BioEssays

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Glymphatic Transport as a Possible New Mechanism for the Long‐Range Signaling of Extracellular Vesicles Through the CNS	42
Biophysical aspects of migrasome organelle formation and their diverse cellular functions	41
Design patterns of biological cells	40
2024: A “nucleoid space” odyssey featuring H‐NS	35
Bro1 family proteins harmonize cargo sorting with vesicle formation	33
Ecotype formation and prophage domestication during gut bacterial evolution	32
Strengths and opportunities in research into extracellular matrix ageing: A consultation with the ECMage research community	32
Towards understanding how bisphosphonate‐dependent alterations to nutrient canal integrity can contribute to risk for atypical femoral fractures: Biomechanical considerations and potential relationshi	31
Phosphoregulation of Microtubule Assembly and Disassembly for Phragmoplast Expansion During Plant Cytokinesis	31
BioEssays 1/2022	31
Is Enhancer Function Driven by Protein–Protein Interactions? From Bacteria to Leukemia	29
Oxidative status: A general but overlooked indicator of welfare across animal species?	28
Mechanistic insights and implications of FOXO‐SNAI interplay	28
Functional hierarchy of PCNA‐interacting motifs in DNA processing enzymes	27
The Electric Genome: A Mechanistic Hypothesis for Nuclear Architecture and Gene Expression Bias	26
Issue Information: BioEssays 12/2025	26
Tubulin deacetylase NDST3 modulates lysosomal acidification: Implications in neurological diseases	25
A Compensated Clock: Temperature and Nutritional Compensation Mechanisms Across Circadian Systems	25
Electrical signalling in prokaryotes and its convergence with quorum sensing in Bacillus	25
Flow Cytometry: Advances, Challenges and Trends	24
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Epistemic misalignments in microbiome research	23
Are anti‐cancer patents intrinsically immoral?	22

A word of heartfelt thanks to our reviewers	22
Gene essentiality and variability: What is the link? A within‐ and between‐species perspective	22
Spatial genome organization, TGFβ, and biomolecular condensates: Do they talk during development?	22
Sustainability in a broad sense: An essential aspect of scientific conferences	22
The role of lipoylation in mitochondrial adaptation to methionine restriction	21
Protein memory?	21
Molecular biomarkers in cardio‐oncology: Where we stand and where we are heading	21
Targeting protein condensation in cGAS‐STING signaling pathway	20
A word of heartfelt thanks to our reviewers	19
All Organisms Can Be Anesthetized, but There's No Point?	18
Potential of the CRISPR‐Cas system for improved parasite diagnosis	18
Oxidative Phosphorylation in Uncoupled Mitochondria	18
MYRF: A unique transmembrane transcription factor‐ from proteolytic self‐processing to its multifaceted roles in animal development	18
BioEssays 7/2022	17
Did doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI) of mtDNA originate as a cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) system?	17
Cellular self‐organization: An overdrive in Cambrian diversity?	17
The molecular mechanisms regulating the assembly of the autophagy initiation complex	17
Neddylation‐CRLs regulate the functions of Treg immune cells	17
The integrated stress response in the induction of mutant KRAS lung carcinogenesis: Mechanistic insights and therapeutic implications	17
Transcription‐independent functions of p53 in DNA repair pathway selection	17
FKRP directed fibronectin glycosylation: A novel mechanism giving insights into muscular dystrophies?	16
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.	16
BioEssays 4/2022	16
Did the creeping vole sex chromosomes evolve through a cascade of adaptive responses to a selfish x chromosome?	16
Childhood B cell leukemia: Intercepting the paths to progression	16
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The sorption/chromatography hypothesis of olfactory discrimination: The rise, fall, and rebirth of a Phoenix	15
The curious case of TMEM120A: Mechanosensor, fat regulator, or antiviral defender?	15
Cochlear tonotopy from proteins to perception	15
Flipping and other astonishing transporter dance moves in fungal drug resistance	15
Mechanistic Insights Into the Assembly of Functional CRL3 Dimeric Complexes	15
Paradigm shifts in animal epigenetics: Research on non‐model species leads to new insights into dependencies, functions and inheritance of DNA methylation	15
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Advances in computational and experimental approaches for deciphering transcriptional regulatory networks	14
Addendum & Correction	14
Harnessing the cooperation between DNA‐PK and cGAS in cancer therapies	14
Structure, function, and evolution of the metal‐binding domain in the nucleosome	14
