The most-viewed preLights of 2024

As we near the end of 2024, we can look back at another year in which the preLights community has managed to highlight some of the most groundbreaking biological preprints. A massive thank you to everyone involved! This year’s most-viewed preLights reflect the breadth and diversity of our platform – our most popular posts were:

#1 is a preLight prepared by Ryan Harrison who joined the team earlier this year as part of a three-month internship. Perhaps it’s the excellent pun in the ‘Tweetable summary’ that made this post particularly stand out:

Organoids with the biggest limb-pact: investigating one puzzle-piece of early mammalian development.

#2 was prepared by Felipe Del Valle Batalla who in this post discusses a preprint from Joelle Lo and colleagues exploring the role of the RNA-binding protein HNRNPA2B1 in regulating mRNA and motor protein function in neurons.

#3 is Cemre Coskun’s preLight in which a preprint is highlighted that introduces LICONN: Light Microscopy based Connectomics. LICONN uses molecular labelling and deep learning to reconstruct brain circuitry, bridging the gap between electron microscopy and molecular specificity.

#4 comes from Roberto Rodríguez-Morales who, in this post, discusses a method proposed by Aslihan Terzi, Tiger Liao andAdrian Jacobo enabling genetic modification with minimal laboratory personnel training.

Finally, the #5 most-viewed preLight of 2024 was prepared by Jasmine Talevi who discusses a method that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) behavioural monitoring to improve Atlantic salmon farming welfare.