Nature Genetics online: July 8, 2012 FAN1 mutations cause karyomegalic interstitial nephritis, linking chronic kidney failure to defective DNA damage repair Weibin Zhou, Edgar A Otto, Andrew Cluckey, Rannar Airik, Toby W Hurd, Moumita Chaki, Katrina Diaz, Francis P Lach,  Geoffrey R Bennett, Heon...

Nature Neuroscience online: July 8, 2012 Spontaneous activity regulates Robo1 transcription to mediate a switch in thalamocortical axon growth Erik Mire, Cecilia Mezzera, Eduardo Leyva-Díaz, Ana V  Paternain, Paola Squarzoni, Lisa Bluy, Mar Castillo-Paterna, María José López, Sandra Peregrín, ...

Cell 150: 136-150 Identification of Stem Cell Populations in Sweat Glands and Ducts Reveals Roles in Homeostasis and Wound Repair Catherine P. Lu, Lisa Polak, Ana Sofia Rocha, H. Amalia Pasolli, Shann-Ching Chen, Neha Sharma, Cedric Blanpain and Elaine Fuchs

Cell 150: 39-52 Telomeric 3′ Overhangs Derive from Resection by Exo1 and Apollo and Fill-In by POT1b-Associated CST Peng Wu, Hiroyuki Takai and Titia de Lange

To date, few fundamentals have been known about the most common gland in the body, the sweat glands that are essential to controlling body temperature, allowing humans to live in the world’s diverse climates. Now, in a tour de force, researchers at The Rockefeller University and the Howard Hughes...

Waging a losing war against mosquitoes   "We had no winter in the Northeast this year, and so there's a lot of predictions from mosquito control experts that we're going to have a really huge season of high populations of mosquitoes, and so with that, more disease transmission," said Leslie Vossh...

The Lancet 379: 2500 Herpes in STAT1 deficiency Beáta Tóth, Leonóra Méhes, Szilvia Taskó, Zsuzsanna Szalai, Zsolt  Tulassay, Sophie Cypowyj, Jean-Laurent Casanova, Anne Puel and László Maródi

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109: 10564-10569 Scale invariance in the dynamics of spontaneous behavior Alex Proekt, Jayanth R. Banavar, Amos Maritan and Donald W. Pfaff

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109: 10352-10357 Mechanistic basis for low threshold mechanosensitivity in voltage-dependent K+ channels Daniel Schmidt, Josefina del Mármol and Roderick MacKinnon

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA online: June 25, 2012 Cholinergic interneurons in the nucleus accumbens regulate depression-like behavior Jennifer L. Warner-Schmidt, Eric F. Schmidt, John J. Marshall, Amanda J. Rubin, Margarita Arango-Lievano, Michael G. Kaplitt, Ines Ibañez-T...