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1. 1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

   Intraflagellar Transport: Moving proteins along in the cilium

   Narcis Adrian Petriman, Esben Lorentzen

   The structures of the bovine and human BBSome reveal that a conformational change is required to recruit the complex to the ciliary membrane.
2. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Speech Biomechanics: Shaping new sounds

   Timothy D Griffiths et al.

   MRI experiments have revealed how throat singers from Tuva produce their characteristic sound.
3. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Microscopy: Looking below the surface in plants

   Rui Wang, Anna A Dobritsa

   A new way to culture and image flowers is uncovering the processes that take place in reproductive cells buried deep in plants.
4. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Mortality: The challenges of estimating biological age

   Alexey Moskalev

   A comparison of nine different approaches over a period of 20 years reveals the most promising indicators for biological age.
5. 1. Neuroscience

   Physical Inference: How the brain represents mass

   Grant Fairchild, Jacqueline C Snow

   New fMRI experiments and machine learning are helping to identify how the mass of objects is processed in the brain.
6. 1. Developmental Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Plant Reproduction: Shaping the genome of plants

   Ajeet Chaudhary et al.

   Fertilization of an egg cell by more than one sperm cell can produce viable progeny in a flowering plant.
7. 1. Developmental Biology

   Heart Development and Regeneration: Metabolism makes and mends the heart

   Megan L Martik

   Experiments in zebrafish have shed new light on the relationship between development and regeneration in the heart.
8. 1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Epigenetics: A memory of longevity

   Felicity Emerson et al.

   Worms with increased levels of the epigenetic mark H3K9me2 have a longer lifespan that can be passed down to future generations.
9. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Two-component Signaling Pathways: A bacterial Goldilocks mechanism

   Irene M Kim, Hendrik Szurmant

   Bacillus subtilis can measure the activity of the enzymes that remodel the cell wall to ensure that the levels of activity are ‘just right’.
10. 1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Cortical Development: Do progenitors play dice?

    Esther Klingler, Denis Jabaudon

    The wide range of cell types produced by single progenitors in the neocortex of mice may result from stochastic rather than deterministic processes.