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Welcome to preLights, the new preprint highlights service run by the biological community and supported by The Company of Biologists. Here, a team of scientists regularly review, highlight and comment on preprints they feel are of interest to the biological community.

Dynamic Kinetochore Size Regulation Promotes Microtubule Capture And Chromosome Biorientation In Mitosis

Self-assembly of the RZZ complex into filaments drives kinetochore expansion in the absence of microtubule attachment

Long-term live imaging of the Drosophila adult midgut reveals real-time dynamics of cell division, differentiation, and loss

Galleria mellonella as an Insect Model for P. destructans, the Cause of White-Nose Syndrome in Bats

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PDX Finder: A Portal for Patient-Derived tumor Xenograft Model Discovery

Tissue flow induces cell shape changes during organogenesis

Two contractile pools of actomyosin distinctly load and tune E-cadherin levels during morphogenesis

HIF1-alpha expressing cells induce a hypoxic-like response in neighbouring cancer cells

Bacteriophage cooperation suppresses CRISPR-Cas3 and Cas9 immunity

Anti-CRISPR phages cooperate to overcome CRISPR-Cas immunity

Small differences in learning speed for different food qualities can drive efficient collective foraging in ant colonies

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Marionette: E. coli containing 12 highly-optimized small molecule sensors

Insect wings and body wall evolved from ancient leg segments

Two sets of wing homologs in the crustacean, Parhyale hawaiensis

Cancer exosomes induce tumor neo-neurogenesis potentiating tumor growth