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    In 2024 Nature asked more than 1000 lab leaders in academia and industry about the highs and lows of hiring researchers.

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    The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to David Baker “for computational protein design” and to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction”.

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    The field of cancer metabolism research is entering its 2nd century since the first description of the changes in metabolism of cancer cells by Otto Warburg and his colleague Seigo Minami in 1923.

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    The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 has been awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”.

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    The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun "for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation".

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    Benefitting from advanced imaging and modelling techniques and genetic tools that enable targeted research, neuroscience has undergone remarkable progress in recent decades.

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    The FlyWire consortium set out to create a complete wiring diagram of the fly brain and tools for the community to access it.

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    We have entered a new era in Alzheimer disease therapy following the FDA approval of amyloid-β-targeting monoclonal antibodies, the first disease-modifying therapies to enter clinical use.

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    Multivalent interactions between biological molecules result in the formation of biomolecular condensates, a phenomenon known as Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS). Biomolecular condensates have important cellular and physiological functions, and aberration in LLPS can result in pathologies. This

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    People spend much of their lives trying to soothe physical pain.

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    As sustainable practices gain traction around the world, university and research labs are taking note.

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    The rapid adoption of chatbots such as ChatGPT in mainstream society have placed artificial intelligence (AI) front and centre of the public debate on science in the past two years.

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