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September 24, 2024  |  VOL.121  |  NO.39

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Lasker Awards 2024

The boogie-woogie approach to creativity in art and science

Hunting down the elusive cytosolic-DNA sensor

The discovery and development of GLP-1 based drugs that have revolutionized the treatment of obesity

QnAs with Zhijian “James” Chen: Winner of the 2024 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

QnAs with Svetlana Mojsov, Joel Habener, and Lotte Bjerre Knudsen: Winners of the 2024 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

QnAs with Quarraisha Abdool Karim and Salim Abdool Karim: Winners of the 2024 Lasker~Bloomberg Public Service Award

This Week in PNAS

In This Issue

Opinion

On the anniversary of the Maui fires, a call for Indigenous land care to mitigate future disasters

Retrospective

Maxine Singer: A laser-sharp intellect with a passion for science

Profile

Profile of Mario Luis Small

Commentaries

The primary cilium of cholinergic neurons may be a linchpin in the progression of Parkinson’s Disease

Advantage of an epigenetic switch in response to alternate environments

Do Black doctors save more Black babies?

Perspective

N-degron pathways

Letters

Calibrating the genomic clock of modern birds using fossils

Reply to Claramunt et al.: Robustness of the Cretaceous radiation of crown aves

Early characterization of excitation–contraction coupling and SLO-2 channel properties in Caenorhabditis elegans muscle cells

Response to Allard: A minor (albeit significant) role for voltage-induced calcium release in Caenorhabditis elegans muscles

Contradiction: Inhibiting inflammation and immunosuppression in the treatment of IBD

Brief Reports

Agricultural flood resistance enhanced after returning farmlands to lakes

Utilizing big data without domain knowledge impacts public health decision-making

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

Spontaneous assembly of condensate networks during the demixing of structured fluids

Atomic-engineered gradient tunable solid-state metamaterials

Nanoscale dynamics of the cadherin–catenin complex bound to vinculin revealed by neutron spin echo spectroscopy

Astronomy

Refractive lensing of scintillating FRBs by subparsec cloudlets in the multiphase CGM

Biophysics and Computational Biology

Differential roles of kinetic on- and off-rates in T-cell receptor signal integration revealed with a modified Fab’-DNA ligand

Physical extraction of antigen and information

Chemistry

Generating interstitial water within the persisting tetrahedral H-bond network explains density increase upon compressing liquid water

Phosphorescent metallaknots of Au(I)-bis(acetylide) strands directed by Cu(I) π-coordination

Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

Estimating future climate change impacts on human mortality and crop yields via air pollution

Zircon geochemistry from early evolved terranes records coeval stagnant- and mobile-lid tectonic regimes

Impacts of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation weakening on Arctic amplification

Arctic halogens reduce ozone in the northern mid-latitudes

Engineering

Measurement of adhesion and traction of cells at high yield reveals an energetic ratchet operating during nephron condensation

A machine learning–based framework for mapping hydrogen at the atomic scale

Genetic variation drives cancer cell adaptation to ECM stiffness

Microbial community interactions on a chip

Mathematics

Integer partitions detect the primes

Physics

Generating interstitial water within the persisting tetrahedral H-bond network explains density increase upon compressing liquid water

Meandering conduction channels and the tunable nature of quantized charge transport

Unraveling the origin of Kondo-like behavior in the 3d-electron heavy-fermion compound YFe2Ge2

Statistics

Beyond Neyman–Pearson: E-values enable hypothesis testing with a data-driven alpha

Social Sciences

Demography

Physician–patient racial concordance and newborn mortality

Economic Sciences

Augmenting the availability of historical GDP per capita estimates through machine learning

Inequality aversion predicts support for public and private redistribution

Political Sciences

Illusory interparty disagreement: Partisans agree on what hate speech to censor but do not know it

Psychological and Cognitive Sciences

Language sentiment predicts changes in depressive symptoms

Sustainability Science

Estimating future climate change impacts on human mortality and crop yields via air pollution

Biological Sciences

Agricultural Sciences

Heritable gene editing in tomato through viral delivery of isopentenyl transferase and single-guide RNAs to latent axillary meristematic cells

