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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Medicine

    Funding: Blinding peer review

    Michael A Taffe
    Concealing the identity of the principal investigator only partially closes the success gap between white and African American or Black researchers in NIH grant applications.
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    1. Medicine
    2. Neuroscience

    Vasopressin: Predicting changes in osmolality

    Zhe Yang, Tongtong Wang, Yuki Oka
    Two neural circuits control the release of vasopressin in response to eating and drinking before there are any detectable changes in blood water levels.
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    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Neonatal Weight: No fire without smoke (particles)

    Stephanie M Holm, John Balmes
    Pollution from landscape fires, which are increasing with climate change, leads to babies being born with lower birthweights in low- and middle-income countries.
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    1. Ecology

    Echolocation: The brain limit

    Alexander J Werth, Joseph E Corbett
    How fast the brain and muscles can respond to information about prey location constrains visual and echolocating predators in similar ways.
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  1. Open Chemistry: What if we just give everything away?

    Luke D Lavis
    A group leader decided that his lab would share the fluorescent dyes they create, for free and without authorship requirements. Nearly 12,000 aliquots later, he reveals what has happened since.
    1. Cell Biology

    Cancer: Preventing collateral damage

    Harry Quon, Fred Bunz
    In pigs, nitrate supplements can protect salivary glands from the damage caused by radiation therapy to the head and neck.
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    1. Medicine
    2. Neuroscience

    Statistics: Sex difference analyses under scrutiny

    Colby J Vorland
    A survey reveals that many researchers do not use appropriate statistical analyses to evaluate sex differences in biomedical research.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Connectomes: Mapping the fly’s ‘brain in the brain’

    Stanley Heinze
    Studying neurons and their connections in the central complex of the fruit fly reveals new insights into how their structure and function shape perception and behavior.
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    1. Ecology

    Animal Behaviour: The elusive perspective of a food thief

    Claudia Zeiträg, Ivo Jacobs
    Eurasian jays fail to take into account the point of view and desire of other jays when hiding food they can eat later.
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  2. Episode 76: October 2021

    In this episode, we hear about the ways that junk food affects monkeys, grey hair, empathetic rats, using smart phones to fight COVID-19, and how the slave trade spread disease.