Journal club

Original Article: Jha, S. et al. Trans-kingdom mimicry underlies ribosome customization by a poxvirus kinase. Nature 546,651–655 (2017). This is a story about how poxvirus turns human translation machinery in favor of viral transcript by modifying a ribosome-associated gene, RACK1.

Original article: Li, H. et al. Classifying Drosophila Olfactory Projection Neuron Subtypes by Single-Cell RNA Sequencing. Cell 171,1206.e22–1207 (2017). The complexity of the nervous system has fascinated scientists for centries.