A.-R. Carvunis

This study translates dog-to-human aging by identifying conserved epigenetic changes, showing methylation patterns align physiological milestones across species.

The paper estimates that sequence divergence accounts for at most a third of eukaryotic orphan genes using conserved synteny analysis across yeast, fly, and human.

This study shows that de novo emerging coding sequences in yeast often encode beneficial transmembrane proteins, suggesting that intergenic regions may contain pre-existing blueprints for such functions.