Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Vol. 123, Issue 11 Issue 11 2026
102
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A soft electrode array with reconfigurable hydrogel interfaces for high-fidelity neurophysiological monitoring during craniotomy

Ganguang Yang, Bo Pang, Hangyu Gong et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2533145123

Achieving accurate monitoring of electrophysiological activity from the brain cortex is critical for preventing postoperative neurological deficits during craniotomy. However, current technologies fac...

Single-cell analyses identify independent aging processes that compete to determine cellular fate in budding yeast

Manuel Hotz, Rachel G. Kroll-Ling, Nathaniel H. Thayer et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2534452123

Phenotypic heterogeneity is prevalent during aging, yet its underlying molecular drivers remain poorly understood. In budding yeast, two distinct aging trajectories, characterized by either ribosomal...

Lithosyntrophy: Obligate syntrophy in a phosphite-oxidizing, methanogenic culture

Heidi S. Aronson, Matt E. Weaver, Ruiwen Hu et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2523765123

The anaerobic conversion of organic matter to methane and carbon dioxide typically relies on obligate syntrophic interactions between bacteria and methanogenic archaea, where interspecies electron tra...

FDA must regulate stem cell therapies to mitigate risks to patients and the public

Taylor Pike, Mary Ann Chirba, Daniel G. Aaron Mar 17, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2508586123

Phase separation of DDHD2 remodels lipid metabolism to dictate treatment sensitivity in luminal breast cancer

Xiao-Hong Ding, Fenfang Chen, Fan Yang et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2503019123

Luminal breast cancer is characterized by a persistent risk of recurrence and dysregulated lipid metabolism. However, the role of phase separation, a novel mechanism for the spatial compartmentalizati...

SypC, a symbiont outer membrane vesicle protein, impacts the development of the squid–vibrio partnership

Jill T. Kuwabara, Vera Beilinson, Alexis C. Hargadon et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2524648123

Bacterial outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) and the cargo they carry are increasingly recognized as a means of communication between microbial symbionts and the cells of their host. However, few studies...

Conserved use of tetraspanin CD9 as an entry receptor by rhabdoviruses spanning multiple genera

Wanwan Zhang, Bingbing Sun, Hao Huang et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2530369123

Rhabdoviruses exhibit a broad host range, yet the cellular receptors underlying their cross-species tropism remain poorly defined. Here, we identified tetraspanin CD9 as a conserved functional entry r...

Quantum-inspired entanglement between collaborating brains during human memory encoding

Xue Yang, Yi Jiang, Qianxiang Zhou et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2520834123

The extent to which two brains align during information processing is thought to be central to collaborative memory encoding; however, the neural mechanisms that support such interpersonal alignment r...

Smooth-to-rough morphotype switching, a mechanism of phage resistance in <i> <i>Mycobacterium</i> abscessus </i>

Jun Hao Liew, Ayuni Norman, Morgane Illouz et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2531197123

Mycobacterium abscessus infections represent a growing global health concern due to their severe pathology and difficulty of treatment, l...

Personalized functional topography–based multisite brain age prediction modeling reveals divergent neurodevelopment in major depression

Chenxuan Pang, Xiaoyi Sun, Jianlong Zhao et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2519586123

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is associated with widespread alterations in functional brain networks across the lifespan. However, heterogeneity in atypical brain development among patients with MDD...

Viral mimicry may help explain immunogenic cell death

Matthew S. Levine, Jiexi Li, Lauren I. R. Ehrlich et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2537547123

Viral mimicry may be an underappreciated contributor to chemotherapeutic potency in animal models and patients. This hypothesis is based on studies of a bis-Au(I)-NHC complex that was found to generat...

