Birds, bees, lizards, elephants, and chimpanzees all share a survival trait: They self-medicate. These animals eat things that make them feel better, or prevent disease, or kill parasites like ...

Contributed by Joseph S. Francisco; received February 25, 2026; accepted May 6, 2026; reviewed by Xinlei Ge and Roy M Harrison ...

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Climate change is challenging plant agriculture and our ability to manage food security. Crop growth and yield are controlled by several phytohormones and their overlapping signal networks. We report ...

ACETYLATION AND METHYLATION OF HISTONES AND THEIR POSSIBLE ROLE IN THE REGULATION OF RNA SYNTHESIS* ...

The muscle nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) is the key mediator of neuromuscular signal transmission and is essential for all voluntary movement in our body. In this study, we present ...

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Assembling the mitochondrial ATP synthase The assembly of the mitochondrial ATP synthase is a complicated process that involves the coordinated association of mitochondrially and nuclear encoded ...

We study ionic current fluctuations in solid-state nanopores over a wide frequency range and present a complete description of the noise characteristics. At low frequencies (f ≲ 100 Hz) we observe ...

The Democracy Index finding holds up best. Its negative direct effect on offensive VEI (we use β for SDM coefficients throughout) survives spatial adjustment in every bivariate specification (Table 1) ...

We used association studies with these candidate genes to investigate the genetic basis of adaptive melanism in C. intermedius. Here, we report that mutations at Mc1r are perfectly associated with ...

Edited by David M. Karl, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, and approved December 9, 2014 (received for review August 8, 2014) ...