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    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Tradeoff breaking as a model of evolutionary transitions in individuality and limits of the fitness-decoupling metaphor

    Pierrick Bourrat, Guilhem Doulcier ... Katrin Hammerschmidt
    A new model describes evolutionary transitions in individuality in terms of tradeoff and tradeoff-breaking events as opposed to changes in the nature of fitness.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Innate immune signaling in trophoblast and decidua organoids defines differential antiviral defenses at the maternal-fetal interface

    Liheng Yang, Eleanor C Semmes ... Carolyn B Coyne
    Organoids developed from matched human placental tissue define differences in antiviral signaling between cell types comprising the maternal-fetal interface.
    1. Neuroscience

    Local field potentials reflect cortical population dynamics in a region-specific and frequency-dependent manner

    Cecilia Gallego-Carracedo, Matthew G Perich ... Juan Álvaro Gallego
    There is a frequency-dependent association between the local field potential and the coordinated activity of populations of single neurons, which remains constant during different aspects of behaviour but changes across regions of primate sensorimotor cortex.
    1. Neuroscience

    Controllability boosts neural and cognitive signatures of changes-of-mind in uncertain environments

    Marion Rouault, Aurélien Weiss ... Valentin Wyart
    Task controllability manipulations reveal that information seeking is associated with reduced confidence and active hypothesis testing, as well as stronger neurophysiological correlates of attention and arousal.
    1. Medicine

    A global view of the aspiring physician-scientist

    Christopher S Williams, W Kimryn Rathmell ... Mone Zaidi
    Challenges faced by the declining global workforce of young physician-scientists are highlighted, and a unified view on how to revive and reinvigorate this critical pool of dual-trained physicians worldwide is provided.
    1. Neuroscience

    Neural effects of continuous theta-burst stimulation in macaque parietal neurons

    Maria C Romero, Lara Merken ... Marco Davare
    Electrophysiological recordings in awake behaving monkeys show the first evidence of the effect of continuous theta-burst stimulation, a widely used repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation protocol, at the level of single neurons.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Genetic and chemical validation of Plasmodium falciparum aminopeptidase PfA-M17 as a drug target in the hemoglobin digestion pathway

    Rebecca CS Edgar, Ghizal Siddiqui ... Tania F de Koning-Ward
    Plasmodium falciparum aminopeptidase PfA-M17 is essential to parasite survival and plays a role in hemoglobin digestion, providing a rationale for further development of inhibitors against this enzyme.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Regional importation and asymmetric within-country spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in the Netherlands

    Alvin X Han, Eva Kozanli ... Chantal Reusken
    Flight restrictions targeted at countries where SARS-CoV-2 variant-of-concern first emerged have limited effectiveness in deterring their introduction into the Netherlands due to the strength of regional travel importation risks in Europe.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Eco-evolutionary dynamics of clonal multicellular life cycles

    Vanessa Ress, Arne Traulsen, Yuriy Pichugin
    The evolution of clonal multicellular life cycles, whose growth is constrained by competition, may lead to coexistence or multistability between several life cycles while evolutionarily stable strategies can be inferred from the analysis of a model with unconstrained growth.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Innexin function dictates the spatial relationship between distal somatic cells in the Caenorhabditis elegans gonad without impacting the germline stem cell pool

    Theadora Tolkin, Ariz Mohammad ... David Greenstein
    Somatic gonad architecture is regulated by innexin function, but sheath cell position does not determine germ cell exit from the stem cell pool.