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New insights into how changes in epithelial structure can turn Notch nasty
To celebrate preLights’ second birthday, Sally Lowell wrote a guest preLight. A developmental and stem cell biologist at the MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Sally is also one of the directors of The Company of Biologists.
Why publish in BiO?
Biology Open provides rapid publication for scientifically sound observations and valid conclusions in developmental, cell, experimental and translational biology. Submit your paper for an easy and fast publication process. Recent cell biology highlights in BiO include work by Komori et al., which shows that IV-1 RNA translation may be enhanced through TAR RNA processing by TRBP in collaboration with Dicer, repressing host–cell apoptosis.
Meet this month’s first authors, James Fabrizio and Jaqueline Weidner. James discusses the implications of his results in relation to studying male infertility, while Jaqueline explains the difficulty of translating the complexity of human bodies into model development.
Cover article – Heart rate and cardiac response to exercise during voluntary dives in captive sea turtles (Cheloniidae)
On the cover of the latest issue - the endangered Green sea turtle. Okuyama et al. demonstrate that they show immediate cardiac response to exercise during submergence.