torsional stress during transcription Science ( March 26, 2036) by Jin Qian et. al. with Mikhail Kashlev and Michelle D. Wang sciencemagazinedigital.org/s…
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👍🏽 Genome-wide DNA supercoiling arises from transcription and SMC activity and mediates transcriptional negative feedback bioRxiv posted 26 March 2026 (today) biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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Science Magazine - A genetically encoded device for transcriptome storage in mammalian cells sciencemagazinedigital.org/s…
Science Magazine - A genetically encoded device for transcriptome storage in mammalian cells

Science Magazine - A genetically encoded device for transcriptome storage in mammalian cells

INTRODUCTION: Understanding dynamic cellular processes, such as fate decisions, stress adaptation, and drug resistance, requires the ability to link past molecular states to future phenotypic...

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