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Liquid biopsy methods utilizing brain-specific cell-free DNA methylation markers can detect brain cell death and potentially assist early detection and monitoring of schizophrenia.

Urban wildlife harbor gut bacteria found in humans but missing from rural wildlife, consistent with bacterial transmission from humans to wildlife in cities.

Identification of a new family of stress-induced plant signalling peptides and their cognate receptor.

Prominent transitions between different mental contexts produce a stereotyped brain state shared across internally and externally generated transitions but distinct from minor within-context transitions, potentially reflecting a major flushing and updating of mental models.

The cryogenic-electron microscopy structure of IL-27 bound to receptors, IL-27Rα and gp130, revealing a three-site assembly mechanism and overall topology and molecular details reminiscent of IL-6 but distinct from related IL-12 and IL-23.

A novel extracellular role for cytoplasmic DNA sensors in shielding NET DNA from DNase-mediated degradation.

The treeline follows climate warming with a severe time lag, but migration rates are increasing so that only under ambitious mitigation efforts will 30% of original tundra areas remain in the north in the long run.

Leveraging the US Health and Retirement Study and C. elegans genetics reveals ALDH4A1/alh-6 as an evolutionarily conserved biomarker for normal muscle function over the lifespan.

VE-cadherin is required for trophoblast invasion of the maternal decidua and spiral arteries.

A genetic screening approach identifies RNA binding proteins that enhance or inhibit the accumulation of CD138+ plasma cells in vitro, and chimeric mouse models demonstrate that YTHDF2 promotes the accumulation of antibody secreting cells in vivo.