Molecular characteristics of the multi‐functional FAO enzyme ACAD9 illustrate the importance of FADH2/NADH ratios for mitochondrial ROS formation	14
BioEssays 1/2023	14
Isthmin‐1: A critical regulator of branching morphogenesis and metanephric mesenchyme condensation during early kidney development	14
Ubiquitin C‐Terminal Hydrolase L1 (UCHL1), Beyond Hydrolysis	13
DREAM a little dREAM of DRM: Model organisms and conservation of DREAM‐like complexes	13
A unified theoretical framework underlying the regulation of motivated behavior	13
Endosteal stem cells at the bone‐blood interface: A double‐edged sword for rapid bone formation	13
Functional partnerships between GPI‐anchored proteins and adhesion GPCRs	13
N6‐ Methyladenosine defines a new checkpoint in γδ T cell development	13
Introducing a new rubric in BioEssays: Reviews	13
Time‐restricted feeding regulates lipid metabolism under metabolic challenges	13
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Unlocking the therapeutic potential of TRPV3: Insights into thermosensation, channel modulation, and skin homeostasis involving TRPV3	12

AlphaFold2: A versatile tool to predict the appearance of functional adaptations in evolution	12
Lung patterning: Is a distal‐to‐proximal gradient of cell allocation and fate decision a general paradigm?	12
Emerging small molecule inhibitors of Bach1 as therapeutic agents: Rationale, recent advances, and future perspectives	12
What can asymmetrical cell snakes do?	12
Hanging the coat on a collar: Same function but different localization and mechanism for COPII	12
MicroRNAs play regulatory roles in genomic balance	12
Issue Information: BioEssays 8/2025	11
Correction	11
Joining the PARty: PARP Regulation of KDM5A during DNA Repair (and Transcription?)	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 asymmetric plasma membrane—A composite material combining different functionalities?	11
Dominant negative variants and cotranslational assembly of macromolecular complexes	11
ISG15: A link between innate immune signaling, DNA replication, and genome stability	11
ORChestra coordinates the replication and repair music	11
Butyrate, IL‐4, and EP4 Receptors: A Triad of Colorectal Homeostasis, Protecting Against Onset of Cancer and IBD?	10
The history and conceptual framework of assays and screens	10
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Issue Information: BioEssays 11/2025	10
Loss of DNA methylation disrupts syncytiotrophoblast development: Proposed consequences of aberrant germline gene activation	10
iPS cell therapy 2.0: Preparing for next‐generation regenerative medicine	10
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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?	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
Where, When, and How? Integrating Spatiotemporal Cues in Cell Division	10
What is an enhancer?	10
Shear Stress as a Danger Signal: Inducing Inflammation and Thrombosis via Mechanosensitive NETosis	10
BioEssays 10/2022	10
Nucleosomes and flipons exchange energy to alter chromatin conformation, the readout of genomic information, and cell fate	10
SNP‐based heritability and selection analyses: Improved models and new results	9
Liquid Guardians: Biomolecular Condensates Shield Heterochromatin Against Cellular Senescence	9
The strange case of Drp1 in autophagy: Jekyll and Hyde?	9
Thermosensory Roles of G Protein‐Coupled Receptors and Other Cellular Factors in Animals	9
How germline genes promote malignancy in cancer cells	9
How are Trypanosoma brucei receptors protected from host antibody‐mediated attack?	9
Bayes and Darwin: How replicator populations implement Bayesian computations	9
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Location bias: A “Hidden Variable” in GPCR pharmacology	9
Are non‐protein coding RNAs junk or treasure?	9
A natural heme deficiency exists in biology that allows nitric oxide to control heme protein functions by regulating cellular heme distribution	9
Three‐dimensional stem cell models of mammalian gastrulation	9
From Genome to Geroscience: How DNA Damage Shapes Systemic Decline	9
Cell growth and the cell cycle: New insights about persistent questions	9
Can stable introns and noncoding RNAs be harnessed to improve health through activation of mitohormesis?	9
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Intergenerational Enlargement of Human Organs as a Driver of Increased Cancer Risk?	9
Coming into clear sight at last: Ancestral and derived events during chelicerate visual system development	9
The sorting platform in the type III secretion pathway: From assembly to function	9
Tau, microtubule dynamics, and axonal transport: New paradigms for neurodegenerative disease	9
Meet the Metaorganism: A web‐based learning app for undergraduate and graduate biology students	9
BioEssays 12/2022	8
Non‐canonical bivalent H3K4me3K9me3 recognition by Spindlin1/C11orf84 complex	8
