BioEssays

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Glymphatic Transport as a Possible New Mechanism for the Long‐Range Signaling of Extracellular Vesicles Through the CNS	43
Oxidative status: A general but overlooked indicator of welfare across animal species?	43
Tubulin deacetylase NDST3 modulates lysosomal acidification: Implications in neurological diseases	43
Strengths and opportunities in research into extracellular matrix ageing: A consultation with the ECMage research community	42
Ecotype formation and prophage domestication during gut bacterial evolution	37
Phosphoregulation of Microtubule Assembly and Disassembly for Phragmoplast Expansion During Plant Cytokinesis	34
Towards understanding how bisphosphonate‐dependent alterations to nutrient canal integrity can contribute to risk for atypical femoral fractures: Biomechanical considerations and potential relationshi	34
Functional hierarchy of PCNA‐interacting motifs in DNA processing enzymes	32
Mechanistic insights and implications of FOXO‐SNAI interplay	32
Issue Information: BioEssays 12/2025	32
Is Enhancer Function Driven by Protein–Protein Interactions? From Bacteria to Leukemia	32
The Electric Genome: A Mechanistic Hypothesis for Nuclear Architecture and Gene Expression Bias	30
A Compensated Clock: Temperature and Nutritional Compensation Mechanisms Across Circadian Systems	29
Design patterns of biological cells	28
Biophysical aspects of migrasome organelle formation and their diverse cellular functions	28
Electrical signalling in prokaryotes and its convergence with quorum sensing in Bacillus	27
2024: A “nucleoid space” odyssey featuring H‐NS	27
Flow Cytometry: Advances, Challenges and Trends	27
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Bro1 family proteins harmonize cargo sorting with vesicle formation	25
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Epistemic misalignments in microbiome research	25
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Spatial genome organization, TGFβ, and biomolecular condensates: Do they talk during development?	24

Are anti‐cancer patents intrinsically immoral?	23
Gene essentiality and variability: What is the link? A within‐ and between‐species perspective	23
A word of heartfelt thanks to our reviewers	23
The role of lipoylation in mitochondrial adaptation to methionine restriction	22
Protein memory?	22
Molecular biomarkers in cardio‐oncology: Where we stand and where we are heading	22
Targeting protein condensation in cGAS‐STING signaling pathway	21
A word of heartfelt thanks to our reviewers	20
All Organisms Can Be Anesthetized, but There's No Point?	19
Potential of the CRISPR‐Cas system for improved parasite diagnosis	19
MYRF: A unique transmembrane transcription factor‐ from proteolytic self‐processing to its multifaceted roles in animal development	19
Oxidative Phosphorylation in Uncoupled Mitochondria	18
The molecular mechanisms regulating the assembly of the autophagy initiation complex	18
Sustainability in a broad sense: An essential aspect of scientific conferences	18
The integrated stress response in the induction of mutant KRAS lung carcinogenesis: Mechanistic insights and therapeutic implications	18
Did doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI) of mtDNA originate as a cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) system?	18
We can run and we can hide, but we cannot escape… Review of “The Decarbonization Delusion: What 3.5 Billion Years of Biological Sustainability can Teach us” by AndrewMoore, 2023.	17
Transcription‐independent functions of p53 in DNA repair pathway selection	17
Neddylation‐CRLs regulate the functions of Treg immune cells	17
FKRP directed fibronectin glycosylation: A novel mechanism giving insights into muscular dystrophies?	17
Cellular self‐organization: An overdrive in Cambrian diversity?	17
BioEssays 4/2022	17
BioEssays 7/2022	17
The sorption/chromatography hypothesis of olfactory discrimination: The rise, fall, and rebirth of a Phoenix	16
Childhood B cell leukemia: Intercepting the paths to progression	16
Mechanistic Insights Into the Assembly of Functional CRL3 Dimeric Complexes	16
Paradigm shifts in animal epigenetics: Research on non‐model species leads to new insights into dependencies, functions and inheritance of DNA methylation	16
Did the creeping vole sex chromosomes evolve through a cascade of adaptive responses to a selfish x chromosome?	16
Flipping and other astonishing transporter dance moves in fungal drug resistance	15
Cochlear tonotopy from proteins to perception	15
Advances in computational and experimental approaches for deciphering transcriptional regulatory networks	15
The curious case of TMEM120A: Mechanosensor, fat regulator, or antiviral defender?	15
Hybrid Legacies: Evolutionary Consequences of Neandertal Introgression and Implications for Autism	15
