An avian influenza pandemic remains within the realm of possibility. To reduce the risk, we need to engage in a One Health ...

In This IssueWhen we interact socially, our brains synchronize, even causing traces of electrical activity to look similar in brain scans. A recent study in Nature found that synchronization happens ...

Synergies between speciation and conservation science yield novel insights for mitigating the biodiversity crisis of the Anthropocene ...

The functional organization of the tryptophan gene cluster in Salmonella typhimurium.

Recent work indicates that many chaperones bind protein chains already during their translation by ribosomes. While chaperones are thought to merely “hold” the nascent protein chains, current methods ...

Climate change caused by carbon pollution from the world’s largest economies poses an existential threat to small-island states and territories thi ...

Evolutionary ecologist Sharon Y. Strauss, an early proponent of unifying the fields of ecology and evolution, helped advance both disciplines. Now a distinguished emeritus professor at the University ...

Brian Larkins died in January 2025 at the age of 78 leaving a legacy of seminal scientific contributions that were fundamental to the establishment of the field of plant molecular biology. He ...

Central memory CD8+ T cells (Tcm) represent the prominent memory T cell subset in human blood, yet the persistence of T cell receptor (TCR) clonoty ...

Open in Viewer Implementation science strives to tackle a long-standing problem in medicine and healthcare: the difficulty of moving new research advances and evidence-based medicine from the lab to ...

Joanne Chory (1955–2024) was a pioneering biologist whose research transformed our understanding of plant growth and development. Her groundbreaking work, based on many clever genetic screens, ...