A kidney cancer cell nucleus is studded with aberrant nuclear speckles (orange). Normal healthy cells tend to have the speckles clustered toward the middle. Image credit: Kate Alexander (Cold Spring ...

Migratory locusts display striking phenotypical plasticity. Gregarious locusts at high density can migrate long distances and cause huge economic losses of crops. By contrast, solitary locusts at low ...

Maternal exposure to high levels of the herbicide glyphosate may increase the risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in offspring; however, the underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown. Maternal ...

In 2010, climate scientists gathered at the Asilomar Conference Center in California, in a convening that echoed a legendary 1975 meeting in which a scientific committee came together in a exercise of ...

This is an addendum toComplex viscosity of helical and doubly helical polymeric liquids from general rigid bead-rod theory ...

Edited by Anthony Leggett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; received October 25, 2024; accepted December 4, 2024 ...

Every year, US dairy producers churn out billions of pounds of cheese—over 14 billion in 2023 alone. As that cheese heads to market, producers must contend with what’s left behind: roughly 6 billion ...

Camouflage, including coloration that matches the environmental background, can help predators evade detection as they approach prey. Compared with camouflage that occurs in the daytime, nocturnal ...

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We thank the authors for acknowledging the seminal nature of our work (1). We have not conclusively addressed the question of Piezo1 activation during splenic filtration in vivo. Our aim was to ...