July 2025

Cover articles

    1. Cell Biology

    Polyunsaturated fatty acids

    Delaney Kaper, Uroš Radović ... Marc Pilon
    1. Neuroscience

    Exploring hidden hearing loss

    Maggie E Zink, Leslie Zhen ... Aravindakshan Parthasarathy
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Ribbon formation in hair cells

    Saman Hussain, Katherine Pinter ... Katie S Kindt
    1. Neuroscience

    Tapeworm larvae and epilepsy

    Anja de Lange, Hayley Tomes ... Joseph V Raimondo

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Research articles

    1. Cell Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    The Anti-Inflammatory Role of GPNMB in Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis

    Asaad A Al-Adlaan, Bryson Cook ... Fayez F Safadi
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Compelling
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Smed-pou4-2 regulates mechanosensory neuron regeneration and function in planarians

    Ryan A McCubbin, Mohammad A Auwal ... Ricardo M Zayas
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    General Trends in the Calnexin-Dependent Expression and Pharmacological Rescue of Clinical CFTR Variants

    Austin Tedman, John A Olson ... Jonathan P Schlebach
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Ecology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Effects of parental care on skin microbial community composition in poison frogs

    Marie-Therese Fischer, Katherine S Xue ... Lauren A O'Connell
    Direct skin contact during parental care in poison frogs transmits host-adapted microbes to tadpoles, where some bacterial taxa may persist on the skin through early development.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Trophic eggs affect caste determination in the ant Pogonomyrmex rugosus

    Eléonore Genzoni, Tanja Schwander, Laurent Keller
    Experiments manipulations show that trophic eggs can suppress queen development and therefore regulate caste determination in ants.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Elevated ubiquitin phosphorylation by PINK1 contributes to proteasomal impairment and promotes neurodegeneration

    Cong Chen, Tong-Yao Gao ... Wei-Ping Zhang
    Elevated ubiquitin phosphorylation disrupts proteasomal function, creating a self-amplifying cycle that drives progressive protein aggregation and neuronal injury across multiple neurodegenerative conditions.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Estimating probabilities of malaria importation in southern Mozambique through P. falciparum genomics and mobility patterns

    Arnau Pujol, Arlindo Chidimatembue ... Alfredo Mayor
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Neuroscience

    Hypothalamic deiodinase type-3 establishes the period of circannual interval timing in mammals

    Calum Stewart, T Adam Liddle ... Tyler J Stevenson
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Incomplete
    1. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Stabilisation of HIF signalling extends epicardial activation and neonatal heart regeneration

    Elisabetta Gamen, Eleonor L Price ... Paul R Riley
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Cancer Biology

    PA28γ promotes the malignant progression of tumor by elevating mitochondrial function via C1QBP

    Jiongke Wang, Yujie Shi ... Qianming Chen
    The promotion of C1QBP accumulation by PA28γ leads to the malignant progression of tumor by affecting mitochondrial function, which could be a launch pad for therapeutic intervention of tumor development.
    1. Neuroscience

    A stochastic explanation for observed local-to-global foraging states in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Andrew Margolis, Andrew Gordus
    Changes in internal state for stochastic behaviors can be more easily explained by a stochastic model with no state change.
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    1. Neuroscience

    The influence of nucleus accumbens shell D1 and D2 neurons on outcome-specific Pavlovian instrumental transfer

    Octavia Soegyono, Elise Pepin ... Vincent Laurent
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Fundamental
    • Convincing
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Non-equilibrium strategies for ligand specificity in signaling networks

    Andrew Goetz, Jeremy Barrios ... Purushottam Dixit
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    The C. elegans gustatory receptor homolog LITE-1 is a chemoreceptor required for diacetyl avoidance

    Alan Koh, Eduard Bokman ... André EX Brown
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    • Incomplete
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Atypical collective oscillatory activity in cardiac tissue uncovered by optogenetics

    Alexander S Teplenin, Nina N Kudryashova ... Tim De Coster
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Altered reactivity to threatening stimuli in Drosophila models of Parkinson’s disease, revealed by a trial-based assay

    Márton Kajtor, Viktor András Billes ... Balázs Hangya
    An inexpensive, scalable trial-based behavioral assay revealed quantitative difference in fruit flies' escape behavior across different genetic models of neurodegeneration.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Specific modulation of CRISPR transcriptional activators through RNA-sensing guide RNAs in mammalian cells and zebrafish embryos

