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You should always keep in touch with your friends: Community effects in biology

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S.L. is grateful to David Gedge for permission to quote from his song ‘You should always keep in touch with your friends’, written and published by David Lewis Gedge and performed by The Wedding Present.

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Lowell, S. You should always keep in touch with your friends: Community effects in biology. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 21, 568–569 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41580-020-00290-1

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