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Oct 29, 2024 | 
pnas.org | Eri Oguro-Igashira |Mari Murakami |Ryota Mori |Ryuichi Kuwahara
EVOLUTIONIllustrated reconstruction of Dromaeosauriformipes rarus running along the muddy shore of an ancient lake. Image credit: PNAS/Alex Boersma (artist). Theropod trackways and pre-avian aerial behaviorTrace fossils, such as footprints, can record the behaviors of organisms that were once alive, aiding functional and behavioral reconstructions based on body fossils. T. Alexander Dececchi, Michael Pittman et al.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
pnas.org | Giordano Attianese |Greta Maria Paola |Eri Oguro-Igashira |Mari Murakami
Dual ON/OFF-switch chimeric antigen receptor controlled by two clinically approved drugsGreta Maria Paola Giordano Attianese https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1482-6731, Sailan Shui, Elisabetta Cribioli, +7 , Melanie Triboulet, Leo Scheller, Morteza Hafezi, Patrick Reichenbach, Pablo Gainza, Sandrine Georgeon, Bruno E.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
pnas.org | Eri Oguro-Igashira |Mari Murakami |Ryota Mori |Ryuichi Kuwahara
V. Blomer, Shifted convolution sums and subconvexity bounds for automorphic L-functions. Int. Math. Res. Not. 2004, 3905–3926 (2004). J. B. Conrey, D. W. Farmer, J. P. Keating, M. O. Rubenstein, N. C. Snaith, Integral moments of L-functions. Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. 91, 33–104 (2005). L. F. Alday, S. M. Chester, D. Dorigoni, M. B. Green, C. Wen, Relations between integrated correlators in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory. J. High Energy Phys. 2024.5, 1–44 (2024). S. M. Chester, M. B. Green, S. S. Pufu, Y. Wang, C.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
pnas.org | Eri Oguro-Igashira |Mari Murakami |Ryota Mori |Ryuichi Kuwahara
Reconfigurable, zero-energy, and wide-temperature loss-assisted thermal nonreciprocal metamaterialsEdited by David Weitz, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; received May 20, 2024; accepted September 24, 2024SignificanceTemperature control in enclosed spaces typically depends on air conditioning and district heating, leading to high energy consumption in buildings. Enhancing energy efficiency in these systems has garnered growing attention.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
pnas.org | Eri Oguro-Igashira |Mari Murakami |Ryota Mori |Taylor J. Z
Spatially resolved random telegraph fluctuations of a single trap at the Si/SiO2 interfaceEdited by Eva Andrei, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ; received March 14, 2024; accepted August 13, 2024SignificanceLow-frequency noise due to two-level fluctuations inhibits the reliability and performance of nanoscale semiconductor devices and challenges the scaling of emerging spin-based quantum sensors and computers.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
pnas.org | Eri Oguro-Igashira |Mari Murakami |Ryota Mori |Ryuichi Kuwahara
Human eggs, called oocytes, have a superpower: They can stay in the ovaries for decades, from before a woman is born until she’s over age 40. Most of our cells are constantly turning over—dividing, growing, dying. But women are born with all the eggs they’ll ever have, and even after many years in the body, these eggs can create new life.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
pnas.org | Eri Oguro-Igashira |Mari Murakami |Ryota Mori |Ryuichi Kuwahara
Y. Zhang, J. J. Roise, K. Lee, J. Li, N. Murthy, Recent developments in intracellular protein delivery. Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 52, 25–31 (2018). B. Leader, Q. J. Baca, D. E. Golan, Protein therapeutics: A summary and pharmacological classification. Nat. Rev. Drug Discovery 7, 21–39 (2008). S. Du, S. S. Liew, L. Li, S. Q. Yao, Bypassing endocytosis: Direct cytosolic delivery of proteins. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140, 15986–15996 (2018). Y. W. Lee et al., Protein delivery into the cell cytosol using non-viral nanocarriers.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
pnas.org | Jennifer L. Eberhardt |Eri Oguro-Igashira |Mari Murakami |Ryota Mori
SignificanceShifting people’s responses to members of stigmatized groups can be difficult. Yet, after watching a narrative film about incarceration, we found that a nationally representative sample of study participants in the United States—a country that imprisons a greater share of its population than any other industrialized nation in the world—became more accurate at inferring the emotions of formerly incarcerated people.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
pnas.org | Sylvia Englund |J. Norman Reid |Eri Oguro-Igashira |Mari Murakami
Rapid shift in methane carbon isotopes suggests microbial emissions drove record high atmospheric methane growth in 2020–2022Sylvia Englund Michel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5651-1163 [email protected], Xin Lan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6327-6950, John Miller, +7 , Pieter Tans, J.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
pnas.org | Eri Oguro-Igashira |Mari Murakami |Ryota Mori |Ryuichi Kuwahara
SignificanceDeforestation in the Amazon is thought to increase malaria. However, some studies have found the opposite or no effect. Limitations of these studies include the use of annual data (ignoring transmission seasonality), coarse spatial scale, limited time series, and often neglect frontier malaria dynamics. We use the most detailed data available to quantify the monthly effect of deforestation on malaria, controlling for socioeconomic and environmental variables, including human mobility.
