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  1. Research Culture: Welcome to the lab

    Andrey Andreev, Valerie Komatsu ... Maurice Y Lee
    Having a formal onboarding procedure for new lab members can lead to a happier and more productive working environment.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Medicine

    Cancer: The aging epigenome

    Brandon L Pierce
    A new approach helps to assess the impact of accelerated epigenetic aging on the risk of cancer.
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  2. Point of View: Promoting constructive feedback on preprints with the FAST principles

    Sandra Franco Iborra, Jessica Polka, Iratxe Puebla
    Ensuring that public feedback on preprints is focused, appropriate, specific and transparent (or FAST) will help to develop a thriving culture for reviewing and commenting on preprints.
    1. Neuroscience

    Learning: The devil is in the task structure

    Orit Nafcha, Uri Hertz
    Conflicting evidence about how the brain processes social and individual learning stems from which type of information is presented as the primary source of knowledge during experiments.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Perception: Where functional MRI stops, metabolism starts

    Polytimi Frangou, William T Clarke
    Combining techniques that track blood oxygenation and biochemicals during neuronal activity reveals how the brain computes perceived and unperceived stimuli.
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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Artificial Intelligence: Exploring the conformational diversity of proteins

    Avner Schlessinger, Massimiliano Bonomi
    An artificial intelligence-based method can predict distinct conformational states of membrane transporters and receptors.
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    Career Change: When dreams don’t come true

    Adna Dumitrescu
    As she closes the door on her time in academia, a neuroscientist faces unexpected grief.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Viruses: A frameshift in time

    Martina M Yordanova, Pavel V Baranov
    The efficiency with which ribosomes shift reading frames when decoding viral RNA may change over the course of an infection.
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    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Sexual Conflict: Evolving new ways to secure a mate

    Xiaodan Lin, Dong Ren
    Fossils shed light on mating strategies in scorpionflies.
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    1. Plant Biology

    The Natural History of Model Organisms: The biology of C. richardii as a tool to understand plant evolution

    Sylvia P Kinosian, Paul G Wolf
    The natural history of the model fern Ceratopteris richardii provides opportunities for unique studies and makes it an important system to include in comparative work.