Annual Reviews

The latest volume of the Annual Review of Food Science and Technology is now online. The most read article so far is "The Next Food Revolution Is Here: Recombinant Microbial Production of Milk and Egg Proteins by Precision Fermentation" by Nielsen, Meyer, and Arnau. Read the article here

The Next Food Revolution Is Here: Recombinant Microbial Production of Milk and Egg Proteins by Precision Fermentation | Annual Reviews Animal-based agriculture and the production of protein-rich foods from animals, particularly from ruminants, are not sustainable and have serious climate effects. A new type of alternative proteins is now on the menu, namely animal proteins produced recombinantly by microbial fermentation. This new....

The 2024 volume of the Annual Review of Cancer Biology is now online. The most read article from this new volume is "Deciphering the Warburg Effect: Metabolic Reprogramming, Epigenetic Remodeling, and Cell Dedifferentiation" by Albert M. Li and Jiangbin Ye. Read it here

Deciphering the Warburg Effect: Metabolic Reprogramming, Epigenetic Remodeling, and Cell Dedifferentiation | Annual Reviews A century ago, Otto Heinrich Warburg made a seminal discovery now known as the Warburg effect. This metabolic signature, prevalent across all cancer cells, is characterized by the prominent shift of glucose metabolism toward lactate production instead of oxidative respiration. Warburg's pioneer...

The latest volume of the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application is now online. Take a look at the most read article from this new volume, "Causal Inference in the Social Sciences" by Guido W. Imbens

Causal Inference in the Social Sciences | Annual Reviews Knowledge of causal effects is of great importance to decision makers in a wide variety of settings. In many cases, however, these causal effects are not known to the decision makers and need to be estimated from data. This fundamental problem has been known and studied for many years in many discip...

The 2024 volume of the Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics is now online. The most read article from this new volume is "Nonreciprocal Transport and Optical Phenomena in Quantum Materials" by Nagaosa and Yanase.

Nonreciprocal Transport and Optical Phenomena in Quantum Materials In noncentrosymmetric materials, the responses (for example, electrical and optical) generally depend on the direction of the external stimuli, called nonreciprocal phenomena. In quantum materials, these nonreciprocal responses are governed by the quantum geometric properties and symmetries of the e...

“Many public health advocates and scholars see sugar-sweetened-beverage taxes (often simply called soda taxes) as key to reducing obesity and its adverse health effects,” write behavioral economists Kristin Kiesel and Richard J. S*xton. “But a careful look at the data challenges this view.”

Read more:
🥤 In Knowable Magazinee: https://arevie.ws/SodaTaxes_KM
🥤 Take a deeper dive (Annual Review of Resource Economics): https://arevie.ws/SodaTaxes_RE15

Long overlooked, menstrual stem cells could have important medical applications, including diagnosing endometriosis. Learn more: via Knowable Magazine

The untapped potential of stem cells in menstrual blood Long overlooked, menstrual stem cells could have important medical applications, including diagnosing endometriosis

For reasons that almost certainly have to do with global travel and poor pest management, bed bugs have resurfaced with a vengeance in 50 countries since the late 1990s.

But recently, the resurgence has brought an added twist.

Learn more:

➡️ “Getting rid of bed bugs: Trickier than ever” (Knowable Magazine)
https://arevie.ws/BedBugs_KM

➡️ “Historical and Contemporary Control Options Against Bed Bugs, Cimex spp.” (Annual Review of Entomology) https://arevie.ws/BedBugs_EN68

As sea level rises, coastal groundwater rises too — increasing the risk of damage to underground infrastructure such as buried pipes and wires, as well as flooding basements and rutting roadways.

“Groundwater inundation has the potential to cause overwhelming amounts of damage and to exacerbate social inequalities,” Dr. Habel writes in Knowable Magazine. “We need to proactively tackle the current and impending flood of problems.”

