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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Science Forum: Building a community to engineer synthetic cells and organelles from the bottom-up

    Oskar Staufer, Jacqueline A De Lora ... Gabriel P López
    The creation of synthetic cells and organelles will open doors to new collaborative and funding opportunities.
  1. Meta-Research: Investigating disagreement in the scientific literature

    Wout S Lamers, Kevin Boyack ... Dakota Murray
    An approach based on cue phrases can be used to identify instances of disagreement in scientific articles and compare the level of disagreement in various disciplines.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Regeneration: A matter of nerves

    Timothy J Duerr, James R Monaghan
    Regrowing new body parts requires neural input to restore appropriately sized limbs in salamanders.
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Photosynthesis: Oxygen overload

    Britta Foerster
    A structure that helps algae photosynthesize when carbon dioxide levels are low may also play a role during hyperoxia conditions.
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    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Motor Control: Sensory feedback can give rise to neural rotations

    Omid G Sani, Maryam M Shanechi
    Investigating how an artificial network of neurons controls a simulated arm suggests that rotational patterns of activity in the motor cortex may rely on sensory feedback from the moving limb.
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    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Science Forum: Author-sourced capture of pathway knowledge in computable form using Biofactoid

    Jeffrey V Wong, Max Franz ... Chris Sander
    Biofactoid is a tool that enables researchers to capture information about molecular interactions in a form that is both human-readable and machine-computable, thereby allowing this information to be integrated into public knowledge-bases and to be widely disseminated.
  2. Yerba Santa leaf segment

    Episode 77: December 2021

    In this episode, we hear about coral bleaching, neolithic diseases, oxytocin, the evolution of disease genes, and plans for an atlas of plant cells.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Division of Labour: Losing out to improve group fitness

    Jos Kramer, Rolf Kümmerli
    A mathematical model provides clues as to why members of a group divide tasks between them even when specialisation reduces the performance of individuals.
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  3. Point of View: Lessons from an initiative to address gender bias

    Kate E Hoy, Bernadette M Fitzgibbon, Anna-Katharine Brem
    How a letter addressing the lack of women invited to speak at a conference in brain stimulation encouraged researchers to take action.
  4. Being a Scientist: A monster of a disease

    Sahana Sitaraman
    When compulsions and obsessive thoughts took over her world, a graduate student found strength in her identity as a scientist.