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1. 1. Neuroscience

   Neuroendocrinology: Surging towards a better understanding of ovulation

   Lillian Rose, Alexander S Kauffman

   The ability to record the real-time activity of specialized neurons in the brains of female mice is providing new insights into the hormonal control of ovulation.
2. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Neuroscience

   Auditory Hair Cells: Examining the role of lipids in hearing

   Yein Christina Park, Angela Ballesteros

   The asymmetry of lipid membranes is tightly regulated in eukaryotic cells, and auditory hair cells are no exception.
3. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

   Lipid Transport: How membranes shape up for lipid transfer

   Takashi Hirashima, Toshiya Endo

   The extraction of a phospholipid called phosphatidic acid from the mitochondrial outer membrane is regulated by the curvature of this membrane.
4. 1. Neuroscience

   Vestibular Hair Cells: Are kinocilia motile?

   Ruth Anne Eatock, Marina Kabirova

   Gene expression patterns in the inner ear put an old question about structures called kinocilia back in motion.
5. 1. Neuroscience

   Neurotransmitters: The sound of neural silence

   Nikki Tjahjono, Yu-Shun Wang, Lin Tian

   A new fluorescent sensor makes it possible to track the neurotransmitter GABA in freely moving animals.
6. 1. Neuroscience

   Language Models: Does the brain really know what word is coming next?

   Richard J Antonello

   Apparent neural encoding of future words may arise from the statistical structure of language itself, rather than from predictive computations in the brain.
7. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Immunology and Inflammation

   Antibody Language Models: Taking the biology seriously makes models better

   Antonio Matas-Gil, Andreas Tiffeau-Mayer

   A new biologically-informed training paradigm enables protein language models to predict affinity maturation trajectories for antibodies.
8. 1. Neuroscience

   Neuroanatomy: Hidden folds reveal brain organization

   Jürgen Germann

   Previously underappreciated folds in the cerebral cortex provide insight into how its structure varies across individuals.
9. 1. Neuroscience

   Orbitofrontal Cortex: Cocaine disrupts hidden states in the brain

   Margo Le, Ronald Keiflin

   Cocaine use disrupts the encoding of abstract states in the orbitofrontal cortex.
10. 1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Glycobiology: How enzymes make the right choice during biosynthesis

    Ana S Ramírez, Camilo Perez

    The biosynthesis of an important biopolymer called hyaluronan requires an enzyme that discriminates between two different substrates.