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    1. Ecology
    2. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Point of View: The biospheric emergency calls for scientists to change tactics

    Fernando Racimo, Elia Valentini ... Julia B Halder
    The ever-worsening climate and ecological crises calls for life scientists to engage in advocacy and activism to galvanise governments and the public into action.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Protein Expression: Finding abundance regulators

    Olivia Ozguc, Sibylle Vonesch
    A new pooled screening method in yeast allows scientists to probe how protein levels are regulated by mutating thousands of genes at once.
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    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Bacteria: Bringing cells to the edge

    Teng Wang, Lingchong You
    A network of open channels allows cells and molecular cargo to travel from the center to the periphery of lab-grown colonies of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, helping to eradicate competing species.
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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Evolution: A life LINE for large viruses

    Eugene V Koonin, Mart Krupovic
    As long suspected, poxviruses capture host genes through a reverse-transcription process now shown to be mediated by retrotransposons.
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  1. Scientific Publishing: Peer review without gatekeeping

    Michael B Eisen, Anna Akhmanova ... Mone Zaidi
    eLife is changing its editorial process to emphasize public reviews and assessments of preprints by eliminating accept/reject decisions after peer review.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Neurotransmission: Unmasking a two-faced protein

    Ivan Maslov, Jelle Hendrix
    Single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations illuminate the structure and dynamics of PSD-95, a protein involved in neural plasticity.
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  2. Headshot of April Clyburne-Sherin

    Talking Points: April Clyburne-Sherin on reproducibility

    The co-founder of Reproducibility for Everyone shares the insights she has gathered through years of helping academics change the way they do and share their research.
  3. Talking Points: Angeline Dukes on racism in science

    All members of the scientific community – from publishers to faculty – must work together to make academia more equitable, diverse and inclusive.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Heterochromatin: More than just an inert dense region

    Abdou Akkouche, Emilie Brasset
    A newly discovered protein helps define a subset of heterochromatin regions that can silence harmful mobile genetic elements in the genome of fruit flies.
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  4. A photograph of Deepti Gurdasani outside, with trees behind her.

    Talking Points: Deepti Gurdasani on COVID-19

    With COVID-19 still affecting the scientific community and society at large, further actions are needed to tackle this and future pandemics.