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1. 1. Human Biology and Medicine

   Adverse Drug Reactions: The benefits of data mining

   Audrey Bone, Keith Houck

   Careful analysis of a database populated by physicians and patients sheds new light on the side effects of drugs.
2. 1. Developmental Biology and Stem Cells
   2. Human Biology and Medicine

   Organ Development: Tips from the embryonic lung

   Avinash Waghray, Jayaraj Rajagopal

   A new source of progenitor cells can now be used to study hidden aspects of human lung development and pediatric lung disease.
3. 1. Neuroscience

   Mechanotransduction: Two views of the same stimulus

   Wayne A Johnson

   Signals from two different membrane proteins are combined to modulate how strongly sensory neurons respond to mechanical force.
4. 1. Biochemistry

   Post-translational Modifications: Reversing ADP-ribosylation

   Giuliana Katharina Moeller, Gyula Timinszky

   Interactions between serines and molecules of ADP-ribose play an important role in signaling that the DNA in a cell has been damaged and needs to be repaired.
5. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Developmental Biology and Stem Cells

   Tissue Regeneration: Regional differences

   Zhou Yu, Ting Chen

   The skin is a complex landscape containing regions in which hair follicles exhibit different types of behavior.
6. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Genes and Chromosomes

   Heterochromatin: Silencing repetitive DNA

   Nahid Iglesias, Danesh Moazed

   Some RNAs in mammalian cells can help to silence the DNA they are transcribed from.
7. 1. Neuroscience

   Neuroplasticity: Exciting experiences make neurons less excitable

   Prakruti Nanda et al.

   Neurons in the brain of a female mouse that respond to the scent of a given male become suppressed after mating.
8. 1. Human Biology and Medicine
   2. Neuroscience

   MRI: Searching for epilepsy’s crystal ball

   Olli Gröhn, Alejandra Sierra

   Multi-modal MRI techniques have identified biomarkers that could help to predict whether someone will develop epilepsy.
9. 1. Genomics and Evolutionary Biology

   Meiotic Recombination: Birth and death of a protein

   Julie Clément, Bernard de Massy

   The ways in which recombination sites are determined during meiosis are becoming clearer following a phylogenomic analysis for 225 different species.
10. 1. Genomics and Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Virus Evolution: A new twist in measuring mutation rates

    Bartram L Smith, Claus O Wilke

    The influenza virus mutates faster than we previously thought.