Second April issue is live! link.springer.com/journal/4431... Cover features work by Hwei-Jan Hsu and co-workers, Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, showing that Wdr4 regulates ribosome biogenesis and intestinal homeostasis via let-7. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Hypercompetition, score compression and AI co-authorship: a perfect storm for grant success rates. Read Lynns latest column here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A new review is online! Philipp Henneke, Sebastian Baasch and co-authors @uni-freiburg.de tell you all about how #cytomegalovirus manipulates myeloid cells to invade tissues. -> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our paper (@stoplab.bsky.social), in collaboration with the Nojima lab (@pol2rna.bsky.social @chiheron.bsky.social), on the role of chromatin modifier SETD2 at both ends of the transcriptional cycle, is now published in @emboreports.org 🪅 (1/5) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Shunya Tsuji, Akio Tsuboi & Eiji Hara and co-workers from Osaka University show that senescence-like cells recruit γδ T cells to drive prolonged #hyposmia after #SARS-CoV-2 infection in mice. -> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Michel Tremblay @mcgill.ca and co-workers show that PTPN1/PTPN2 inhibition improves NK #cancer therapy by enhancing #IL-2 and mitigating #TGFβ1 responses. -> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The first April issue is online! link.springer.com/journal/4431... The cover features work by Pierre Cattenoz @unistra.fr @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social showing that NimA promotes cell adhesion at the blood brain barrier of the #Drosophila nervous system. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🍀🔬📑 Brassinosteroids control cell proliferation in the lateral root cap of the Arabidopsis root @emboreports.org link.springer.com/article/10.1...

100 years of the theory of the gene! In 1926 Thomas Hunt Morgan published "The Theory of the Gene". Read more on Morgan’s gene theory and the rise of modern genetics. By Yongsheng Liu. -> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Final note, last week we took the proofs out to celebrate 😂

Yay! Our paper is now out @emboreports.org! I posted about it a while back (tinyurl.com/yc7td3px) but the work really improved thanks to the wonderful feedback from three anonymous reviewers 🙏 (1/4)

I am thrilled to share with you our new paper published in @emboreports.org - Led by our fantastic PhD student Loïc Bideau with the help of many lab members. #Platynereis #regeneration #Notch @ijmonod.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Second March issue is live! link.springer.com/journal/4431... Cover features work by Alla Grishok @bostonu.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social on mutual regulation of spermatogenesis-specific #Argonaute proteins and #Insulin/IGF-1 signaling in aging. -> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

NimA promotes cell adhesion at the blood brain barrier of the Drosophila nervous system. -> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Prepare to defend #evolution! Joel I Cohen on how to protect Darwin’s theory and to help courageous individuals who have challenged attempts to instill creationist material into curricula. Read more here: -> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Geraldine Seydoux @hhmi-science.bsky.social @jhu.edu and co-workers show that germ granule component PGL-3 undergoes #RNA independent #phaseseparation driven by structured domains that oligomerize and interact with RGG motifs. -> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The first March issue is online! link.springer.com/journal/4431... The cover features work by Xueliang Zhu, Huijie Zhao and co-workers showing that JHY enables the transition from switchable to fixed ciliary waveforms in #metazoan #evolution. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Zach Flamholz and I discuss microbial diversity as a foundation for biological AI link.springer.com/article/10.1... in @emboreports.org

Two papers on important roles of the Arp2/3 complex in microglia in the CNS microenvironment by the labs of Jeremy Rotty and Tim Lämmermann @laemmermann-lab.bsky.social @mpi-ie.bsky.social and ZMBE @uni-muenster.de. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What happens when single-author science papers become rare? 🧪 An EMBO Reports Science & Society article explores whether solo publications are being edged out by collaborative #research, and what that means​ for #creativity in #science: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s44319-025-00677-1

In the meantime, the 2nd February issue is live: link.springer.com/journal/4431... The cover features work by Sudha Kumari @sudha-kumari.bsky.social and co-workers showing that #actin waves guide #antigen receptors at the #lymphocyte immunological #synapse. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Read this @emboreports.org paper here=> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

NELF prevents transcriptional readthrough into DNA replication zones in cancer cells. -> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

