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1. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Neuroscience

   Deep Learning: Tackling the challenges of bioimage analysis

   Daniël M Pelt

   Using multiple human annotators and ensembles of trained networks can improve the performance of deep-learning methods in research.
2. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

   Sperm: The secrets of success

   Kayla M Komondor, Anne E Carlson

   Imaging sperm as they travel through the female reproductive tract has revealed new details about fertilization at the molecular level.
3. 1. Ecology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Antibiotics: Modelling how antimicrobial resistance spreads between wards

   Tjibbe Donker

   Moving patients between wards and prescribing high levels of antibiotics increases the spread of bacterial infections that are resistant to treatment in hospitals.
4. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Photosynthesis: On the art of stealing chloroplasts

   Paulo Cartaxana, Sónia Cruz

   Sea slugs increase the longevity of the chloroplasts they steal from algae by limiting the harmful side-effects of photosynthesis.
5. 1. Neuroscience

   Social Status: Modulating chronic stress

   Debra A Bangasser, Evelyn Ordoñes Sanchez

   Social rank differentially influences how male and female mice respond to chronic stress.
6. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
   2. Computational and Systems Biology

   Nanoscale Signaling: Messages across time and space

   Sascha M Kuhn, André Nadler

   Compartmentalized oscillations of second messengers affect global cellular signaling.
7. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Viral Maturation: How to package the RNA of HIV-1

   Alex Kleinpeter, Eric O Freed

   Interactions between viral RNA and the integrase enzyme are required for HIV-1 particles to become infectious, a process that can be disrupted through multiple mechanisms.
8. 1. Ecology

   Social Behaviour: Finding the right size for a group

   Marlee Tucker

   Vulturine guineafowl range over larger areas, explore more new places and are more likely to reproduce when they live in groups of intermediate size.
9. 1. Plant Biology

   Photosystems: Performing photosynthesis without β-carotene

   Alison Telfer

   Research on mutant tobacco plants shows that a pigment called β-carotene is not necessary for photosynthesis.
10. 1. Evolutionary Biology

    Evolution: How geometry shapes division of labor

    Merlijn Staps, Corina Tarnita

    A mathematical model shows how the shape of early multicellular organisms may have helped cells evolve specialized roles.