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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Ovarian Biology: Revisiting the rete ovarii

    Yan Zhang, Hua Zhang
    Long thought to have little relevance to ovarian physiology, the rete ovarii may have a role in follicular dynamics and reproductive health.
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Viruses: How herpes is assembled

    Dawid S Zyla
    A combination of imaging techniques reveals how herpes simplex virus type 1 assembles within infected cells, highlighting the roles of essential viral proteins in viral assembly and exit.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Metabolism: Insulin control in fruit flies

    Omowumi Kayode
    Investigating how the production of insulin is regulated in fruit flies reveals surprising insights that may help to better understand how this process unfolds in humans.
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  1. Anne Urai and Clare Kelly (CC BY 4.0)

    Activism and Science: Anne Urai and Clare Kelly on responding to the climate and biodiversity crises

    How an economic framework may inspire new ways to tackle the climate crisis.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Vascular Development: Enhancing our understanding of endothelial cells

    Guillermo Luxán
    What determines whether an endothelial cell becomes part of an artery, a vein or a capillary?
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Cellular Energy Production: Mycofactocin and the mycobacterial electron transport chain

    Stephanie M Stuteley, Ghader Bashiri
    In the bacterium M. smegmatis, an enzyme called MftG allows the cofactor mycofactocin to transfer electrons released during ethanol metabolism to the electron transport chain.
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    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Transcription: The plusses and minuses of DNA torsion

    Steven Henikoff, David L Levens
    A new method for mapping torsion provides insights into the ways that the genome responds to the torsion generated by RNA polymerase II.
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  2. Episode 97: February 2025

    In this episode we hear about opioid overdoses, a new technique for studying teamwork in animals, making the most of fMRI data, how childhood adversity blunts the fear response in later life, and the neuroscientists looking to link patterns of brain activity to specific thought processes - by performing brain scans on people as they watch movies.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Neurodegeneration: A role for RNA knots in Alzheimer’s disease

    Silvia Galli, Marco Di Antonio
    The buildup of knot-like RNA structures in brain cells may be the key to understanding how uncontrolled protein aggregation drives Alzheimer’s disease.
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    1. Developmental Biology

    Morphogenesis: Fluid transport comes to the fore

    Yufei Wu, Sean X Sun
    Proteins that allow water to move in and out of cells help shape the development of new blood vessels.
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