Sobhika Agarwala, Keun-Young Kim ... Owen J Tamplin
Multiple imaging modalities resolved the ultrastructure of single hematopoietic stem cells in their endogenous niche, allowing identification of dopamine beta-hydroxylase positive cells as a functional niche cell type.
Integrating multi-omics quantitative trait loci and genome-wide association study data into a multivariable Mendelian randomization framework allows to identify metabolite-mediated transcript-to-phenotype causal relations missed by methods focusing on a single omics layer.
An in silico reconstruction of a chloroplast that existed hundreds of millions of years ago casts new insights in the evolutionary processes, endosymbioses and chimerism events that shape the origin of plastids.
Donato Giovannelli, Stefan M Sievert ... Costantino Vetriani
The genome of Thermovibrio ammonificans encodes ancestral pathways (e.g., hydrogen oxidation) and more recently acquired ones (e.g., nitrate reduction) and a hybrid pathway for CO2 fixation.
Jonathan H Booth, Andrew T Meek ... Malte C Gather
A new optical approach reveals dynamics of ground reaction forces in Drosophila larvae and opens new avenues for studying the biomechanics of movement in small animals.
A regulatory circuit that localizes to the synaptonemal complex, a liquid crystalline compartment between chromosomes, ensures crossing-over while limiting the number of crossovers between homologous chromosomes during meiosis.
Carlos Gonzalez-Islas, Zahraa Sabra ... Peter Wenner
Chronic perturbations of spiking activity trigger compensatory changes in GABAergic synaptic strength, but not compensatory changes in AMPAergic synaptic strength.
Mattia Volta, Dayne A Beccano-Kelly ... Austen J Milnerwood
LRRK2 G2019S knock-in mice are a genetically faithful model that recapitulates the slow disease progression of familial PD, with initial alterations to behaviour and neurotransmission providing early pathophysiological targets for neuroprotective interventions.