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Molecular characteristics of the multi‐functional FAO enzyme ACAD9 illustrate the importance of FADH2/NADH ratios for mitochondrial ROS formation	15
Isthmin‐1: A critical regulator of branching morphogenesis and metanephric mesenchyme condensation during early kidney development	14
BioEssays 1/2023	14
Structure, function, and evolution of the metal‐binding domain in the nucleosome	14
Harnessing the cooperation between DNA‐PK and cGAS in cancer therapies	14
Addendum & Correction	14
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Functional partnerships between GPI‐anchored proteins and adhesion GPCRs	13
Hanging the coat on a collar: Same function but different localization and mechanism for COPII	13
Time‐restricted feeding regulates lipid metabolism under metabolic challenges	13
A unified theoretical framework underlying the regulation of motivated behavior	13
MicroRNAs play regulatory roles in genomic balance	13
Unlocking the therapeutic potential of TRPV3: Insights into thermosensation, channel modulation, and skin homeostasis involving TRPV3	13
N6‐ Methyladenosine defines a new checkpoint in γδ T cell development	13
Endosteal stem cells at the bone‐blood interface: A double‐edged sword for rapid bone formation	13
Lung patterning: Is a distal‐to‐proximal gradient of cell allocation and fate decision a general paradigm?	13

Ubiquitin C‐Terminal Hydrolase L1 (UCHL1), Beyond Hydrolysis	13
DREAM a little dREAM of DRM: Model organisms and conservation of DREAM‐like complexes	13
Emerging small molecule inhibitors of Bach1 as therapeutic agents: Rationale, recent advances, and future perspectives	13
Introducing a new rubric in BioEssays: Reviews	13
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Joining the PARty: PARP Regulation of KDM5A during DNA Repair (and Transcription?)	12
The asymmetric plasma membrane—A composite material combining different functionalities?	12
What can asymmetrical cell snakes do?	12
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AlphaFold2: A versatile tool to predict the appearance of functional adaptations in evolution	12
ORChestra coordinates the replication and repair music	12
Issue Information: BioEssays 8/2025	11
What is an enhancer?	11
ISG15: A link between innate immune signaling, DNA replication, and genome stability	11
The SUMO stress response in transcriptional regulation: Causal relationships or secondary bystander effects?	11
Lost in translation: How neurons cope with tRNA decoding	11
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The history and conceptual framework of assays and screens	11
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Correction	11
Dominant negative variants and cotranslational assembly of macromolecular complexes	11
iPS cell therapy 2.0: Preparing for next‐generation regenerative medicine	11
Where, When, and How? Integrating Spatiotemporal Cues in Cell Division	11
Loss of DNA methylation disrupts syncytiotrophoblast development: Proposed consequences of aberrant germline gene activation	10
Are non‐protein coding RNAs junk or treasure?	10
Issue Information: BioEssays 11/2025	10
Meet the Metaorganism: A web‐based learning app for undergraduate and graduate biology students	10
The sorting platform in the type III secretion pathway: From assembly to function	10
Dynamic Plasma Membrane Topography Linked With Arp2/3 Actin Network Induction During Cell Shape Change	10
Insights into DNA cleavage by MutL homologs from analysis of conserved motifs in eukaryotic Mlh1	10
Are secondary effects of bisphosphonates on the vascular system of bone contributing to increased risk for atypical femoral fractures in osteoporosis?	10
Shear Stress as a Danger Signal: Inducing Inflammation and Thrombosis via Mechanosensitive NETosis	10
Thermosensory Roles of G Protein‐Coupled Receptors and Other Cellular Factors in Animals	10
BioEssays 10/2022	10
How are Trypanosoma brucei receptors protected from host antibody‐mediated attack?	10
Three‐dimensional stem cell models of mammalian gastrulation	10
Coming into clear sight at last: Ancestral and derived events during chelicerate visual system development	10
Bayes and Darwin: How replicator populations implement Bayesian computations	10
SNP‐based heritability and selection analyses: Improved models and new results	10
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A natural heme deficiency exists in biology that allows nitric oxide to control heme protein functions by regulating cellular heme distribution	9
From Genome to Geroscience: How DNA Damage Shapes Systemic Decline	9
Tau, microtubule dynamics, and axonal transport: New paradigms for neurodegenerative disease	9
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The interaction between enhancer variants and environmental factors as an overlooked aetiological paradigm in human complex disease	9
BioEssays 12/2022	9
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How germline genes promote malignancy in cancer cells	9