    Oana Pelea, Sarah Mayes ... Tatjana Sauka-Spengler
    RNA-sensing guide RNAs provide a programmable platform for conditional, sequence-specific activation of CRISPR-Cas9 upon RNA detection in diverse biological contexts.
    1. Cell Biology

    N-cadherin mechanosensing in ovarian follicles controls oocyte maturation and ovulation

    Alaknanda Emery, Orest W Blaschuk ... Darryl L Russell
    A critical role for N-cadherin in ovarian follicular development and ovulation is demonstrated with inhibitors or knockout of N-cadherin shown to inhibit ovulation by blocking mechanotransduction of ovulatory genes.
    1. Neuroscience

    Center-surround inhibition by expectation: a neuro-computational account

    Ling Huang, Shiqi Shen ... Xilin Zhang
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Working memory shapes neural geometry in human EEG over learning

    Michał J Wójcik, Amy Li ... Laurence T Hunt
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    A theory and recipe to construct general and biologically plausible integrating continuous attractor neural networks

    Federico Claudi, Sarthak Chandra, Ila R Fiete
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    A neural mechanism for compositional generalization of structure in humans

    Lennart Luettgau, Nan Chen ... Raymond J Dolan
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Compensation of Hyperexcitability with Simulation-Based Inference

    Daniel Müller-Komorowska, Tomoki Fukai
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Development of the axonal βII-spectrin periodic skeleton requires active cytoskeletal remodelling

    Shivani Bodas, Ashish Mishra ... Aurnab Ghose
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Economic and Social Modulations of Innate Decision-Making in Mice Exposed to Visual Threats

    Zhe Li, Jiahui Wang ... Ya-tang Li
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Paraventricular Thalamus Hyperactivity Mediates Stress-Induced Sensitization of Unlearned Fear but Not Stress-Enhanced Fear Learning (SEFL)

    Kenji J Nishimura, Denisse Paredes ... Michael R Drew
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Fundamental
    • Convincing
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Refining the resolution of the yeast genotype–phenotype map using single-cell RNA-sequencing

    Arnaud N'Guessan, Wen Yuan Tong ... Alex N Nguyen Ba
    Single-cell RNA sequencing of thousands of yeast progeny reveals how gene expression differences and heritability drive phenotypic diversity.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Optimal information gain at the onset of habituation to repeated stimuli

    Giorgio Nicoletti, Matteo Bruzzone ... Daniel Maria Busiello
    The onset of habituation phenomena enables accurate processing of external stimuli when biological systems adapt their parameters to balance dissipation and the information between input and response.
    1. Neuroscience

    Learning place cells and remapping by decoding the cognitive map

    Markus Borud Pettersen, Vemund Schøyen ... Mikkel E Lepperød
    Border cells are sufficient to generate place cells and remapping during path integration in artificial neural networks, challenging the role of grid cells for spatial navigation.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Phosphoglycerate mutase regulates Treg differentiation through control of serine synthesis and one-carbon metabolism

    Wesley H Godfrey, Judy J Lee ... Michael D Kornberg
    The glycolytic enzyme phosphoglycerate mutase supports Treg function, identifying a novel therapeutic target for immune modulation and demonstrating that glycolytic regulation of T cells is more nuanced than previously appreciated.
    1. Medicine

    Efficacy and safety of neoadjuvant stereotactic body radiation therapy plus dalpiciclib and exemestane for hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer: A prospective pilot study

    Yu Zhang, Shuo Cao ... Caigang Liu
    Neoadjuvant SBRT with dalpiciclib and exemestane resulted in a 16.7% RCB 0-I rate and a 91.7% ORR, with acceptable toxicities in HR-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer patients.
    1. Neuroscience

    A computational pipeline to track chromatophores and analyze their dynamics

    Johann Ukrow, Mathieu DM Renard ... Gilles Laurent
    Computer code is provided to track the size and shape of deformable pigment cells in the skin of cephalopods from high-resolution video images.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Conduction pathway for potassium through the E. coli pump KdpFABC

    Adel Hussein, Xihui Zhang ... David L Stokes
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    • Incomplete
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Cell Biology

    A biochemical mechanism for Stu2/XMAP215-family microtubule polymerases

    Binnu Gangadharan, Daniel L Kober, Luke M Rice
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Cell Biology

    The insulin / IGF axis is critically important controlling gene transcription in the podocyte

    Jennifer A Hurcombe, Lusyan Dayalan ... Richard JM Coward
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Solid
    1. Developmental Biology

