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Highlights

  1. Improving gender equity

    Sreetama Bhadra, Gabriella Damasceno ... Alexandra Weyrich
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Looking at lens development

    Sarah Y Coomson, Salil A Lachke
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Medicine

    Exploring hypertension

    Wadih EI Khoury, Stephen Y Chan
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Cell crowding and cancer

    Rui Hua, Jean X Jiang
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Targeting single neurons

    Brandon L Holder, Stephane Dissel
    1. Neuroscience

    Neuropeptides and pain

    Weihua Cai, Arkady Khoutorsky

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Latest articles

    1. Neuroscience

    Cognition: When working memory works for our goals

    Jacob A Miller
    When navigating environments with changing rules, human brain circuits flexibly adapt how and where we retain information to help us achieve our immediate goals.
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    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Breast Cancer: How cell crowding causes cancer cells to spread

    Rui Hua, Jean X Jiang
    Cell crowding causes high-grade breast cancer cells to become more invasive by activating a molecular switch that causes the cells to shrink and spread.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Pain: Revisiting the role of Substance P and CGRPα

    Weihua Cai, Arkady Khoutorsky
    Mice lacking two neuropeptides thought to be essential for processing pain show no change in how they respond to a wide range of harmful stimuli.
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    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Neuronal Signaling: Cell-specific tools for understanding behavior

    Brandon L Holder, Stephane Dissel
    Novel tools that allow neuron-specific investigations of the structure controlling sleep regulation in fruit flies reveal the extent of neuronal heterogeneity.
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Medicine

    Pulmonary Hypertension: When cell teamwork turns toxic

    Wadih EI Khoury, Stephen Y Chan
    In pulmonary hypertension, a combination of metabolic and mechanical dysfunction leads to irreversible vascular damage.
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  1. Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Improving gender equity in academia depends on the workplace environment

    Sreetama Bhadra, Gabriella Damasceno ... Alexandra Weyrich
    The authors recommend actions that can be taken by individuals, institutions and policymakers to promote gender equity.
    1. Neuroscience

    Neuronal Signaling: At the crossroads of calcium signaling, protein synthesis and neuropeptide release

    Jakob Rupert, Dragomir Milovanovic
    By influencing calcium homeostasis, local protein synthesis and the endoplasmic reticulum, a small protein called Rab10 emerges as a crucial cytoplasmic regulator of neuropeptide secretion.
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Lens Development: Bringing signaling complexity into focus

    Sarah Y Coomson, Salil A Lachke
    A study in mice reveals key interactions between proteins involved in fibroblast growth factor signaling and how they contribute to distinct stages of eye lens development.
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    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Inflammasomes: A tale of two caspases

    Denise M Monack
    Macrophages control intracellular pathogens like Salmonella by using two caspase enzymes at different times during infection.
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  2. Science Under Threat in the United States: Campaigning for science and scientists

    Adriana Bankston
    A Congressional Science & Technology policy fellow outlines some options available for responding to the blatant attacks on science and the scientific workforce in the US.