Recent Reviews

From the Cover: Addressing the health benefits and risks, involving vitamin D or skin cancer, of increased sun exposure. [ Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ]

1. More sun is healthy, despite skin cancer risk, study says

Adaptation of Borna Disease Virus to New Host Species Attributed to Altered Regulation of Viral Polymerase Activity. [ J Virol ]

2. Adaptation of Borna Disease Virus to New Host Species Attributed to Altered Regulation of Viral Polymerase Activity

From the Cover: Observation of the density minimum in deeply supercooled confined water. [ Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ]

3. Observation of the density minimum in deeply supercooled confined water

Selected Toll-like receptor agonist combinations synergistically trigger a T helper type 1-polarizing program in dendritic cells. [ Nat Immunol ]

4. Error bars in experimental biology

A comparative study of motor-protein motions by using a simple elastic-network model. [ Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ]

5. Displacement "boundary conditions" applied to certain atoms

Essential role of nitric oxide in VEGF-induced, asthma-like angiogenic, inflammatory, mucus, and physiologic responses in the lung. [ Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ]

6. questionable relevance to asthma

New strategies for the elimination of polio from India. [ Science ]

7. Causes and Excuses for Failure of Polio Eradication in India

Journals should set a new standard in transparency. [ Nature ]

8. Interesting commentary

Chemically engineered extracts as an alternative source of bioactive natural product-like compounds. [ Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ]

9. structurally diverse compound collections are necessary as sources for bioactive molecules

Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera. [ Nature ]

10. The Honeybee "Dance Language" Controversy