Néstor P. Rodríguez

20. The Battle for the Border: Notes on Autonomous Migration, Transnational Communities, and the State

2023-09-01 · 118 citations

The chapter adopts an “autonomous international migration” perspective to discuss how workers, their families, and communities organized to move across international borders “outside” of state regulation. They thereby constitute a challenge to the state and inhabit an ambivalent relation to U.S. economic interests.

Orthogonal control of gene expression in plants using synthetic promoters and CRISPR-based transcription factors

Plant Methods · 2022 · 27 citations

BACKGROUND: The construction and application of synthetic genetic circuits is frequently improved if gene expression can be orthogonally controlled, relative to the host. In plants, orthogonality can be achieved via the use of CRISPR-based transcription factors that are programmed to act on natural or synthetic promoters. The construction of complex gene circuits can require multiple, orthogonal regulatory interactions, and this in turn requires that the full programmability of CRISPR elements b…

Capitalism and Migration

World-systems evolution and global futures · 2023 · 10 citations

Human TREX1 Repairs 3′-End DNA Lesions <i>in Vitro</i>

Chemical Research in Toxicology · 2022 · 8 citations

finding that TREX1 efficiently excises 3'-phospho-α,β-unsaturated aldehyde and 3'-deoxyribose phosphate that are commonly produced as base excision repair intermediates and also from the nonenzymatic strand incision at abasic sites.

Unaccompanied minors from the Northern Central American countries in the migrant stream: social differentials and institutional contexts

2021-10-12 · 3 citations

The migration of minors unaccompanied by adults from the northern countries of Central America (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras) to the United States has risen sharply in recent years, surpassing the numbers that migrated during the political conflicts in the region in the 1980s and early 1990s. While the migration of minors from the northern region of Central America may appear as a homogeneous flow, significant sociodemographic and regional differentials exist in their migration. A concep…