Featured this week: 

• Vladimir Badovinac, PhD
• Elizabeth Escue, MS
• Krishnendu Ghosh, PhD
• John Harty, PhD
• Mohammad Heidarian, MSc
• Shravan Kumar Kannan, MS
• Steven Moore, MD, PhD

• Epigenetic alterations induced by ionizing radiation: pathways to cancer and prognostic strategies. Behera A, Ghosh K, Pandey R, Sharma A, Rath GK, Adhikary A, Sharma A. Int J Radiat Biol. 2026 Sep 11:1-28. doi: 10.1080/09553002.2026.2708816. Online ahead of print. PMID: 42726644
   
• CaMKIIβ Signaling drives expression of metabolic and stress response genes in skeletal muscle, and its loss contributes to the LGMDR1 phenotype. Kramerova I, Anastopulos F, Becerra D, Goldstein de Salazar R, Keeble AR, Chamberlain JS, Moore SA, McNally EM, Spencer MJ. Hum Mol Genet. 2026 Sep 11;35(19):ddag090. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddag090. PMID: 42725915
   
• Virus-specific memory CD4 T cells sustain long-term numerical and functional impairment following whole-body irradiation. Kannan SK, Heidarian M, Escue EA, Harty JT, Badovinac VP. J Immunol. 2026 Aug 29;215(9):vkag244. doi: 10.1093/jimmun/vkag244. PMID: 42722349