RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

The mysterious origins of coronary vessels

Bing Zhang and William T Pu
10.1038/cr.2013.90
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Building unique bonds to fight misplaced DNA

Caio T Fagundes and Luke A J O‘Neill
10.1038/cr.2013.81
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Channel gating pore: a new therapeutic target

Polina Kornilov, Asher Peretz and Bernard Attali
10.1038/cr.2013.89
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Spiking the MERS-coronavirus receptor

Berend Jan Bosch, V Stalin Raj and Bart L Haagmans
10.1038/cr.2013.108
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Exo-endo trans splicing: a new way to link

Christian Preußer and Albrecht Bindereif
10.1038/cr.2013.105
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Sirtuins as therapeutic targets of ALS

Giulio Maria Pasinetti, Amanda E Bilski and Wei Zhao
10.1038/cr.2013.94
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ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Subepicardial endothelial cells invade the embryonic ventricle wall to form coronary arteries

Xueying Tian1,*, Tianyuan Hu1,*, Hui Zhang1,*, Lingjuan He1, Xiuzhen Huang, Qiaozhen Liu, Wei Yu, Liang He, Zhongzhou Yang, Zhen Zhang, Tao P Zhong, Xiao Yang, Zhen Yang, Yan Yan, Antonio Baldini, Yunfu Sun, Jie Lu, Robert J Schwartz, Sylvia M Evans, Adriana C Gittenberger-de Groot, Kristy Red-Horse and Bin Zhou
10.1038/cr.2013.83
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Genome analysis and signature discovery for diving and sensory properties of the endangered Chinese alligator

Qiu-Hong Wan, Sheng-Kai Pan, Li Hu, Ying Zhu, Peng-Wei Xu, Jin-Quan Xia, Hui Chen, Gen-Yun He, Jing He, Xiao-Wei Ni, Hao-Long Hou, Sheng-Guang Liao, Hai-Qiong Yang, Ying Chen, Shu-Kun Gao, Yun-Fa Ge, Chang-Chang Cao, Peng-Fei Li, Li-Ming Fang, Li Liao, Shu Zhang, Meng-Zhen Wang, Wei Dong and Sheng-Guo Fang
10.1038/cr.2013.104
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The gating charge pathway of an epilepsy-associated potassium channel accommodates chemical ligands

Ping Li, Zhuxi Chen, Haiyan Xu, Haifeng Sun, Hao Li, Hong Liu, Huaiyu Yang, Zhaobing Gao, Hualiang Jiang and Min Li
10.1038/cr.2013.82
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Highly efficient induction and long-term maintenance of multipotent cardiovascular progenitors from human pluripotent stem cells under defined conditions

Nan Cao, He Liang, Jijun Huang, Jia Wang, Yixiong Chen, Zhongyan Chen and Huang-Tian Yang

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Drosophila Myc integrates multiple signaling pathways to regulate intestinal stem cell proliferation during midgut regeneration

Fangfang Ren, Qing Shi, Yongbin Chen, Alice Jiang, Y Tony Ip, Huaqi Jiang and Jin Jiang
10.1038/cr.2013.101
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Establishing brain functional laterality in adult mice through unilateral gene manipulation in the embryonic cortex

Qingsong Li, Shan Bian, Bingfang Liu, Janet Hong, Miklos Toth and Tao Sun
10.1038/cr.2013.106
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