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    1. Ecology

    Echolocation: The brain limit

    Alexander J Werth, Joseph E Corbett
    How fast the brain and muscles can respond to information about prey location constrains visual and echolocating predators in similar ways.
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    1. Medicine
    2. Neuroscience

    Statistics: Sex difference analyses under scrutiny

    Colby J Vorland
    A survey reveals that many researchers do not use appropriate statistical analyses to evaluate sex differences in biomedical research.
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    1. Cell Biology

    Cancer: Preventing collateral damage

    Harry Quon, Fred Bunz
    In pigs, nitrate supplements can protect salivary glands from the damage caused by radiation therapy to the head and neck.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Connectomes: Mapping the fly’s ‘brain in the brain’

    Stanley Heinze
    Studying neurons and their connections in the central complex of the fruit fly reveals new insights into how their structure and function shape perception and behavior.
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    1. Ecology

    Animal Behaviour: The elusive perspective of a food thief

    Claudia Zeiträg, Ivo Jacobs
    Eurasian jays fail to take into account the point of view and desire of other jays when hiding food they can eat later.
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  1. Episode 76: October 2021

    In this episode, we hear about the ways that junk food affects monkeys, grey hair, empathetic rats, using smart phones to fight COVID-19, and how the slave trade spread disease.
    1. Cell Biology

    Endometrium: Preparing for implantation

    J Julie Kim
    A new laboratory model helps to understand the role of senescent cells in fostering a uterine environment that can support an embryo.
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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    RNA Viruses: What leads to parallel evolution?

    Debapriyo Chakraborty
    The repeated emergence of similar variants of influenza virus is linked to interactions between the virus’s RNA segments.
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    Mosquito infection by gametocytes from cultures exposed to dihydroartemisinin (DHA) from Figure 2, Portugaliza et al.

    Malaria: A Collection of Articles

    Edited by Olivier Silvie et al.
    eLife has recently published a wide range of papers on malaria, covering a diversity of themes including parasite biology, epidemiology, immunology, drugs and vaccines.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Ecology

    Fungi: Sex and self defense

    Milton T Drott
    The fungus Aspergillus nidulans produces secondary metabolites during sexual development to protect itself from predators.
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