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Marianne Farnebo describes how the application of microscopy techniques has provided valuable information on repeats RNAs.

Emil Heitz was a pioneer of epigenetics at a time when the nature of the heredity material was still unclear.

Early in his career, Gordon Carmichael was inspired by the contradictory conclusions of three articles.

Miguel Beato describes his Eureka moment after reading that ATP is a nuclear hydrotrope.

Arnaud Echard discusses two studies that uncovered a key role for the ESCRT machinery in cytokinesis.

Henrik Jönsson discusses the mathematical model for hormone movement through plant tissues that Graeme Mitchison proposed in 1980, and how models can inspire new research.

Susana Godinho discusses a 1996 paper by Heald et al. on the organization of microtubules into bipolar spindles.

Jesús Gil discusses the first evidence for cellular senescence being associated with ageing, and how these studies opened new routes for basic and translational research.

Channing Der and Kirsten Bryant discuss recent work leading towards therapeutic targeting of autophagy in pancreatic cancer.

Jan Philipp Junker discusses new insights into mechanisms of transcriptional compensation in mutants.