Correction for Jaen Maisonet et al., Small-molecule allosteric activator of ubiquitin-specific protease 7 (USP7)

Mar 17, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2606204123

Gut microbiome–produced bile acid metabolite lengthens the circadian period in host intestinal cells

Chelsea E. Powell, Alana M. McSween, Lenka Dohnalová et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2506313123

Host circadian signaling, feeding, and the gut microbiome are tightly interconnected. Changes in the gut microbial community can affect the expression of core clock genes, but the specific metabolites...

BRCA1-A and LIG4 complexes mediate ecDNA biogenesis and cancer drug resistance

Oliver W. Chung, Shun Yao, Ling Wang et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2530443123

Extrachromosomal circular DNA (ecDNA) is frequently generated within the nucleus, contributing to genome dynamics and heterogeneity, thereby promoting cancer cell evolution and adaptation. However, th...

Directed differentiation of bovine trophoblast stem cells: A useful in vitro model for placenta development

Abdallah W. Abdelhady, Sarayut Winuthayanon, M. Sofia Ortega et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2600783123

Cattle have a synepitheliochorial type of placenta characterized by placental cotyledons and maternal endometrial caruncles forming placentomes that are essential for fetal development to term. As the...

Locus coeruleus–amygdala circuit disrupts prefrontal control to impair fear extinction

Hugo Bayer, Annalise N. Binette, Samantha O. Sweck et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2528250123

Stress undermines extinction learning and hinders exposure-based clinical therapies for a variety of neuropsychiatric disorders. In both animals and humans, dysfunction in the ventromedial prefrontal...

Correction for Liu et al., A distinct LHCI arrangement is recruited to photosystem I in Fe-starved green algae

Mar 17, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2605869123

Moiré collapse and Luttinger liquids in twisted anisotropic homobilayers

Duarte J. P. de Sousa, Seungjun Lee, Francisco Guinea et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2527371123

We introduce twisted anisotropic homobilayers as a distinct class of moiré systems, characterized by a distinctive “magic angle,”...

Modulation of electronic structure via dual moiré patterns in twisted 1 <i>T</i> -TaSe <sub>2</sub>

Yonghao Liu, Yuan Zheng, Kun Yang et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2520703123

We investigate a twisted bilayer of 1 T -TaSe 2 (twist angle...

Bridging developmental and statistical approaches to variation and evolution

Lisandro Milocco, Tobias Uller Mar 17, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2529820123

Phenotypic variation is the raw material for evolutionary diversification and adaptation. However, a critical gap remains in evolutionary theory between developmental and statistical representations o...

Ubiquitin-specific peptidase-19 links TDP-43 aggregation to ER stress

Yan Yan, Xinming Wang, Hanna Jeon et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2514355123

Aggregation and deposition of TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) is a salient pathological signature of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration-TDP (FTLD-TDP). TDP-4...

Histone modification clocks for robust cross-species biological age prediction and elucidating senescence regulation

Zhixin Niu, Chang Liu, Yurong Fan et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2533687123

Histone modifications represent an untapped resource for biological age prediction that overcomes limitations of traditional DNA methylation-based epigenetic clocks. Here, we developed and validated h...

Collective bacterial condensation is fundamentally constrained by the emergence of active turbulence

Nir Livne, Ady Vaknin Mar 17, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2519476123

Collective bacterial condensation arises from positive feedback between the ability of bacteria to generate chemical gradients in their environment and their chemotactic ability to follow those gradie...

Sleep deprivation exhibits an age-dependent effect on infraslow global brain activity

Yibing Yang, Weiwei Zhao, Yutong Mao et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2528913123

Infraslow (&lt;0.1 Hz) global brain activity, quantified by the global mean blood-oxygenation-level-dependent (gBOLD) signal in resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), is elevated...

Electron localization in noncompact covalent bonds captured by the r <sup>2</sup> SCAN+ <i>V</i> approach

Yubo Zhang, Da Ke, Rohan Maniar et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1073/pnas.2529764123

In density functional theory, the SCAN (Strongly Constrained and Appropriately Normed) and r 2 SCAN (regularized–restored SCAN) functionals significantly improv...

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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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