Latest research

1. 1. Neuroscience

   Heritability and cross-species comparisons of human cortical functional organization asymmetry

   Bin Wan et al.

   Human brain suggests an asymmetric organization along a functional cortical axis describing a hierarchical functional trajectory from perceptual/action to abstract cognition, which is heritable and comparable with macaque brain, suggesting (phylo)genetic conservation and adaptation.
2. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Effects of side-effect risk framing strategies on COVID-19 vaccine intentions: a randomized controlled trial

   Nikkil Sudharsanan et al.

   Small changes to the way COVID-19 vaccine side-effect rates are framed and communicated have meaningful impacts on individuals' vaccination intentions.
3. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Earliest evidence for fruit consumption and potential seed dispersal by birds

   Han Hu et al.

   Fruit consumption of Jeholornis was evidenced and indicates seed dispersal was present from early in avian radiation.
4. 1. Medicine

   Neuroinflammation in neuronopathic Gaucher disease: Role of microglia and NK cells, biomarkers, and response to substrate reduction therapy

   Chandra Sekhar Boddupalli et al.

   In neurodegeneration of Gaucher disease, glucosylceramides trigger neuroinflammation via attrition of homeostatic microglia and transition to lipid-laden damage-associated microglia concurrently with infiltration of diverse immune cells including activated NK cells and CCR2⁺ macrophages, ameliorated by substrate reduction therapy.
5. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Medicine

   MKK6 deficiency promotes cardiac dysfunction through MKK3-p38γ/δ-mTOR hyperactivation

   Rafael Romero-Becerra et al.

   Lack of cardiac MKK6 results in premature death with the development of heart hypertrophy and cardiac dysfunction in aging.
6. 1. Neuroscience

   Seizures, behavioral deficits and adverse drug responses in two new genetic mouse models of HCN1 epileptic encephalopathy

   Andrea Merseburg et al.
7. 1. Neuroscience

   Mutual interaction between visual homeostatic plasticity and sleep in adult humans

   Danilo Menicucci et al.
8. 1. Neuroscience

   Inhibition of itch by neurokinin 1 receptor (Tacr1) -expressing ON cells in the rostral ventromedial medulla in mice

   Taylor Follansbee et al.

   Activation of Tacr1-expressing neurons including ON cells in the rostral ventromedial medulla inhibits acute and chronic itch-related behavior.
9. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Zika virus causes placental pyroptosis and associated adverse fetal outcomes by activating GSDME

   Zikai Zhao et al.

   Zika virus infection induces the gasdermin E-mediated pyroptosis in placental cells through TNF-α-caspase-8-caspase-3 signaling pathway, which contributes to adverse fetal outcomes in pregnant mouse model.
10. 1. Computational and Systems Biology

    Focal seizures are organized by feedback between neural activity and ion concentration changes

    Damiano Gentiletti et al.

    Biophysically realistic computational model reveals how inhibitory interneurons initiate paroxysmal discharges and how changes in the ionic concentrations shape electrographic features of human seizures.