The Capra Lab has received an Innovation Catalyst grant from the March of Dimes to study the influence of non-coding genetic variants on the risk of preterm birth. We are very grateful to the March of Dimes for their support.

The paper describing our collaboration with Nasim Sabouri and Ginger Zakian to understand the role of the Pfh1 helicase in resolving G-quadruplex motifs to prevent DNA damage in fission yeast just appeared in BMC Biology:

The essential Schizosaccharomyces pombe Pfh1 DNA helicase promotes fork movement past G-quadruplex motifs to prevent DNA damage