Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Vol. 123, Issue 19 Issue 19 2026
92
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Regulation of antiviral and antitumor immunity by the <i>BRCA1</i> pseudogene in human cancers

Yoo Jane Han, Jing Zhang, Maryam Shariff et al. May 12, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2528911123

Pseudogenes have been regarded as nonfunctional byproducts of evolutionary processes. However, emerging evidence indicates that pseudogenes perform diverse biological roles in human physiology and pat...

Climatic mechanisms underlying a southwestern French Neanderthal refugium at the onset of the last glaciation

María Fernanda Sánchez Goñi, Francesco d’Errico May 12, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2610884123

Did it all begin with hydrogen cyanide?

Martin Rahm May 12, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2608465123

Correction for Esposito et al., Three-dimensional high-content imaging of unstained soft tissue with subcellular resolution using a laboratory-based X-ray microscope

May 12, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2612811123

A ginsenoside metabolite and its derivative target PRELID3B against lung cancer cells

Jilin He, Chun-Nam Lok, Guanya Yang et al. May 12, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2533505123

Ginseng is widely praised for its benefits on cancer patients, often attributed to its metabolite compound K ( CK ). Here, we synthesized a derivative (...

Convergent antibody solutions revealed by focused humanized repertoires

Maria Maddalena Perra, Jayanta Chaudhuri May 12, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2606253123

Correction for Osvatic et al., Global biogeography of chemosynthetic symbionts reveals both localized and globally distributed symbiont groups

May 12, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2611059123

Correction for Walls et al., The radical SAM enzyme EpeE exhibits distinct site reactivity during the biosynthesis of the RiPP natural product epipeptide

May 12, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2611961123

Improving the job market in economics (and beyond…)

Peter L. Rousseau May 12, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2609971123

Eosinophil-derived COX-2 protects against experimental colitis through the PGE <sub>2</sub> –IL-22 axis

Yang Yang, Constance L. Atkins, Yuanyuan Fan et al. May 12, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2525334123

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is driven by a breakdown in immune regulation and epithelial barrier function, yet the contribution of eosinophils to this process has remained poorly defined and cont...

Timing and origins of Mexican and Central American oak diversity

Kieran N. Althaus, Marlene Hahn, Silvia Alvarez-Clare et al. May 12, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2537040123

The origins and assembly of temperate biodiversity hotspots remain poorly understood. This knowledge gap is particularly evident in low-latitude montane regions of the Americas, where northern lineage...

Historical legacies shape continental variation in contemporary mammal food webs

Chia Hsieh, Evan C. Fricke, Wei-Hao Lee et al. May 12, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2519938123

Contemporary ecological networks reflect the influence of evolutionary and ecological processes on species interactions. Additionally, late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions and subsequent range contr...

Historic logbooks reveal spatial footprints of commercial whaling

Nicholas A. Freymueller, Eline D. Lorenzen, Matthew Ayre et al. May 12, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2523917123

Commercial harvesting of bowhead whales ( Balaena mysticetus ), primarily by British and American whalers during the late-1700s to early-1900s, nearly caused th...

An independent center for the origin of bread wheat in the Neolithic period of Georgia in the South Caucasus

Nana Rusishvili, Mindia Jalabadze, Marine Mosulishvili et al. May 12, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2537697123

Bread wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.) is the most popular wheat species in the world today. However, studies on the domestication of wheat have rarely focused on...

Repeated snowball–hothouse cycles within the Neoproterozoic Sturtian glaciation

Charlotte Minsky, Robin Wordsworth, David T. Johnston et al. May 12, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2525919123

The Neoproterozoic Era was a pivotal era of Earth’s history in which multiple severe glaciations profoundly influenced the biosphere, but explaining the duration and nature of these events remains a m...

Antiretroviral therapy blocks natural selection on protective and disease-susceptible HLA-B alleles in HIV-1 infection

Nicholas G. Herbert, Gabriela Cromhout, Nomonde Bengu et al. May 12, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2502683123

MHC polymorphism is explained by natural selection driven by the MHC-dependent impact of certain infections, inflammatory conditions, autoimmune diseases, and cancers. However, examples of human disea...

Neanderthal brain and cognition reconsidered

P. Thomas Schoenemann, Ralph L. Holloway, Jia-Hong Gao et al. May 12, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2426638123

Neanderthal endocrania are different in shape, though slightly larger in size than modern humans on average. These shape differences have long been used to suggest Neanderthals differed cognitively fr...

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Publisher National Academy of Sciences
ISSN 0027-8424
E-ISSN 1091-6490
Subject Life Sciences
Language English
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