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  1. Research Communication: Ways to increase equity, diversity and inclusion

    Devang Mehta, Yaw Bediako ... Tracey Weissgerber
    ​​ The eLife Early-Career Advisory Group calls for radical changes at eLife and other journals to make science more diverse and inclusive.
  2. June 2020

    Episode 67: June 2020

    In this episode, we hear about a controversial claim in plant science, why we cannot get enough of chocolate, HIV in women, sex as a biological variable, and why not all zebrafish like to mingle.
    1. Neuroscience

    Optogenetics: Exciting inhibition in primates

    Wim Vanduffel, Xiaolian Li
    A new genetic marker enables precise control over a group of inhibitory neurons in monkeys.
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    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Antibiotic Resistance: Genomics against gonorrhoea

    Nicholas Medland
    Surveillance strategies based on whole genome sequencing could help with the early identification and detection of new forms of drug-resistant gonorrhoea.
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Developmental Immunology: An atlas for hemocytes in an insect

    Samuel Liegeois, Dominique Ferrandon
    Single-cell RNA sequencing has revealed distinct subpopulations of hemocytes in fruit fly larvae.
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cancer Biology

    Anti-Cancer Drugs: The mitochondrial paradox

    Sophie L Penman, Rebecca L Jensen ... Amy E Chadwick
    A structural motif that is found in two cancer drugs may be responsible for their ability to tackle cancers and for the side-effects caused by the drugs.
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  3. Living Science: Intentional text

    Eve Marder
    It is important to read what the authors have written and to pay attention to every word when you write.
    1. Medicine

    Meta-Research: COVID-19 medical papers have fewer women first authors than expected

    Jens Peter Andersen, Mathias Wullum Nielsen ... Reshma Jagsi
    Lockdowns in the United States caused by the COVID-19 pandemic appear related to a decrease in the number of women publishing research papers, especially as first authors.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Philosophy of Biology: The analysis of living systems can generate both knowledge and illusions

    Antony M Jose
    By thinking about experimental techniques in terms of six broad approaches – perturbation, visualization, substitution, characterization, reconstitution, and simulation – researchers may be able to generate more reliable inferences.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience
    Pond snail illustration

    The Natural History of Model Organisms: The unlimited potential of the great pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis

    István Fodor, Ahmed AA Hussein ... Zsolt Pirger
    The great pond snail is a multipurpose model organism and a contemporary choice for addressing a wide range of biological questions, problems and phenomena in the laboratory and the field.