BCH3ATB: Evolution of Multicellularity Task details As the major assignment for Advanced Topics in Biochemistry and Cell Biology: Advanced Topics In Biochemistry, Research Paper, LTU, Singapore

The paper should fit under at least one of the following research topics:
Evolution of Multicellularity Task details As the major assignment for Advanced Topics in Biochemistry and Cell Biology (BCH3ATB),

You will write a short review article on a topic related to those covered in the Fundamental Properties of Cells section of the subject. Attending and studying this lecture material will aid in the composition of your review article and the deep reading required to compose your review article will benefit your exam preparation on these topics.

Your review article will be written in the style of Nature’s “News and Views”. These articles are intended for the interested non-specialist to inform them of new scientific advances. They aim to provide a summary of a paper and an assessment of how it fits into the context of its field. Therefore, a single paper forms the foundation for a News and Views article. The main findings of the paper form the “News” but the “Views” are its importance and the implications of its findings. These “Views” need to be supported by citing other papers.

You will need to begin this assignment early to have enough time to complete all of the required reading. Instructions Your initial choice of a paper is very important! You need to find an original research paper conforming to the following guidelines. It must be an original research paper (not a review). Published in 2019-2022. The journal it is published in must be from the following list; Nature (and journals within the Nature Publishing Group), Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Cell (and Cell Press Journals), EMBO Journal, EMBO Reports, Journal of Cell Biology, Journal of Cell Science.

If you choose an article from outside this list of journals, please provide additional justification explaining your choice. The paper should not have already had a Commentary or News and Views article published about its findings. You will need to do a search to confirm this – use PubMed. When you are looking at abstracts you will notice that Commentary/News and Views articles are often linked under the heading “Comment in” (see below). If this is the case you definitely must find another article. Target your article to someone with a working knowledge of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology but who is not a specialist in the particular topic you have chosen (so someone a bit similar to yourself).

A typical “News and Views” article: Starts by providing a brief summary of necessary background information, which a non-specialist reader would not be likely to know. Provides information which is not essential to the contents of the paper, but which helps to set the results in context. Explains the basis for some conclusions reached by the authors of the paper. Provides an independent discussion of the questions raised by the results and their possible implications. Ideally, you will draw your own conclusions, not simply summaries those of the paper.

Follow the following format when writing your article (please see the template provided) Articles should be no longer than 1000 words. Titles should contain no punctuation marks or abbreviations. News and Views articles also carry a ‘strapline’ of one or two words to define the general subject area of the article, and a sentence to summarize the message of the article in simple language.
Articles should not read like textbooks – assume your reader has general biochemical/scientific background but avoid specialized terminology.

You will be restricted to using one figure, used to explain the new model or the background science to the new result. This must be an original figure that you design and not a simple cut and paste of an existing figure! The figure should be appropriately labelled and include a detailed caption.

Referencing References must be between 8 and 12, given superscript numbers and cited sequentially in the text, as per Nature style. References need to be listed at the end of the article in the usual Nature style but without the titles of citations.