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1. 1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

   Intraflagellar Transport: Moving proteins along in the cilium

   Narcis Adrian Petriman, Esben Lorentzen

   The structures of the bovine and human BBSome reveal that a conformational change is required to recruit the complex to the ciliary membrane.
2. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Speech Biomechanics: Shaping new sounds

   Timothy D Griffiths et al.

   MRI experiments have revealed how throat singers from Tuva produce their characteristic sound.
3. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Microscopy: Looking below the surface in plants

   Rui Wang, Anna A Dobritsa

   A new way to culture and image flowers is uncovering the processes that take place in reproductive cells buried deep in plants.
4. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Mortality: The challenges of estimating biological age

   Alexey Moskalev

   A comparison of nine different approaches over a period of 20 years reveals the most promising indicators for biological age.

5. Research Culture: Setting the right tone

   Tanita Casci, Elizabeth Adams

   Improving the research culture of an institution may lead to a fairer, more rewarding and successful environment, but how do you start making changes?
6. 1. Neuroscience

   Physical Inference: How the brain represents mass

   Grant Fairchild, Jacqueline C Snow

   New fMRI experiments and machine learning are helping to identify how the mass of objects is processed in the brain.
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   Episode 63: January 2020

   In this episode we hear about a fall in average body temperature over time, how our brain encodes seasons, why members of underrepresented communities leave academia and more.
8. 1. Developmental Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Plant Reproduction: Shaping the genome of plants

   Ajeet Chaudhary et al.

   Fertilization of an egg cell by more than one sperm cell can produce viable progeny in a flowering plant.
9. 1. Developmental Biology

   Heart Development and Regeneration: Metabolism makes and mends the heart

   Megan L Martik

   Experiments in zebrafish have shed new light on the relationship between development and regeneration in the heart.
10. 1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Epigenetics: A memory of longevity

    Felicity Emerson et al.

    Worms with increased levels of the epigenetic mark H3K9me2 have a longer lifespan that can be passed down to future generations.