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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    The Natural History of Model Organisms: Amphioxus as a model to study the evolution of development in chordates

    Salvatore D'Aniello, Stephanie Bertrand, Hector Escriva
    Interest in the ecology, biology and evolution of amphioxus is growing, and the availability of several species is helping to improve our understanding of chordate evolution.
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    Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Why I cannot return home yet

    Mariano A Molina
    Studying abroad helped a Panamanian student to accept who he is, but it meant him letting go of his dream.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Developmental Biology

    Gene Regulation: Blocking the blocker

    Qi Dai
    An unexpected interaction between a long non-coding RNA locus and a genetic insulator called Fub-1 has an important role in gene regulation during development in Drosophila.
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    1. Neuroscience
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Synapses: Changing the size of dendritic spines

    Takeo Saneyoshi
    Interactions between an enzyme kinase, an ion channel and cytoskeletal proteins maintain the structure of synapses involved in memory formation.
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    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Medicine
    3. Cancer Biology

    Special Issue: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer prevention, control, care and survivorship

    Edited by Eduardo Franco et al.
    Our latest Special Issue brings together research covering many different aspects of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer outcomes across the globe.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Cancer Survivorship: Protecting the heart

    Joshua M Inglis, Arduino A Mangoni
    Blocking a protein known as EPAC1 may prevent the development of heart-related side effects caused by a chemotherapy drug.
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    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Phenotypic Evolution: Predicting the future

    Greg M Walter, Katrina McGuigan
    Experiments on worms suggest that a statistical measure called the G matrix can accurately predict how phenotypes will adapt to a novel environment over multiple generations.
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    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    COVID-19 and Cancer: Acting on past lessons and learning new ones

    Eduardo L Franco, Diane M Harper
    eLife has published a special issue containing articles that examine how cancer prevention, control, care and survivorship were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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    Being a Scientist: In the name of perseverance

    Tanya Espino-Sanchez
    Between honoring her immigrant family and making her children proud, a first-generation PhD student fights for her place in academia.
    1. Neuroscience

    Neuroscience Tools: Studying behavior under constrained movement

    Ranier Gutierrez
    A new platform for studying how brain activity is linked to behavior enables researchers to perform diverse experiments on mice that have their heads immobilized.
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