Learn more:
”The hidden threat from rising coastal groundwater“ (Knowable Magazine)
https://arevie.ws/Habel_KM

“Hidden Threat: The Influence of Sea-Level Rise on Coastal Groundwater and the Convergence of Impacts on Municipal Infrastructure” (Annual Review of Marine Science)
https://arevie.ws/Habel_MS16

Language, it is often said, is a window into the human mind. David Harrison experienced this firsthand as a young linguist in the 1990s when he traveled to the Russian republic of Tuva to spend a year with a group of herding nomads.

Working with Indigenous communities to understand the environmental knowledge embedded in their languages is the goal of “environmental linguistics,” a line of research Harrison describes in a 2023 article in the Annual Review of Linguistics.

This task is urgent, as many of the world’s thousands of Indigenous languages are threatened themselves, at risk of being replaced by more commonly spoken languages.

Learn more:

🗣️ Indigenous languages are founts of environmental knowledge (Knowable Magazine)
https://arevie.ws/EnvironmentalLinguistics_KM

🗣️ Environmental Linguistics (Annual Review of Linguistics)
https://arevie.ws/EnvironmentalLinguistics_LI9

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The latest volume of the Annual Review of Animal Biosciences is now online. Read the most downloaded article so far, "How Can Genomics Help or Hinder Wildlife Conservation?" by Schmidt, Thia, and Hoffmann.

How Can Genomics Help or Hinder Wildlife Conservation? Genomic data are becoming increasingly affordable and easy to collect, and new tools for their analysis are appearing rapidly. Conservation biologists are interested in using this information to assist in management and planning but are typically limited financially and by the lack of genomic resour...

🎉 Our new collection showcases the most downloaded and influential articles in 2023 – including ‘Exploring Alternative Futures in the Anthropocene’ which addresses future-thinking with the , pathways to better futures, and more.

Read : https://arevie.ws/TD23-Anthropocene

🎉 Included in our Top Downloaded in 2023 Collection:

'Continental Crustal Growth Processes Recorded in the Gangdese Batholith, Southern Tibet' |

Authored by Di-Cheng Zhu, Qing Wang et al. and published in the Annual Review of and .

https://arevie.ws/TD23-Crustal-Growth

With the first medical therapy approved and systems like CRISPR-Cas showing up in complex cells, there’s a lot going on in the genome editing field. Here’s a primer, via Knowable Magazine

CRISPR gene editing: Moving closer to home With the first medical therapy approved and systems like CRISPR-Cas showing up in complex cells, there’s a lot going on in the genome editing field. Here’s our primer.

”It is time for a serious, proactive international response to the forest health crisis. If we continue to just react to threats as they pop up, biodiversity will continue to suffer.”

Read the by Annual Review of Phytopathology co-author Geoff Williams:
“Forests are under attack from invasive species” (Knowable Magazine)
https://arevie.ws/Forests_KM

Read the review:
“The Global Forest Health Crisis: A Public-Good Social Dilemma in Need of International Collective Action” (Annual Review of Phytopathology)
https://arevie.ws/Forests_PY61

The blood-brain barrier is critically important for the treatment of central nervous system tumors – read the research to learn more.

https://arevie.ws/TD23-Blood-Brain-Barrier

🎉 A top downloaded article in 2023, published in the Annual Review of and authored by experts at leading institutions including Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School.

The Blood-Brain Barrier: Implications for Experimental Cancer Therapeutics The blood-brain barrier is critically important for the treatment of both primary and metastatic cancers of the central nervous system (CNS). Clinical outcomes for patients with primary CNS tumors are poor and have not significantly improved in decades. As treatments for patients with extracranial s...

There’s growing interest in studying coffee as an agroecosystem — a dynamic bridge between natural and agricultural systems. Such farming methods have the potential not only to help sustain our caffeine fix, but also to provide a bounty of biological richness.

The work of Ivette Perfecto has been central to this shift.

An ecologist at the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan, Perfecto has spent decades studying the diverse assemblage of species that make coffee farms their home, especially some of the smallest farmworkers — the insects.

