BioEssays

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Ecotype formation and prophage domestication during gut bacterial evolution	76
Towards understanding how bisphosphonate‐dependent alterations to nutrient canal integrity can contribute to risk for atypical femoral fractures: Biomechanical considerations and potential relationshi	64
Glymphatic Transport as a Possible New Mechanism for the Long‐Range Signaling of Extracellular Vesicles Through the CNS	49
Functional hierarchy of PCNA‐interacting motifs in DNA processing enzymes	44
A Compensated Clock: Temperature and Nutritional Compensation Mechanisms Across Circadian Systems	43
Design patterns of biological cells	37
Flow Cytometry: Advances, Challenges and Trends	36
Is Enhancer Function Driven by Protein–Protein Interactions? From Bacteria to Leukemia	36
Oxidative status: A general but overlooked indicator of welfare across animal species?	36
Phosphoregulation of Microtubule Assembly and Disassembly for Phragmoplast Expansion During Plant Cytokinesis	36
Biophysical aspects of migrasome organelle formation and their diverse cellular functions	35
Mechanistic insights and implications of FOXO‐SNAI interplay	34
Bro1 family proteins harmonize cargo sorting with vesicle formation	33
The Electric Genome: A Mechanistic Hypothesis for Nuclear Architecture and Gene Expression Bias	30
Issue Information: BioEssays 12/2025	30
Transposon Ecology and the Octopus Genome	30
Tubulin deacetylase NDST3 modulates lysosomal acidification: Implications in neurological diseases	29
Strengths and opportunities in research into extracellular matrix ageing: A consultation with the ECMage research community	29
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2024: A “nucleoid space” odyssey featuring H‐NS	27
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Spatial genome organization, TGFβ, and biomolecular condensates: Do they talk during development?	26
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A word of heartfelt thanks to our reviewers	24

Are anti‐cancer patents intrinsically immoral?	24
Gene essentiality and variability: What is the link? A within‐ and between‐species perspective	24
A word of heartfelt thanks to our reviewers	22
The integrated stress response in the induction of mutant KRAS lung carcinogenesis: Mechanistic insights and therapeutic implications	22
The role of lipoylation in mitochondrial adaptation to methionine restriction	22
Transcription‐independent functions of p53 in DNA repair pathway selection	22
Protein memory?	22
The molecular mechanisms regulating the assembly of the autophagy initiation complex	21
Sustainability in a broad sense: An essential aspect of scientific conferences	21
All Organisms Can Be Anesthetized, but There's No Point?	20
Epistemic misalignments in microbiome research	20
MYRF: A unique transmembrane transcription factor‐ from proteolytic self‐processing to its multifaceted roles in animal development	19
Targeting protein condensation in cGAS‐STING signaling pathway	19
BioEssays 7/2022	19
Oxidative Phosphorylation in Uncoupled Mitochondria	19
Cellular self‐organization: An overdrive in Cambrian diversity?	19
Cochlear tonotopy from proteins to perception	18
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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.	18
Did the creeping vole sex chromosomes evolve through a cascade of adaptive responses to a selfish x chromosome?	18
Mechanistic Insights Into the Assembly of Functional CRL3 Dimeric Complexes	18
Hybrid Legacies: Evolutionary Consequences of Neandertal Introgression and Implications for Autism	18
Neddylation‐CRLs regulate the functions of Treg immune cells	17
Molecular characteristics of the multi‐functional FAO enzyme ACAD9 illustrate the importance of FADH2/NADH ratios for mitochondrial ROS formation	17
Critique of a Radically New Model for Plasma Membrane Bilayer Organization	17
Advances in computational and experimental approaches for deciphering transcriptional regulatory networks	17
Childhood B cell leukemia: Intercepting the paths to progression	17
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BioEssays 1/2023	16
Paradigm shifts in animal epigenetics: Research on non‐model species leads to new insights into dependencies, functions and inheritance of DNA methylation	16
N6‐ Methyladenosine defines a new checkpoint in γδ T cell development	15
Introducing a new rubric in BioEssays: Reviews	15
A unified theoretical framework underlying the regulation of motivated behavior	15
Isthmin‐1: A critical regulator of branching morphogenesis and metanephric mesenchyme condensation during early kidney development	15
Structure, function, and evolution of the metal‐binding domain in the nucleosome	15
Functional partnerships between GPI‐anchored proteins and adhesion GPCRs	15
Addendum & Correction	14
Hanging the coat on a collar: Same function but different localization and mechanism for COPII	14
