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Analysis of insulin secretion patterns in pancreatic islets shows that microtubules control β-cell heterogeneity by regulating initiation and timing of secretion hot spot activity in parallel with Ca²⁺ signaling.

Redaction, intended to obscure personal and institutional identity, reduced the gap between Black vs. White applicants in simulated review of real NIH scientific grant applications, thus providing qualified support for double-blinded models of peer review.

Concealing the identity of the principal investigator only partially closes the success gap between white and African American or Black researchers in NIH grant applications.

Two non-overlapping neural circuits that involve the lamina terminalis and arcuate nucleus of hypothalamus independently drive feedforward anticipatory suppression and activation of vasopressin neurons by drinking and feeding, respectively.

Two neural circuits control the release of vasopressin in response to eating and drinking before there are any detectable changes in blood water levels.

A series of experiments at the molecular level reveal the underlying mechanism of how a gene activates liver glucose production to regulate the blood glucose metabolism in mice.

A preclinical study using exogenous retinoids in a novel Usher syndrome 1F mouse model reveals a possible therapy to treat mutant PCDH15-mediated visual dysfunction.

A review of studies in the life sciences shows that inappropriate statistical approaches may distort conclusions on sex differences.

A survey reveals that many researchers do not use appropriate statistical analyses to evaluate sex differences in biomedical research.

Ductular reaction often observed in chronic liver pathologies such as in cystic fibrosis could be due to disruption of a novel complex of β-catenin-NF-κB and CFTR in cholangiocytes, which leads to persistent nuclear translocation of p65 and NF-κB activation.