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1. cGAS recruitment to micronuclei is dictated by pre-existing nuclear chromatin status

   This article has 5 authors:

   1. Kate M. MacDonald
   2. Shirony Nicholson-Puthenveedu
   3. Maha M. Tageldein
   4. Cheryl Arrowsmith
   5. Shane M. Harding

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2. Microstructured Hydrogels to Guide Self‐Assembly and Function of Lung Alveolospheres

   This article has 17 authors:

   1. Claudia Loebel
   2. Aaron I. Weiner
   3. Madeline K. Eiken
   4. Jeremy B. Katzen
   5. Michael P. Morley
   6. Vikram Bala
   7. Fabian L. Cardenas‐Diaz
   8. Matthew D. Davidson
   9. Kazushige Shiraishi
   10. Maria C. Basil
   11. Laura T. Ferguson
   12. Jason R. Spence
   13. Matthias Ochs
   14. Michael F. Beers
   15. Edward E. Morrisey
   16. Andrew E. Vaughan
   17. Jason A. Burdick

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3. Species-specific mitochondria dynamics and metabolism regulate the timing of neuronal development

   This article has 18 authors:

   1. Ryohei Iwata
   2. Pierre Casimir
   3. Emir Erkol
   4. Leïla Boubakar
   5. Mélanie Planque
   6. Martyna Ditkowska
   7. Katlijn Vints
   8. Suresh Poovathingal
   9. Vaiva Gaspariunaite
   10. Matthew Bird
   11. Nikky Corthout
   12. Pieter Vermeersch
   13. Kristofer Davie
   14. Natalia V. Gounko
   15. Stein Aerts
   16. Bart Ghesquière
   17. Sarah-Maria Fendt
   18. Pierre Vanderhaeghen

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4. Bacterial filamentation as a mechanism for cell-to-cell spread within an animal host

   This article has 5 authors:

   1. Tuan D. Tran
   2. Munira Aman Ali
   3. Davin Lee
   4. Marie-Anne Félix
   5. Robert J. Luallen

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5. A persistent behavioral state enables sustained predation of humans by mosquitoes

   This article has 4 authors:

   1. Trevor R Sorrells
   2. Anjali Pandey
   3. Adriana Rosas-Villegas
   4. Leslie B Vosshall

   This article has been curated by 1 group:

   • Curated by eLife

     Evaluation Summary:

     This manuscript describes a female mosquito's behavior after a brief exposure to CO2, which has long been known to trigger host-seeking behaviour in female mosquitoes. The authors develop optogenetic tools in Aedes aegypti that enable the controlled delivery of 'fictive' CO2 to them. They show that a brief pulse of fictive CO2 alters the behavioral state of female mosquitoes, which lasts about 15 minutes. It provides new insights into how activation of CO2-sensing olfactory neurons alters the behavioral state of a mosquito towards sensory cues to increase host-seeking behaviors. The study will be of great value to the vector biology community, as well as to neurobiologists in general.

     (This preprint has been reviewed by eLife. We include the public reviews from the reviewers here; the authors also receive private feedback with suggested changes to the manuscript. Reviewer #1 and Reviewer #2 agreed to share their name with the authors.)

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6. Differential mosquito attraction to humans is associated with skin-derived carboxylic acid levels

   This article has 8 authors:

   1. Maria Elena De Obaldia
   2. Takeshi Morita
   3. Laura C. Dedmon
   4. Daniel J. Boehmler
   5. Caroline S. Jiang
   6. Emely V. Zeledon
   7. Justin R. Cross
   8. Leslie B. Vosshall

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7. Isolation disrupts social interactions and destabilizes brain development in bumblebees

   This article has 8 authors:

   1. Z. Yan Wang
   2. Grace C. McKenzie-Smith
   3. Weijie Liu
   4. Hyo Jin Cho
   5. Talmo Pereira
   6. Zahra Dhanerawala
   7. Joshua W. Shaevitz
   8. Sarah D. Kocher

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8. Transplantable human thyroid organoids generated from embryonic stem cells to rescue hypothyroidism

   This article has 17 authors:

   1. Mírian Romitti
   2. Adrien Tourneur
   3. Barbara de Faria da Fonseca
   4. Gilles Doumont
   5. Pierre Gillotay
   6. Xiao-Hui Liao
   7. Sema Elif Eski
   8. Gaetan Van Simaeys
   9. Laura Chomette
   10. Helene Lasolle
   11. Olivier Monestier
   12. Dominika Figini Kasprzyk
   13. Vincent Detours
   14. Sumeet Pal Singh
   15. Serge Goldman
   16. Samuel Refetoff
   17. Sabine Costagliola

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9. Paracrine IGFBP3 spatially coordinates IGF signaling to induce myocardial regeneration in mice

   This article has 22 authors:

   1. Shah R. Ali
   2. Ngoc Uyen Nhi Nguyen
   3. Waleed Elhelaly
   4. Ching-Cheng Hsu
   5. Shujuan Li
   6. Ivan Menendez-Montes
   7. Zhaoning Wang
   8. Miao Cui
   9. Abdallah Elnwasany
   10. Feng Xiao
   11. Jisheng Sun
   12. Suwannee Thet
   13. Nicholas T. Lam
   14. Alisson Cardoso
   15. Ana Helena Pereira
   16. Jinhu Wang
   17. Eric N. Olson
   18. Michael T. Kinter
   19. Luke I. Szweda
   20. John Shelton
   21. Wataru Kimura
   22. Hesham A. Sadek

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10. Using Polyacrylamide Hydrogels to Model Physiological Aortic Stiffness Reveals that Microtubules Are Critical Regulators of Isolated Smooth Muscle Cell Morphology and Contractility

    This article has 6 authors:

    1. Sultan Ahmed
    2. Robert. T. Johnson
    3. Reesha Solanki
    4. Teclino Afewerki
    5. Finn Wostear
    6. Derek. T. Warren

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