BioEssays

Article	Citations
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Ecotype formation and prophage domestication during gut bacterial evolution	85
Towards understanding how bisphosphonate‐dependent alterations to nutrient canal integrity can contribute to risk for atypical femoral fractures: Biomechanical considerations and potential relationshi	78
Glymphatic Transport as a Possible New Mechanism for the Long‐Range Signaling of Extracellular Vesicles Through the CNS	57
Oxidative status: A general but overlooked indicator of welfare across animal species?	54
2024: A “nucleoid space” odyssey featuring H‐NS	50
Strengths and opportunities in research into extracellular matrix ageing: A consultation with the ECMage research community	48
Issue Information: BioEssays 12/2025	40
The Electric Genome: A Mechanistic Hypothesis for Nuclear Architecture and Gene Expression Bias	39
Phosphoregulation of Microtubule Assembly and Disassembly for Phragmoplast Expansion During Plant Cytokinesis	39
Biophysical aspects of migrasome organelle formation and their diverse cellular functions	37
Is Enhancer Function Driven by Protein–Protein Interactions? From Bacteria to Leukemia	37
Flow Cytometry: Advances, Challenges and Trends	33
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Functional hierarchy of PCNA‐interacting motifs in DNA processing enzymes	32
Tubulin deacetylase NDST3 modulates lysosomal acidification: Implications in neurological diseases	31
A Compensated Clock: Temperature and Nutritional Compensation Mechanisms Across Circadian Systems	31
Transposon Ecology and the Octopus Genome	30
Spatial genome organization, TGFβ, and biomolecular condensates: Do they talk during development?	29
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Design patterns of biological cells	29
A word of heartfelt thanks to our reviewers	28
Are anti‐cancer patents intrinsically immoral?	27
Gene essentiality and variability: What is the link? A within‐ and between‐species perspective	27
The role of lipoylation in mitochondrial adaptation to methionine restriction	26

Protein memory?	26
A word of heartfelt thanks to our reviewers	25
Transcription‐independent functions of p53 in DNA repair pathway selection	25
Epistemic misalignments in microbiome research	24
All Organisms Can Be Anesthetized, but There's No Point?	24
Sustainability in a broad sense: An essential aspect of scientific conferences	23
Oxidative Phosphorylation in Uncoupled Mitochondria	22
The molecular mechanisms regulating the assembly of the autophagy initiation complex	22
MYRF: A unique transmembrane transcription factor‐ from proteolytic self‐processing to its multifaceted roles in animal development	22
Targeting protein condensation in cGAS‐STING signaling pathway	21
Mechanistic Insights Into the Assembly of Functional CRL3 Dimeric Complexes	21
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.	21
Did the creeping vole sex chromosomes evolve through a cascade of adaptive responses to a selfish x chromosome?	21
Cochlear tonotopy from proteins to perception	20
Zebrafish as an Anti‐Isogenic Vertebrate Model and What It Reveals About Genetic Background and Reproducibility	20
Advances in computational and experimental approaches for deciphering transcriptional regulatory networks	19
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Hybrid Legacies: Evolutionary Consequences of Neandertal Introgression and Implications for Autism	19
Critique of a Radically New Model for Plasma Membrane Bilayer Organization	19
Childhood B cell leukemia: Intercepting the paths to progression	19
Introducing a new rubric in BioEssays: Reviews	18
Neddylation‐CRLs regulate the functions of Treg immune cells	18
Structure, function, and evolution of the metal‐binding domain in the nucleosome	18
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A unified theoretical framework underlying the regulation of motivated behavior	18
BioEssays 1/2023	18
Addendum & Correction	17
Hanging the coat on a collar: Same function but different localization and mechanism for COPII	17
Functional partnerships between GPI‐anchored proteins and adhesion GPCRs	17
N6‐ Methyladenosine defines a new checkpoint in γδ T cell development	16
Lung patterning: Is a distal‐to‐proximal gradient of cell allocation and fate decision a general paradigm?	16
Unlocking the therapeutic potential of TRPV3: Insights into thermosensation, channel modulation, and skin homeostasis involving TRPV3	16
Harnessing the cooperation between DNA‐PK and cGAS in cancer therapies	16
Endosteal stem cells at the bone‐blood interface: A double‐edged sword for rapid bone formation	16
Dynamic Allostery in T Cell Receptor Specificity: A Role for Peptides and MHC Polymorphisms in Allosterically Tuning Immune Recognition	16
