{
  "id": 8381221,
  "title": "A human transcriptomic deletion links cortical expansion and cancer",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/a-human-transcriptomic-deletion-links-cortical-expansion-and-cancer",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-18T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.16.752114v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Alternative splicing represents a major source of potential evolutionary novelty in protein sequence. Despite this, relatively few studies have investigated the functional impacts of human-specific alternative splicing. Here, we analyze RNA-sequencing data from nine iPSC-derived cell types and identify dozens of human transcriptomic conserved deletions (htCONDELs): evolutionary divergence in…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}