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    Meta-Research: Dataset decay and the problem of sequential analyses on open datasets

    William Hedley Thompson, Jessey Wright ... Russell A Poldrack
    Open data provides an opportunity to perform new analyses on preexisting data, but trade-offs are required to limit an increase in false positives.
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    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Immunogenetics: Untangling the immune basis of disease susceptibility

    Ruy M Ribeiro, Luis Graca
    Interactions between immune cell receptors and proteins that determine disease susceptibility shed light on how different arms of the immune system are involved in three viral infections and Crohn's disease.
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    1. Cell Biology
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    DASC, a sensitive classifier for measuring discrete early stages in clathrin-mediated endocytosis

    Xinxin Wang, Zhiming Chen ... Gaudenz Danuser
    A new user-intervention-free classification, using single-fluorescent markers, measures conventionally unmeasureable phenotypes in early stages during clathrin-mediated endocytosis.
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    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Deep evolutionary analysis reveals the design principles of fold A glycosyltransferases

    Rahil Taujale, Aarya Venkat ... Natarajan Kannan
    Deep mining of GT-A fold sequences provides an evolutionary framework for investigating complex relationships connecting GT-A fold sequence, structure, function and regulation.
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    2. Neuroscience

    Theoretical relation between axon initial segment geometry and excitability

    Sarah Goethals, Romain Brette
    Theoretical analysis uncovers the impact of axon initial segment plasticity on neural excitability.
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    A molecular view on the escape of lipoplexed DNA from the endosome

    Bart MH Bruininks, Paulo CT Souza ... Siewert J Marrink
    The molecular insight in lipoplex transfection mechanisms helps in the development of efficient and affordable gene delivery systems.
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    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Approaching boiling point stability of an alcohol dehydrogenase through computationally-guided enzyme engineering

    Friso S Aalbers, Maximilian JLJ Fürst ... Marco W Fraaije
    By combining structure-based computational predictions and a thorough structural analysis, a highly thermostable enzyme, alcohol dehydrogenase, has been engineered.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Deciphering anomalous heterogeneous intracellular transport with neural networks

    Daniel Han, Nickolay Korabel ... Thomas A Waigh
    Direct estimation of the Hurst exponent shows that endosomes and lysosomes reside in regimes of persistent and anti-persistent motion with heavy-tailed residence time distributions and motion correlated with endocytic function.
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    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Measuring the distribution of fitness effects in somatic evolution by combining clonal dynamics with dN/dS ratios

    Marc J Williams, Luis Zapata ... Trevor A Graham
    Measurement of the distribution of fitness effects of new mutations arising in human oesophagus and skin, via new mathematical theory linking dn/ds values and fitness coefficients.
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    2. Neuroscience

    A model for focal seizure onset, propagation, evolution, and progression

    Jyun-you Liou, Elliot H Smith ... LF Abbott
    Usage-dependent inhibition breakdown and neural adaptation underpins the key spatiotemporal dynamics of human focal seizures.