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    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Parkinson’s Disease: Linking mitochondria to the immune response

    Rebecca L Wallings, Mary K Herrick, Malú Gámez Tansey
    A gene associated with Parkinson’s disease regulates mitochondrial homeostasis, thus affecting innate immunity.
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  1. People walking in an airport

    Episode 65: March 2020

    In this episode we hear about bats hosting deadly viruses, screening travelers for COVID-19, Tuvan singers and predicting educational success.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Ion Channels: Taking a close look at a large-pore channel

    Pablo S Gaete, Jorge E Contreras
    The structure of pannexin 1, a channel protein with a large pore, has been determined for the first time.
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Bacterial Immunity: An adaptable defense

    Michael A Schelling, Dipali G Sashital
    The response of bacteria to the threat posed by phages depends on their local environment.
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  2. Point of View: Mitigating the impact of conference and travel cancellations on researchers’ futures

    Tracey Weissgerber, Yaw Bediako ... Andy Tay
    As the scientific community adapts to new working conditions in response to the growing pandemic, early-career researchers recommend actions to help lessen the unintended consequences of canceled conferences.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Developmental Variability: Exerting an influence on evolution

    Charles C Roseman
    Experiments on mice have shown that developmental processes are influencing the generation of phenotypic variation in a way that shapes evolution.
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  3. Peer Review: Publishing in the time of COVID-19

    Michael B Eisen, Anna Akhmanova ... Detlef Weigel
    eLife is making changes to its policies on peer review in response to the impact of COVID-19 on the scientific community.
  4. Meta-Research: Reader engagement with medical content on Wikipedia

    Lauren A Maggio, Ryan M Steinberg ... John M Willinsky
    Readers of health and medicine Wikipedia pages are more likely to hover over and view footnotes than other readers, but less likely to view the hyperlinked sources in these footnotes.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Translation: Finding sense in the context

    Kim M Keeling, David M Bedwell
    Ribosomal profiling has shed new light on how ribosomes can ignore stop codons in messenger RNA.
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    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Science Forum: The single-cell eQTLGen consortium

    MGP van der Wijst, DH de Vries ... L Franke
    The single-cell eQTLGen consortium aims to pinpoint the cellular contexts in which disease-causing genetic variants affect gene expression and its regulation.