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    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    T-cell Immunology: The maths of memory

    Jose Borghans, Ruy M Ribeiro
    Mathematical modeling reveals that long-term immunological memory is maintained in a manner that is even more dynamic than previously thought.
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    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Learning: Neural networks subtract and conquer

    Guillaume Hennequin
    Two theoretical studies reveal how networks of neurons may behave during reward-based learning.
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Translational Control: An emergency brake for protein synthesis

    Vladislava Hronová, Leoš Shivaya Valášek
    The integrated stress response is able to rapidly shut down the synthesis of proteins in eukaryotic cells.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Alzheimer’s Disease: Identifying faulty brain circuits

    Jesse E Hanson
    A protein called NPTX2 may be a useful marker of neural circuit defects in patients with Alzheimer's disease.
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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Virology: Pushing the envelope

    Julia H Wildschutte, John M Coffin
    Primates have co-opted a viral gene to produce an envelope protein that prevents infection by the HERV-T virus and likely contributed to the extinction of this virus.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Object Recognition: Do rats see like we see?

    Nicole C Rust
    Like primates, the rat brain areas thought to be involved in visual object recognition are arranged in a hierarchy.
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Biofilms: Take my breath away

    Vinai C Thomas, Paul D Fey
    A lack of oxygen activates a pathway that causes the bacterial cell wall to break down, which, in turn, aids bacterial biofilm development.
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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Membrane Phase Separation: Localizing order to boost signaling

    Štefan Bálint, Michael L Dustin
    B-cell receptors form ordered clusters to recruit kinases and exclude phosphatases.
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    1. Developmental Biology

    Totipotency: A developmental insurance policy

    Nestor Saiz, Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis
    Why does a totipotent state linger within the inner cell mass of mouse embryos?.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Neuromodulation: Transcranial electric stimulation seen from within the brain

    Angel V Peterchev
    Computer models can make transcranial electric stimulation a better tool for research and therapy.
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