The interaction between enhancer variants and environmental factors as an overlooked aetiological paradigm in human complex disease	8
Interactions between neural cells and blood vessels in central nervous system development	8
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How mitochondria showcase evolutionary mechanisms and the importance of oxygen	8
From pixels to insights: Machine learning and deep learning for bioimage analysis	8
A paREDOX in the control of cholesterol biosynthesis	8
A word of heartfelt thanks to our reviewers	8
Muscle stem cells get a new look: Dynamic cellular projections as sensors of the stem cell niche	8
Similarities in the induction of the intracellular pathogen response in Caenorhabditis elegans and the type I interferon response in mammals	8
Ribosomal dormancy at the nexus of ribosome homeostasis and protein synthesis	8
Regulation and signaling of the LIM domain kinases	8
CHARM and EvoETR: Precision epigenetic tools for gene silencing	8
Deep into the niche: Deciphering local endoderm‐microenvironment interactions in development, homeostasis, and disease of pancreas and intestine	8
AAV Genome Topology Decides ITR Secondary Structure	8
Reduced Adult Neurogenesis in Humans Results From a Tradeoff Rather Than Direct Negative Selection	8
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BTB domains: A structural view of evolution, multimerization, and protein–protein interactions	8
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As a matter of fat: Emerging roles of lipid‐sensitive E3 ubiquitin ligases	8
AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR protein accumulation and function	8
Non‐coding RNAs in Kawasaki disease: Molecular mechanisms and clinical implications	7
Symbiont effector‐guided mapping of proteins in plant networks to improve crop climate stress resilience	7
An indirect perspective to link genetic mosaicism and tumorigenesis	7
Flavin‐containing monooxygenase (FMO): Beyond xenobiotics	7
Issue Information: BioEssays 10/2025	7

Metabolic Dysregulation as a Central Mechanism in 16p11.2 Deletion Syndrome: A Multigenic Perspective on Clinical Variability and Therapeutic Opportunities	7
The flagellar germ‐line hypothesis: How flagellate and ciliate gametes significantly shaped the evolution of organismal complexity	7
Issue Information: BioEssays 12/2024	7
The Inner Nuclear Membrane Has a Unique Lipid Signature	7
Biological sex is binary, even though there is a rainbow of sex roles	7
Significance of the anterior cingulate cortex in neurogenesis plasticity: Connections, functions, and disorders across postnatal and adult stages	7
X centromeric drive may explain the prevalence of polycystic ovary syndrome and other conditions	7
Assembling the thymus medulla: Development and function of epithelial cell heterogeneity	7
The concept of balance in microbiome research	7
How Growth Cones Sense Extracellular Cues and Drive Neuronal Migration	7
On the origin of plastids	7
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A case for the importance of following antibiotic resistant bacteria throughout the soil food web	7
Re‐evaluating Stem Cell Roles in Homeostasis and Cancer of the Esophagus	6
Broad H3K4me3 domains: Maintaining cellular identity and their implication in super‐enhancer hijacking	6
Dynamic crosstalk between hematopoietic stem cells and their niche from emergence to aging	6
Let's talk about sex	6
Modeling the evolution of recombination plasticity: A prospective review	6
The complexity of biological control systems: An autophagy case study	6
Omegasomes control formation, expansion, and closure of autophagosomes	6
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Critically assessing atavism, an evolution‐centered and deterministic hypothesis on cancer	6
More than a bystander: RNAs specify multifaceted behaviors of liquid‐liquid phase‐separated biomolecular condensates	6
Mechanisms of Lipid‐Associated Macrophage Accrual in Metabolically Stressed Adipose Tissue	6
BioEssays 12/2024	6
Sorting of cargo in the tubular endosomal network	6
BioEssays 8/2024	6
Relationship of PSC to embryos: Extending and refining capture of PSC lines from mammalian embryos	6
Complex Interplay of Metabolic Substrates, Points of Entry into the Mitochondrial Electron Chain, and ROS Generation	6
BioEssays 3/2024	6
TRPV4: En RhoA To a Cure?	6
The Dark Side of Flow: Shear Stress as a Trigger for Thromboinflammatory NETs	5
Health‐promoting worms? Prospects and pitfalls of helminth therapy	5
Assessing Human Ribosomal DNA Variation and Its Association With Phenotypic Outcomes	5
T‐Rex escaped from the cytosolic park: Re‐thinking the impact of TREX1 exonuclease deficiencies on genomic stability	5
Targeting a novel apoptotic pathway in human disease	5
Epigenetics across the evolutionary tree: New paradigms from non‐model animals	5
