Highlights

  • Meta-Research

    Female-dominated disciplines have lower evaluated research quality and funding success rates, for men and women.

    Alex James, Franca Buelow ... Ann Brower
    Reviewed Preprint
  • Rethinking group hunting

    Mathematical model suggests that collaborative hunting may be simpler than previously thought.

    Kazushi Tsutsui, Ryoya Tanaka ... Keisuke Fujii
    Research Article
  • A missing link in glycolysis

    A mitochondrial carrier links glycolysis in the cytosol and mitochondria in a human gut parasite.

    Eva Pyrihová, Martin S. King ... Edmund R.S. Kunji
    Reviewed Preprint Updated

Latest research

    1. Physics of Living Systems

    The younger flagellum sets the beat for Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

    Da Wei, Greta Quaranta ... Daniel SW Tam
    External hydrodynamic forcing on each flagellum of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii reveals a leader-follower relation between the two flagella in the synchronous beating.
    1. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Long-term hematopoietic transfer of the anti-cancer and lifespan-extending capabilities of a genetically engineered blood system by transplantation of bone marrow mononuclear cells

    Jing-Ping Wang, Chun-Hao Hung ... C-K James Shen
    The anti-cancer or lifespan extension properties of a novel genetically engineered hematopoietic blood system could be transferred horizontally in mice, which suggests a new direction of biomedical research for anti-aging/antidisease.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Remodeling of skeletal muscle myosin metabolic states in hibernating mammals

    Christopher TA Lewis, Elise G Melhedegaard ... Julien Ochala
    During hibernation, animals remodel the structure of their relaxed muscle via a protein called myosin and this enables vast temperature changes.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Misstatements, misperceptions, and mistakes in controlling for covariates in observational research

    Xiaoxin Yu, Roger S Zoh ... David B Allison
    This quick reference guide for researchers addresses common misconceptions in the use of covariates in observational research and offers tips for preventing misstatements and mistakes.
    1. Neuroscience

    Choline supplementation in early life improves and low levels of choline can impair outcomes in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease

    Elissavet Chartampila, Karim S. Elayouby ... Helen E. Scharfman
    1. Neuroscience

    A Synergistic Workspace for Human Consciousness Revealed by Integrated Information Decomposition

    Andrea I. Luppi, Pedro A.M. Mediano ... Emmanuel A. Stamatakis
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Lymphoid origin of intrinsically activated plasmacytoid dendritic cells in mice

    Alessandra M. Araujo, Joseph D. Dekker ... Haley O. Tucker
    1. Plant Biology

    H1 restricts euchromatin-associated methylation pathways from heterochromatic encroachment

    C. Jake Harris, Zhenhui Zhong ... Steven E. Jacobsen