Historically, biodiversity conservation has focused on the establishment of protected areas like parks and reserves. But agricultural lands, which cover more than twice as much land as such protected areas, can also offer opportunities for conservation.

Shaded coffee farms, for example, can serve as refuges that provide quality habitat for wildlife, Perfecto told Knowable Magazine.

Learn more:
☕ “How shade coffee lends conservation a hand” (Knowable Magazine)
https://arevie.ws/CoffeeEco_KM

☕ “Complex Ecological Interactions in the Coffee Agroecosystem” (Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics)
https://arevie.ws/CoffeeEco_ES45

The 2024 volume of the Annual Review of Physiology is now online and has been converted from gated to open access through Annual Reviews' Subscribe to Open program. Read the most read article so far "Mechanosensing by Vascular Endothelium" by Lim and Harraz.

Mechanosensing by Vascular Endothelium Mechanical forces influence different cell types in our bodies. Among the earliest forces experienced in mammals is blood movement in the vascular system. Blood flow starts at the embryonic stage and ceases when the heart stops. Blood flow exposes endothelial cells (ECs) that line all blood vessels....

🎉 Included in our Top Downloaded in 2023 Collection:

'An RNA World' |

Authored by David C. Baulcombe and published in the Annual Review of .

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Polygenic risk scores — a patient’s chance, based on tiny DNA variants, of developing cardiovascular disease, breast cancer and more — are coming to clinics. But there are kinks to iron out and accuracy remains an issue. via Knowable Magazine

Genes and heart disease: Finally making the link Polygenic risk scores — a patient’s chance, based on tiny DNA variants, of developing cardiovascular disease, breast cancer and more — are coming to clinics. But there are kinks to iron out and accuracy remains an issue.

Within the last decade or so, sports psychology research has exploded, as scientists have explored the nuances of everything from the pursuit of perfection to the harms of abusive coaching.

“Sport pervades cultures, continents, and indeed many facets of daily life,” write Mark Beauchamp, Alan Kingstone and Nikos Ntoumanis, authors of an overview of sports psychology research in the 2023 Annual Review of Psychology.

Their review surveys findings from nearly 150 papers investigating various psychological influences on athletic performance and success.

Such research has the potential not only to enhance athletic performance, they say, but also to provide insights into psychological influences on success in other realms.

Learn more:
“Lessons from sports psychology research” (Knowable Magazine)
https://arevie.ws/SportsPsych_KM

Read the review:
“The Psychology of Athletic Endeavor” (Annual Review of Psychology)
https://arevie.ws/SportsPsych_PS74

🎉 Included in our Top Downloaded in 2023 Collection:

'Structural Mechanisms of NLRP3 Inflammasome Assembly and Activation' |

Authored by Jianing Fu and Hao Wu and published in the Annual Review of .

https://arevie.ws/TD23-NLRP3

A massive bias in medical studies toward men of European origin means that genetic variants in understudied populations don’t get the focus they deserve, writes bioinformatician and Annual Reviews co-author Manuel Corpas.

Read the in Knowable Magazine: https://arevie.ws/GWAS_KM

Take a deeper dive: “Addressing Ancestry and S*x Bias in Pharmacogenomics” (Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology) https://arevie.ws/GWAS_PA64

🎉 Top downloaded article in 2023:
What is self-compassion in the context of ? How does self-compassion differ from self-esteem?

Read the article authored by Kristin D. Neff, University of Texas at Austin, Psychology Department.

https://arevie.ws/TD23-Self-Compassion

The Central American arc is relatively small, just 1,100 kilometers long. But it contains an important variety of different types of magmas, some of which are unique on the planet.

It is a “geological paradise” hiding secrets worthy of investigation, says Esteban Gazel, a geochemist at Cornell University.

