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Rapid shift in methane carbon isotopes suggests microbial emissions drove record high atmospheric methane growth in 2020–2022 - PNAS
The growth rate of the atmospheric abundance of methane (CH 4) reached a record high of 15.4 ppb yr −1 between 2020 and 2022, but the mechanisms driving the accelerated CH 4 growth have so far been ...
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Generalized scaling of spin qubit coherence in over 12,000 host materials - PNAS
Defect centers have been used to demonstrate a wide range of functionalities (1–5), including remote entanglement (), control of large nuclear spin clusters (), and quantum sensing of local ...
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Iridium(III) carbene complexes as potent girdin inhibitors against metastatic cancers | PNAS
We demonstrate that substitutionally inert octahedral metal complexes, such as the iridium(III) carbene complex (1a), provide a useful source of potent inhibitors for unexplored oncogenic protein ...
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Amplification-free, OR-gated CRISPR-Cascade reaction for pathogen detection in blood samples | PNAS
Rapid pathogen detection is crucial for effective disease management, particularly in bloodstream infections. Current molecular diagnostics often require nucleic acid preamplification, adding time and ...
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How to make land use policy decisions: Integrating science and economics to deliver connected climate, biodiversity, and food objectives - PNAS
Land use change is crucial to addressing the existential threats of climate change and biodiversity loss while enhancing food security [M. Zurek et al., Science 376, 1416–1421 (2022)].The ...
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On the role of seamounts in upwelling deep-ocean waters through turbulent mixing - PNAS
Turbulence at centimeter scales plays a pivotal role in shaping the overturning circulation of the deep ocean (1, 2), as well as the ocean’s capacity to distribute and store climate-critical tracers ...
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Structural insights into the activation and inhibition of the ADAM17–iRhom2 complex | PNAS
Among the ADAM family, ADAM17 stands out for its essential roles in epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signaling during embryonic development, adult homeostasis, and disease pathogenesis (2, 8–10 ...
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Hamiltonella symbionts benefit whitefly fertilization by regulating the maternal protein Tudor–mediated piRNA pathway | PNAS
During oogenesis, maternally derived protein/mRNA (e.g. Oskar, Vasa, Aubergine, Tudor) localize to the posterior pole for the formation of the germ plasm which possess the ability to induce primordial ...
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Multiomics of a rice population identifies genes and genomic regions that bestow low glycemic index and high protein content - PNAS
High-resistant starch (RS)/low-glutelin sbeIIb/Lgc1 lines were generated by CRISPR-Cas9-induced site-specific mutations in SBEIIb in an elite low-glutelin japonica rice cultivar ().According to this ...
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Dismantling EPA’s research office jeopardizes environmental safety, public health, and US competitiveness | PNAS
As the EPA’s independent science arm, ORD ensures that agency decisions are grounded in the best available science. To meet mandates like the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, ORD’s scientists work with ...
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In This Issue - PNAS
Green pigmentation provides a wide variety of animals with the ability to camouflage themselves among green vegetation. The molecular mechanisms of green coloration in insects are not well-understood, ...
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Light at night negatively affects mood in diurnal primate-like tree shrews via a visual pathway related to the perihabenular nucleus | PNAS
To better understand the potential health threats and underlying visual pathways of long-term light at night (LAN) exposure, we adopted a widely accepted diurnal animal model tree shrew (Tupaia ...