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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Shc1 cooperates with Frs2 and Shp2 to recruit Grb2 in FGF-induced lens development

    Qian Wang, Hongge Li ... Xin Zhang
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Fundamental
    • Convincing
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Mutations that prevent phosphorylation of the BMP4 prodomain impair proteolytic maturation of homodimers leading to lethality in mice

    Hyung-seok Kim, Mary L Sanchez ... Jan L Christian
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Fundamental
    • Compelling
    1. Cell Biology

    The IBEX Imaging Knowledge-Base: A Community Resource Enabling Adoption and Development of Immunofluoresence Imaging Methods

    Ziv Yaniv, Ifeanyichukwu U Anidi ... Andrea J Radtke
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Zinc is a Key Regulator of the Sperm-Specific K+ Channel (Slo3) Function

    Rizki Tsari Andriani, Tanadet Pipatpolkai ... Takafumi Kawai
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    • Inadequate
    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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    Insight
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Treacle’s ability to form liquid-like phase condensates is essential for nucleolar fibrillar center assembly, efficient rRNA transcription and processing, and rRNA gene repair

    Artem K Velichko, Nadezhda V Petrova ... Omar L Kantidze
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Trained innate immunity attenuates macrophage efferocytosis of cancer cells

    Alexandros Chatzis, Jakub Lukaszonek ... Ioannis Kourtzelis
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Evolutionary rescue of spherical mreB deletion mutants of the rod-shape bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25

    Paul Richard J Yulo, Nicolas Desprat ... Heather L Hendrickson
    Fitness defects arising from deletion of the gene encoding the bacterial equivalent of actin (mreB) are readily compensated by mutations affecting cell wall synthesis.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Pyruvate and Related Energetic Metabolites Modulate Resilience Against High Genetic Risk for Glaucoma

    Keva Li, Nicholas Tolman ... UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Cell Biology

    Clearance of protein aggregates during cell division

    Shoukang Du, Yuhan Wang ... Ting Gang Chew
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Rethinking ovarian biology

    Yan Zhang, Hua Zhang
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Cell Biology
    3. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Allosteric Regulation of Kinase Activity – call for papers

    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Imaging methods are vastly underreported

    Guillermo Marqués, Thomas Pengo, Mark A Sanders

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