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Mowat, Scott and Bain discuss the functions of barrier-tissue macrophages in homeostasis and disease, and how these are shaped by their local environment.
In this Review, Ferrando and López-Otín discuss the role of clonal evolution in leukemia and propose that better understanding of the evolutionary biography of human leukemias and related blood cell malignancies may contribute to improve their clinical management.
In this Review, Salter and Stevens discuss the role of microglia in CNS disorders such as autism, neurodegenerative disorders, Alzheimer’s disease, and chronic pain.
In this Review, David Fidock discusses malarial resistance to artemisinin-based combination therapies, among others, and presents strategies for designing new therapeutics and to overcome resistance.
In this Review, Cathomen and colleagues present the latest advances, including improvements in nuclease specificity and delivery, that will expedite the clinical translation of genome editing.
Two decades ago, α-synuclein was identified as a key player in Parkinson's disease pathogenesis. Wong and Krainc review the upstream factors and downstream cellular mechanisms associated with α-synuclein toxicity and discuss therapeutic efforts to target synucleinopathies.
Gattinoni and colleagues discuss the emerging roles of this subset of long-lived memory T lymphocytes, and highlight ways in which these cells might be exploited to achieve therapeutic aims.