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Latest articles

    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Prickle and Ror modulate Dishevelled-Vangl interaction to regulate non-canonical Wnt signaling during convergent extension

    Hwa-seon Seo, Deli Yu ... Jianbo Wang
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Cell Biology

    Probing metazoan polyphosphate biology using Drosophila reveals novel and conserved polyP functions

    Sunayana Sarkar, Harsha Sharma ... Manish Jaiswal
    A genetic toolkit establishes Drosophila as a tractable metazoan system for systematic interrogation of conserved biological functions of the ancient polymer polyphosphate.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Cell Biology

    Unbend: Correction of local beam-induced sample motion in cryo-EM images using a 3D spline model

    Lingli Kong, Ximena Zottig ... Nikolaus Grigorieff
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Cell Biology

    A Novel 3D Visualization Method in Mice Identifies the Periportal Lamellar Complex (PLC) as a Key Regulator of Hepatic Ductal and Neuronal Branching Morphogenesis

    Tongtong Xu, Fujun Cao ... Chengjian Zhao
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v4
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    CUTS RNA Biosensor for the Real-Time Detection of TDP-43 Loss-of-Function

    Longxin Xie, Jessica Merjane ... Christopher J Donnelly
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    ATP8B1–TMEM30B Flippase Activity Maintains Stereocilia Lipid Asymmetry Required for Hearing

    Henry N De Hoyos, Sihan Li ... Jung-Bum Shin
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Fundamental
    • Compelling
    1. Cell Biology

    Extracellular vesicle-mediated release of bis(monoacylglycerol)phosphate is regulated by LRRK2 and glucocerebrosidase activity

    Elsa Meneses-Salas, Moises Castellá ... Albert Lu
    Dysregulated exocytosis of bis(monoacylglycerol)phosphate (BMP)-enriched extracellular vesicles driven by pathogenic LRRK2 activity supports elevated urinary BMP levels and its use as a biomarker for Parkinson's disease.
    1. Cell Biology

    Human receptive endometrial assembloid for deciphering the implantation window

    Yu Zhang, Rusong Zhao ... Han Zhao
    A specialized window-of-implantation endometrial assembloid enables investigation of human endometrial receptivity and maternal-fetal interaction.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Physiological febrile heat stress increases cytoadhesion through increased protein trafficking of Plasmodium falciparum surface proteins into the red blood cell

    David Jones, Hugo Belda ... Moritz Treeck
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Compelling
    • Convincing
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Cancer Biology

    Slap restricts oncogenic Src-family kinase signaling to maintain colonic epithelial homeostasis

    Dana Naim, Zouheir Houhou ... Serge Roche
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
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Highlights

    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Chemotherapy: Lipid balance and chemoresistance in cancer cells

    Kaori Kanemaru, Yoshikazu Nakamura
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Metabolism: How one nutrient controls cell size

    Angela Montero, Lydia WS Finley
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Chromosomes: Exploring a crossroads in the aging process

    Kiyan Shabestary, Daniel E Gottschling

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