06/05/2025
Short Report
Androgen receptor-positive prostate cancer cells abundantly express hormone-dependent tRNA halves, but their functions are unclear. Takuya Kawamura, Megumi Shigematsu and Yohei Kirino show that the 5′-tRNALysCUU half promotes cell cycle progression by destabilizing the mRNA of p21, a negative regulator, suggesting a general role for these molecules.
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Current Issue May 2025
06/05/2025
Short Report
Body ownership disorders can be triggered by disease or body damage in humans. Zineb Hayatou, Luc Estebanez and colleagues show, using an automated, videography-based procedure, that mice also display quantifiable behavioral markers of the embodiment of an artificial limb, opening the door to future research on these disorders.
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06/05/2025
Research Article
Humans can apply solutions used in past problems to new problems. Sam Hall-McMaster, Momchil Tomov, Samuel Gershman and Nicolas Schuck reveal the neural correlates of this process, known as generalization, and show that humans apply past policies in a reward-sensitive manner that leads to high performance.
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06/04/2025
Research Article
The RNA-binding protein RBM39 has been previously shown to be a target of the anti-cancer agent Indisulam. Tongjia Zhang, Xiaowei Zhang and co-workers show that RBM39 is methylated by PRMT6, which determines the resistance to Indisulam in lung cancer models due to aberrant splicing events.
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06/03/2025
Research Article
What are the molecular targets of inhaled anesthetics like isoflurane? Hiroyuki Kanaya, Ken Kuwajima, Hiroki Ueda and co-authors reveal that isoflurane binds type 1 ryanodine receptor, and show that genetically disrupting a specific residue or pharmacologically activating this binding site with novel agonists can modulate sensitivity to anesthesia.
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06/02/2025
Research Article
Sound-guided prediction of upcoming salient events is important for planning, timing and executing behaviors such as crossing a street or evading predation. Harini Suri, Gideon Rothschild and colleagues identify an auditory cortical-striatal circuit that supports sound-triggered timing-prediction behaviors in mice.
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05/20/2025
Perspective
Increasing concerns over the welfare of captive cetaceans have led to calls for their transfer to sanctuaries. This Perspective describes an unprecedented collaboration to develop the first accreditation guidelines for authentic ocean sanctuaries.
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05/15/2025
Perspective
To what extent can we predict future pathogenic microbes? Arturo Casadevall discusses why complex requirements for virulence and dynamic host-microbe interactions make probabilistic predictions difficult, but not impossible.
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05/07/2025
Consensus View
Vertebrate photoreceptors have been studied for well over a century, but a fixed nomenclature across species has been lacking. This Consensus View proposes a new consolidated and pan-vertebrate naming system for the rod and cone photoreceptors of the eye.
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05/07/2025
Perspective
Interferon is a central component of the vertebrate antiviral response. John Schoggins highlights recent findings that suggest a refined ‘limited set’ model of its activity, in which distinct viruses are targeted by small subsets of the induced gene repertoire.
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