MicroRNAs play regulatory roles in genomic balance	16
Issue Information: BioEssays 7/2026	15
Isthmin‐1: A critical regulator of branching morphogenesis and metanephric mesenchyme condensation during early kidney development	15
Time‐restricted feeding regulates lipid metabolism under metabolic challenges	15
DREAM a little dREAM of DRM: Model organisms and conservation of DREAM‐like complexes	15
Ubiquitin C‐Terminal Hydrolase L1 (UCHL1), Beyond Hydrolysis	15
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Correction	14
ISG15: A link between innate immune signaling, DNA replication, and genome stability	14
What is an enhancer?	14
iPS cell therapy 2.0: Preparing for next‐generation regenerative medicine	14
Emerging small molecule inhibitors of Bach1 as therapeutic agents: Rationale, recent advances, and future perspectives	14
Where, When, and How? Integrating Spatiotemporal Cues in Cell Division	14
What can asymmetrical cell snakes do?	14
The history and conceptual framework of assays and screens	14

ORChestra coordinates the replication and repair music	14
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Issue Information: BioEssays 8/2025	14
Lost in translation: How neurons cope with tRNA decoding	14
The asymmetric plasma membrane—A composite material combining different functionalities?	14
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Are secondary effects of bisphosphonates on the vascular system of bone contributing to increased risk for atypical femoral fractures in osteoporosis?	13
Nucleosomes and flipons exchange energy to alter chromatin conformation, the readout of genomic information, and cell fate	13
A natural heme deficiency exists in biology that allows nitric oxide to control heme protein functions by regulating cellular heme distribution	13
AlphaFold2: A versatile tool to predict the appearance of functional adaptations in evolution	13
Issue Information: BioEssays 11/2025	13
Dynamic Plasma Membrane Topography Linked With Arp2/3 Actin Network Induction During Cell Shape Change	13
Coming into clear sight at last: Ancestral and derived events during chelicerate visual system development	13
Dominant negative variants and cotranslational assembly of macromolecular complexes	13
BioEssays 10/2022	13
How germline genes promote malignancy in cancer cells	13
Intergenerational Enlargement of Human Organs as a Driver of Increased Cancer Risk?	12
Shear Stress as a Danger Signal: Inducing Inflammation and Thrombosis via Mechanosensitive NETosis	12
The sorting platform in the type III secretion pathway: From assembly to function	12
How are Trypanosoma brucei receptors protected from host antibody‐mediated attack?	12
Meet the Metaorganism: A web‐based learning app for undergraduate and graduate biology students	12
Thermosensory Roles of G Protein‐Coupled Receptors and Other Cellular Factors in Animals	12
Cell growth and the cell cycle: New insights about persistent questions	12
Liquid Guardians: Biomolecular Condensates Shield Heterochromatin Against Cellular Senescence	12
Location bias: A “Hidden Variable” in GPCR pharmacology	12
Insights into DNA cleavage by MutL homologs from analysis of conserved motifs in eukaryotic Mlh1	12
Butyrate, IL‐4, and EP4 Receptors: A Triad of Colorectal Homeostasis, Protecting Against Onset of Cancer and IBD?	12
Unique/Rapid Feedback Mechanisms of PGD 2 and PGE 2 as Local/Short‐Lived Autacoids; Implications o	12
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Loss of DNA methylation disrupts syncytiotrophoblast development: Proposed consequences of aberrant germline gene activation	12
Are non‐protein coding RNAs junk or treasure?	12
Three‐dimensional stem cell models of mammalian gastrulation	12
From Genome to Geroscience: How DNA Damage Shapes Systemic Decline	12
Tau, microtubule dynamics, and axonal transport: New paradigms for neurodegenerative disease	12
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The interaction between enhancer variants and environmental factors as an overlooked aetiological paradigm in human complex disease	11
BioEssays 2/2026	11
Muscle stem cells get a new look: Dynamic cellular projections as sensors of the stem cell niche	11
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Deep into the niche: Deciphering local endoderm‐microenvironment interactions in development, homeostasis, and disease of pancreas and intestine	11
Issue Information: BioEssays 4/2026	11
A paREDOX in the control of cholesterol biosynthesis	11
A word of heartfelt thanks to our reviewers	11
AAV Genome Topology Decides ITR Secondary Structure	11
BioEssays 12/2022	11
Can stable introns and noncoding RNAs be harnessed to improve health through activation of mitohormesis?	11
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On the origin of plastids	10