    Distinct waves of ovarian follicles contribute to mouse oocyte production

    Qi Yin, Allan C Spradling
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Incomplete
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    A SMARTTR workflow for multi-ensemble atlas mapping and brain-wide network analysis

    Michelle Jin, Simon O Ogundare ... Christine Ann Denny
    A new scalable workflow for analyzing multiple ensemble datasets incorporates SMARTTR, an R package supporting network analysis, visualization, and the import of external datasets.
    1. Neuroscience

    Cingulate cortex shapes early postnatal development of social vocalizations

    Gurueswar Nagarajan, Denis Matrov ... Yogita Chudasama
    The normal development of social vocal behavior depends on the anterior cingulate cortex and its interaction with the vocal network during early life.
    1. Neuroscience

    No effect of additional education on long-term brain structure, a preregistered natural experiment in thousands of individuals

    Nicholas Judd, Rogier Kievit
    There is no discernible effect of an additional year of education from a policy change on long-term structural neuroimaging measures in a large aging sample (UK Biobank).
    1. Neuroscience

    Neocortical layer-5 tLTD relies on non-ionotropic presynaptic NMDA receptor signaling

    Aurore Thomazeau, Sabine Rannio ... Per Jesper Sjöström
    Neocortical timing-dependent LTD relies on non-ionotropic presynaptic NMDA receptor signaling via JNK2, challenging the textbook view that NMDA receptors are ionotropic coincidence detectors in Hebbian plasticity.
    1. Neuroscience

    Population-level morphological analysis of paired CO2- and odor-sensing olfactory neurons in D. melanogaster via volume electron microscopy

    Jonathan Choy, Shadi Charara ... Chih-Ying Su
    Homotypic olfactory receptor neurons in Drosophila, including CO2-sensing neurons with distinctive sheet-like dendrites, exhibit unexpected morphological diversity that may underlie functional adaptability.
    1. Neuroscience

    Cell type-specific contributions to a persistent aggressive internal state in female Drosophila

    Hui Chiu, Alice A Robie ... Catherine E Schretter
    While persistent aggressive states in females are promoted by select cell types with recurrent connections (aIPg, pC1d+e), additional data and models are needed to explain the maintenance of these states.
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Massively parallel reporter assay for mapping gene-specific regulatory regions at single nucleotide resolution

    Alastair J Tulloch, Ryan N Delgado ... Constance L Cepko
    Not revised
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Developmental Biology

    Meioc-Piwil1 complexes regulate rRNA transcription for differentiation of spermatogonial stem cells

    Toshihiro Kawasaki, Toshiya Nishimura ... Noriyoshi Sakai
    Analyses of zebrafish meioc mutants revealed that spermatogonial stem cells with low rRNA transcription caused by nucleolar Piwil1 require Meioc to keep Piwil1 in cytoplasm for the upregulation of rRNA transcription necessary for differentiation.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Rapid and inducible mislocalization of endogenous TDP43 in a novel human model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Johanna Ganssauge, Sophie Hawkins ... Akshay Bhinge
    A novel human iPSC-derived model induces mislocalization of endogenous TDP-43 without mutations or stress, recapitulating key ALS features including deficits in neuronal loss and morphology, splicing errors, and microRNA dysregulation.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Phosphodiesterase 1A physically interacts with YTHDF2 and reinforces the progression of non-small cell lung cancer

    Chong Zhang, Zuoyan Zhang ... Yangling Li
    Uncovering a novel PDE1A/YTHDF2/STAT3 pathway in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) progression also provides therapeutic strategies for treating NSCLC patients with metastasis.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Identifying genetic variations in emm89 Streptococcus pyogenes associated with severe invasive infections

    Masayuki Ono, Masaya Yamaguchi ... Shigetada Kawabata
    Genetic analysis of Streptococcus pyogenes reveals multiple mutations, including a key change in the fhuB gene, that influence the bacteria’s ability to cause severe invasive infections.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Coordinated Tbx3/Tbx5 transcriptional control of the adult ventricular conduction system

    Ozanna Burnicka-Turek, Katy A Trampel ... Ivan P Moskowitz
    Coordinated removal of Tbx3 and Tbx5 function alters the molecular features of the fast ventricular cardiac conduction system toward non-conduction working myocardium, illuminating transcriptional control of cardiac conduction system patterning.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Contraction-induced endocardial id2b plays a dual role in regulating myocardial contractility and valve formation

