One glimpse at the devastation in the Los Angeles area, and it’s hard to imagine a complete rebuild. But look at the town of Paradise in northern California today, and you’d never know that the ...

Edited by Anne C. Hart, Brown University, Providence, RI; received August 29, 2024; accepted December 19, 2024 by Editorial Board Member Yishi Jin ...

PDV1 was thought to work corporately with PDV2 to recruit ARC5 to the chloroplast division site in the cytosol. However, we found that the major role of PDV1 is to interact with and regulate the ...

In PNAS, Mughal et al. describe a mechanism—termed electro-Ca 2+ coupling—that links electrical and Ca 2+ signaling in ECs and has implications for the control of cerebral blood flow. This work was ...

Transparency of funding is necessary to achieve trust, but insufficient on its own. It must be accompanied by a transparent reporting of the organization’s activities to understand what it’s doing and ...

Joseph G. Gall, pioneering investigator of chromosomes and nuclear cell biology for more than 70 years, and renowned mentor, died on September 12 at age 96. A consummate microscopist who understood ...

The rates of biological primary production before the emergence of atmospheric oxygen on Earth are thought to be low. However, mudstones from the Archean Era contain a high organic matter content, ...

In the summer of 1977, Yosef Shiloh, then a graduate student, visited an Israeli Moroccan Jewish family with several children affected by ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T), a rare and complex genetic ...

Rotbarth et al. suggest that the current bimodal distribution of tree cover—dense forests (>60% cover) and sparse woodlands (<15% cover)—could transition to a more uniform “open forest” state with 30 ...

This study offers important insights into KIF1A-associated neurological disorder (KAND), a group of neurological disorders connected to KIF1A, a microtubule-based motor protein responsible for axonal ...