From pixels to insights: Machine learning and deep learning for bioimage analysis	10
Similarities in the induction of the intracellular pathogen response in Caenorhabditis elegans and the type I interferon response in mammals	10
X centromeric drive may explain the prevalence of polycystic ovary syndrome and other conditions	10
BTB domains: A structural view of evolution, multimerization, and protein–protein interactions	10
Interactions between neural cells and blood vessels in central nervous system development	10
Reduced Adult Neurogenesis in Humans Results From a Tradeoff Rather Than Direct Negative Selection	10
Ribosomal dormancy at the nexus of ribosome homeostasis and protein synthesis	10
The Inner Nuclear Membrane Has a Unique Lipid Signature	10
AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR protein accumulation and function	10
Hidden Fungal DNA Structures May Shape Sequencing Outcomes	10
CHARM and EvoETR: Precision epigenetic tools for gene silencing	9
Regulation and signaling of the LIM domain kinases	9
Assembling the thymus medulla: Development and function of epithelial cell heterogeneity	9
Flavin‐containing monooxygenase (FMO): Beyond xenobiotics	9
Symbiont effector‐guided mapping of proteins in plant networks to improve crop climate stress resilience	9
Issue Information: BioEssays 12/2024	9
How mitochondria showcase evolutionary mechanisms and the importance of oxygen	9
As a matter of fat: Emerging roles of lipid‐sensitive E3 ubiquitin ligases	9
Biological sex is binary, even though there is a rainbow of sex roles	9
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An indirect perspective to link genetic mosaicism and tumorigenesis	9
How Growth Cones Sense Extracellular Cues and Drive Neuronal Migration	9
Vimentin Intermediate Filaments: A Paradigm Shift From Static Structure to Dynamic Cytoplasmic Network	9
The concept of balance in microbiome research	9
Issue Information: BioEssays 10/2025	9
Modeling the evolution of recombination plasticity: A prospective review	8
PHLPP is neither a Phosphatase nor a Tumor Suppressor	8
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Broad H3K4me3 domains: Maintaining cellular identity and their implication in super‐enhancer hijacking	8
Sorting of cargo in the tubular endosomal network	8
BioEssays 3/2024	8

Complex Interplay of Metabolic Substrates, Points of Entry into the Mitochondrial Electron Chain, and ROS Generation	8
Significance of the anterior cingulate cortex in neurogenesis plasticity: Connections, functions, and disorders across postnatal and adult stages	8
From the Selfish Gene to the “We”: Cooperation Often Needs Suppressors	8
Aster la vista: Unraveling the biochemical basis of carotenoid homeostasis in the human retina	8
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A case for the importance of following antibiotic resistant bacteria throughout the soil food web	8
Metabolic Dysregulation as a Central Mechanism in 16p11.2 Deletion Syndrome: A Multigenic Perspective on Clinical Variability and Therapeutic Opportunities	8
Omegasomes control formation, expansion, and closure of autophagosomes	8
Mechanisms of Lipid‐Associated Macrophage Accrual in Metabolically Stressed Adipose Tissue	8
Critically assessing atavism, an evolution‐centered and deterministic hypothesis on cancer	8
Polarization as a Process: The Potential of Process Ontology for Understanding Cellular Symmetry Breaking	8
More than a bystander: RNAs specify multifaceted behaviors of liquid‐liquid phase‐separated biomolecular condensates	8
BioEssays 12/2024	8
From the genome's perspective: Bearing somatic retrotransposition to leverage the regulatory potential of L1 RNAs	7
The Dark Side of Flow: Shear Stress as a Trigger for Thromboinflammatory NETs	7
Host Genetic Regulation of Stem Cell–Virus Interactions in Human Health	7
Estrogen receptor α revised: Expression, structure, function, and stability	7
What Epigenetics Teaches Us About Neuron–Glioma Interactions	7
Let's talk about sex	7
Dynamic crosstalk between hematopoietic stem cells and their niche from emergence to aging	7
Health‐promoting worms? Prospects and pitfalls of helminth therapy	7
Eukaryogenesis Meets Constructive Neutral Evolution?	7
Assessing Human Ribosomal DNA Variation and Its Association With Phenotypic Outcomes	7
Emerging role of TAK1 in the regulation of skeletal muscle mass	7
BioEssays 8/2024	7
Sulfonylurea receptor 2 (SUR2), intricate sensors for intracellular Mg‐nucleotides	7
Understanding fundamental principles of enhancer biology at a model locus	7
Unifying Retaria Research: A Common Framework for Studying Foraminifera and Radiolaria	7
Emergent Homeostasis and Degeneracy From Multi‐Dimensional Attractors	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