    Shuo Chen, Jinxiu Liang ... Peidong Han
    Endocardial id2b integrates biomechanical cues to orchestrate valve formation and myocardial maturation during cardiac development.
    1. Cell Biology

    Rho-ROCK liberates sequestered claudin for rapid de novo tight junction formation

    Yuma Cho, Akari Taniguchi ... Junichi Ikenouchi
    The Rho-ROCK–matriptase signaling axis promotes claudin release from EpCAM/TROP2 complexes, enabling tight junction reassembly during epithelial remodeling to preserve barrier integrity.
    1. Neuroscience

    The NIH BRAIN Initiative’s impacts in systems and computational neuroscience and team-scale research 2014–2023

    Farah Bader, Clayton Bingham ... James Gnadt
    The BRAIN Circuits Program of the NIH BRAIN Initiative has impacted how fundamental discovery in integrative systems neuroscience is investigated, commensurate with the complexity to address neurobehavioral and neurological dysfunctions.
    1. Neuroscience

    Social rank-order stability of mice revealed by a novel food competition paradigm in combination with available space competition paradigms

    Meiqiu Liu, Yue Chen, Rongqing Chen
    Social status of mice in an established colony is stably expressed in several types of competition paradigms, including food and space competitions.
    1. Neuroscience

    Formation of Task Representations and Replay in Mouse Medial Prefrontal Cortex

    Hamed Shabani, Hannah Muysers ... Christian Leibold
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    • Useful
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    1. Developmental Biology

    Multiple pathways prevent bi-parental mitochondria transmission in C. elegans

    Valentine Melin, Justine Cailloce ... Vincent Galy
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    JAX Animal Behavior System (JABS): A genetics informed, end-to-end advanced behavioral phenotyping platform for the laboratory mouse

    Anshul Choudhary, Brian Q Geuther ... Vivek Kumar
    Not revised
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    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Identification of novel human microcephaly-linked protein Mtss2 that mediates cortical progenitor cell division and corticogenesis through Nedd9-RhoA

    Aurelie Carabalona, Henna Kallo ... Claudio Rivera
    ABBA ensures proper cortical development by regulating radial glial division through RhoA activity at the cleavage furrow, and its mutation results in developmental abnormalities linked to microcephaly.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    A dual nature of γδ T cell immune memory responses

    Tsz Kin Suen, Burcu Al ... Katarzyna Placek
    Both adaptive and innate immune memory responses have been described in gamma delta T cells, yet the mechanisms, the ligands and the gamma delta T cell subsets generating memory responses have remain to be explored.
    1. Neuroscience

    Sexual failure decreases sweet taste perception in male Drosophila via dopaminergic signaling

    Gaohang Wang, Wei Qi ... Liming Wang
    Failure in sexual behaviors suppresses sweet taste perception of male fruit flies, by dampening dopaminergic signaling between mating-related neural circuits and peripheral gustatory pathways.
    1. Cell Biology

    Targeting the WSB2–NOXA axis in cancer cells for enhanced sensitivity to BCL-2 family protein inhibitors

    Dongyue Jiao, Kun Chang ... Chenji Wang
    Disrupting WSB2-mediated NOXA degradation sensitizes cancer cells to apoptosis and provides a new strategy to overcome resistance to BCL-2 inhibition.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Bioengineering approaches to trained immunity: Physiologic targets and therapeutic strategies

    Hannah Riley Knight, Marie Kim ... Aaron Esser-Kahn
    Current approaches in bioengineering are synthesized and methods for their implementation are suggested for the induction and modulation of trained immunity in the treatment of human diseases.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Subtypes and proliferation patterns of small intestine neuroendocrine tumors revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing

    Einav Somech, Debdatta Halder ... Itay Tirosh
    SiNETs separate into two subtypes, both with low proliferation of neuroendocrine cells and higher proliferation of other cells.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Stochastic cell-intrinsic stem cell decisions control colony growth in planarians

    Tamar Frankovits, Prakash Varkey Cherian ... Omri Wurtzel
    Stochastic intrinsic fate decisions by planarian stem cells drive clonal expansion and reveal a straightforward, feedback‐independent mechanism for robust cell identity selection.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Microtubule networks in zebrafish hair cells facilitate presynapse transport and fusion during development

    Saman Hussain, Katherine Pinter ... Katie S Kindt
    Formation of specialized ribbon synapses in sensory hair cells involves dynamic precursor movement, microtubule-guided transport, and precursor fusion, culminating in synapse assembly essential for hearing and balance.
    1. Neuroscience

