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    1. Cell Biology

    Hormone Replacement Therapy: Iron gets in the way

    Kuldeep Singh, Rajeev Malhotra
    Accumulation of iron with age may inhibit the benefits of hormone replacement therapy on cardiovascular disease in late postmenopause.
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    1. Developmental Biology

    Spermatogenesis: All eyes on FOXC2

    Wei Yan, John R McCarrey
    New evidence in mice suggests that cells expressing the transcription factor FOXC2 may form a reservoir of quiescent stem cells that contributes to sperm formation.
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Evolution: Tracing the history of cell types

    Antonia Grausgruber, Roger Revilla-i-Domingo
    A study of sea urchin and sea star larvae paves the way for understanding how cell types evolve and give rise to novel morphologies.
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    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Tuberculosis Vaccine: Dual delivery of antigens shows promise

    Jose L Luque-García, Rafael Prados-Rosales
    The simultaneous delivery of protein and lipid antigens via nanoparticles may help efforts to develop a new vaccine for tuberculosis.
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cancer Biology

    Cancer: How nearby nutrients shape tumor growth

    Nada Kalaany
    Studying the nutrient composition immediately surrounding pancreatic cancer cells provides new insights into their metabolic properties and how they can evade the immune system to promote disease progression.
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Cardiac Development: Tracing the history of a heart

    Brian Spurlock, Li Qian
    Newly developed tools will help researchers understand how the human heart develops and build better models to study and treat congenital heart disease.
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    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Parasitic Relationships: Trapped in time

    Kenneth De Baets, Karina Vanadzina, James Schiffbauer
    Analysis of specimens preserved in amber from the Cretaceous period suggests that nematodes changed their host preference towards insects with a complete metamorphosis more recently.
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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Deep-Sea Adaptation: Surviving under pressure

    Ying Wang, Liandong Yang
    Genomic analysis has shed light on how hadal snailfish have adapted to living at depths of several thousand metres.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Neural Circuits: Comparing mouse and human brains

    Hovy Ho-Wai Wong, Christina You Chien Chou ... Per Jesper Sjöström
    Inhibitory circuit motifs in the mouse brain and the human brain are strikingly similar.
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    1. Ecology

    Behavior: Flying squirrels, hidden treasures

    Pizza Ka Yee Chow
    In the rain forests of Hainan, China, two species of squirrel create grooves on the surface of smooth nuts so that they can wedge them in the forks between branches.
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