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  • A dopamine neuron that underpins transient forgetting in Drosophila is activated by the presentation of interfering stimuli immediately before memory retrieval, modulating this retrieval by stimulating a dopamine receptor in mushroom body neurons.

    • John Martin Sabandal
    • Jacob A. Berry
    • Ronald L. Davis
    Article
  • Simultaneous mapping of activity across the cortex and dorsal striatum in mice shows that activity in each part of the striatum precisely mirrors that in topographically associated cortical regions, consistently across behavioural contexts.

    • Andrew J. Peters
    • Julie M. J. Fabre
    • Matteo Carandini
    Article
  • An analysis of the search behaviour of recruiters on a Swiss online recruitment platform shows that jobseekers from minority ethnic groups are less likely to be contacted by recruiters, and also provides evidence of gender-based discrimination.

    • Dominik Hangartner
    • Daniel Kopp
    • Michael Siegenthaler
    Article
  • A large, open dataset containing parallel recordings from six visual cortical and two thalamic areas of the mouse brain is presented, from which the relative timing of activity in response to visual stimuli and behaviour is used to construct a hierarchy scheme that corresponds to anatomical connectivity data.

    • Joshua H. Siegle
    • Xiaoxuan Jia
    • Christof Koch
    Article
  • In aged mice, inhibition of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) signalling through its receptor EP2 improves cellular bioenergetics, reduces inflammatory responses and restores hippocampal plasticity to youthful levels, resulting in an improvement in spatial memory and cognition.

    • Paras S. Minhas
    • Amira Latif-Hernandez
    • Katrin I. Andreasson
    Article
  • In macaque motor cortex, moment-to-moment fluctuations in neurally derived decision variables are tightly linked to decision state and predict behavioural choices with better accuracy than condition-averaged decision variables or the visual stimulus alone, and can be used to distinguish between different models of decision making.

    • Diogo Peixoto
    • Jessica R. Verhein
    • William T. Newsome
    Article
  • Structural analyses of the type III CRISPR accessory protein Card1, which induces dormancy in infected hosts to provide immunity against phage infection, reveal the mechanisms by which it cleaves single-stranded RNA and DNA.

    • Jakob T. Rostøl
    • Wei Xie
    • Luciano A. Marraffini
    Article
  • In a cohort of 87 individuals with COVID-19, the memory B cell response at 6.2 months after the onset of disease evolves in a manner that is consistent with the persistence of SARS-CoV-2 antigen.

    • Christian Gaebler
    • Zijun Wang
    • Michel C. Nussenzweig
    Article
  • A chromosome-quality genome of the lungfish Neoceratodus fosteri sheds light on the development of obligate air-breathing and the gain of limb-like gene expression in lobed fins, providing insights into the water-to-land transition in vertebrate evolution.

    • Axel Meyer
    • Siegfried Schloissnig
    • Manfred Schartl
    ArticleOpen Access
  • Room-temperature photon avalanching realized in single thulium-doped upconverting nanocrystals enables super-resolution imaging at near-infrared wavelengths of maximal biological transparency and provides a material platform potentially suitable for other optical technologies.

    • Changhwan Lee
    • Emma Z. Xu
    • P. James Schuck
    Article
  • Two logical qubits are encoded in ensembles of four physical qubits through the surface code, then entangled by lattice surgery, which is a protocol for carrying out fault-tolerant operations.

    • Alexander Erhard
    • Hendrik Poulsen Nautrup
    • Thomas Monz
    Article
  • Electron cryomicroscopy and cryotomography studies reveal that rotaviruses attach to a target cell through the outer-layer protein VP4, which—following cleavage—rearranges to enable perforation of the membrane and delivery of the viral genome into the host cell.

    • Tobias Herrmann
    • Raúl Torres
    • Stephen C. Harrison
    Article