Fossil apes and human evolution
Humans diverged from apes (chimpanzees, specifically) toward the end of the Miocene ~9.3 million to 6.5 million years ago. Understanding…
The genes behind the sexiest birds on the planet
Summary For a glimpse of the power of sexual selection, the dance of the golden-collared manakin is hard to beat.…
Leadership challenges defused
Boom! The bomb exploded. But don’t worry—it was a virtual bomb, part of a game I started to play with…
NIH apologizes for ‘structural racism, pledges change
Summary National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins this week issued an unusual public apology for what he called…
Shorter is not enough
RNA polymerase II (Pol II) is responsible for the synthesis of all messenger RNA and most small nuclear RNA and…
Comment on “Increased growing-season productivity drives earlier autumn leaf senescence in temperate trees”
Abstract Zani et al. (Research Articles, 27 November 2020, p. 1066) propose that enhancement of deciduous tree photosynthesis in a…
Nuclear medicine
Summary Physician Masaharu Tsubokura has concluded that the evacuation of nearby residents during the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima…
An ATLAS to find tumor neoantigens
Tumor neoantigens are cancer-specific antigens that are not found in healthy cells and play a major role in anticancer immune…
Widespread haploid-biased gene expression enables sperm-level natural selection
Sperm-specific natural selection Sperm cells are genetically haploid, but because of the cytoplasmic bridges that link cells, they can be…