Convergence of projections from #premotor neurons in the deep layers of the superior colliculus and layer 5 neurons in the motor cortex to innervate single neurons in the #centrolateral nucleus of the thalamus 🧠 @restorethespikes.bsky.social PDF available: doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Healthy midlife APOE-ε4 carriers show higher network segregation cross-sectionally and longitudinal segregation loss, particularly in the default mode network, linking inherited Alzheimer’s risk to early brain changes decades before dementia onset. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🪸🌀 This article featured on our homepage uses mechanistic analysis of morphology–cilia interactions in black #corals to show how hydrodynamics and ciliary transport shape metabolic exchange, internal connectivity, and morphological diversification in sessile marine organisms www.nature.com/commsbio/

🧠 Today is #WorldBrainDay! To mark this year's theme, Brain Health: Access for All, we're highlighting some research and commentary from Communications Biology that is advancing brain health discovery, prevention, care, and awareness worldwide. 🌍✨ Image/Cover Art by Berhmann et al.

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🟤⚪❄️This article featured on our homepage shows how the long-standing adaptation in least #weasel protein MC1R allows #camouflage in diverse environments www.nature.com/commsbio/ www.nature.com/articles/s42... @evochange.bsky.social @inesmiranda.bsky.social @meloferreiraj.bsky.social

Long-term GPS-tracking of the near-threatened Eurasian Curlew across eight years shows a high repeatability of its entire annual cycle and suggests a low potential for adaptation to environmental changes. www.nature.com/articles/s42... Picture credit: Philipp Schwemmer

👏 Dr. Simon Conn is joining our editorial board in the Cell & Molecular Biology section! Dr. Conn brings expertise in circular RNAs, molecular biology, cell biology, transcriptomics, brain cancer and animal models of disease. Welcome aboard! 🧬🧫

🧬🧪 Say hello to Dr. Zhiming Li, our newest editorial board member in the Cancer section! We look forward to working with Dr. Li who has expertise in epigenetic inheritance, genome stability, histone modifications and chromatin replication.

We’re delighted to welcome Dr. Fabrizia Bonacina to our Physiology & Metabolism editorial board! Dr Bonacina has expertise in atherosclerosis, dyslipidaemia, cardiovascular and metabolic disease, inflammation, adaptive immunity, cardio-oncology and more. Looking forward to working together! 🫀😊

🧪 Dr. Hong-Bo Jiang has joined our editorial board in the Ecology & Evolution section! Dr. Jiang specializes in insect physiology, insect chemical ecology, insect olfaction and gustation and genetic control. We’re excited to have them on board! 🐜🧬

🌟 Exciting news! Dr. Ignacio Gestoso is joining our Ecology & Evolution section as an editorial board member. Dr Gestoso's work in marine biological invasions, invasive species, benthic ecosystem, climate change, marine ecology and more will be a fantastic addition. Welcome! 🌊🌍🐚

👋 Big welcome to Dr. Shuguang Tan, who has joined our Immunology & Infectious Disease section as an editorial board member! Dr. Tan brings expertise in receptor/ligand recognition mechanisms of T cells, TCR based immunotherapy and more. We're thrilled to have you join us!🛡️🧫

🧬🧠 Dr. Kimberly Siletti is joining our editorial board in the Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience section! Dr. Siletti brings expertise in single-cell genomics, molecular neuroscience and developmental neuroscience. Welcome aboard!

👋 Big welcome to Dr. Jinliang Nan, who has joined our Cell & Molecular Biology section as an editorial board member! Dr. Nan brings deep expertise in cardiovascular research, cardiac physiology, mitochondrial dynamics, and more. We're thrilled to have you join us! 🫀🔬

🧠 Thrilled to announce Dr. Jiaxiang Zhang has joined our editorial board in the Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience section! Dr. Zhang specializes in brain imaging, computational modelling, cognitive neuroscience, human decision-making and health informatics. We’re excited to have them on board!

📣Announcing the newest addition to our editorial board in the Ecology & Evolution section: Dr. Brock Harpur! We're thrilled to have Dr. Harpur's expertise in social behavior, evolution, genetics, genomics, insects and population genetics. 🐝🧬

🌊 Say hello to Dr. Verena Schoepf, our newest editorial board member in the Ecology & Evolution section! Dr. Schoepf's expertise in coral reefs, climate change, ocean acidification, ecophysiology and much more will be invaluable. Welcome aboard! 🪸 @verenaschoepf.bsky.social

🧬 Dr. Coen van Solingen is joining our editorial board in the Cell & Molecular Biology section! Dr. van Solingen brings expertise in non-coding RNA, inflammation, lipid metabolism, vascular biology, lncRNA, microRNA, endothelial cell and macrophages. We’re excited to have them on board! 🔬

😊 We are also thrilled to welcome Dr. Takahiko Koike to our editorial board in the Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience section! Dr. Koike brings invaluable expertise in hyperscanning and social neuroscience. We look forward to working with Dr. Koike! 🧠

👋 Introducing a new member to our Cancer section of the editorial board - Dr Emma Scott! With expertise in prostate cancer, cancer immunology, glycobiology and glyco-immunology, they’ll be a fantastic addition. Welcome aboard!

🦠Featured on our homepage this week: MEDUSSA is a high-throughput method to measure bacterial cell size using deep-learning analysis of fluorescent membranes, revealing major size variation and genetic drivers of cell width. @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

How the cave nectar bat heart sustains the extreme demands of powered flight. Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

How cilia-driven surface currents tell the evolutinary story of Cnidaria? Curious? See more bellow: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Dendrobium section Dendrobium has dispersed from the Asia tropics into the Asian subtropics since the early Pliocene and constantly diversified in the subtropics with smaller stem and leaf sizes as key morphological adaptations. Picture credit: Xiao-Guo Xiang www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Ever thought how cells sense and respond to mechanical forces? read more👇 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Short-term oral antibiotics reshape the gut microbiome after single or repeated TBI in male mice, yet reduce lesion volume, apoptosis, gliosis, cytokines, and immune infiltration, revealing SCFA-independent neuroprotection with translational trade-offs. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🚨On our homepage this week: A newly spreading #monkeypox virus clade Ib shows stronger spread and higher virulence than the globally attenuated clade IIb, highlighting the need for further surveillance. doi.org/10.1038/s420... Images courtesy of Dr Bruno Hernáez @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social

🌿🍃Dendrobium section Dendrobium has dispersed from the Asia tropics into the Asian subtropics since early Pliocene and constantly diversified in the subtropics with smaller stem and leaf sizes as key morphological adaptations. Article on our homepage www.nature.com/commsbio/ doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Thermus thermophilus forms two distinct type IV pili. Cryo-electron microscopy, mutagenesis, structural predictions and simulations reveal their structures, glycan flexibility, and a hypothetical model of pilus assembly. www.nature.com/articles/s42...