eLife Magazine

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   Episode 105: September 2026

   In this episode, we hear about the origins of our individuality, how synaesthetes' pupil size changes just by thinking of a colour, female chickadees expanding the spectrum of cognitive abilities through non-monogamy, urban wildlife, and the switch to DNA organisation that accompanies cancer.
   
2. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Computational and Systems Biology

   Philosophy of Biology: The power of theory in the life sciences

   Jacob L Fine, Finn Creeggan ... Adam MR Groh

   Theory can help address cell and molecular biology’s major challenges, particularly those arising from large omics datasets.
3. 1. Genetics and Genomics

   Environmental Learning: How experience shapes individuality

   Bassem A Hassan

   Behavioural diversity across fruit flies changes with individual learning, even when genetic, past and momentary environmental factors are held constant.

4. Point of View: Scientific writing is not a murder mystery

   Charlotte A Dodson

   What murder mysteries can tell us about how not to write a scientific article.
5. 1. Neuroscience

   Visual Categorization: How monkeys carve up the visual world

   Binxu Wang

   Monkeys generalize many visual categorization rules, such as animate versus inanimate, but fail on culturally defined ones, placing their behavior closer to networks trained on images alone than to humans.
6. 1. Cell Biology

   Stress: How to give cells an identity crisis

   Paige Dillon, Julie Hollien

   The transcription factor CHOP helps cells switch from an emergency stress response to a chronic one, where cells survive but lose some of the functions that define their identity.
7. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Malaria Prevention: Using mathematical models to optimise mosquito net distribution

   Carlos A Prete Jr

   Tailoring malaria control interventions to regional transmission dynamics and behavioural characteristics can optimise them in resource-limited settings.
8. 1. Plant Biology

   Mixotrophy: An updated view of glucose pathways in cyanobacteria

   José Manuel García-Fernández

   Contrary to previous belief, the cyanobacterium Synechocystis lacks the Entner-Doudoroff pathway for glucose metabolism.
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   Episode 104: July 2026

   In this episode, we explore how male gorillas trade size for sperm production, how fever changes the stickiness of malaria-infected cells, the neuroscience behind gambling machines, whether babies are born hardwired to dance, and how bird eggs have adapted to life at high altitudes.
   
10. 1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Organ Development: Following your heart as it takes shape

    Alexandra Trouilloud, Nicole C Dubois

    A novel computational pipeline reveals patterns of tissue movement and growth in early heart formation and advances virtual modeling of development.