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www.cuimc.columbia.edu What Naked Mole Rats Can Teach Us About Pain VP&S graduate student Tate Yawitz was awarded a 2026 Dompe Scholarship that will support his research into the peculiar neurobiology of an unconventional laboratory animal. 
www.cell.com Hypothalamic cell-type differences associated with selection for tameness in the silver fox Silver foxes bred for tameness are a classic model of animal domestication, but the neural changes underlying selection on behavior are unknown. Klein et al. examined the fox hypothalamus and found... 
Amyloid fibers are best known as hallmarks of Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. But they recently turned up in a surprising place: in sperm, shuttling genetic material. The new research from the @FitzpatrickLab holds potential for gene-editing technologies.
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