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    Ramping-up hippocampal ripples and their neocortical coupling support human visual short-term memory

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    Neural Representation of Associative Threat Learning in Pulvinar Divisions, Lateral Geniculate Nucleus, and Mediodorsal Thalamus in Humans

    Muhammad Badarnee, Zhenfu Wen ... Mohammed R Milad
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    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Temperature-based MHC class-I multimer peptide exchange for human HLA-A, B and C

    Cilia R Pothast, Ian Derksen ... Ferenc A Scheeren
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    Modulation of human dorsal root ganglion neuron excitability by Nav1.7 inhibition

    Akie Fujita, Sooyeon Jo ... Bruce P Bean
    Inhibition of Nav1.7 sodium channels in human dorsal root ganglion neurons had larger effects to reduce threshold and upstroke velocity of action potentials compared to Nav1.8 inhibition but smaller effects to reduce repetitive firing of action potentials.
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    Mycobacterium tuberculosis suppresses protective Th17 responses during infection

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    Mycobacterium tuberculosis uses its type VII secretion system and surface lipid phthiocerol dimycocerosate to suppress protective host Th17 cell responses.
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    An IL-21R STAT hypomorph circumvents functional redundancy in germinal centre responses

    Christoph Jandl, Joanna Warren ... Cecile King
    An IL-21 receptor mutation that differentially regulates STAT1 and STAT3 activation influenced the differentiation of T follicular cells.
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    Large language models poorly capture how word order shapes representations of sentence meaning in the human brain

    James Fodor, Carsten Murawski, Shinsuke Suzuki
    Representations from models that explicitly encode semantic roles (who did what to whom) align better with activity in language regions of the brain than representations from transformers do.
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    Morphology and ultrastructure of pharyngeal sense organs of Drosophila larvae

    Vincent Richter, Tilman Triphan ... Andreas S Thum
    Comprehensive ultrastructural reconstruction of the Drosophila larval pharyngeal sensory system reveals the organization and diversity of its sensory structures and enables future investigations into sensory processing, feeding decisions, and behavior.
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    Mapping the topographic organization of the human zona incerta using diffusion MRI

    Roy AM Haast, Jason Kai ... Jonathan C Lau
    Showing that the structural connectivity between the zona incerta and cortex is organized along a rostral–caudal axis.
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    Scale dependence decouple life history traits from transposable element evolution in sauropsids

    Yun Liang, Bin Zuo, Yan-Bo Sun
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