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    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Medicine
    3. Cancer Biology

    Special Issue: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer prevention, control, care and survivorship

    Edited by Eduardo Franco et al.
    Our latest Special Issue brings together research covering many different aspects of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer outcomes across the globe.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    COVID-19 and Cancer: Acting on past lessons and learning new ones

    Eduardo L Franco, Diane M Harper
    eLife has published a special issue containing articles that examine how cancer prevention, control, care and survivorship were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Cancer Survivorship: Protecting the heart

    Joshua M Inglis, Arduino A Mangoni
    Blocking a protein known as EPAC1 may prevent the development of heart-related side effects caused by a chemotherapy drug.
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    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Phenotypic Evolution: Predicting the future

    Greg M Walter, Katrina McGuigan
    Experiments on worms suggest that a statistical measure called the G matrix can accurately predict how phenotypes will adapt to a novel environment over multiple generations.
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    Being a Scientist: In the name of perseverance

    Tanya Espino-Sanchez
    Between honoring her immigrant family and making her children proud, a first-generation PhD student fights for her place in academia.
    1. Plant Biology

    Root Growth: Orchestrating pH levels in plants

    Elke Barbez
    The growth of a plant root relies on careful control of root surface pH.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Neuroscience Tools: Studying behavior under constrained movement

    Ranier Gutierrez
    A new platform for studying how brain activity is linked to behavior enables researchers to perform diverse experiments on mice that have their heads immobilized.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Epilepsy: How parasitic larvae affect the brain

    Zin-Juan Klaft, Chris Dulla
    The release of the neurotransmitter glutamate by the parasitic tapeworm Taenia solium appears to be implicated in the pathophysiology of a widespread, but neglected, form of adult-onset epilepsy.
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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Symbiosis: How corals get their nutrients

    Elizabeth A Hambleton
    Algae living inside corals provide sugars for their host by digesting their own cell walls.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Brain Communication: What calcium channels remember

    Thomas Kaas, Jana Nerlich, Stefan Hallermann
    A new mechanism involving intermediate gating states of calcium channels explains how analogue postsynaptic potentials influence neurotransmitter release.
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