    Synaptic Encoding of Time in Working Memory

    Gianluigi Mongillo, Misha Tsodyks
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    1. Developmental Biology

    In vivo CRISPR screening identifies regulators of hyperplastic and hypertrophic adipose remodelling in zebrafish

    Rebecca Wafer, Panna Tandon, James EN Minchin
    Not revised
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    • Valuable
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    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    OpenSpliceAI: An efficient, modular implementation of SpliceAI enabling easy retraining on non-human species

    Kuan-Hao Chao, Alan Mao ... Mihaela Pertea
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    1. Cancer Biology

    Metastatic small cell lung cancer arises from TP53/RB1-deficient and MYC overproduction hESC-derived PNECs

    Huanhuan Joyce Chen, Eric E Gardner ... Harold Varmus
    A human pluripotent stem cell-based model demonstrates how TP53/RB1 loss and MYC overexpression drive aggressive, neuroendocrine small cell lung cancer progression and metastasis, enabling investigation of tumor heterogeneity and therapeutic response in a defined genetic context.
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    1. Genetics and Genomics

    A genome-wide association study implicates the olfactory system in Drosophila melanogaster diapause-associated lifespan extension and fecundity

    Sreesankar Easwaran, Denise J Montell
    A genome-wide association study identifies 291 candidate genes for diapause and implicates olfactory pathway genes and cells in the regulation of this adaptive dormancy program in Drosophila.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Balancing reaction-diffusion network for cell polarization pattern with stability and asymmetry

    Yixuan Chen, Guoye Guan ... Chao Tang
    Reaction-diffusion network modeling unveils general design principles that both stabilize cell polarization patterns and enable tunable interface localization, reconciling extensive experimental observations and deepening the understanding of asymmetric cell division.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Neuroscience

    Photoreceptor loss does not recruit neutrophils despite strong microglial activation

    Derek Power, Justin Elstrott, Jesse Schallek
    Systemic neutrophils do not respond to laser-induced photoreceptor damage despite the robust response from resident microglia.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Cellular coordination underpins rapid reversals in gliding filamentous cyanobacteria and its loss results in plectonemes

    Jerko Rosko, Rebecca N Poon ... Orkun S Soyer
    Gliding multicellular cyanobacteria results from cellular coordination, the loss of which results in the collapse of orderly back-and-forth movement of filaments and in filament buckling.
    1. Neuroscience

    Increased listening effort and cochlear neural degeneration underlie speech-in-noise deficits in normal-hearing middle-aged adults

    Maggie E Zink, Leslie Zhen ... Aravindakshan Parthasarathy
    Cochlear neural degeneration in middle-aged adults with normal-hearing thresholds is associated with increased listening effort and behavioral deficits in challenging acoustic environments.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Modular DNA barcoding of nanobodies enables multiplexed in situ protein imaging and high-throughput biomolecule detection

    Shilin Zhong, Ruiyu Wang ... Minmin Luo
    A modular DNA barcoding strategy enables efficient multiplexed protein detection for both in situ imaging and high-throughput molecular diagnostics.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    An initial report of circa 241,000- to 335,000-year-old rock engravings and their relation to Homo naledi in the Rising Star cave system, South Africa

    Lee R Berger, John Hawks ... Keneiloe Molopyane
    Engraved features found within the Dinaledi Subsystem are interpreted as being made by Homo naledi in the absence of evidence of other candidate makers.
    1. Neuroscience

    Alcohol Attenuates CRF-Induced Excitatory Effects from the Extended Amygdala to Dorsostriatal Cholinergic Interneurons

    Amanda Essoh, Himanshu Gangal ... Jun Wang
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    1. Cancer Biology

    Design of combination therapeutics from protein response to drugs in ovarian cancer cells

    Alexandra Franz, Ciyue Shen ... Chris Sander
    Not revised
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    1. Physics of Living Systems

    The evolution of interdisciplinarity and internationalization in scientific journals

    Huaxia Zhou, Luís A Nunes Amaral
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    1. Neuroscience

    Single neurons detect spatiotemporal activity transitions through STP and EI imbalance

    Aditya Asopa, Upinder Singh Bhalla
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    1. Cell Biology

    ATG2A engages RAB1A and ARFGAP1 positive membranes during autophagosome biogenesis

