Highlights

  • Evolution and infertility

    Deeply conserved genes have a prominent role in the regulation of male germ cells, and disruption of this ancient genetic program leads to human reproductive disease.

    Rion Brattig Correia, Joana M Almeida ... Paulo Navarro-Costa
    Reviewed Preprint Updated
  • Pigeons versus predators

    Motion-capture cameras reveal details of predator detection and escape by pigeons.

    Mathilde Delacoux, Fumihiro Kano
    Research Article
  • Male-specific B-cell lymphomas

    Experiments on mice suggest that a receptor called ACKR4 may be a male-specific prognostic factor for Burkitt lymphomas.

    Anne Fajac, Iva Simeonova ... Franck Toledo
    Research Article

Latest research

    1. Developmental Biology

    The role of Imp and Syp RNA-binding proteins in precise neuronal elimination by apoptosis through the regulation of transcription factors

    Wenyue Guan, Ziyan Nie ... Jonathan Enriquez
    Genetic manipulations reveal how the spatiotemporal expression pattern of two RNA-binding proteins regulates the eventual number of motoneurons in a Drosophila neuronal lineage.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Inhibitors of the small membrane (M) protein viroporin prevent Zika virus infection

    Emma Brown, Gemma Swinscoe ... Stephen Griffin
    A new way to treat Zika virus infections could be achieved following the definition of an ion channel function for the M protein within virus particles.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Differential regulation of the proteome and phosphoproteome along the dorso-ventral axis of the early Drosophila embryo

    Juan Manuel Gomez, Hendrik Nolte ... Maria Leptin
    An encompassing resource of differentially phosphorylated proteins forms the basis for identifying missing links in cell fate determination and morphogenesis, including, for example, microtubules as mediators of different functions in cells along the dorso-ventral axis.
    1. Neuroscience

    Brain-derived and in vitro-seeded alpha-synuclein fibrils exhibit distinct biophysical profiles

    Selene Seoyun Lee, Livia Civitelli, Laura Parkkinen
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    High-density sampling reveals volume growth in human tumours

    Arman Angaji, Michel Owusu ... Johannes Berg
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Expression of Most Retrotransposons in Human Blood Correlates with Biological Aging

    Yi-Ting Tsai, Nogayhan Seymen ... Mohammad M Karimi