A recent review discusses the intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms underlying intestinal cell plasticity.
Emerging Roles of Transit-Amplifying Cells in Tissue Regeneration and Cancer
Transit-amplifying cells TACs have long been viewed as a passive population that just cranks out tissues. A new review challenges this view.
Virtual Issues in BioEssays
BioEssays offers a variety of online special collections compiling review-style articles from various topic areas.
Playing Pinball at Microscale
A novel microfluidic platform consisting of numerous hydrodynamically tunable pneumatic valves enables pairing and clustering of different particles.
Bye-Bye Palladium: Photocatalytic Stille-Type Coupling
A photocatalytic, palladium-free Stille-type coupling reaction is described.
Understanding Mouth Development
The mouth is essential for eating and has ancient origins. A new review looks at the evolution of the mouth and insights into the vertebrate mouth opening from the frog Xenopus laevis.
3DNFES for Fabrication of Aligned Polymeric Fibers
A new technology combining electrospinning and 3D printing (3DNFES) for creating pre-patterned polymer fibers.
WIREs – Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cover Articles featuring Physical, Life, and Social Sciences
The award-winning WIREs (Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews) series combines some of the most powerful features of encyclopedic reference works and review journals in an innovative online format. WIREs are designed to promote a cross-disciplinary research ethos while...
Achieving Robust Results on the Causes of Recent Global Warming
A recent review discussed the difficulties of applying, through the use of Global Climate Models, the idea of robustness in climatic attribution studies, i.e., the search for the fundamental causes of recent global warming.
A Closer Look at Dendrite Formation in Lithium Ion Batteries
Researchers investigate the mechanism of lithium dendrite formation in lithium ion batteries in situ with electrochemical scanning electron microscopy.