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<jats:p>A legal scholar probes how new technologies are raising risks, accentuating inequality, and affecting human nature</jats:p>

<jats:p>An intimate portrait of a famous amnesiac is also a tale of personal grievances</jats:p>

<jats:p> Yang <jats:italic>et al</jats:italic> . suggest that the use of low-crystallinity poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) exaggerates our results. However, the primary focus of our study was identifying an organism capable of the biological degradation and assimilation of PET, regardless of its crystallinity. We provide additional PET depolymerization data that further support several other lines of data showing PET assimilation by growing cells of <jats:italic>Ideonella sakaiensis</jats:italic> . </jats:p>

<jats:p> Yoshida <jats:italic>et al</jats:italic> . (Report, 11 March 2016, p. 1196) reported that the bacterium <jats:italic>Ideonella sakaiensis</jats:italic> 201-F6 can degrade and assimilate poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET). However, the authors exaggerated degradation efficiency using a low-crystallinity PET and presented no straightforward experiments to verify depolymerization and assimilation of PET. Thus, the authors’ conclusions are rather misleading. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Immune cells on the brain</jats:p>

<jats:p>Beth Stevens and her network of collaborators are showing how immune cells sculpt connections in the brain</jats:p>

<jats:p>Neuroimmunologists seek to understand the interactions between the central nervous system (CNS) and the immune system, both under homeostatic conditions and in diseases. Unanswered questions include those relating to the diversity and specificity of the meningeal T cell repertoire; the routes taken by immune cells that patrol the meninges under healthy conditions and invade the parenchyma during pathology; the opposing effects (beneficial or detrimental) of these cells on CNS function; the role of immune cells after CNS injury; and the evolutionary link between the two systems, resulting in their tight interaction and interdependence. This Review summarizes the current standing of and challenging questions related to interactions between adaptive immunity and the CNS and considers the possible directions in which these aspects of neuroimmunology will be heading over the next decade.</jats:p>