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  Medicine Cytokine Storms [long_description] Extremely serious, cytokine storms may be fatal, and can occur as a result of many different triggers. A growing body of literature suggests a connection between SARS-CoV-2 infection and the induction of cytokine storms. Tyler Hampton reviews the literature concerning cytokine storms in connection with COVID-19.

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  Biology The Yin and Yang of the Genome [long_description] If viruses have killed their millions, they have blessed their millions, too. Scientists have uncovered striking instances in which these selfish parasites have in the end become genetically domesticated, donating precious genetic cargo to the host’s benefit. Anna Marie Skalka’s Discovering Retroviruses illustrates, among other things, the potential of retroviruses in treating genetic disease.

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  Genetics Genes within Genes [long_description] A new study, “Russian Doll Genes and Complex Chromosome Rearrangements in Oxytricha trifallax,” casts fresh light on gene nesting and mathematical patterns. Tyler Hampton examines the key findings.

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  Biochemistry The New View of Proteins [long_description] Dan Tawfik’s biochemistry laboratory at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot is trying to answer the deepest questions in molecular evolutionary biology. But characterizing the most important properties of a global protein evolutionary network may now and forever be beyond our grasp. Inference reviews Tawfik’s laboratory and literature.

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