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  • Complex connections

    Optogenetics reveals that interactions between the basal ganglia and the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN), a region that has a central role in motor control, are more complex than previously thought.

    Michel Fallah, Kenea C Udobi ... Rebekah C Evans
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  • The benefits of disorder

    The presence of an intrinsically disordered region in a transcription factor enhances both target binding and search efficiency.

    Wencheng Ji, Ori Hachmo ... Ariel Amir
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  • Early influences on cell fate

    Cells that polarize early during the 8-cell stage of development in mouse embryos are more likely to become part of the placenta.

    Adiyant Lamba, Meng Zhu ... Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz
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    1. Physics of Living Systems

    The cytoplasm of living cells can sustain transient and steady intracellular pressure gradients

    Majid Malboubi, Mohammad Hadi Esteki ... Guillaume Charras
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Dual-format attentional template during preparation in human visual cortex

    Yilin Chen, Taosheng Liu ... Mengyuan Gong
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    1. Neuroscience
    2. Ecology

    Individual recognition in a jumping spider (Phidippus regius)

    Christoph D Dahl, Yaling Cheng
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
    • Incomplete
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    The holocephalan ratfish endoskeleton shares trabecular and areolar mineralization patterns, but not tesserae, with elasmobranchs little skate and catshark

    Oghenevwogaga J Atake, Fidji Berio ... B Frank Eames
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Allosteric effects of the coupling cation in melibiose transporter MelB

    Parameswaran Hariharan, Yuqi Shi ... Lan Guan
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Solid
    1. Ecology

    Range geography and temperature variability explain cross-continental convergence in range and phenology shifts in a model insect taxon

    Catherine Sirois-Delisle, Susan CC Gordon, Jeremy T Kerr
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Important
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    1. Neuroscience

    Regional heterogeneities of oligodendrocytes underlie biased Ranvier node spacing along single axons in sound localization circuit

    Ryo Egawa, Kota Hiraga ... Hiroshi Kuba
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Mechanism of SK2 channel gating and its modulation by the bee toxin apamin and small molecules

    Samantha J Cassell, Weiyan Li ... Jonathan R Whicher
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
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    1. Neuroscience

    Multimodal MRI Marker of Cognition Explains the Association Between Cognition and Mental Health in UK Biobank

    Irina Buianova, Mateus Silvestrin ... Narun Pat
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Salmonids elicit an acute behavioral response to heterothermal environments

    Robert Naudascher, Stefano Brizzolara ... Roman Stocker
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
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    Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Making conferences in the plant sciences more inclusive through community recommendations

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