Butyrate, IL‐4, and EP4 Receptors: A Triad of Colorectal Homeostasis, Protecting Against Onset of Cancer and IBD?	9
Location bias: A “Hidden Variable” in GPCR pharmacology	9
Liquid Guardians: Biomolecular Condensates Shield Heterochromatin Against Cellular Senescence	9
Can stable introns and noncoding RNAs be harnessed to improve health through activation of mitohormesis?	9
Non‐canonical bivalent H3K4me3K9me3 recognition by Spindlin1/C11orf84 complex	9
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Reduced Adult Neurogenesis in Humans Results From a Tradeoff Rather Than Direct Negative Selection	9
Nucleosomes and flipons exchange energy to alter chromatin conformation, the readout of genomic information, and cell fate	9
Cell growth and the cell cycle: New insights about persistent questions	9
The strange case of Drp1 in autophagy: Jekyll and Hyde?	9
Intergenerational Enlargement of Human Organs as a Driver of Increased Cancer Risk?	9
A word of heartfelt thanks to our reviewers	9
AAV Genome Topology Decides ITR Secondary Structure	9
From pixels to insights: Machine learning and deep learning for bioimage analysis	9
The Inner Nuclear Membrane Has a Unique Lipid Signature	8
CHARM and EvoETR: Precision epigenetic tools for gene silencing	8
Similarities in the induction of the intracellular pathogen response in Caenorhabditis elegans and the type I interferon response in mammals	8
AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR protein accumulation and function	8
Deep into the niche: Deciphering local endoderm‐microenvironment interactions in development, homeostasis, and disease of pancreas and intestine	8
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An indirect perspective to link genetic mosaicism and tumorigenesis	8
The concept of balance in microbiome research	8
Regulation and signaling of the LIM domain kinases	8
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Ribosomal dormancy at the nexus of ribosome homeostasis and protein synthesis	8
Non‐coding RNAs in Kawasaki disease: Molecular mechanisms and clinical implications	8
A paREDOX in the control of cholesterol biosynthesis	8
Symbiont effector‐guided mapping of proteins in plant networks to improve crop climate stress resilience	8
How Growth Cones Sense Extracellular Cues and Drive Neuronal Migration	8
How mitochondria showcase evolutionary mechanisms and the importance of oxygen	8
On the origin of plastids	8
BTB domains: A structural view of evolution, multimerization, and protein–protein interactions	8

Interactions between neural cells and blood vessels in central nervous system development	8
Muscle stem cells get a new look: Dynamic cellular projections as sensors of the stem cell niche	8
As a matter of fat: Emerging roles of lipid‐sensitive E3 ubiquitin ligases	8
Issue Information: BioEssays 12/2024	8
Assembling the thymus medulla: Development and function of epithelial cell heterogeneity	7
Flavin‐containing monooxygenase (FMO): Beyond xenobiotics	7
Significance of the anterior cingulate cortex in neurogenesis plasticity: Connections, functions, and disorders across postnatal and adult stages	7
Metabolic Dysregulation as a Central Mechanism in 16p11.2 Deletion Syndrome: A Multigenic Perspective on Clinical Variability and Therapeutic Opportunities	7
BioEssays 3/2024	7
More than a bystander: RNAs specify multifaceted behaviors of liquid‐liquid phase‐separated biomolecular condensates	7
X centromeric drive may explain the prevalence of polycystic ovary syndrome and other conditions	7
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Broad H3K4me3 domains: Maintaining cellular identity and their implication in super‐enhancer hijacking	7
Modeling the evolution of recombination plasticity: A prospective review	7
The complexity of biological control systems: An autophagy case study	7
Biological sex is binary, even though there is a rainbow of sex roles	7
Issue Information: BioEssays 10/2025	7
Sorting of cargo in the tubular endosomal network	7
Mechanisms of Lipid‐Associated Macrophage Accrual in Metabolically Stressed Adipose Tissue	7
BioEssays 12/2024	7
A case for the importance of following antibiotic resistant bacteria throughout the soil food web	6
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Critically assessing atavism, an evolution‐centered and deterministic hypothesis on cancer	6
What Epigenetics Teaches Us About Neuron–Glioma Interactions	6
From the genome's perspective: Bearing somatic retrotransposition to leverage the regulatory potential of L1 RNAs	6
Understanding fundamental principles of enhancer biology at a model locus	6
Relationship of PSC to embryos: Extending and refining capture of PSC lines from mammalian embryos	6
Omegasomes control formation, expansion, and closure of autophagosomes	6
Re‐evaluating Stem Cell Roles in Homeostasis and Cancer of the Esophagus	6
Let's talk about sex	6
Sulfonylurea receptor 2 (SUR2), intricate sensors for intracellular Mg‐nucleotides	6
