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1. 1. Neuroscience

   Cerebellum: Sensing how to balance

   Fabrice Ango, Raphaël Dos Reis

   How does the inner ear communicate with the cerebellar cortex to maintain balance and posture?
2. 1. Neuroscience

   Electric Fish: Learning to generalize

   André Longtin

   Electric fish are able to take what they have learnt about sensory processing in certain situations and apply it in other situations.
3. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Immunization: Reducing measles mortality in India

   Anindya Sekhar Bose

   A large-scale campaign to promote measles vaccinations has substantially reduced the number of children dying from the disease in India.
4. 1. Plant Biology

   Plant Stress: Hitting pause on the cell cycle

   Thomas Eekhout, Lieven De Veylder

   Two recently discovered transcription factors stop cells from dividing when plants face extreme heat and DNA damage.
5. 1. Neuroscience

   Locomotion: Building behaviors, one layer at a time

   Claire Wyart, Vatsala Thirumalai

   New interneurons are added in the hindbrain to support more complex movements as young zebrafish get older.
6. 1. Neuroscience

   Hippocampus: Getting the full picture

   Alessandro Luchetti et al.

   A combination of old and new techniques have been used to reveal new details about the behavior of individual neurons across the sleep-wake-cycle.
7. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Neuroscience

   Brain Networks: Modeling breathing rhythms

   Jan-Marino Ramirez, Nathan A Baertsch

   Computational models are helping researchers to understand how certain properties of neurons contribute to respiratory rhythms.
8. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Population Genetics: Why structure matters

   Nick Barton et al.

   Great care is needed when interpreting claims about the genetic basis of human variation based on data from genome-wide association studies.
9. 1. Cancer Biology

   Melanoma: Accelerating cancer without mutations

   Douglas E Brash

   Mice get melanoma faster when they have common, inherited variants in a few genes that control cell-wide changes but also respond to the environment.
10. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Microbiome: Does disease start in the mouth, the gut or both?

    Andrei Prodan et al.

    Oral bacteria colonize the gut more frequently than previously thought.