Nucleic Acid Aptamer‐Based Sensors for Bacteria Detection: A Review	6
BioEssays 2/2024	6
Fighting Antibiotic Resistance: Insights Into Human Barriers and New Opportunities	6
The complexities of ligand/receptor interactions: Exploring the role of molecular vibrations and quantum tunnelling	6
Generalizing the definition of protein turnover to out‐of‐equilibrium conditions	6
Order out of disorder: Regulation of endonuclease activity during eukaryotic mismatch repair	6
Single cell RNA‐sequencing: A powerful yet still challenging technology to study cellular heterogeneity	6
Ultra‐Conserved Poison Exons Enable Rapid and Safe Splicing Factor Gene Expression Switches: A Hypothesis	6
Biomolecular Condensates at the Crossroads of HIV Infection and Immune Evasion	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
Newly discovered harvestmen relict eyes eyeing for their functions	6
Taming of the microbial beasts: Plant immunity tethers potentially pathogenic microbiota members	6
BioEssays 4/2023	6
T‐Rex escaped from the cytosolic park: Re‐thinking the impact of TREX1 exonuclease deficiencies on genomic stability	6
Meiotic defects in human oocytes: Potential causes and clinical implications	6
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Ancient endosymbiont‐mediated transmission of a selfish gene provides a model for overcoming barriers to gene transfer into animal mitochondrial genomes	6
Balancing Plk1 activity levels: The secret of synchrony between the cell and the centrosome cycle	6
In through the out door: A loop‐binding‐first model for topological cohesin loading	6
Beyond Short Microhomologies: Mismatch‐Compatible Pol θ‐Mediated DNA Damage Repair	6
Dissecting “Evolution – The origins and mechanisms of diversity” by Jonathan Bard	6
Centromere diversity: How different repeat‐based holocentromeres may have evolved	6
Histone Nuclear Import and Beyond: Multifunctional Roles of Importins	6
BioEssays 1/2026	5
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Issue Information: BioEssays 5/2026	5
From correlation to causation: The new frontier of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance	5
Targeting a novel apoptotic pathway in human disease	5
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Queuosine tRNA Modification: Connecting the Microbiome to the Translatome	5
Opposing Activity at the Apical Surface: An Antagonistic Collaboration Between Crumbs and Myosin II Determines Organ Shape	5
Conformational flexibility underlies the versatility of arrestins	5
Linking secretion and cytoskeleton in immunity– a case for Arabidopsis TGNap1	5
The logic of protein post‐translational modifications (PTMs): Chemistry, mechanisms and evolution of protein regulation through covalent attachments	5
Nanoscale organization of phosphoinositide signaling in the plasma membrane?	5
Evolutionary Origins and Adaptive Significance of A‐to‐I RNA Editing in Animals and Fungi	5
The contours of evolution: In defence of Darwin's tree of life paradigm	5
Acid digestion and symbiont: Proton sharing at the origin of mitochondriogenesis?	5
Pushing the TAD boundary: Decoding insulator codes of clustered CTCF sites in 3D genomes	5
Actomyosin forces in cell migration: Moving beyond cell body retraction	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
BioEssays 2/2023	5
BioEssays 8/2023	5
Keeping the strands together: Rad53 regulation of fork symmetry promotes replication stability	5
Macronutrient interactions and models of obesity: Insights from nutritional geometry	5
Phagocytosis by the retinal pigment epithelium: New insights into polarized cell mechanics	5
BioEssays 3/2024	5
Contrasting views on the role of AMPK in autophagy	5
G Protein‐Coupled Receptor Signal Intersection at the Primary Cilium	5
The glow of the night: The tapetum lucidum as a co‐adaptation for the inverted retina	5
PAQR proteins and the evolution of a superpower: Eating all kinds of fats	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
The Temporal Architecture of Human Cells: Organelle Clocks and Distributed Circadian Time	5
Should research administrators be regulated as carefully as researchers?	5
BioEssays 11/2022	5
BioEssays 9/2022	5
Molecular Acrobats: How CHD Remodelers Shape the Genetic Playground to License Cell Identity	5
Managing fuels and fluids: Network integration of osmoregulatory and metabolic hormonal circuits in the polymodal control of homeostasis in insects	4
Relocation to avoid costs: A hypothesis on red carotenoid‐based signals based on recent CYP2J19 gene expression data	4
Life of p: A consonant older than speech	4
Emergence of proteoglycan‐4, (lubricin) as a multifunctional, cell instructive, anti‐inflammatory boundary lubricant	4
Methuselah's Zoo by Steven N. Austad	4