Ultra‐Conserved Poison Exons Enable Rapid and Safe Splicing Factor Gene Expression Switches: A Hypothesis	5
Ancient endosymbiont‐mediated transmission of a selfish gene provides a model for overcoming barriers to gene transfer into animal mitochondrial genomes	5
Balancing Plk1 activity levels: The secret of synchrony between the cell and the centrosome cycle	5
From the genome's perspective: Bearing somatic retrotransposition to leverage the regulatory potential of L1 RNAs	5
Aster la vista: Unraveling the biochemical basis of carotenoid homeostasis in the human retina	5
Estrogen receptor α revised: Expression, structure, function, and stability	5
Sulfonylurea receptor 2 (SUR2), intricate sensors for intracellular Mg‐nucleotides	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
From correlation to causation: The new frontier of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance	5
Toward an evolutionary framework for language variation and change	5
Meiotic defects in human oocytes: Potential causes and clinical implications	5
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Emerging role of TAK1 in the regulation of skeletal muscle mass	5
Nucleic Acid Aptamer‐Based Sensors for Bacteria Detection: A Review	5
The complexities of ligand/receptor interactions: Exploring the role of molecular vibrations and quantum tunnelling	5
Understanding fundamental principles of enhancer biology at a model locus	5
Fighting Antibiotic Resistance: Insights Into Human Barriers and New Opportunities	5
What Epigenetics Teaches Us About Neuron–Glioma Interactions	5
Review of “Handbook of Marine Model Organisms in Experimental Biology: Established and Emerging” edited by Agnès Boutet and Bernd Schierwater, CRC Press	5
BioEssays 2/2024	5
The glow of the night: The tapetum lucidum as a co‐adaptation for the inverted retina	5
Single cell RNA‐sequencing: A powerful yet still challenging technology to study cellular heterogeneity	5
Asymmetrical sex reversal: Does the type of heterogamety predict propensity for sex reversal?	5
In through the out door: A loop‐binding‐first model for topological cohesin loading	5
Taming of the microbial beasts: Plant immunity tethers potentially pathogenic microbiota members	5
Centromere diversity: How different repeat‐based holocentromeres may have evolved	5
Newly discovered harvestmen relict eyes eyeing for their functions	5
BioEssays 8/2022	4
Hypothesis: Ephrin–Eph Signaling Pathways Provide Novel Targets for Accelerated Re‐Epithelialization of Cutaneous Wounds	4
Evolutionary Origins and Adaptive Significance of A‐to‐I RNA Editing in Animals and Fungi	4
Keeping the strands together: Rad53 regulation of fork symmetry promotes replication stability	4
Beyond genotype‐phenotype maps: Toward a phenotype‐centered perspective on evolution	4
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Pushing the TAD boundary: Decoding insulator codes of clustered CTCF sites in 3D genomes	4
Eomes and T‐bet, a dynamic duo regulating NK cell differentiation	4
The contours of evolution: In defence of Darwin's tree of life paradigm	4
Generalizing the definition of protein turnover to out‐of‐equilibrium conditions	4
BioEssays 4/2023	4
Acid digestion and symbiont: Proton sharing at the origin of mitochondriogenesis?	4
Functional interplay within the epitranscriptome: Reality or fiction?	4
G Protein‐Coupled Receptor Signal Intersection at the Primary Cilium	4
BioEssays 11/2022	4
Fluid protein fold space and its implications	4
The logic of protein post‐translational modifications (PTMs): Chemistry, mechanisms and evolution of protein regulation through covalent attachments	4
Contrasting views on the role of AMPK in autophagy	4
PAQR proteins and the evolution of a superpower: Eating all kinds of fats	4
Gene mutations impede oocyte maturation, fertilization, and early embryonic development	4
Dissecting “Evolution – The origins and mechanisms of diversity” by Jonathan Bard	4
Order out of disorder: Regulation of endonuclease activity during eukaryotic mismatch repair	4
Phagocytosis by the retinal pigment epithelium: New insights into polarized cell mechanics	4
Conformational flexibility underlies the versatility of arrestins	4
Importance of Considering the Plastic Expression of Phenotypes When Determining Evolutionary Relationships	4
Linking secretion and cytoskeleton in immunity– a case for Arabidopsis TGNap1	4
Queuosine tRNA Modification: Connecting the Microbiome to the Translatome	4
Airborne particles and cardiovascular morbidity in severe inherited hypercholesterolemia: Vulnerable endothelium under multiple attacks	4
Evolution of sex‐determination in dioecious plants: From active Y to X/A balance?	4
Exposure to Extreme Heat Increases Preterm Birth Risk: Hypothetical Pathophysiological Mechanisms	4
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