PNAS6d
How to address solar geoengineering’s transparency problem
Transparency of funding is necessary to achieve trust, but insufficient on its own. It must be accompanied by a transparent reporting of the organization’s activities to understand what it’s doing and ...
PNAS10d
Superconducting critical temperature elevated by intense magnetic fields
Edited by Anthony Leggett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; received October 25, 2024; accepted December 4, 2024 ...
PNAS15d
Correction for van de Water et al., Therapeutic stem cells expressing variants of EGFR-specific nanobodies have antitumor effects
Jeroen A. J. M. van de Water, Tugba Bagci-Onder [...] Khalid Shah The authors note that Fig. 1J appeared incorrectly. The corrected figure and its legend appear below. The online version has been ...
PNAS16d
Microbes could convert industrial wastewater into ecofriendly products
Every year, US dairy producers churn out billions of pounds of cheese—over 14 billion in 2023 alone. As that cheese heads to market, producers must contend with what’s left behind: roughly 6 billion ...
PNAS17d
In This Issue
Camouflage, including coloration that matches the environmental background, can help predators evade detection as they approach prey. Compared with camouflage that occurs in the daytime, nocturnal ...
PNAS18d
Sustainability of plant-based meat alternatives
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PNAS21d
Correction for Zioga et al., Observed carbon decoupling of subnational production insufficient for net-zero goal by 2050
The authors note that the Acknowledgments appeared incorrectly and mistakenly excluded information regarding project funding. The following statement should be added to the Acknowledgments: “The ...
PNAS22d
Reply to Kaestner et al.: Activation of PIEZO1 is not significant for the passage of red blood cells through biomimetic splenic slits
We thank the authors for acknowledging the seminal nature of our work (1). We have not conclusively addressed the question of Piezo1 activation during splenic filtration in vivo. Our aim was to ...
PNAS24d
Reply to Caruso Bavisotto et al.: Toward exploring the potential of muscle-secreting exosomes in the muscle–brain axis
This work was supported by the NSF (CBET-1932192, Expeditions-2123781), NIH (R61/R33 HL159948), Alzheimer’s Disease Association grant (2019-AARG-NTF-644507), and a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago ...
PNAS24d
The unexplored potential of exosomes in the muscle–brain axis
In the article “Neuronal innervation regulates the secretion of neurotrophic myokines and exosomes from skeletal muscle,” Huang et al. demonstrate that innervated skeletal muscle produces neurotrophic ...
PNAS25d
Zoos must embrace animal death for education and conservation
Giraffes congregate at the Copenhagen Zoo. The culling of a giraffe named Marius at this zoo in 2014 sparked a debate about the practice of euthanizing surplus animals at zoos. We argue that such ...