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Some key strategies can enable NGOs and universities to work together much more efficiently as they strive to achieve common goals with societal impact. Journal Club: Mutations in metabolic genes can cause antibiotic resistance Research into how this newly uncovered avenue leads to resistance could eventually point to therapeutic strategies. News Feature: A sea in the Amazon Did the Caribbean sweep into the western Amazon millions of years ago, shaping the region’s rich biodiversity? 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. Inner Workings: Advances in infectious disease treatment promise to expand the pool of donor organs Despite myriad challenges, clinicians see room for progress. 1 2 3 4 5 Newsletter Sign up for the PNAS Highlights newsletter to get in-depth stories of science sent to your inbox twice a month: News Features News Feature: A sea in the Amazon Mar 03, 2021 News Feature: Tracing gold’s cosmic origin story Jan 20, 2021 News Feature: Realizing the roads of the future Jan 07, 2021 View more Opinions Opinion: Academic-humanitarian technology partnerships: an unhappy marriage? Mar 10, 2021 Opinion: A better approach for dealing with reproducibility and replicability in science Feb 10, 2021 Opinion: Will understanding the ocean lead to “the ocean we want”? Jan 27, 2021 View more Inner Workings Inner Workings: Advances in infectious disease treatment promise to expand the pool of donor organs Feb 17, 2021 Inner Workings: RNA-based pesticides aim to get around resistance problems Dec 09, 2020 Inner Workings: Early Mars may have boasted a large ocean and cool climate Dec 02, 2020 View more Core Concepts Core Concept: Integrated assessment climate policy models have proven useful, with caveats Feb 24, 2021 Core Concept: The pandemic is prompting widespread use—and misuse—of real-world data Oct 21, 2020 Core Concept: Nascent exascale supercomputers offer promise, present challenges Sep 09, 2020 View more Science and Culture Science and Culture: Expedition artists paint a picture of science exploration Feb 03, 2021 Science and Culture: At the nexus of music and medicine, some see treatments for disease Jan 13, 2021 Science and Culture: Astronomer-turned-filmmaker strives to ignite an interest in space Dec 23, 2020 View more Journal Club Highlighting recent, timely papers selected by Academy member labs Agricultural spray could quickly deliver advantageous genes to crops mid-growing season Mutations in metabolic genes can cause antibiotic resistance In Mesopotamia, early cities may have faltered before climate-driven collapse Noncoding DNA shown to underlie function, cause limb malformations View more Profiles / Retrospectives / QnAs Dr. Takashi Sugimura: A giant of chemical carcinogenesis March 2, 2021 Profile of Nora J. 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