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Highlights

    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Identifying rare tumors

    Qingchen Yuan, Prabhjot Kaur, Olga A Guryanova
    1. Neuroscience

    The many roles of oxytocin

    Nicole Rigney
    1. Neuroscience

    Exploring a single decision

    Bharath Chandra Talluri, Hendrikje Nienborg
    1. Medicine
    2. Neuroscience

    An alternative to opioids

    Jie Zhang, Jianguo Cheng

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  1. Being Neurodivergent in Academia: Navigating neurodiversity in higher education in India

    Deepali Taneja, Poornima Viswanathan, Sahana V Rajan
    True inclusion starts in academia when we move from a deficit-based perspective to one that recognises and nurtures the unique strengths and talents of neurodivergent individuals.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Stem Cells: Don’t be so naïve

    Valerie Horsley, Aya Nasserdine
    New evidence sheds light on actin regulation of pluripotency in human embryonic stem cells.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Decisions: Tracking the evolution of a single choice

    Bharath Chandra Talluri, Hendrikje Nienborg
    Measuring the activity of hundreds of neurons in macaque brains simultaneously provides further evidence that drift-diffusion dynamics underlie how decisions are made in the brain.
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Brain Development: Investigating the impact of ketogenic diets

    Nalia Samba, Marie Gendrel
    Exposure to ketone bodies in early development can reduce neurological impairments in a strain of the nematode C. elegans with PTEN defects.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Vole Parenting: A fine line between attack and care

    Nicole Rigney
    Oxytocin neuron projections from two brain regions involved in parental care regulate both parental care and infanticidal behaviors in virgin mandarin voles.
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    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    Point of View: Being a PhD student in Morocco today

    Anas Bedraoui
    Early-career researchers in the Global South have to overcome obstacles that are not found in high-income countries, but in Morocco at least, the future is looking brighter than the past.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Gene Fusion: Decoding the identity of rare tumors

    Qingchen Yuan, Prabhjot Kaur, Olga A Guryanova
    Solitary fibrous tumors have gene expression signatures similar to those of neuroendocrine tumors.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Dopamine: Making memories

    Francesco Longo
    The neurotransmitter dopamine helps form long-term memories by increasing the production of proteins through a unique signaling pathway.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Neuroscience: Unveiling hidden sources of noise

    Morgan Fitzgerald, Eena Kosik, Bradley Voytek
    Changes in neural activity thought to reflect brain aging may be partly influenced by age-dependent signals ‘leaking’ from the heart.
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    1. Medicine
    2. Neuroscience

    Pain Management: A promising alternative to opioids

    Jie Zhang, Jianguo Cheng
    A complex extracted from the amniotic membrane in humans reduces post-surgical pain in mice by directly inhibiting pain-sensing neurons.
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