07/17/2025
Short Reports
How are magellanic penguins able to navigate tidal currents while balancing energy efficiency and foraging opportunities? Richard Gunner, Rory Wilson and co-workers reveal how penguins adaptively make S-shaped return paths to their colony, optimizing travel in complex oceanic flows.
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Current Issue June 2025
07/16/2025
Research Article
Influenza A virus (IAV) relies on host proteins to transport its genome from the nucleus to the plasma membrane for the production of new viral particles. Carla Alemany, Juliane Da Graça, Etienne Morel, Jean-Baptiste Brault, Nadia Naffakh and co-authors show that IAV reshapes phosphoinositide metabolism and localization via ATG16L1 to control host membrane dynamics and promote vRNP trafficking.
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07/15/2025
Research Article
Long-term musical training can provide additional neural resources to help cope with the effect of aging. Lei Zhang, Bernhard Ross, Yi Du and Claude Alain describe the neural mechanisms behind this observation, showing that cognitive reserve acquired through long-term music training holds back age-related neural recruitment during speech-in-noise perception.
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07/15/2025
Short Reports
The plant microbiome can protect its host against detrimental bacterial strains. Anton Amrhein, Kathrin Wippel and colleagues show that competition among Pseudomonas bacteria in synthetic bacterial communities determines how well they can protect Arabidopsis thaliana, and that a single competitive strain within a community can suffice for this.
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07/14/2025
Research Article
Changes in attention flexibly modulate the sensory contents of working memory, but the dynamics of motor contents in working memory are unclear. Irene Echeverria-Altuna, Anna Nobre and co-workers show that brain representations of both sensory and motor contents of working memory are modulated by attentional shifts, and are temporally uncoupled from one another.
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07/14/2025
Short Reports
In controlled greenhouse conditions, Arabidopsis thaliana plants with a hyperactive allele of the ACD6 gene have stronger pathogen defenses but are smaller and make fewer seeds, in a classic fitness trade-off. Derek Lundberg, Detlef Weigel and co-authors show that in the open field both the advantages and disadvantages of the allele disappear, revealing the dangers of making ecological inferences from lab results.
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07/18/2025
Essay
This Essay examines how selection operates across levels, highlighting how we might leverage this understanding to improve cancer research, prevention and treatment.
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07/15/2025
Essay
This Essay explores the mutual plasticity of various cell types in the tumor microenvironment and discusses implications for the development of therapeutic strategies.
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07/14/2025
Essay
This Essay explores the use of single-cell technologies in mapping and analyzing metastatic niches, and investigates how to harness insights gained to inform novel therapeutic interventions.
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07/14/2025
Essay
This Essay discusses bi-directional metabolic crosstalk between tumors and T cells, highlighting metabolic targeting as a promising strategy to reprogram anti-tumor immune responses.
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