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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Slow oscillation–spindle coupling strength predicts real-life gross-motor learning in adolescents and adults

    Michael A Hahn, Kathrin Bothe ... Kerstin Hoedlmoser
    Individualized cross-frequency analyses reveal regionally specific slow oscillation–sleep spindle coupling precision as predictor for gross-motor learning dynamics.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    DunedinPACE, a DNA methylation biomarker of the pace of aging

    Daniel W Belsky, Avshalom Caspi ... Terrie E Moffitt
    DunedinPACE is a novel DNA methylation biomarker of the pace of biological aging for intervention trials and natural experiment studies investigating how the rate of aging may be changed by behavioral or drug therapy, or by environmental modification.
    1. Cell Biology

    Reversing chemorefraction in colorectal cancer cells by controlling mucin secretion

    Gerard Cantero-Recasens, Josune Alonso-Marañón ... Vivek Malhotra
    Genetic analysis and biochemical approaches reveal that chemorefractory properties are reversed by inhibiting mucin secretion, thus providing a means to curb the growth and spread of colorectal cancer.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Molecular determinants of phase separation for Drosophila DNA replication licensing factors

    Matthew W Parker, Jonchee A Kao ... Michael R Botchan
    The intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) of metazoan DNA replication licensing factors phase separate through synergistic electrostatic DNA-IDR and hydrophobic inter-IDR interactions.
    1. Neuroscience

    Pupil diameter is not an accurate real-time readout of locus coeruleus activity

    Marine Megemont, Jim McBurney-Lin, Hongdian Yang
    Pupil diameter cannot accurately predict spiking activity in the locus coeruleus on a moment-by-moment basis, and exhibited large fluctuations to identical stimulation in the LC.
    1. Cell Biology

    A phosphoswitch at acinus-serine437 controls autophagic responses to cadmium exposure and neurodegenerative stress

    Nilay Nandi, Zuhair Zaidi ... Helmut Krämer
    The metal-dependent protein phosphatase Nilkantha, a Drosophila PPM1A/B homolog, dephosphorylates Acinus thereby restraining starvation-independent autophagy.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    How the insect central complex could coordinate multimodal navigation

    Xuelong Sun, Shigang Yue, Michael Mangan
    The copy-and-shift mechanism modelled in the insect central complex facilitates multimodal navigation, providing a general computation model explaining flexible navigation behaviours.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Patched 1 reduces the accessibility of cholesterol in the outer leaflet of membranes

    Maia Kinnebrew, Giovanni Luchetti ... Rajat Rohatgi
    Cholesterol accessibility in the plasma membrane can be controlled by proteins and function as a signaling messenger in cell-cell communication pathways.
    1. Neuroscience

    Rat sensitivity to multipoint statistics is predicted by efficient coding of natural scenes

    Riccardo Caramellino, Eugenio Piasini ... Davide Zoccolan
    Visual sensitivity to correlation patterns in rats matches that previously measured in humans, as well as predictions from efficient coding theory based on the statistics of natural images.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Phases of cortical actomyosin dynamics coupled to the neuroblast polarity cycle

    Chet Huan Oon, Kenneth E Prehoda
    Oon and Prehoda discover cortical actomyosin dynamics that polarize asymmetrically dividing neural stem cells.