Research Roundup: March 2020

Here are summaries of a selection of the papers published by GCB faculty in March 2020:

GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY

Using the Environmental Risk Study and the Dunedin Study, Avshalom Caspi, Terrie Moffitt and team conducted a genome-wide association study that identified molecular-genetic associations with age-at-first-birth. Read more 

REGULATORS

Ashley Chi and team solved a long-time mystery of the function of MESH1 in humans. They discovered that it serves a similar function to the stringent response in bacterial cells. Read more 

REVIEWS

In this review, John Rawls and Jia Wen discuss research from Araújo et al. that identified two end-products of bacterial fermentation that regulate intestinal lipid absorption and metabolism. Read more 

Sandeep Dave and his lab describe the current understanding of the pathogeneisis, underlying biology and clinical treatment of non-Hodgkin lymphomas. Read more