    Devin M Fuller, Yumei Wu ... Thomas J Melia
    Not revised
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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Allosteric modulation of dimeric GPR3 by ligands in the dimerization interface

    Zeming Qiu, Wei Wang ... Sanduo Zheng
    Not revised
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    1. Developmental Biology

    SLC35G3 is a UDP-N-acetylglucosamine transporter for sperm glycoprotein formation and underpins male fertility in mice

    Daisuke Mashiko, Shingo Tonai ... Masahito Ikawa
    Not revised
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    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Quantifying Intracellular Mechanosensitive Response upon Spatially Defined Mechano-Chemical Triggering

    Elaheh Zare-Eelanjegh, Renard TM Lewis ... Tomaso Zambelli
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    1. Neuroscience

    Neural circuit mechanisms for steering control in walking Drosophila

    Aleksandr Rayshubskiy, Stephen L Holtz ... Rachel Wilson
    Two descending neurons with distinct dynamics contribute to steering, including one influenced by both memory-guided and sensory-driven signals.
    1. Neuroscience

    Methamphetamine-induced adaptation of learning rate dynamics depend on baseline performance

    Hans Kirschner, Hanna M Molla ... Markus Ullsperger
    In individuals with moderately low baseline performance, methamphetamine reduces the tendency to misinterpret high outcome noise.
    1. Neuroscience

    Cntnap2 loss drives striatal neuron hyperexcitability and behavioral inflexibility

    Katherine R Cording, Emilie M Tu ... Helen S Bateup
    Deletion of the neurodevelopmental disorder gene Cntnap2 increases repetitive behaviors in mice and enhances the excitability of striatal direct pathway neurons through decreased potassium channel function.
    1. Neuroscience

    Ultrastructural sublaminar-specific diversity of excitatory synaptic boutons in layer 1 of the adult human temporal lobe neocortex

    Astrid Rollenhagen, Akram Sadeghi ... Joachim HR Lübke
    Quantitative 3D models of synaptic boutons were generated underlying important functional signal cascades of neocortical networks.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Δ133p53α and Δ160p53α isoforms of the tumor suppressor protein p53 exert dominant-negative effect primarily by co-aggregation

    Liuqun Zhao, Tanel Punga, Suparna Sanyal
    The N-terminally truncated Δ133p53α and Δ160p53α isoforms exert dominant-negative effects through co-aggregation with p53, disrupting its transcriptional activity and cellular distribution, thereby contributing to cancer development.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Q-learning with temporal memory to navigate turbulence

    Marco Rando, Martin James ... Agnese Seminara
    Animals may learn to locate preys effectively by memorizing short excerpts of their scent trace, which duration is dictated by the sparse nature of turbulent odor plumes.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Layilin regulates Treg motility and suppressive capacity in skin

    Victoire Gouirand, Sean Clancy ... Michael D Rosenblum
    Regulatory T cell expression of layilin mediates adhesion in skin, which acts to attenuate their suppressive capacity.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    A single cysteine residue in vimentin regulates long non-coding RNA XIST to suppress epithelial–mesenchymal transition and stemness in breast cancer

    Saima Usman, William Andrew Yeudall ... Ahmad Waseem
    Disruption of vimentin–actin interaction induces XIST expression and drives epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and stem cell-like traits in breast cancer cells, enhancing oncogenic behaviour in nude mice independent of oestrogen.
    1. Neuroscience

    Dyadic Interaction Platform: A novel tool to study transparent social interactions

    Sebastian Isbaner, Raymundo Bäez-Mendoza ... Nivedita Mani
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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Effective population size does not explain long-term variation in genome size and transposable element content in animals

    Alba Marino, Gautier Debaecker ... Benoit Nabholz
    A large-scale survey across animals reveals no general association between genome size expansion and the relaxation of natural selection.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Improving SARS-CoV-2 variants monitoring in the absence of genomic surveillance capabilities: a serological study in Bolivian blood donors in October 2021 and June 2022

    Lucia Inchauste, Elif Nurtop ... Stéphane Priet
    A pioneering Bolivian seroepidemiological study employed innovative serological and neutralization assays as highly effective complements to genomic surveillance, delivering critical insights into SARS-CoV-2 variant circulation and informing public health strategies.
    1. Neuroscience

    Mediodorsal thalamic nucleus mediates resistance to ethanol through Cav3.1 T-type Ca2+ regulation of neural activity