Biochemistry

Fructose-2,6-bisphosphate restores DNA repair activity of PNKP and ameliorates neurodegenerative symptoms in Huntington’s disease

Biophysics and Computational Biology

Atomistic mechanisms of the regulation of small-conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channel (SK2) by PIP2

A molten globule ensemble primes Arf1–GDP for the nucleotide switch

Spatiotemporal formation of a single liquid-like condensate and amyloid fibrils of α-synuclein by optical trapping at solution surface

Cell Biology

Activation induces shift in nutrient utilization that differentially impacts cell functions in human neutrophils

The p53 target DRAM1 modulates calcium homeostasis and ER stress by promoting contact between lysosomes and the ER through STIM1

Hippo effector, Yorkie, is a tumor suppressor in select Drosophila squamous epithelia

Actomyosin contraction in the follicular epithelium provides the major mechanical force for follicle rupture during Drosophila ovulation

Developmental Biology

Measurement of adhesion and traction of cells at high yield reveals an energetic ratchet operating during nephron condensation

Etiology of craniofacial and cardiac malformations in a mouse model of SF3B4-related syndromes

Transdifferentiation occurs without resetting development-specific DNA methylation, a key determinant of full-function cell identity

Ecology

Enhanced effects of species richness on resistance and resilience of global tree growth to prolonged drought

Evolution

The battle of the sexes in humans is highly polygenic

Increased incidences of cervical ribs in deer indicate extinction risk

Evolution of pH-sensitive transcription termination in Escherichia coli during adaptation to repeated long-term starvation

Revisiting the four Hexapoda classes: Protura as the sister group to all other hexapods

Genome of Halimeda opuntia reveals differentiation of subgenomes and molecular bases of multinucleation and calcification in algae

Genetics

Nuclear dualism without extensive DNA elimination in the ciliate Loxodes magnus

Immunology and Inflammation

Differential roles of kinetic on- and off-rates in T-cell receptor signal integration revealed with a modified Fab’-DNA ligand

The telencephalon is a neuronal substrate for systemic inflammatory responses in teleosts via polyamine metabolism

Transcription factor EGR2 alleviates autoimmune uveitis via activation of GDF15 to modulate the retinal microglial phenotype

SARS-CoV-2-specific CD8+ T cells from people with long COVID establish and maintain effector phenotype and key TCR signatures over 2 years

Medical Sciences

On the development and validation of large language model-based classifiers for identifying social determinants of health

Agonist antibody to MuSK protects mice from MuSK myasthenia gravis

The androgen receptor in mesenchymal progenitors regulates skeletal muscle mass via Igf1 expression in male mice

In vivo CRISPR screens identify Mga as an immunotherapy target in triple-negative breast cancer

Microbiology

Microbial community interactions on a chip

The surface interface and swimming motility influence surface-sensing responses in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Conformational ensembles in Klebsiella pneumoniae FimH impact uropathogenesis

Manipulation of natural transformation by AbaR-type islands promotes fixation of antibiotic resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii

The Pentamer glycoprotein complex inhibits viral Immediate Early transcription during Human Cytomegalovirus infections

Neuroscience

Glial swip-10 controls systemic mitochondrial function, oxidative stress, and neuronal viability via copper ion homeostasis

Lipin1 depletion coordinates neuronal signaling pathways to promote motor and sensory axon regeneration after spinal cord injury

Olfactory deficit and gastrointestinal dysfunction precede motor abnormalities in alpha-Synuclein G51D knock-in mice

Neural network architecture of a mammalian brain

Plant Biology

Mesophyll airspace unsaturation drives C4 plant success under vapor pressure deficit stress

Population Biology

Unraveling the genomic diversity and admixture history of captive tigers in the United States

Psychological and Cognitive Sciences

Humans flexibly integrate social information despite interindividual differences in reward

Correction

Correction for Lu et al., In situ electrogenerated Cu(III) triggers hydroxyl radical production on the Cu-Sb-SnO2 electrode for highly efficient water decontamination

SI Correction

Correction to Supporting Information for Woerman et al., Familial Parkinson’s point mutation abolishes multiple system atrophy prion replication

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