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    1. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Notch Signaling: Antibodies get under the skin

    Chiara Levra Levron, Gabriele Piacenti, Giacomo Donati
    By inhibiting receptor-ligand interactions in sebaceous glands, antibodies may be able to treat certain skin conditions.
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    1. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Immune Cells: Growing microglia in the lab

    Jonathan M Levenson, Hio Tong Kam, Dong Feng Chen
    Transplanting microglia derived from human stem cells into mice reveals new possibilities for treating neurodegenerative eye diseases.
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    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Camouflage: Tiny particles help insects evade predators

    Lin Wang, Tak-Sing Wong
    By reducing the reflection of ultraviolet light, hollow nanoparticles called brochosomes help to protect leafhoppers from predators.
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Stem Cells: Don’t be so naïve

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