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    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Firefly genomes illuminate parallel origins of bioluminescence in beetles

    Timothy R Fallon, Sarah E Lower ... Jing-Ke Weng
    The first genomic view of beetle luciferase evolution indicates evolutionary independence of luciferase between fireflies and click-beetles, and provide valuable datasets which will accelerate the discovery of new biotechnological tools.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Resilience of small intestinal beneficial bacteria to the toxicity of soybean oil fatty acids

    Sara C Di Rienzi, Juliet Jacobson ... Ruth E Ley
    Comparisons between lactobacilli bacteria in the small intestine and those evolved in the lab reveal several modes of resistance to toxic fatty acids.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Genetic therapy in a mitochondrial disease model suggests a critical role for liver dysfunction in mortality

    Ankit Sabharwal, Mark D Wishman ... Stephen C Ekker
    A revertible Leigh Syndrome French Canadian Type (LSFC) disease model recapitulates the clinical phenotypes which can be rescued using a liver-specific genetic model therapy.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Medicine

    Ontogeny of circulating lipid metabolism in pregnancy and early childhood – a longitudinal population study

    Satvika Burugupalli, Adam Alexander T Smith ... Barwon Infant Study Investigator team
    Plasma lipidomic profiling in pregnancy, infancy and early childhood provides a framework to define the relationship between lipid metabolism and health outcomes in early childhood.
    1. Cell Biology

    Membrane fluidity is regulated by the C. elegans transmembrane protein FLD-1 and its human homologs TLCD1/2

    Mario Ruiz, Rakesh Bodhicharla ... Marc Pilon
    Inhibition of C. elegans FLD-1 or Human TLCD1/2 prevents saturated fat lipotoxicity by allowing increased levels of membrane phospholipids that contain fluidizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Medicine

    Metabolic biomarker profiling for identification of susceptibility to severe pneumonia and COVID-19 in the general population

    Heli Julkunen, Anna Cichońska ... Nightingale Health UK Biobank Initiative
    Metabolic biomarkers measured from single blood test can identify apparently healthy people at high susceptibility for developing severe pneumonia, and may also be useful for preventive COVID-19 screening.
    1. Plant Biology

    Point of View: Europe’s first and last field trial of gene-edited plants?

    Jean-Denis Faure, Johnathan A Napier
    The reclassification of gene editing as "GM" will impact on European plant sciences, making it more difficult to validate new traits in field trials and drive forward innovation.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    Repurposing the mammalian RNA-binding protein Musashi-1 as an allosteric translation repressor in bacteria

    Roswitha Dolcemascolo, María Heras-Hernández ... Guillermo Rodrigo
    A mammalian protein with RNA recognition motifs can be used in bacteria to engineer post-transcriptional regulation.
    1. Ecology

    Ocean acidification increases susceptibility to sub-zero air temperatures in ecosystem engineers and limits poleward range shifts

    Jakob Thyrring, Colin D Macleod ... Christopher DG Harley
    A novel experiment shows that ocean acidification decreases freeze tolerance in blue mussels, which may limit their ability to redistribute poleward in response to climate warming.