Inner Workings: Advances in infectious disease treatment promise to expand the pool of donor organs Despite myriad challenges, clinicians see room for progress. Image credit: Shutterstock/David Tadevosian.
Core Concept: Popular integrated assessment climate policy models have key caveats Better explicating the strengths and shortcomings of these models will help refine projections and improve transparency in the years ahead. Image credit: Witsawat.S.
Journal Club: Noncoding DNA shown to underlie function, cause limb malformations Using CRISPR, researchers showed that a region some used to label “junk DNA” has a major role in a rare genetic disorder. Image credit: Nathan Devery.
Eruption of Steamboat Geyser Mara Reed and Michael Manga explore why Yellowstone's Steamboat Geyser resumed erupting in 2018. Listen Past PodcastsSubscribe
Enzymatic breakdown of PET plastic A study demonstrates how two enzymes—MHETase and PETase—work synergistically to depolymerize the plastic pollutant PET. Image credit: Aaron McGeehan (artist).