Ubiquitin C‐Terminal Hydrolase L1 (UCHL1), Beyond Hydrolysis	14
Harnessing the cooperation between DNA‐PK and cGAS in cancer therapies	14
MicroRNAs play regulatory roles in genomic balance	14
Dynamic Allostery in T Cell Receptor Specificity: A Role for Peptides and MHC Polymorphisms in Allosterically Tuning Immune Recognition	14
Endosteal stem cells at the bone‐blood interface: A double‐edged sword for rapid bone formation	14
DREAM a little dREAM of DRM: Model organisms and conservation of DREAM‐like complexes	14
Unlocking the therapeutic potential of TRPV3: Insights into thermosensation, channel modulation, and skin homeostasis involving TRPV3	14
Lung patterning: Is a distal‐to‐proximal gradient of cell allocation and fate decision a general paradigm?	13
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ORChestra coordinates the replication and repair music	13
Emerging small molecule inhibitors of Bach1 as therapeutic agents: Rationale, recent advances, and future perspectives	13
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Correction	13
Time‐restricted feeding regulates lipid metabolism under metabolic challenges	13
AlphaFold2: A versatile tool to predict the appearance of functional adaptations in evolution	13
Lost in translation: How neurons cope with tRNA decoding	13
What is an enhancer?	12
The asymmetric plasma membrane—A composite material combining different functionalities?	12
iPS cell therapy 2.0: Preparing for next‐generation regenerative medicine	12
The SUMO stress response in transcriptional regulation: Causal relationships or secondary bystander effects?	12
Where, When, and How? Integrating Spatiotemporal Cues in Cell Division	12
Joining the PARty: PARP Regulation of KDM5A during DNA Repair (and Transcription?)	12
Dominant negative variants and cotranslational assembly of macromolecular complexes	12
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Issue Information: BioEssays 8/2025	12
ISG15: A link between innate immune signaling, DNA replication, and genome stability	12
What can asymmetrical cell snakes do?	12
BioEssays 10/2022	12
The history and conceptual framework of assays and screens	12
Butyrate, IL‐4, and EP4 Receptors: A Triad of Colorectal Homeostasis, Protecting Against Onset of Cancer and IBD?	11
Are secondary effects of bisphosphonates on the vascular system of bone contributing to increased risk for atypical femoral fractures in osteoporosis?	11
Loss of DNA methylation disrupts syncytiotrophoblast development: Proposed consequences of aberrant germline gene activation	11
Cell growth and the cell cycle: New insights about persistent questions	11
Coming into clear sight at last: Ancestral and derived events during chelicerate visual system development	11
Meet the Metaorganism: A web‐based learning app for undergraduate and graduate biology students	11
Shear Stress as a Danger Signal: Inducing Inflammation and Thrombosis via Mechanosensitive NETosis	11
Nucleosomes and flipons exchange energy to alter chromatin conformation, the readout of genomic information, and cell fate	11
From Genome to Geroscience: How DNA Damage Shapes Systemic Decline	11
Three‐dimensional stem cell models of mammalian gastrulation	11
A natural heme deficiency exists in biology that allows nitric oxide to control heme protein functions by regulating cellular heme distribution	11
Issue Information: BioEssays 11/2025	11
The sorting platform in the type III secretion pathway: From assembly to function	11
Thermosensory Roles of G Protein‐Coupled Receptors and Other Cellular Factors in Animals	11
Insights into DNA cleavage by MutL homologs from analysis of conserved motifs in eukaryotic Mlh1	11
How are Trypanosoma brucei receptors protected from host antibody‐mediated attack?	11
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Interactions between neural cells and blood vessels in central nervous system development	10
The interaction between enhancer variants and environmental factors as an overlooked aetiological paradigm in human complex disease	10
Deep into the niche: Deciphering local endoderm‐microenvironment interactions in development, homeostasis, and disease of pancreas and intestine	10
Tau, microtubule dynamics, and axonal transport: New paradigms for neurodegenerative disease	10
Are non‐protein coding RNAs junk or treasure?	10
Intergenerational Enlargement of Human Organs as a Driver of Increased Cancer Risk?	10
Can stable introns and noncoding RNAs be harnessed to improve health through activation of mitohormesis?	10
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A word of heartfelt thanks to our reviewers	10
A paREDOX in the control of cholesterol biosynthesis	10
Dynamic Plasma Membrane Topography Linked With Arp2/3 Actin Network Induction During Cell Shape Change	10
How germline genes promote malignancy in cancer cells	10