    Charles-francois V Latchoumane, Joon-Hyuk Lee ... Hee-Sup Shin
    The firing mode of mediodorsal thalamic neurons may act as a central switching mechanism for the level of arousal and consciousness in natural sleep and induced ethanol hypnosis in mice.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Correlates of protection against African swine fever virus identified by a systems immunology approach

    Kirill Lotonin, Francisco Brito ... Artur Summerfield
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Phenylhydrazone-based Endoplasmic Reticulum Proteostasis Regulator Compounds with Enhanced Biological Activity

    Gabriel M Kline, Lisa Boinon ... R Luke Wiseman
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    G1 and G2 ApolipoproteinL1 modulate macrophage inflammation and lipid accumulation through the polyamine pathway

    Esther Liu, Matthew Wright ... Jennie Lin
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    The influence of temporal context on vision over multiple time scales

    Kacie Lee, Reuben Rideaux
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    A whole-organism landscape of X-inactivation in humans

    Bjorn Gylemo, Maike Bensberg, Colm E Nestor
    Genetic analyses of rare non-mosaic females define X-inactivation status for 380 genes and uncover widespread X-chromosome skewing in the general population, providing insights into sex-biased traits and X-linked disease expression.
    1. Neuroscience

    Integration of parallel pathways for flight control in a hawkmoth reflects prevalence and relevance of natural visual cues

    Ronja Bigge, Rebecca Grittner, Anna Lisa Stöckl
    In vision-based flight control of hummingbird hawkmoths, the visual field partitions by natural cue prevalence into an optic flow and dorsal directional pathway, which integrate according to their relevance for flight safety.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Pu.1/Spi1 dosage controls the turnover and maintenance of microglia in zebrafish and mammals

    Yi Wu, Weilin Guo ... Tao Yu
    Pu.1-P53 axis controls the turnover and maintenance of microglia by cell competition.
    1. Neuroscience

    POMC neurons control fertility through differential signaling of MC4R in kisspeptin neurons

    Rajae Talbi, Todd L Stincic ... Victor M Navarro
    Reproductive impairments in obese MC4R-deficient individuals are due to the absence of melanocortin signaling on Kiss1 neurons and not to their metabolic condition.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Decoding protein phosphorylation during oocyte meiotic divisions using phosphoproteomics

    Leonid Peshkin, Enrico maria Daldello ... Catherine Jessus
    A comprehensive resource describes protein abundance and phosphorylation dynamics during Xenopus oocyte maturation, serving as an essential tool for investigating the molecular mechanisms driving meiotic progression.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Interpretable protein-DNA interactions captured by structure-sequence optimization

    Yafan Zhang, Irene Silvernail ... Xingcheng Lin
    A predictive biophysical model that integrates protein-DNA structures and sequences to accurately determine genomic binding sites and affinities of DNA-binding proteins.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Probing relaxed myosin states in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy by second harmonic-generation microscopy

    Giulia Arecchi, Marica Dente ... Chiara Tesi
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Convergent Cellular Adaptation to Freeze-Thaw Stress via a Quiescence-like State in Yeast

    Charuhansini Tvishamayi, Farhan Ali ... Shashi Thutupalli
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    SMC complex unidirectionally translocates DNA by coupling segment capture with an asymmetric kleisin path

    Masataka Yamauchi, Giovanni B Brandani ... Shoji Takada
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Developmental Biology

    SoxB1 family members inhibit Wnt signaling to promote maturation and deposition of stable neuromasts by the zebrafish Posterior Lateral Line primordium

    Greg Palardy, Kyeong-won Yoo ... Ajay B Chitnis
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Striatal Crosstalk Between Dopamine and Serotonin Systems

    Yu Liu, Juan Enriquez Traba, Christian Lüscher
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Heron, a Knowledge Graph editor for intuitive implementation of Python-based experimental pipelines

    George Dimitriadis, Ella Svahn ... Athena Akrami
    A Python-based, open source, GUI application for straightforward development and execution of scientific experiments over multiple machines.
    1. Neuroscience

    Single neurons and networks in the mouse claustrum integrate input from widespread cortical sources

    Andrew M Shelton, David K Oliver ... Adam Max Packer
    The claustrum integrates and redistributes sensory and frontal cortical inputs across distinct neural modules to enhance sensitivity to multimodal stimuli.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    The myeloid cell-driven transdifferentiation of endothelial cells into pericytes promotes the restoration of BBB function and brain self-repair after stroke

