Year of the Mollusk (Season 4: Episode 1)

Get ready for RNA lanterns, fungal batteries, punk rock mollusks, supercharged hornworts, the top 10 DO LOOP posts of 2024, vanishing sentences in R, and a Trailblazer award from the NIH. Science On. References: A modular platform for bioluminescent RNA tracking 3D Printed Cellulose-Based Fungal Battery Redox-activatable inhalable mucoadhesive proteinic nanotherapeutics for targeted treatment of lung cancer New Silurian aculiferan fossils reveal complex early history of Mollusca Electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in the closest relative of animals Repetitive injury induces phenotypes associated with Alzheimer’s disease by reactivating HSV-1 in a human brain tissue model Hornworts reveal a spatial model for pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanisms in land plants Diverse plant RNAs coat Arabidopsis leaves and are distinct from apoplastic RNAs Two decades of bacterial ecology and evolution in a freshwater lake Top 10 posts from The DO Loop in 2024 Your Classifier Is Broken, But It Is Still Useful Little useless-useful R functions – Vanishing sentences NIH: Trailblazer Award for New and Early Stage Investigators NSF: Enabling Discovery through GEnomics R Packages: ellmer: Chat with Large Language Models utf8ify: Format Text Using Unicode creepyalien: Puzzle Game for the R Console