“Central America has a rich combination of conditions that allow the comparison of different natural experiments in magma generation,” he and his two coauthors wrote in a review published in the 2021 Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Dr. Gazel carried out his first studies as a geochemist in Costa Rica, his home country. In a recent interview with Revista Knowable, he explains how the geology of Central America helps us understand the evolution of our planet.

Read more:

“Central American volcanoes offer clues to Earth’s geological evolution”(Knowable Magazine)
https://arevie.ws/Gazel_KM

“Los volcanes de Centroamérica ofrecen pistas sobre la evolución geológica de la Tierra” (Knowable en español)
https://arevie.ws/Gazel_KEE

“Architectural and Tectonic Control on the Segmentation of the Central American Volcanic Arc” (Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences)
https://arevie.ws/Gazel_EA49

🎉 Included in our Top Downloaded in 2023 Collection:

'The All of Us Data and Research Center: Creating a Secure, Scalable, and Sustainable Ecosystem for Biomedical Research' |

Authored by Kelsey R. Mayo, Melissa A. Basford et al. and published in the Annual Review of Biomedical .

https://arevie.ws/TD23-Biomedical-Research

Could gut bacteria connect to Parkinson’s disease?

Growing evidence suggests a link between the debilitating neurological illness and the microbes that live in our intestines. The vagus nerve may be a pathway.

Read more:

➡️ “How gut bacteria connect to Parkinson’s disease” (Knowable Magazine)
https://arevie.ws/GutParkinsons_KM

➡️ “The Gut–Brain Axis” (Annual Review of Medicine)
https://arevie.ws/GutBrainAxis_ME73

It is increasingly well understood that the countless microbes in our guts help us to digest our food, to absorb and produce essential nutrients, and to prevent harmful organisms from settling in.

Less intuitive — perhaps even outlandish — is the idea that those microbes may also affect our mood, our mental health and how we perform on cognitive tests.

But there is mounting evidence that they do.

Neuroscientist John Cryan and coauthors summarized the science in a set of articles including “Man and the Microbiome: A New Theory of Everything?,” published in the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology.

In a new Q&A, Cryan tells Knowable Magazine about what future research is needed, and how we can apply existing insights.

Read more:
➡️ “The growing link between microbes, mood and mental health” (Knowable Magazine) https://arevie.ws/Cryan_KM
➡️ “Man and the Microbiome: A New Theory of Everything?” (Annual Review of Clinical Psychology) https://arevie.ws/Cryan_CP15

The 2024 volume of the Annual Review of Medicine is now online and converted to Open Access. Take a look at the most read article so far, "Health Effects of Wildfire Smoke Exposure" by Gould et al.

Health Effects of Wildfire Smoke Exposure We review current knowledge on the trends and drivers of global wildfire activity, advances in the measurement of wildfire smoke exposure, and evidence on the health effects of this exposure. We describe methodological issues in estimating the causal effects of wildfire smoke exposures on health and...

🎉 Included in our Top Downloaded in 2023 Collection:

'Current Trends in Anti-Aging Strategies' |

Authored by Robert S. Rosen and Martin L. Yarmush and published in the Annual Review of .

Current Trends in Anti-Aging Strategies The process of aging manifests from a highly interconnected network of biological cascades resulting in the degradation and breakdown of every living organism over time. This natural development increases risk for numerous diseases and can be debilitating. Academic and industrial investigators have....

We all want to be happy — and for decades, psychologists have tried to figure out how we might achieve that blissful state.

But psychology has undergone serious upheaval over the last decade, as researchers realized that many studies were unreliable and unrepeatable.

That has led to a closer scrutiny of psychological research methods, with the study of happiness no exception.

So — what *really* makes us happy?

Learn more about what we know so far, and what remains to be reassessed, via:

🙂 Knowable Magazine: https://arevie.ws/Happiness_KM
😃 Revista Knowable: https://arevie.ws/Happiness_KEE
😁 Annual Review of Psychology: https://arevie.ws/Happiness_PS75 (Open Access)