New on Entomology Today: A study evaluating one of the first insecticides developed to use RNA interference as a mode of action finds significant effects on mobility, pupation, and reproduction of the target insect, the Colorado potato beetle. #entomology #insects #IPM #RNAi https://entomologytoday.org/2023/04/06/rna-interference-biopesticide-ledprona-colorado-potato-beetle/

Electron transport chain RNAi in glutamate neurons extends life span, increases sleep, and decreases locomotor activity in Drosophila melanogaster

#Drosophila #RNAi #aging

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.08.523160v1

Love this story: the crazy RNA pUG tails Scott Kennedy previously showed target RNAs for heritable silencing in worms turn out to make a crazy beautiful structure that recruits RdRP:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-022-00854-z

#RNAi #epigenetics #RNA #pUG #silencing #StructuralBiology

Love this story: the crazy RNA pUG tails Scott Kennedy previously showed target RNAs for heritable silencing in worms turn out to make a crazy beautiful structure that recruits RdRP:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-022-00854-z

#RNAi #epigenetics #RNA #pUG #silencing #StructuralBiology