EMILY FINNUsing functional MRI (fMRI) data and other information from the Human Connectome Project, researchers at the Yale School of Medicine and elsewhere were able to identify individuals based on their connectomes, according to a study published in Nature Neuroscience this week (October 12).
“It’s not just this idiosyncratic fingerprint that they’re talking about that basically allows you to differentiate one individual from another,” said Todd Braver of Washington University in St. Louis who was not involved in the study, “but it pushes the idea that [the connectivity signature is] functionally relevant, that those things may be related to things that we think are interesting individual differences, like intelligence.”
WIKIMEDIA, ANDRÉ KARWATH“Panoramix,” or CG9754, is a key component of Piwi-mediated transcriptional silencing, which helps protect the integrity of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) genome, researchers from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York and their colleagues reported in Science this week (October 15).
“This is a mountain of impressive work, a huge amount of data, [the result of which] is that we now understand something about how piRNAs are transcriptionally silencing their targets,” said Keith Slotkin of Ohio ...
