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Insight articles are related to original research papers in eLife and explain why the results reported in the paper are significant in a given field of research. Insight articles are commissioned by eLife staff.

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    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Disease Surveillance: Monitoring livestock pregnancy loss

    Clara Akpan
    Systematically tracking and analysing reproductive loss in livestock helps with efforts to safeguard the health and productivity of food animals by identifying causes and high-risk areas.
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    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Exosomes: How tumors escape the immune system

    Stefanie Schmieder
    Mutations in the gene for β-catenin cause liver cancer cells to release fewer exosomes, which reduces the number of immune cells infiltrating the tumor.
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    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Circadian Rhythms: Cnidarians are CLOCKing in

    Erica R Kwiatkowski, Patrick Emery
    Studies of the starlet sea anemone provide important insights into the early evolution of the circadian clock in animals.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Cognitive Neuroscience: Memorable first impressions

    Emilio Salinas, Bashirul I Sheikh
    Our ability to recall details from a remembered image depends on a single mechanism that is engaged from the very moment the image disappears from view.
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Morphogenesis: The enigma of cell intercalation

    Raphaël Clément
    Geometric criteria can be used to assess whether cell intercalation is active or passive during the convergent extension of tissue.
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    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Genetic Chimerism: Marmosets contain multitudes

    Kenneth Chiou, Noah Snyder-Mackler
    Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals the extent to which marmosets carry genetically distinct cells from their siblings.
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    1. Cell Biology

    Golgi Apparatus: Making progress

    Jurgen Denecke
    Mapping proteins in and associated with the Golgi apparatus reveals how this cellular compartment emerges in budding yeast and progresses over time.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Exposure Therapy: Enhancing fear extinction

    Sydney Trask, Nicole C Ferrara
    Gradually reducing a source of fear during extinction treatments may weaken negative memories in the long term.
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    1. Ecology

    Mutualistic Relationships: Balancing metabolism and reproduction

    Songdou Zhang, Shiheng An
    The bacterium responsible for a disease that infects citrus plants across Asia facilitates its own proliferation by increasing the fecundity of its host insect.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Lactation: How to pause fertility

    Aleisha M Moore
    Prolactin suppresses the ovarian cycles of lactating mice by directly repressing the activity of a cell population known as kisspeptin neurons.
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