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    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Swimming eukaryotic microorganisms exhibit a universal speed distribution

    Maciej Lisicki, Marcos F Velho Rodrigues ... Eric Lauga
    Analysis of published studies reveals that flagellates and ciliates separately exhibit log-normal distributions of swimming speeds, and rescaling by the mean speed of each collapses them to a universal relationship.
    1. Cancer Biology

    NRG1 is a critical regulator of differentiation in TP63-driven squamous cell carcinoma

    Ganapati V Hegde, Cecile de la Cruz ... Erica L Jackson
    TP63 regulates NRG1 in squamous cell cancers, and targeting of NRG1 induces cancer cell differentiation thereby NRG1 is a potential therapeutic target in squamous cell cancers.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Molecular determinants in Frizzled, Reck, and Wnt7a for ligand-specific signaling in neurovascular development

    Chris Cho, Yanshu Wang ... Jeremy Nathans
    Molecular dissection of Frizzled, Reck, and Wnt7a provides critical insight into the long-standing question of ligand-receptor specificity in the field of Wnt signaling.
    1. Ecology

    Ant colonies maintain social homeostasis in the face of decreased density

    Andreas P Modlmeier, Ewan Colman ... David P Hughes
    Organizational resilience allows ant colonies to retain high interaction rates in the face of decreased density by altering their spatial and social dynamics.
    1. Neuroscience

    Image content is more important than Bouma’s Law for scene metamers

    Thomas SA Wallis, Christina M Funke ... Matthias Bethge
    Peripheral appearance models emphasising pooling processes that depend on retinal eccentricity will instead need to explore input-dependent grouping and segmentation.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Binding and transport of D-aspartate by the glutamate transporter homolog GltTk

    Valentina Arkhipova, Gianluca Trinco ... Albert Guskov
    Glutamate transporter homologs can efficiently bind and transport both L- and D- enantiomeric substrates with only slight rearrangements in the binding site.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Single-cell lineage tracing by endogenous mutations enriched in transposase accessible mitochondrial DNA

    Jin Xu, Kevin Nuno ... Howard Y Chang
    Epigenome and Mitochondrial Barcode of Lineage from Endogenous Mutations (EMBLEM) enable tracking cell lineage in combination with chromatin profile in ATAC-seq data.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A multicellular way of life for a multipartite virus

    Anne Sicard, Elodie Pirolles ... Stéphane Blanc
    A multipartite virus functionally spreads its distinct genome segments in distinct individual cells of the host plant, and complementation of the viral genes across cells allows a pluricellular infection cycle.
    1. Neuroscience

    Optogenetically induced low-frequency correlations impair perception

    Anirvan Nandy, Jonathan J Nassi ... John Reynolds
    Low-frequency correlations among neurons in monkey visual area V4 impair the animal's ability to perform an attention-demanding task, suggesting a causal role of these fluctuations in perception.
    1. Neuroscience

    Emotional faces guide the eyes in the absence of awareness

    Petra Vetter, Stephanie Badde ... Marisa Carrasco
    When emotional faces are rendered invisible, our eyes look towards fearful faces and away from angry faces.