Editorial Material
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Ariane Vartanian
Summary: The article in Nature Communications explores the adsorption of molecules on a gold nanoparticle at different sites, revealing various degrees of positive and negative adsorption cooperativity.
NATURE REVIEWS MATERIALS
(2021)
Editorial Material
Hematology
David M. Kurtz
Summary: The study investigates circulating tumor DNA analysis in patients with large B-cell lymphomas undergoing first-line therapy, providing insights into the quantitative measurements, dynamic changes, and mutational genotypes of tumor-derived cell-free DNA during and after treatment.
Review
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Alexander Hofmann, Markus Schmid, Wolfgang Bruetting
Summary: Organic optoelectronics have become a mature technology with a wide range of applications over the years. Organic semiconductors have distinct molecular orientation degrees of freedom that allow for unique customization of their properties in thin-film structures. This article reviews the various aspects of molecular orientation on fundamental behaviors and discusses its implications for device applications.
ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS
(2021)
Article
Immunology
Julia Koerholz, Anastasia Gabrielyan, John M. Sowerby, Felix Boschann, Lan-Sun Chen, Diana Paul, David Brandt, Janina Kleymann, Martin Kolditz, Nicole Toepfner, Ralf Knoefler, Eva-Maria Jacobsen, Christine Wolf, Karsten Conrad, Nadja Roeber, Min Ae Lee-Kirsch, Kenneth G. C. Smith, Stefan Mundlos, Reinhard Berner, Alexander H. Dalpke, Catharina Schuetz, William Rae
Summary: SOCS1 haploinsufficiency is a pleiotropic monogenic IEI, leading to diverse clinical manifestations in patients due to dysregulation of multiple immune cell pathways.
FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Allergy
Pattraporn Satitsuksanoa, Sayuri Iwasaki, Jolien Boersma, Manal Bel Imam, Stephan R. Schneider, Iris Chang, Willem van de Veen, Mubeccel Akdis
Summary: B cells play a crucial role in the immune system by producing antibodies, suppressing inflammation, and contributing to immune tolerance. This article aims to provide an in-depth understanding of the molecular biology of B cells, including their origin, development, types and subsets, and functions. Additionally, the importance of B cells in clinical applications such as allergic diseases, organ transplantation, and cancer is discussed.
JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Lihong Li, Kankan Wang, Yun Zhou, Xing Liu
Summary: Plants may seem quiet on the surface, but inside, there are various dynamic activities happening, such as cell division, signaling molecule migration, and macromolecule collaboration. These activities require a dynamic yet controlled molecular network. This article uses the regulation of cullin-RING ubiquitin ligases as an example to discuss how dynamic biochemical processes contribute to plant development.
Review
Ecology
Jana M. Riederer, Stefano Tiso, Timo J. B. van Eldijk, Franz J. Weissing
Summary: The article discusses the importance of evolvability in biological systems and proposes a framework for studying and understanding evolvability. It categorizes the mechanisms and organismal features underlying evolvability and emphasizes the role of timescale in studying evolvability. The article also distinguishes between broad and narrow evolvability determinants and highlights contrasting perspectives on evolvability.
TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2022)
Review
Plant Sciences
Hans van Veen, Rashmi Sasidharan
Summary: Amphibious plants are able to adapt to fluctuating water levels by producing specialized leaves, which improve gas exchange underwater and prevent desiccation. They have thin aquatic leaves with unique forms and characteristics, with signalling networks involving both conserved players and regulatory variation.
Review
Cell Biology
Anshika Goenka, Deanna Tiek, Xiao Song, Tianzhi Huang, Bo Hu, Shi-Yuan Cheng
Summary: GBM is the most lethal type of primary brain cancer, with therapy resistance attributed to both intrinsic factors like tumor heterogeneity and altered metabolomics, as well as extrinsic factors like hypoxia and an immune-suppressive tumor microenvironment. The escape mechanisms of tumor cells during therapy also contribute to treatment failure in GBM.
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Lorena Perez-Gutierrez, Pin Li, Napoleone Ferrara
Summary: Endothelial cells (ECs) are crucial in blood vessels and have diverse molecular identities. Advanced technologies have revealed the molecular and functional heterogeneity of ECs, showing that they play roles beyond exchange functions and have unique molecular mechanisms in different organs and vascular beds.
Article
Neurosciences
Janine K. Reinert, Izumi Fukunaga
Summary: This review highlights recent experimental advances in understanding olfactory learning in rodents, including adaptations to the environment, task-dependent refinement, and multisensory associations. The broad range of phenomena, mechanisms, and brain areas involved demonstrate the complex and multifaceted nature of olfactory learning.
CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Ophthalmology
James T. Todd, Alexander A. Petrov
Summary: This article examines the definition and measurement methods of shape in mathematics and human perception, evaluates the representation methods of shape in models of human and machine vision, and emphasizes that shape is not a single definition but a collection of multiple attributes.
Review
Plant Sciences
Julien Spielmann, Gregory Vert
Summary: Organisms need to balance the requirement for metals and their potential toxicity, which is achieved through a complex signaling network. Plants have well-characterized mechanisms for coping with iron limitation and associated genomic responses. Besides transcriptional regulation, protein modification and degradation play essential roles in regulating root iron-deficiency responses, with a tight coupling between metal sensing and protein degradation.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
(2021)
Review
Plant Sciences
Caroline Mueller, Robert R. Junker
Summary: Niche theory considering species and individual traits provides a powerful tool to integrate ecology and evolution. In plant ecology, phytochemical traits have been neglected despite their pivotal functions in plant responses to the environment and in mediating interactions. We propose that plants utilize their individual-specific diversity in phytochemicals for different niche realization processes, which has important implications for ecosystem processes and stability, and enhances the predictive ability of chemical ecology.
Article
Psychiatry
Jan Pieter Konsman
Summary: This paper explores sickness behavior in animals and humans, evaluating the potential for interdisciplinary research. It suggests that illness behavior and sickness behavior can be considered as synonyms and calls for integration across biology, medicine, psychology, and sociology. Differences in perspectives, particularly between acute and chronic sickness behavior, need to be taken into account in interdisciplinary research.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