Emerging role of TAK1 in the regulation of skeletal muscle mass	6
Fighting Antibiotic Resistance: Insights Into Human Barriers and New Opportunities	6
TRPV4: En RhoA To a Cure?	6
Complex Interplay of Metabolic Substrates, Points of Entry into the Mitochondrial Electron Chain, and ROS Generation	6
BioEssays 8/2024	6
The Dark Side of Flow: Shear Stress as a Trigger for Thromboinflammatory NETs	6
Health‐promoting worms? Prospects and pitfalls of helminth therapy	6
Dynamic crosstalk between hematopoietic stem cells and their niche from emergence to aging	6
Asymmetrical sex reversal: Does the type of heterogamety predict propensity for sex reversal?	5
Generalizing the definition of protein turnover to out‐of‐equilibrium conditions	5
PAQR proteins and the evolution of a superpower: Eating all kinds of fats	5
Toward an evolutionary framework for language variation and change	5
BioEssays 8/2022	5
Balancing Plk1 activity levels: The secret of synchrony between the cell and the centrosome cycle	5
In through the out door: A loop‐binding‐first model for topological cohesin loading	5
Newly discovered harvestmen relict eyes eyeing for their functions	5
Estrogen receptor α revised: Expression, structure, function, and stability	5
The complexities of ligand/receptor interactions: Exploring the role of molecular vibrations and quantum tunnelling	5
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Gene mutations impede oocyte maturation, fertilization, and early embryonic development	5
BioEssays 4/2023	5
Order out of disorder: Regulation of endonuclease activity during eukaryotic mismatch repair	5
Targeting a novel apoptotic pathway in human disease	5
Meiotic defects in human oocytes: Potential causes and clinical implications	5
Ancient endosymbiont‐mediated transmission of a selfish gene provides a model for overcoming barriers to gene transfer into animal mitochondrial genomes	5
Review of “Handbook of Marine Model Organisms in Experimental Biology: Established and Emerging” edited by Agnès Boutet and Bernd Schierwater, CRC Press	5
Aster la vista: Unraveling the biochemical basis of carotenoid homeostasis in the human retina	5
BioEssays 2/2024	5
Single cell RNA‐sequencing: A powerful yet still challenging technology to study cellular heterogeneity	5
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Dissecting “Evolution – The origins and mechanisms of diversity” by Jonathan Bard	5
The glow of the night: The tapetum lucidum as a co‐adaptation for the inverted retina	5
Nucleic Acid Aptamer‐Based Sensors for Bacteria Detection: A Review	5
Ultra‐Conserved Poison Exons Enable Rapid and Safe Splicing Factor Gene Expression Switches: A Hypothesis	5
Heterochromatin repeat organization at an individual level: Rex1BD and the 14‐3‐3 protein coordinate to shape the epigenetic landscape within heterochromatin repeats	5
Taming of the microbial beasts: Plant immunity tethers potentially pathogenic microbiota members	5
Assessing Human Ribosomal DNA Variation and Its Association With Phenotypic Outcomes	5
Centromere diversity: How different repeat‐based holocentromeres may have evolved	5
How the technologies behind self‐driving cars, social networks, ChatGPT, and DALL‐E2 are changing structural biology	4
A Kuhnian revolution in molecular biology: Most genes in complex organisms express regulatory RNAs	4
Macronutrient interactions and models of obesity: Insights from nutritional geometry	4
Should research administrators be regulated as carefully as researchers?	4
BioEssays 11/2022	4
T‐Rex escaped from the cytosolic park: Re‐thinking the impact of TREX1 exonuclease deficiencies on genomic stability	4
Actomyosin forces in cell migration: Moving beyond cell body retraction	4
BioEssays 9/2022	4
Eomes and T‐bet, a dynamic duo regulating NK cell differentiation	4
Emerging Perspectives on Gonadotropin Regulation in Vertebrates Revealed by the Discovery of FSH‐RH in Teleosts	4
Beyond genotype‐phenotype maps: Toward a phenotype‐centered perspective on evolution	4
BioEssays 8/2023	4
Conformational flexibility underlies the versatility of arrestins	4
Linking secretion and cytoskeleton in immunity– a case for Arabidopsis TGNap1	4
From correlation to causation: The new frontier of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance	4
Acid digestion and symbiont: Proton sharing at the origin of mitochondriogenesis?	4
Importance of Considering the Plastic Expression of Phenotypes When Determining Evolutionary Relationships	4
An oncospace for human cancers	4
Fusion Pores as Regulators of Quantal Size and Cellular Physiology	4
BioEssays 9/2022	4
BioEssays 2/2023	4
Keeping the strands together: Rad53 regulation of fork symmetry promotes replication stability	4
BioEssays 11/2023	4
Exposure to Extreme Heat Increases Preterm Birth Risk: Hypothetical Pathophysiological Mechanisms	4
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Fluid protein fold space and its implications	4