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    1. Neuroscience

    Neuronal Plasticity: Genetic signatures of memories

    Vivek Sagar, Thorsten Kahnt
    Memorable positive and negative experiences produce different profiles of gene expression in the brain areas associated with long-term memory.
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Tuberculous Meningitis: Can aspirin help?

    Ashwini Kalantri, Shriprakash Kalantri
    Using a combination of aspirin, anti-tuberculosis drugs and steroids may help to reduce the number of strokes and deaths in patients with tuberculous meningitis.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Neuromuscular Disease: Protecting the nerve terminals

    Jonathan D Glass
    Maintaining the connections between nerve cells and muscle could help to slow the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Spinal Cord Injury: Is the vagus nerve our neural connectome?

    V Reggie Edgerton, Parag Gad
    What are the implications of the vagus nerve being able to mediate the time-dependent plasticity of an array of sensorimotor networks?.
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    1. Cancer Biology

    Reproducibility in Cancer Biology: The who, where and how of fusobacteria and colon cancer

    Cynthia L Sears
    The association between the bacterium Fusobacterium nucleatum and human colon cancer is more complicated than it first appeared.
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    1. Cell Biology

    Intermediate Filaments: The sweet side of vimentin

    Natasha T Snider, Nam-On Ku, M Bishr Omary
    A protein modification called O-linked glycosylation regulates the interactions between vimentin molecules under normal conditions, and the ability of Chlamydia bacteria to replicate after they infect cells.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Pupillometry: Consciousness reflected in the eyes

    Woon Ju Park, Kimberly B Schauder, Duje Tadin
    People with higher autistic traits display stronger fluctuations in pupil size when presented with an optical illusion.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Visual Cognition: In sight, in mind

    Mariam Aly
    A region of the brain called the perirhinal cortex represents both what things look like and what they mean.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Autism: Exploring the social brain

    John P Welsh, Annette M Estes
    How does the brain physiology of young children with autism differ from that of typically-developing children?.
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    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    DNA Replication: A new role for a tumor-suppressing protein

    Jeremy S Setton, Simon N Powell
    In addition to its role in preventing tumors, the protein p53 appears to participate in a DNA repair process known as the replication-stress response.
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