EMBO Reports was amongst the pioneers of the short scientific article: 25 years later, the format is needed more than ever.

Should we start a second journal?” “Do we need a second journal?” “Are there too many journals already?” Those were questions ...

Despite continuing debate about the amyloid β‐protein (or Aβ hypothesis, new lines of evidence from laboratories and clinics worldwide support the concept that an imbalance between production and ...

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Watching mainstream science in America under attack by the US federal and many state governments, most scientists and health care providers are wondering how this could be happening. The USA is a ...

imageimageS-acylation of the non-secreted peptide ROT4 is essential for its membrane localization and function in plant cells. S-acylation of ROT4 enhances its association with BSK5 to activate immune ...

imageimageAuxin triggers NBR1-mediated selective autophagic degradation of ARF7 to modulate periodic root branching in Arabidopsis. ARF7 is selectively degraded via NBR1-mediated autophagy Auxin ...

Stable capsid structures of viruses protect viral RNA while they also require controlled disassembly for releasing the viral genome in the host cell. A detailed understanding of viral disassembly ...

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) is a recently discovered adaptive prokaryotic immune system that provides acquired immunity against foreign nucleic acids by utilizing ...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) constitute a large family of noncoding RNAs that function as guide molecules in diverse gene silencing pathways. Current efforts are focused on the regulatory function of miRNAs, ...

Photosystem II (PSII) is a large multiprotein complex, which catalyses water splitting and plastoquinone reduction necessary to transform sunlight into chemical energy. Detailed functional and ...

To ‘read’ Ubl modifications and direct the appropriate physiological responses, proteins associated with Ubl‐dependent regulatory pathways contain motifs that specifically interact with either SUMO or ...