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  • Despite ample investigation on cis-regulatory alterations in evolution, the contribution of these effects to environmental adaptation is poorly understood. Ballinger and colleagues dissected the cis- and trans-regulatory impact on gene expression associated with the adaptation of house mice to temperate and tropical climates, highlighting potential mechanisms acting at a short evolutionary timescale.

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  • The physical properties of the cells and proteins surrounding a tumor play a crucial role in determining the spread of the cancer. How they change cancer cells to suppress the immune response against them is an interesting question addressed in a recent study from Liu et al., which describes how increased stiffness of the tissue around the tumor decreases the amount of a protein—cyclic GMP-AMP synthase—in cancer cells, ultimately blocking the immune response to cancer.

    • Joel P. Joseph
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  • As a monogamous species, the prairie vole is a common model for social neuroscience. Gustison and colleagues mapped a whole-brain histological atlas of the prairie vole and used this atlas to identify a neural network of pair-bonding behaviour. The study reveals coordinated neural networks in mated pairs and highlights the influence of social bonding on neural processing in the adult prairie vole brain.

    • Lindsey T. Thurston
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  • Nanopores have the potential to revolutionize the field of protein sequencing, but due to the biochemical complexity of polypeptide sequences, they have remained mostly theoretical. In recent work, Sauciuc et al. engineer the protein nanopore CytK to produce an electroosmotic force capable of translocating unfolded polypeptides regardless of their charge distributions, an important step toward single-file protein nanopore sequencing.

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Oligodendrocyte nerve cells, illustration.

Oligodendrocytes in health and disease

This cross-journal Collection welcomes the submission of primary research articles that focus on oligodendrocytes lineage cells in development, physiology, and disease.
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