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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are ∼22 nt non‐coding RNAs that typically bind to the 3′ UTR of target mRNAs in the cytoplasm, resulting in mRNA destabilization and translational repression. Here, we report that ...

The 2.2 Å crystal structure of a ternary complex formed by yeast arginyl‐tRNA synthetase and its cognate tRNA Arg in the presence of the l ‐arginine substrate highlights new atomic features used for ...

New plant cells arise at the meristems, where they divide a few times before they leave the cell‐cycle program and start to differentiate. Here we show that the E2Fa–DPa transcription factor of ...