@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ <h3>Computational dissection of alternative splicing in neurodegeneration</h3>
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         <p class="no-positions">
-          No positions are currently advertised. Please check back or get in touch speculatively — we are always happy to hear from exceptional candidates.
+          No positions are currently advertised. Please check back, or get in touch speculatively; we are always happy to hear from exceptional candidates.
         </p>
 
       </div>
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ <h3>Postdoctoral Researchers</h3>
         </div>
         <p>
           We are particularly happy to support the application of very promising young scientists
-          — with the quality, motivation, and ambition to become group leaders — to competitive
+          (with the quality, motivation, and ambition to become group leaders) to competitive
           fellowship schemes. Funding sources we can support applications to include:
         </p>
         <ul>
@@ -440,8 +440,8 @@ <h3>PhD Candidates</h3>
           <li><a href="https://www.bifonds.de/fellowships-grants/phd-fellowships.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Fellowships</a> (international students)</li>
         </ul>
         <p>
-          Please contact us <strong>well in advance</strong> of call deadlines — not when calls
-          are already open — to allow time for the selection process and to build a competitive
+          Please contact us <strong>well in advance</strong> of call deadlines, not when calls
+          are already open, to allow time for the selection process and to build a competitive
           application together. We also consider co-supervision of PhDs in industry.
         </p>
       </div>
@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ <h3>Short-term Training &amp; Academic Visits</h3>
       <div class="join-cta">
         <p>
           Interested? We'd love to hear from you.<br>
-          <strong>Send Nuno a brief introduction</strong> — include your research interests,
+          <strong>Send Nuno a brief introduction:</strong> your research interests,
           CV, and two references.
         </p>
         <a href="mailto:nmorais@nms.unl.pt?subject=Lab%20application%20enquiry"
 
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ <h2 class="section-title fade-up">Research</h2>
         <div class="research-card-detail">
           <p class="research-card-desc">
             <em>CDKN2A</em> is a remarkable dual-coding locus encoding two structurally unrelated
-            tumour suppressors — p16<sup>INK4A</sup> and p14<sup>ARF</sup> — through overlapping
+            tumour suppressors (p16<sup>INK4A</sup> and p14<sup>ARF</sup>) through overlapping
             reading frames driven by distinct promoters. p16 inhibits CDK4/6 and is a well-established
             marker of cellular senescence; ARF stabilises p53 by restraining MDM2. Despite their
             centrality to cell cycle control, tumour suppression, and oncogene-induced senescence,
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ <h2 class="section-title fade-up">Research</h2>
           <p class="research-card-desc">
             Identifying behavioural markers of disease risk associated with circadian disruption
             is challenging due to reproducibility concerns in under-powered human studies.
-            Submarines provide an extreme model of circadian disruption — depriving crew of
+            Submarines provide an extreme model of circadian disruption, depriving crew of
             natural light–dark cycles and limiting physical activity. We developed an effect
             size-based method to screen potential actigraphy-derived markers of the submarine
             environment, collecting data across pre-mission, mission, and post-mission periods.
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ <h2 class="section-title fade-up">Research</h2>
             integrating circadian models from the Arcascope <em>circadian</em> package, it
             provides flexible preprocessing tools, support for multiple actigraphy file
             formats, standalone functions for commonly used actigraphy metrics, and
-            implementations of several mathematical models of circadian rhythms — enabling
+            implementations of several mathematical models of circadian rhythms, enabling
             users to move efficiently from raw wearable data to physiologically interpretable
             circadian outputs.
           </p>
@@ -363,16 +363,16 @@ <h2 class="section-title fade-up">Research</h2>
         </div>
         <div class="research-card-detail">
           <p class="research-card-desc">
-            Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has revolutionised our understanding of
-            cellular heterogeneity, yet the complexity of its analysis poses challenges for
-            researchers without computational expertise. scStudio is a user-friendly,
-            comprehensive, and modular web-based application designed to democratise
-            scRNA-seq data analysis. It supports automated dataset retrieval from the Gene
-            Expression Omnibus, user-uploaded datasets in a variety of formats, multi-dataset
-            integration, and flexible parameter optimisation. The application covers all
-            essential steps — quality control, normalisation, dimensionality reduction,
-            clustering, differential expression, and functional enrichment analysis — and
-            includes analysis history tracking, session export, and data sharing features.
+            Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has transformed our understanding of
+            cellular heterogeneity, yet its analysis remains challenging for researchers
+            without computational expertise. scStudio is a user-friendly, modular web-based
+            application designed to democratise scRNA-seq data analysis. It supports automated
+            dataset retrieval from the Gene Expression Omnibus, user-uploaded datasets in a
+            variety of formats, multi-dataset integration, and flexible parameter optimisation.
+            The application covers all essential steps: quality control, normalisation,
+            dimensionality reduction, clustering, differential expression, and functional
+            enrichment analysis, and includes analysis history tracking, session export, and
+            data sharing features.
             scStudio is being applied to characterise immunosenescence at single-cell
             resolution.
           </p>