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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Female-germline specific protein Sakura interacts with Otu and is crucial for germline stem cell renewal and differentiation and oogenesis

    Azali Azlan, Li Zhu, Ryuya Fukunaga
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Endophilin A1 facilitates organization of the GABAergic postsynaptic machinery to maintain excitation-inhibition balance

    Xue Chen, Deng Pan ... Yanrui Yang
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Solid
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Planar cell polarity coordination in a cnidarian embryo provides clues to animal body axis evolution

    Julie Uveira, Antoine Donati ... Tsuyoshi Momose
    The jellyfish embryonic body axis is globally coordinated by conserved planar cell polarity (PCP) mechanisms and oriented by localised Wnt3 in two steps, highlighting PCP’s role in animal axis evolution.
    1. Cell Biology

    Negative regulation of miRNA sorting into EVs is mediated by the capacity of RBP PCBP2 to impair the SYNCRIP-dependent miRNA loading

    Francesco Marocco, Sabrina Garbo ... Marco Tripodi
    PCBP2 promotes miRNA cell retention by counteracting SYNCRIP-dependent miRNAs EV loading.
    1. Cell Biology

    Engineered Migrasomes: Harnessing Core Migrasome Machinery and Hypotonic Shock to Develop a Robust and Thermally Stable Vaccine Platform

    Dongju Wang, Haifang Wang ... Zhihua Liu
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
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    1. Cell Biology

    Cellular characterization of the mouse collecting lymphatic vessels reveals that lymphatic muscle cells are the innate pacemaker cells

    Scott D Zawieja, Grace A Pea ... Michael J Davis
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Fundamental
    • Convincing
    1. Cell Biology

    FMRP Regulates Neuronal RNA Granules Containing Stalled Ribosomes, Not Where Ribosomes Stall

    Jewel T-Y Li, Mehdi Amiri ... Wayne S Sossin
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Cell Biology

    Dominant spinal muscular atrophy linked mutations in the cargo binding domain of BICD2 result in altered interactomes and dynein hyperactivity

    Hannah Neiswender, Rajalakshmi Veeranan-Karmegam ... Graydon B Gonsalvez
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Cell Biology

    Functionally-Coupled Ion Channels Begin Co-assembling at the Start of Their Synthesis

    Roya Pournejati, Jessica M Huang ... Oscar Vivas
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Cell Biology

    Focal adhesion-derived liquid-liquid phase separations regulate mRNA translation

    Abhishek Kumar, Keiichiro Tanaka, Martin A Schwartz
    Focal adhesion derived p130Cas condensates regulate translation in an adhesion strength dependent manner.
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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Cell Biology
    3. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Allosteric Regulation of Kinase Activity – call for papers

    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Imaging methods are vastly underreported

    Guillermo Marqués, Thomas Pengo, Mark A Sanders
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Philosophy of Biology: Knowledge and illusions

    Antony M Jose

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