Review Articles

Review Articles are intended to bring readers up-to-date with research on important topics. Review Articles are commissioned by Senior Editors.

Latest articles

    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Trained immunity in the lung

    Elina Idiiatullina, Dane Parker
    Several studies have now demonstrated that trained immunity occurs in the airways to several pathogens and products, while its utility is yet to be determined.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Bioengineering approaches to trained immunity: Physiologic targets and therapeutic strategies

    Hannah Riley Knight, Marie Kim ... Aaron Esser-Kahn
    Current approaches in bioengineering are synthesized and methods for their implementation are suggested for the induction and modulation of trained immunity in the treatment of human diseases.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    A dual nature of γδ T cell immune memory responses

    Tsz Kin Suen, Burcu Al ... Katarzyna Placek
    Both adaptive and innate immune memory responses have been described in gamma delta T cells, yet the mechanisms, the ligands and the gamma delta T cell subsets generating memory responses have remain to be explored.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Current insights into insect immune memory

    Gabriela Krejčová, Adam Bajgar
    Insects possess a remarkable ability to develop innate immune memory, and the mechanisms underlying this process are becoming a central topic in innate immunity research.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Trained immunity: A new player in cancer immunotherapy

    Shu Li, Yi Zou ... Jun Yan
    Trained immunity is a form of innate immune cell memory that is being developed as a novel immunotherapeutic approach for cancer treatment.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Medicine

    Endometriosis is not the endometrium: Reviewing the over-representation of eutopic endometrium in endometriosis research

    Kate Gunther, Teagan Fisher ... Caroline Elizabeth Ford
    Nearly half of sequencing data labeled as endometriosis lacks true disease representation, highlighting the urgent need for more diverse and accurate tissue sampling to advance research in this underrepresented field.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Coevolutionary interplay: Helminths-trained immunity and its impact on the rise of inflammatory diseases

    Eugenio Antonio Carrera Silva, Juliana Puyssegur, Andrea Emilse Errasti
    Deciphering the gut biome's, including helminths', influence on human trained immunity will unlock novel immunotherapies harnessing the immune reprogramming potential of their secreted factors and extracellular vesicles.
    1. Ecology

    Connecting the dots: Managing species interaction networks to mitigate the impacts of global change

    Luis Abdala-Roberts, Adriana Puentes ... Kailen A Mooney
    Ecological network management provides key mechanistic knowledge on ecosystem degradation that links species- to ecosystem-level responses to global change, and emerging technological tools offer the opportunity to accelerate its widespread adoption.
    1. Neuroscience

    Gaskell, Langley, and the "para-sympathetic" idea

    Jean-François Brunet
    The term 'parasympathetic', unlike the term 'sympathetic', unduly unifies an assemblage of autonomic pathways which are unrelated by anatomy, physiology or genetics, and whose distinction can foster a better understanding of the autonomic nervous system.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    The known unknowns of the Hsp90 chaperone

    Laura-Marie Silbermann, Benjamin Vermeer ... Katarzyna Tych
    An exploration of the unanswered questions in how the molecular chaperone Hsp90 supports protein homeostasis, and how single-molecule techniques could drive future breakthroughs in answering them.