Liquid Guardians: Biomolecular Condensates Shield Heterochromatin Against Cellular Senescence	10
AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR protein accumulation and function	10
AAV Genome Topology Decides ITR Secondary Structure	10
BioEssays 12/2022	10
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Location bias: A “Hidden Variable” in GPCR pharmacology	10
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BioEssays 2/2026	9
Issue Information: BioEssays 4/2026	9
CHARM and EvoETR: Precision epigenetic tools for gene silencing	9
The concept of balance in microbiome research	9
BTB domains: A structural view of evolution, multimerization, and protein–protein interactions	9
From pixels to insights: Machine learning and deep learning for bioimage analysis	9
Similarities in the induction of the intracellular pathogen response in Caenorhabditis elegans and the type I interferon response in mammals	9
As a matter of fat: Emerging roles of lipid‐sensitive E3 ubiquitin ligases	9
Ribosomal dormancy at the nexus of ribosome homeostasis and protein synthesis	9
Reduced Adult Neurogenesis in Humans Results From a Tradeoff Rather Than Direct Negative Selection	9
Muscle stem cells get a new look: Dynamic cellular projections as sensors of the stem cell niche	9
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Assembling the thymus medulla: Development and function of epithelial cell heterogeneity	9
Issue Information: BioEssays 12/2024	8
Issue Information: BioEssays 10/2025	8
BioEssays 12/2024	8
The Inner Nuclear Membrane Has a Unique Lipid Signature	8
How mitochondria showcase evolutionary mechanisms and the importance of oxygen	8
How Growth Cones Sense Extracellular Cues and Drive Neuronal Migration	8
An indirect perspective to link genetic mosaicism and tumorigenesis	8
Vimentin Intermediate Filaments: A Paradigm Shift From Static Structure to Dynamic Cytoplasmic Network	8
Metabolic Dysregulation as a Central Mechanism in 16p11.2 Deletion Syndrome: A Multigenic Perspective on Clinical Variability and Therapeutic Opportunities	8
A case for the importance of following antibiotic resistant bacteria throughout the soil food web	8
Symbiont effector‐guided mapping of proteins in plant networks to improve crop climate stress resilience	8
On the origin of plastids	8
Flavin‐containing monooxygenase (FMO): Beyond xenobiotics	8
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BioEssays 3/2024	8
Complex Interplay of Metabolic Substrates, Points of Entry into the Mitochondrial Electron Chain, and ROS Generation	8
Biological sex is binary, even though there is a rainbow of sex roles	8
X centromeric drive may explain the prevalence of polycystic ovary syndrome and other conditions	8
Regulation and signaling of the LIM domain kinases	8
Modeling the evolution of recombination plasticity: A prospective review	7
Omegasomes control formation, expansion, and closure of autophagosomes	7
Re‐evaluating Stem Cell Roles in Homeostasis and Cancer of the Esophagus	7
Relationship of PSC to embryos: Extending and refining capture of PSC lines from mammalian embryos	7
The Dark Side of Flow: Shear Stress as a Trigger for Thromboinflammatory NETs	7
Mechanisms of Lipid‐Associated Macrophage Accrual in Metabolically Stressed Adipose Tissue	7
More than a bystander: RNAs specify multifaceted behaviors of liquid‐liquid phase‐separated biomolecular condensates	7
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Understanding fundamental principles of enhancer biology at a model locus	7
Let's talk about sex	7
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Broad H3K4me3 domains: Maintaining cellular identity and their implication in super‐enhancer hijacking	7
Significance of the anterior cingulate cortex in neurogenesis plasticity: Connections, functions, and disorders across postnatal and adult stages	7
Polarization as a Process: The Potential of Process Ontology for Understanding Cellular Symmetry Breaking	7
BioEssays 8/2024	7
Sulfonylurea receptor 2 (SUR2), intricate sensors for intracellular Mg‐nucleotides	7
Sorting of cargo in the tubular endosomal network	7
Aster la vista: Unraveling the biochemical basis of carotenoid homeostasis in the human retina	6
From the genome's perspective: Bearing somatic retrotransposition to leverage the regulatory potential of L1 RNAs	6
Eukaryogenesis Meets Constructive Neutral Evolution?	6
Estrogen receptor α revised: Expression, structure, function, and stability	6
Taming of the microbial beasts: Plant immunity tethers potentially pathogenic microbiota members	6
The complexities of ligand/receptor interactions: Exploring the role of molecular vibrations and quantum tunnelling	6
Beyond Short Microhomologies: Mismatch‐Compatible Pol θ‐Mediated DNA Damage Repair	6
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In through the out door: A loop‐binding‐first model for topological cohesin loading	6
