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November 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The second November issue is online.

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The cover features work by Tina Mukherjee and co-workers showing that #macrophage metabolic #reprogramming during dietary stress influences adult body size in #Drosophila.

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November 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
NINJ1 blocks #HSV-1 entry into macrophages to impact viral #replication and #immunity.

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November 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“Make America Healthy Again” will make the world sicker: The public health policies of the US administration will have dire results for national and global #health.

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November 18, 2025 at 9:42 AM
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
First November issue is live!

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The cover features work by Peijun Zhang @ox.ac.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social @diamondlightsource.bsky.social and co-workers on an in situ system for high-throughput analysis of HIV-1 nuclear import.

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November 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Read Franks new collumn!

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November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Clarisse Berlioz-Torrent @cberlioztorrent.bsky.social @institutcochin.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social and co-workers @unistra.fr report that GABARAP #autophagy proteins regulate the packaging of #HIV-1 genomic RNA into infectious #virions. #virology

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November 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Ines Anna Drinnenberg @institutcurie.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr and co-workers @nordicembl.bsky.social show that #insects evolved a conserved monomeric #histone fold domain in the CENP-T #kinetochore protein family. #evolution

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November 1, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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It is a fantastically well written plea to fund basic sciences. Money quote: "We are currently burning through a stockpile of knowledge accumulated during a more enlightened era of public investment, while allocating insufficient resources for replenishing it."
For the love of frontier research, or why Elon’s rockets keep blowing up.

The current Zeitgeist favouring utilitarian research risks undermining basic research—the very foundation on which innovative technological advances depend.

By Nektarios Tavernarakis:

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October 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Elizabeth Apsley @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social won the EMBO reports poster prize at the EMBO organoid conference #EESOrgan for her work “Profiling human choroid plexus organoid maturation and response to acute mechanical injury”.

Congratulations!
October 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Second October issue is online!

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Cover features work by Rajarshi Chakrabarti and co-workers from Thomas Jefferson University showing that peri-mitochondrial #actin inhibits #Parkin assembly by disrupting ER-mitochondria contacts.

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October 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Andrea Galmozzi @andreagalmozzi.bsky.social @uw-medicine.bsky.social and co-workers show that white and brown #adipose tissues share a convergent fibro-adipogenic progenitor population. #metabolism

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October 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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New paper published in @emboreports.org from the lab of Dr. Maddika Subba Reddy discussing a non-catalytic role of a phosphatase connected to several autoimmune disorders.

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#PhosphatasePTPN22 #mTORC2
October 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM
First October issue is life.

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Cover features work by Martin Kaltenpoth and co-workers
@kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social @mpi-ce.bsky.social showing that symbionts adjust gene expression according to host life-stage and environment.

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October 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Yun Zhang and Andrew Samuelson @urochester.bsky.social show that #aging impairs #viral #defense in Caenorhabditis elegans due to loss of DRH-1/RIG-I deSUMOylation by ULP-4/SENP7.

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October 8, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Howard Wolinsky, Holger Breithaupt, and Yehu Moran @yehumoran.bsky.social on #scientists targeted by dark PR tactics.

Scientists critical of de-extinction projects as targets of anonymous smear articles and weaponized copyright infringement claims.

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October 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
For the love of frontier research, or why Elon’s rockets keep blowing up.

The current Zeitgeist favouring utilitarian research risks undermining basic research—the very foundation on which innovative technological advances depend.

By Nektarios Tavernarakis:

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October 3, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Read the new opinion piece by David Smith.

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October 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Frank Uhlmann and Bhavin Khatri @crick.ac.uk and
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social and co-workers describe progressive #chromosome shape changes during cell divisions, showing that mitotic chromosomes gradually shorten and thicken.

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September 26, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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September 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The second September issue is online.

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The cover features work by Tomoya Kitajima and co-workers @riken-bdr.bsky.social and @crick.ac.uk showing spatially different requirements for the KIF11 #motor in the #oocyte #spindle.

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September 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Jacqueline Beaudry @utoronto.ca and co-workers show that acute exogenous acyl-GIP treatment enhances #lipid handling and fatty acid oxidation by involving brown #fat in rodent models of #obesity.

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September 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Kegawa et al show that #Toxoplasma gondii invasion causes a transient increase in conductance within the host cell plasma #membrane explained by creation of multiple pores.
#MembraneBiology #apicomplexan

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See also Male et al
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September 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Male et al show that early during invasion, #Toxoplasma gondii creates a transient perforation pore in the host cell membrane dependent on rhoptry #exocytosis.
#MembraneBiology #apicomplexan

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September 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM