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    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Determinants of trafficking, conduction, and disease within a K+ channel revealed through multiparametric deep mutational scanning

    Willow Coyote-Maestas, David Nedrud ... Daniel Schmidt
    By measuring the impacts of thousands of mutations on potassium channel trafficking and function, we illuminate the molecular basis of folding, structure–function relationships, and how these are altered in disease.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Host chitinase 3-like-1 is a universal therapeutic target for SARS-CoV-2 viral variants in COVID-19

    Suchitra Kamle, Bing Ma ... Jack A Elias
    Intervention of CHI3L1 using anti-CHI3L1 monoclonal antibody or chitinase inhibitor kasugamycin blocks epithelial infection of various SARS-CoV2 variants, suggesting that CHI3L1 is a universal and effective therapeutic target of COVID-19 infection, including recent omicron variants.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Loss of Elp1 disrupts trigeminal ganglion neurodevelopment in a model of familial dysautonomia

    Carrie E Leonard, Jolie Quiros ... Lisa A Taneyhill
    Trigeminal nerve deficits observed in familial dysautonomia, which arises from mutations in ELP1, are due to loss of neural crest-derived TrkA nociceptors, while placode-derived TrkB and TrkC neurons are spared.
    1. Neuroscience

    Age-associated changes to neuronal dynamics involve a disruption of excitatory/inhibitory balance in C. elegans

    Gregory S Wirak, Jeremy Florman ... Christopher V Gabel
    Comprehensive multi-neuron fluorescence imaging in C. elegans reveals age-associated changes in neuronal activity that include a breakdown of system-wide organization, changes in neuronal frequency dynamics, and a disruption of the balance between excitatory and inhibitory signaling.
    1. Cell Biology

    Lipolysis of bone marrow adipocytes is required to fuel bone and the marrow niche during energy deficits

    Ziru Li, Emily Bowers ... Ormond A MacDougald
    Bone marrow adipocyte lipolysis is required for maintaining bone mass under conditions of energy deficiency and is necessary for myelopoiesis following caloric restriction and irradiation.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    Inferring characteristics of bacterial swimming in biofilm matrix from time-lapse confocal laser scanning microscopy

    Guillaume Ravel, Michel Bergmann ... Simon Labarthe
    A new mathematical method has been developed, implemented and validated for the analysis of time-lapse confocal laser scanning microscopy images to characterize the swimming behavior of bacterial swimmers moving in the exogenous matrix of pathogenic biofilms.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    The evolutionary history of human spindle genes includes back-and-forth gene flow with Neandertals

    Stéphane Peyrégne, Janet Kelso ... Svante Pääbo
    Analyses of spindle genes with missense changes in modern humans reveal evidence for positive selection since the split with archaic humans and show that modern humans interacted with Neandertals more than once in the past 200,000 years.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Cancer type classification using plasma cell-free RNAs derived from human and microbes

    Shanwen Chen, Yunfan Jin ... Pengyuan Wang
    Both human and microbe cell-free RNA features in plasma could distinguish tumors of different primary locations.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Niche-specific genome degradation and convergent evolution shaping Staphylococcus aureus adaptation during severe infections

    Stefano G Giulieri, Romain Guérillot ... Benjamin P Howden
    A large-scale analysis of Staphylococcus aureus within-host evolution based on a comprehensive catalogue of bacterial genetic variation reveals an excess of genome degradation signatures in infecting strains and new genetic loci of clinically relevant adaptation.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Circadian programming of the ellipsoid body sleep homeostat in Drosophila

    Tomas Andreani, Clark Rosensweig ... Ravi Allada
    The circadian clock gates sleep drive by modulating sleep homeostat neurons.