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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Condensates: When fixation creates fiction

    Judith Miné-Hattab
    A chemical regularly used to image cells can dramatically alter the way cellular compartments called condensates look under the microscope.
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  1. Being a Scientist: When cancer strikes (twice)

    Nicole Swann
    A young group leader reflects on academic culture and working while going through cancer treatments.
    1. Medicine
    2. Neuroscience

    Angelman Syndrome: How late is too late for treatment?

    Lawrence T Reiter
    Experiments on mice suggest that an approach called antisense oligonucleotide therapy may be able to treat some symptoms of Angelman syndrome, including problems with epilepsy and sleep.
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  2. Point of View: Rethinking academia in a time of climate crisis

    Anne E Urai, Clare Kelly
    Universities must change so that the scientific enterprise can respond to the climate crisis.
    1. Ecology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Gut Bacteria: Synergy in symbiosis

    Aileen Berasategui, Hassan Salem
    Honeybees rely on their microbial gut symbionts to overcome a potent toxin found in pollen and nectar.
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    1. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Regeneration: How the liver keeps itself in shape

    Stephanie May, Thomas G Bird
    After fasting, hepatocytes proliferate to help the liver grow back to its original size.
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    1. Physics of Living Systems
    2. Plant Biology

    Seed Dispersal: Deciding when to move

    Lauren Sullivan
    Dandelion seeds respond to wet weather by closing their plumes, which reduces dispersal when wind conditions are poor.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Entorhinal Cortex: Use it or lose it

    Ohad Rechnitz, Dori Derdikman
    Blocking the activity of neurons in a region of the brain involved in memory leads to cell death, which could help explain the spatiotemporal disorientation observed in Alzheimer’s disease.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Motion Processing: How the brain stays in sync with the real world

    Damian Koevoet, Andre Sahakian, Samson Chota
    The brain can predict the location of a moving object to compensate for the delays caused by the processing of neural signals.
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    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    T Cells: Ready and waiting to go

    Laura Rivino, Linda Wooldridge
    Some T cells that have been activated by a herpesvirus can also respond to SARS-CoV-2, even if the original herpesvirus infection happened before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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