Francis Ngannou has signed with PFL after some high-profile promoters publicly withdrew themselves from the Ngannou sweepstakes. Ngannou says neither he nor his team even spoke with BKFC, and that ONE Championship Chairman Chatri Sityodtong's pitch was a "performance." Ngannou is targeting a return to the cage in 2024, with his sights still set on boxing sometime later this year.
MIT researchers have developed a new technique called Region Capture Micro-C (RCMC) for mapping the 3D structure of the human genome with 100 times higher resolution than before, enabling them to observe previously unseen interactions between enhancers and promoters. This technique allows scientists to focus on specific genome segments of interest and could help researchers understand how genetic diseases arise and potentially develop new treatments. The researchers’ findings suggest that many genes interact with dozens of different regulatory elements, although further study is needed to determine which of those interactions are the most important to the regulation of a given gene.