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    1. Neuroscience
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Sub-surface deformation of individual fingerprint ridges during tactile interactions

    Giulia Corniani, Zing S Lee ... Hannes P Saal
    Sub-surface imaging demonstrates that vertical shear beneath fingertip ridges enables high mechanical spatial resolution to support tactile sensing.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Coenzyme-protein interactions since early life

    Alma Carolina Sanchez Rocha, Mikhail Makarov ... Klára Hlouchová
    Amino acids that were abundant since the prebiotic era are enriched in protein binding sites of the most ancient coenzymes, supporting the plausibility of an early coenzyme–peptide world.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Crossover in aromatic amino acid interaction strength between tyrosine and phenylalanine in biomolecular condensates

    David De Sancho, Xabier Lopez
    Hydration modulates aromatic interactions, explaining why Tyr is a stronger sticker than Phe in aqueous environments like protein condensates but not in the cores of folded proteins.
    1. Neuroscience

    Biophysical network modeling of temporal and stereotyped sequence propagation of neural activity in the premotor nucleus HVC

    Zeina Bou Diab, Marc Chammas, Arij Daou
    Songbird HVC sequences arise from a balance of ionic currents and structured inhibition, providing a mechanistic framework for understanding cortical sequence generation.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Ptbp1 is not required for retinal neurogenesis and cell fate specification

    Haley Appel, Rogger P Carmen-Orozco ... Seth Blackshaw
    Loss of function of Ptbp1 in retinal progenitors leads to changes in RNA splicing but does not affect neurogenesis and cell fate specification.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Extracellular matrices regulate extravasation journey of leukocytes and inflammatory tissue fate

    Yu-Tung Li
    A holistic narrative describes how extracellular matrices regulate various aspects of the entire leukocyte journey from blood to inflamed tissue, and the subsequent functional impacts on leukocyte and tissue fates.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Mechanism of SK2 channel gating and its modulation by the bee toxin apamin and small molecules

    Samantha J Cassell, Weiyan Li ... Jonathan R Whicher
    Cryo-EM and electrophysiology reveal the mechanism of SK2 channel modulation by the bee toxin apamin and small molecules, providing insights that enable the rational design of targeted SK2 channel therapeutics.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Timely vaccine strain selection and genomic surveillance improve evolutionary forecast accuracy of seasonal influenza A/H3N2

    John Huddleston, Trevor Bedford
    Reducing vaccine development time from 12 months to 6 reduces forecasting error by 25%, while reducing lags in genome sequence submission reduces uncertainty of current clade frequencies by 50%.
    1. Neuroscience

    Fear conditioning biases olfactory sensory neuron expression across generations

    Clara W Liff, Yasmine R Ayman ... Bianca J Marlin
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