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We liked the idea of having an open 'conversation' with the reviewers during the process, and having the chance to polish the manuscript by following the editors and reviewers’ recommendations without the threat of rejection.

Patrick Allard, UCLA and eLife author

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    Human cerebellum and ventral tegmental area interact during extinction of learned fear

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    The cerebellum and ventral tegmental area interact during unexpected omissions of aversive outcomes in humans, supporting a role for reward-like prediction error signaling in fear extinction learning.
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    Estimating the replicability of Brazilian biomedical science

    The Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative
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    Decoding spine nanostructure in cultured neurons derived from mouse models of neuropsychiatric disorder reveals a schizophrenia-linked role for Ecrg4

    Yutaro Kashiwagi, Qingrui Liu ... Shigeo Okabe
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    A genetic toolkit for stable transgenesis in the anaerobic gut parasite Blastocystis ST7-B

    M Rey Toleco, Kevin SW Tan, Mark van der Giezen
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    Astrocytic Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay regulates calcium signaling to support synapse function and restrain anxiety

    Pablo J Lituma, Aykut Deveci ... Dilek Colak
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    Latent gene network expression underlies partial re-evolution of a polyphenic trait in the worker caste of ants

    Angelly Vasquez-Correa, Johanna Arnet ... Ehab Abouheif
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    Viral commitment to infection depends on host metabolism

    Anastasios Marantos, Kim Sneppen ... Namiko Mitarai
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    Cooperative antibiotic response in coupled biofilm and planktonic E. faecalis communities

    Gabriela Fernandes Martins, Keanu Alexander Guardiola-Flores ... Kevin Wood
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    1. Neuroscience

    Primate Hippocampus Reveals Distinct Rules for Associative Synaptic Plasticity

    Anoop Manakkadan, Krishna Kumar ... Sreedharan Sajikumar
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    PCNA-Polκ-Polδ/USP18 axes stabilize replication fork and restart to reduce cisplatin cytotoxicity

    Ipsita Subhadarsini, Jugal Kishor Sahu ... Narottam Acharya
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