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Weekly reads: stem cells vs. viruses, prostate cancer, apoptotic cell niche function, more

The paper of the week is An isoform of Dicer protects mammalian stem cells against multiple RNA viruses published in Science. The take-home from the abstract is that the data, "demonstrate that mammalian stem cells can protect themselves from some RNA viruses by expressing an alternatively spliced isoform of the enzyme Dicer called aviD, which potentiates antiviral RNA interference." It's easy …
Morinaga et al Nature 2021 Stem cells and hair loss