See our first February issue: link.springer.com/journal/4431... The cover features work by Tomasz P. Rygiel, Katarzyna Mleczko-Sanecka and colleagues showing that liver sinusoidal endothelial cells scavenge #hemoglobin. -> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Elena Seiradake @kavlioxford.bsky.social and co-workers @ox.ac.uk @renalucl.bsky.social present crystal structures of the CD177 ectodomain and a CD177-PR3 complex, revealing a major autoantibody epitope. -> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Liedewij Laan @liedewijlaan.bsky.social and co-workers show that the #GEF Cdc24 and the #GAP Rga2, key regulators of the GTPase Cdc42 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, exhibit concentration-dependent and synergistic regulation of Cdc42 activity. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

EZH2 directs HER2+ breast cancer progression through the modulation of epithelial plasticity -> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

IRF2 deficiency disrupts #pyroptosis, NK cell interferon-γ production and #resistance to Francisella. -> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

See the second January issue: link.springer.com/journal/4431... The cover shows work by Meghan Ferguson @micro-megs.bsky.social and Annika Guse @annikaguse.bsky.social @lmumuenchen.bsky.social showing symbiont-specific uptake in cnidarian larvae via integrins. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

See also the great News&Views comment by Monica Gobran and @plenart.bsky.social - highlighting all three papers! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Additional complementary evidence by Arianna Esposito Verza, @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social et al link.springer.com/article/10.1... and by Anais Pillan, Lionel Pintard @ccdlab.bsky.social et al link.springer.com/article/10.1... in our sister journal @embojournal.org

Jennifer A Miles, molecularrichard.bsky.social et al model the Aurora A-Bora-Plk1 ternary complex revealing how Bora bridges both kinases #RefereedPreprint @reviewcommons.org link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Christian Helker @unimarburg.bsky.social and co-workers show that apelin signaling acts as a molecular switch between endothelial and hematopoietic #stemcells. link.springer.com/article/10.1... Highlight by @labmonteiro.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The jam-based discovery framework. Roy Maimon @nyutandon.bsky.social tells you how #lab #culture, shared #data and #collaboration shape scientific #discovery. -> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Marianne Gervais @upecofficiel.bsky.social and co-workers show that transient #hypoxia followed by progressive reoxygenation is required for #muscle repair after injury. -> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Congratulations to EMBO Members Yasmine Belkaid and Fiona Doetsch, who were awarded the Collen-Jeantet Prize for Translational Medicine and the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, respectively. https://www.jeantet.ch/en/ #LifeSciences #research #award 🧪

We mourn the passing of Peer Bork, EMBO Member since 2000: https://www.embl.org/news/embl-announcements/in-remembrance-of-peer-bork/

Interesting read at our friends from @emboreports.org: An evaluation system for scientific journals link.springer.com/article/10.1... see also their related editorial by @berndpulverer.bsky.social on Equitable Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

See the first 2026 issue: link.springer.com/journal/4431... Cover features work by Christina Kyrousi, Stavros Taraviras and Silvia Cappello @silvianeuro.bsky.social and co-workers modelling adult V-SVZ niche assembly and ependymal cell generation in organoids. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

See you next year!

A low-level Cdkn1c/p57kip2 expression in spinal progenitors drives the transition from proliferative to neurogenic modes of division. --> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Have a look at the new issue: link.springer.com/journal/4431... The cover features work by Amanda Amodeao @aaamodeo.bsky.social and co-workers showing that local nuclear to cytoplasmic ratio regulates #histone H3.3 incorporation during zygotic #genome activation. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A new review is online. Sally Lowell @cellysally.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social explains how stem and progenitor cells communicate during development to synchronise their response to differentiation cues. -> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Cyst-independent oocyte phagocytosis builds the female reproductive reserve in mice by Hua Zhang and co-workers. -> link.springer.com/article/10.1... Highlight by Katja Wassmann @meiosis-mom.bsky.social -> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Read Lynns latest column here: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Maria Hondele @mariahondele.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch and co-workers show that fluorescent protein and peptide tags alter #condensate formation and dynamics in vivo and in vitro. -> www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Deadlines are approaching for @keystoneSymposia.bsky.social #Autophagy : Mechanisms to Therapy, this February in Keystone! See scholarship, abstract and discount reg dates: keysym.us/KSAutophagy26 #KSAutophagy26 Your chance to meet our editor Martina Rembold & discuss your work with her!

The second November issue is online. -> www.embopress.org/toc/14693178... The cover features work by Tina Mukherjee and co-workers showing that #macrophage metabolic #reprogramming during dietary stress influences adult body size in #Drosophila. www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

NINJ1 blocks #HSV-1 entry into macrophages to impact viral #replication and #immunity. -> www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

“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. -> www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....