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  1. Opening the gates

    The mechanisms that allow proteins called POTs to open and import crucial molecules into cells are revealed through computer simulations and cell experiments.

  2. Terminating stem cells

    Stem cells in the optic lobe of fruit flies are eliminated during development through a combination of mechanisms.

  3. Learning to sleep on the clock

    In fruit flies, nutrient availability and feeding behaviours in early life shape the development of the sleep/wake cycle.

  4. Ramping up motivation

    Scientists have revealed how two parts of the brain’s frontal cortex work together to motivate goal-directed behaviour.

  5. Vulnerable cancer cells

    A genetic screen reveals genes that some ovarian cancer cells require to survive a period of inactivity.

  6. Understanding consciousness

    A mathematical framework provides new insights into how information is processed in the brain when consciousness is lost due to anaesthesia or brain injury.

  7. Hunting the elusive axo-axonic cell

    A new technique for specifically labelling a rare type of interneuron sheds light on their distribution and connectivity in the brain.

  8. A picture is worth more than one word

    The brain’s visual areas independently process rich levels of information from a scene to help identify objects while retaining other details.
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