Two papers on important roles of the Arp2/3 complex in microglia in the CNS microenvironment by the labs of Jeremy Rotty and Tim LΓ€mmermann @laemmermann-lab.bsky.social @mpi-ie.bsky.social and ZMBE @uni-muenster.de.
Read more:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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What happens when single-author science papers become rare? π§ͺ
An EMBO Reports Science & Society article explores whether solo publications are being edged out by collaborative #research, and what that meansβ 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-Ξ³ 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
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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 π§ͺ
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...
December ... of course.
See you next year!
A low-level Cdkn1c/p57kip2 expression in spinal progenitors drives the transition from proliferative to neurogenic modes of division.
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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!