Assessing Human Ribosomal DNA Variation and Its Association With Phenotypic Outcomes	6
What Epigenetics Teaches Us About Neuron–Glioma Interactions	6
Host Genetic Regulation of Stem Cell–Virus Interactions in Human Health	6
Critically assessing atavism, an evolution‐centered and deterministic hypothesis on cancer	6
Heterochromatin repeat organization at an individual level: Rex1BD and the 14‐3‐3 protein coordinate to shape the epigenetic landscape within heterochromatin repeats	6
Review of “Handbook of Marine Model Organisms in Experimental Biology: Established and Emerging” edited by Agnès Boutet and Bernd Schierwater, CRC Press	6
Ultra‐Conserved Poison Exons Enable Rapid and Safe Splicing Factor Gene Expression Switches: A Hypothesis	6
Ancient endosymbiont‐mediated transmission of a selfish gene provides a model for overcoming barriers to gene transfer into animal mitochondrial genomes	6
Meiotic defects in human oocytes: Potential causes and clinical implications	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
Emerging role of TAK1 in the regulation of skeletal muscle mass	6
Fighting Antibiotic Resistance: Insights Into Human Barriers and New Opportunities	6
Emergent Homeostasis and Degeneracy From Multi‐Dimensional Attractors	6
BioEssays 2/2024	6
Balancing Plk1 activity levels: The secret of synchrony between the cell and the centrosome cycle	6
Newly discovered harvestmen relict eyes eyeing for their functions	6
Histone Nuclear Import and Beyond: Multifunctional Roles of Importins	6
BioEssays 4/2023	5
Order out of disorder: Regulation of endonuclease activity during eukaryotic mismatch repair	5
Single cell RNA‐sequencing: A powerful yet still challenging technology to study cellular heterogeneity	5
Centromere diversity: How different repeat‐based holocentromeres may have evolved	5
The glow of the night: The tapetum lucidum as a co‐adaptation for the inverted retina	5
Epigenetics across the evolutionary tree: New paradigms from non‐model animals	5
Evolution of sex‐determination in dioecious plants: From active Y to X/A balance?	5
Acid digestion and symbiont: Proton sharing at the origin of mitochondriogenesis?	5
Issue Information: BioEssays 5/2026	5
BioEssays 3/2024	5
T‐Rex escaped from the cytosolic park: Re‐thinking the impact of TREX1 exonuclease deficiencies on genomic stability	5
Dissecting “Evolution – The origins and mechanisms of diversity” by Jonathan Bard	5
From correlation to causation: The new frontier of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance	5
Nucleic Acid Aptamer‐Based Sensors for Bacteria Detection: A Review	5
Hypothesis: Ephrin–Eph Signaling Pathways Provide Novel Targets for Accelerated Re‐Epithelialization of Cutaneous Wounds	5
Exposure to Extreme Heat Increases Preterm Birth Risk: Hypothetical Pathophysiological Mechanisms	5
Phagocytosis by the retinal pigment epithelium: New insights into polarized cell mechanics	5
BioEssays 1/2026	5
Nanoscale organization of phosphoinositide signaling in the plasma membrane?	5
Gene mutations impede oocyte maturation, fertilization, and early embryonic development	5
Generalizing the definition of protein turnover to out‐of‐equilibrium conditions	5
BioEssays 8/2022	5
Targeting a novel apoptotic pathway in human disease	5
Asymmetrical sex reversal: Does the type of heterogamety predict propensity for sex reversal?	5
Actomyosin forces in cell migration: Moving beyond cell body retraction	5
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Pushing the TAD boundary: Decoding insulator codes of clustered CTCF sites in 3D genomes	5
G Protein‐Coupled Receptor Signal Intersection at the Primary Cilium	5
The contours of evolution: In defence of Darwin's tree of life paradigm	5
PAQR proteins and the evolution of a superpower: Eating all kinds of fats	5
Fluid protein fold space and its implications	4
Regulation and function of poised mRNAs in lymphocytes	4
Scramblases and virus infection	4
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Methuselah's Zoo by Steven N. Austad	4
Macronutrient interactions and models of obesity: Insights from nutritional geometry	4
Life of p: A consonant older than speech	4
Relocation to avoid costs: A hypothesis on red carotenoid‐based signals based on recent CYP2J19 gene expression data	4
The role of secondary structures in the functioning of 3′ untranslated regions of mRNA	4
BioEssays 3/2023	4
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The Chromatin Accessibility Landscape in Cell Plasticity and Reprogramming: Understanding and Overcoming the Barriers	4
Emergence of proteoglycan‐4, (lubricin) as a multifunctional, cell instructive, anti‐inflammatory boundary lubricant	4
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Heavy Metal Meets Protein Homeostasis: Emerging Roles of F‐Box Proteins?	4
Beyond genotype‐phenotype maps: Toward a phenotype‐centered perspective on evolution	4