Four scientists shared their experience on the benefits of journal-agnostic peer review.

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Harada et al. describe an archaeon, recovered from a single marine plankton cell, whose 238-kb genome is the smallest known for the domain. It has lost nearly all metabolism but keeps the machinery to...

Many animal species replace histones with protamines during spermatogenesis. Although essential for sperm function, protamines evolve rapidly for reasons that remain unknown. Using in vivo gene replac...

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Häkkinen et al. show that zebrafish neural crest cells encounter increased tissue-scale confinement along the body axis. Despite nuclear deformation, migrating neural crest cells experience neither nu...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Church et al. present corpus, a tool that converts a library of biodiversity literature PDFs into a searchable knowledge base of text, figures, and references. It connects to an AI agent through a Mod...

Despite substantial variation in adult size, animals within a species maintain consistent tissue patterns and shapes, a core property known as developmental scaling or size invariance. Developmental s...

Technological advances over the past decade have enabled genome-wide mapping of chromatin organization across diverse organisms at unprecedented resolution. These studies have uncovered both conserve…

Density-dependent regulation of collective order through collision sensing and collision-induced reversals provides a navigational advantage to Pseudomonas aeruginosa during surface colonization and n...

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Casey Dunn's laboratory in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University.