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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Tau hyperphosphorylation impairs cooperative binding to microtubules and perturbs organelle trafficking in neurons

    Daniel Beaudet, Christopher L Berger, Adam G Hendricks
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Non-visual light modulates behavioral memory and gene expression in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Zhijian Ji, Bingying Wang ... Dengke K Ma
    Visible light engages a non-visual, bZIP-dependent transcriptional pathway in peripheral tissues that communicates with the nervous system to shape behavioral plasticity and memory, enabling optogenetic-like gene control without photoreceptors.
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    1. Cell Biology

    The insulin / IGF axis is critically important controlling gene transcription in the podocyte

    Jennifer A Hurcombe, Lusyan Dayalan ... Richard JM Coward
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Death receptor 6 does not regulate axon degeneration and Schwann cell injury responses during Wallerian degeneration

    Bogdan Beirowski, Haoran Huang, Elisabetta Babetto
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    1. Cell Biology

    Abnormal shear stress induces ferroptosis in endothelial cells via KLF6 downregulation

    Jingang Cui, Zhiyu Fan ... Yongsheng Ding
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Cancer Biology

    Uev1A counteracts oncogenic Ras stimuli in both polyploid and diploid cells

    Qi Zhang, Yunfeng Wang ... Shaowei Zhao
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Synaptotagmin-7 is required for synchronous but not asynchronous facilitation of glutamate release at cortical boutons

    Dimitris Kotzadimitriou, Helen Langley ... Kirill E Volynski
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Male-biased Cyp17a2 orchestrates antiviral sexual dimorphism in fish via STING stabilization and viral protein degradation

    Long-Feng Lu, Bao-jie Cui ... Shun Li
    Cyp17a2 enhances antiviral responses in male zebrafish by stabilizing STING through TRIM11-mediated K33-linked polyubiquitination, boosting IFN production.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Convergent Cellular Adaptation to Freeze-Thaw Stress via a Quiescence-like State in Yeast

    Charuhansini Tvishamayi, Farhan Ali ... Shashi Thutupalli
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Cancer Biology

    Mitochondrial ETF insufficiency drives neoplastic growth by selectively optimizing cancer bioenergetics

    David Papadopoli, Ranveer Palia ... Ivan Topisirovic
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Highlights

    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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    University of Barcelona, Spain
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    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
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