Bio links, September 2026

More on EBV and multiple sclerosis (a topic I’ve written about before). Not only does EBV cause MS, it also appears that MS relapses are linked with EBV reactivation. This may mean that inhibiting reactivation could inhibit relapses.Synthetic tissue-specific enhancer sequences for mice. I wrote about the Stark lab’s Drosophila enhancer research previously on this blog. But mice are cooler than Drosophila (fight me, fly people!)Old news in this corner of the Internet, but several antibody vendors (Thermo Fisher is the worst but not the only one) are selling antibodies with faked validation data! I’m just waiting for the day when synthetic binders are good enough to replace antibodies in research.A variant of twin prime editing1 which drives the integration of large pieces of DNA at targeted sites in the genome. Besides the usual experiments with cancer cell lines, they also tested it with HSPCs and T cells which are more clinically relevant. This appears efficient at the sites they…