Drought stress severely limits tree growth and survival, a problem intensifying under climate change due to the rising frequency of extreme weather events. Identifying genetic variants that modulate drought stress responses and enhance resilience is therefore of great interest for developing…
Breeding programmes choose genomic prediction models by accuracy rankings, and the metric behind a ranking decides which model wins. Selecting the best genotypes within a trial depends only on the order of the predictions, so a metric that guides the choice must be unchanged by any order-preserving…
Glycosyltransferases have broad diversity in their acceptor substrates, yet the molecular and evolutionary basis of this diversity remains poorly understood. NodZ is an -1,6-fucosyltransferase that fucosylates Nod factors, lipochitooligosaccharide molecules involved in the establishment of…
DNA mismatch repair (MMR) maintains genome stability but paradoxically drives expansion of pathogenic repeats responsible for trinucleotide repeat disorders. Attenuating repeat instability through targeted inhibition of MMR is therefore a therapeutic strategy of interest; however, progress is…
Clinical studies have revealed that glioblastoma (GBM) is refractory to immunotherapy, such as immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), due to the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME) primarily intensified by intratumoral upregulation of transforming growth factor-{beta} (TGF{beta}). Primary…
Metastatic progression in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is strongly influenced by epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity (EMP), which enables transitions between epithelial, hybrid epithelial/mesenchymal (E/M), and mesenchymal cell states. While mesenchymal cells are highly invasive and resistant…
Recurrence remains a significant clinical challenge for triple-negative breast cancer patients and radiotherapy (RT) is a key therapeutic tool that significantly reduces the risk of relapse. Despite this, patients with chronic lymphopenia and a high neutrophil:lymphocyte ratio (NLR) experience…
Mitochondrial remodelling is a key feature of neurogenesis in cortical and hippocampal neuronal lineages, yet the temporal control of organellar homeostasis in developing human motor neurons remains poorly understood. Here, we generated a high-resolution temporal resource integrating proteomics…
Glutathione is a redox buffer, best known for preventing oxidative stress and ferroptosis, but rarely studied in stem cells. We studied glutathione function in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) by deleting the glutamate-cysteine ligase catalytic subunit (GCLC), which synthesizes glutathione, or…
Tissue homeostasis requires mechanisms that preserve quiescence while allowing rapid activation after injury, but how tissues actively restrain injury responses during homeostasis remains poorly understood. Here we identify alveolar type 1 (AT1) cells as organizers of the distal lung niche through…