Mammalian oocytes undergo an extended growth phase, during which transcription gradually declines. To sustain meiotic divisions and early embryonic development, growing oocytes must accumulate materna...

The spatiotemporal dynamics of the depletion of the ovarian reserve remain incompletely understood. Combining whole-ovary imaging, AI and modeling, the authors mapped over 85,000 mouse oocytes and fou...

In this perspective, Haidar et al. discuss the emerging function of cytoplasmic RNP condensates in translation. The perspective highlights the dual role of condensates in translational repression and activation and the biophysical properties allowing these two functions. It further proposes future directions for decoding the functional compartmentalization of condensates.

Zhang et al. identify a regulatory mechanism for how cells adapt to nutrient scarcity through widespread −1 ribosomal frameshifts, culminating in accelerated mRNA decay. This process, dependent on cod...

Chromatin dynamics control the timescales of essential biological processes including DNA damage repair and activation of gene promoters by distal enhancers. Prior chromatin dynamics studies have repo...

In vitro reconstitution and in vivo live-cell imaging of LHX2–EBF1–LDB1 enhancer hubs in olfactory sensory neurons reveals that these transcription factors form condensates with solid, rathe...

Uechi et al. found that a small-molecule lipoamide dissolves stress granules (SGs) by targeting SFPQ, a redox-sensitive disordered SG protein, alleviating pathological phenotypes caused by amyotrophic...

As microtubule-organizing centers, centrosomes direct assembly of the bipolar mitotic spindle required for chromosome segregation and genome stability. Centrosome activity requires the dynamic assembl...

In this issue of Molecular Cell, Trussina et al. and Parker et al. present complementary lines of evidence that suggest that stress granules regulate trans RNA-RNA interactions through the action of h...

Complex RNA–protein networks play a pivotal role in the formation of many types of biomolecular condensates. How intrinsic RNA features contribute to condensate formation however remains unclear. Here...

Cells have evolved mechanisms to distribute ~10 billion protein molecules to subcellular compartments where diverse proteins involved in shared functions must assemble. Here, we demonstrate that prote...

Ribosomes cooperate through transient collisions to ensure efficient translation.

The actin cytoskeleton is crucial for cell and organelle motility. Here, the authors show that actin acts upstream of the mitochondrial fusion machinery to bridge two fusing mitochondria.

Here the authors study how interactions with nuclear speckles help localize mRNA in cells. They find that modifications of the proteins in these structures affects their cohesion and can modulate mRNA...