Susan Alberts and Jenny Tung are collaborators on a study in PLOS ONE of the infection of wild baboons with the bacterium responsible for syphilis in humans.
In a Cold Spring Harbor Symposium report, Philip Benfey said his work on root development has been influenced by and has contributed to three biological approaches: molecular genetics, genomics, and systems biology.
In Nature, Uwe Ohler and colleagues report the discovery of distinct RNA-recognition elements that correspond to the two independent RNA-binding domains of FMRP.
In Molecular Cell Biology, Karen Hayden, Hunt Willard and colleagues report data supporting a model in which functionally competent sequences confer an opportunity for centromere specification, integrating genomic and epigenetic signals and promoting the concept of context-dependent centromere inheritance.
In the Journal of Proteome Research, Jennifer Wernegreen and Arthur Moseley describe the first quantitative proteomic analysis of an ant endosymbiont as a promising approach to study the functional basis of intimate symbioses.
In the American Journal of Public Health, Laura Beskow and colleagues offer recommendations on how researchers might better balance concerns for protection of vulnerable participants with concerns for justice and participant autonomy.
In Nature Reviews Genetics, Tom Mitchell-Olds and colleagues review the extent to which recent evidence supports long-established theoretical principles of adaptation.
In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Lingchong You and colleagues show that, for quorum sensing to be optimal, its kinetic properties must be appropriately tuned and say that this property has implications for antibiotic treatment.
In Molecular Systems Biology, Lingchong You, Nicholas Buchler and their colleagues have engineered bacteria that are capable of sacrificing themselves to reveal that altruistic death can confer a population level advantage.
In Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, Will Thompson, Art Moseley and colleagues from the Proteomics Core report on the utility of a novel autosampler.
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