Cover of Volume 3, Issue 6

Volume 3 Issue 6, 1 June 2026

Deep regulation

On the cover

A comparative map of enhancers in 18 vertebrate species reveals a core set of regulatory switches conserved for more than 400 million years. See Ancient regulatory elements shape tissue-specific gene expression across vertebrates.

Article

Perspective

Perspective Open access

Towards a global observing system for soil carbon

Soils hold more carbon than plants and the atmosphere combined, yet we lack the means to measure how that store is changing. It is time to build them.

Elena Patel, Anders Becker … Tomasz Mensah

Lumen 3, 129–138 (2026)

Comment

Comment

Make negative results count

Experiments that do not work out are as informative as those that do. The literature should reflect that.

Wei Hoffmann & Amara Haddad

Lumen 3, 139–141 (2026)