    Tingbo Li, Ling Yang ... Jie-Min Jia
    Changes in the pericyte pool after stroke affect the restoration of the blood-brain barrier function and brain self-repair, and offer a new approach to therapy.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Cryo-EM structures of a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel in liposomes

    Vikram Dalal, Brandon K Tan ... Wayland WL Cheng
    The cryo-EM structures of a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel in liposomes, an environment that supports ion channel function, are different than structures in lipid nanodiscs.
    1. Medicine

    Therapeutic effects of PDGF-AB/BB against cellular senescence in human intervertebral disc

    Changli Zhang, Martha Elena Diaz-Hernandez ... Hicham Drissi
    PDGF mitigated cellular senescence in human intervertebral disc by modulating cell cycle, inflammation, and mitochondria function, offering a potential strategy for combating age-induced disc degeneration.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Physical constraints and biological regulations underlie universal osmoresponses

    Yiyang Ye, Qirun Wang, Jie Lin
    Theoretical modeling uncovers an unusual acceleration in microbial growth following osmotic shock, driven by the coordinated regulation of osmolyte production and cell-wall synthesis.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structure of human PIEZO1 and its slow-inactivating channelopathy mutants

    Yuanyue Shan, Xinyi Guo ... Duanqing Pei
    The architectures of human PIEZO1 and its slow-inactivating channelopathy mutants with or without its auxiliary subunit MDFIC reveal the inactivation mechanism of PIEZO channels.
    1. Ecology

    Developmental constraints mediate the summer solstice reversal of climate effects on European beech bud set

    Dominic Rebindaine, Thomas W Crowther ... Constantin M Zohner
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    C. elegans food choice exhibits effort discounting-like behavior

    Jonathan RM Millet, Serge Faumont ... Shawn R Lockery
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    • Incomplete
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Single-cell profiling of trabecular meshwork identifies mitochondrial dysfunction in a glaucoma model that is protected by vitamin B3 treatment

    Nicholas Tolman, Taibo Li ... Simon WM John
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Fundamental
    • Convincing
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Inducible, virus-free direct lineage reprogramming enhances scalable generation of human inner ear hair cell-like cells

    Robert N Rainey, Sam D Houman ... Neil Segil
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Medicine

    EPHA4 signaling dysregulation links abnormal locomotion and the development of idiopathic scoliosis

    Lianlei Wang, Xinyu Yang ... Nan Wu
    EPHA4 pathway dysfunction causes axon pathfinding defects, resulting in impaired coordinated left-right locomotion by disrupting neural patterning and the function of central pattern generators, thereby potentially leading to idiopathic scoliosis.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Malnutrition drives infection susceptibility and dysregulated myelopoiesis that persists after refeeding intervention

    Alisa Sukhina, Clemence Queriault ... Will Bailis
    Dysregulated myelopoiesis is identified as a driver of nutritionally acquired immunodeficiency that persists after refeeding and nutritional recovery, indicating exposure to food scarcity may be an immunologic risk factor.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    A mathematical model for ketosis-prone diabetes suggests the existence of multiple pancreatic β-cell inactivation mechanisms

    Sean A Ridout, Priyathama Vellanki, Ilya Nemenman
    A simple mathematical model, incorporating reversible deactivation of β-cells, can potentially explain the rapid onset and remission of a diabetes subtype, ketosis-prone diabetes.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Opposing regulation of TNF responses by IFN-γ and a PGE2-cAMP axis that is apparent in rheumatoid and immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced arthritis human IL-1β+ macrophages

    Upneet K Sokhi, Ruoxi Yuan ... Lionel B Ivashkiv
    Interferon-γ and prostaglandin E2 signaling oppose each other to determine the balance between two distinct TNF-induced inflammatory gene expression programs relevant for rheumatoid and immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced arthritis.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Female-germline specific protein Sakura interacts with Otu and is crucial for germline stem cell renewal and differentiation and oogenesis

    Azali Azlan, Li Zhu, Ryuya Fukunaga
    Sakura is expressed in female germlines, interacts with Otu, and is crucial for germline stem cell renewal and differentiation and oogenesis in Drosophila.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Human formin FHOD3-mediated actin elongation is required for sarcomere integrity in cardiomyocytes

    Dylan A Valencia, Angela N Koeberlein ... Margot E Quinlan
    Complementary biochemical and cell-biological approaches reveal that formin FHOD3-mediated actin elongation, rather than nucleation, is critical for maintaining cardiomyocyte sarcomeres.
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Old age variably impacts chimpanzee engagement and efficiency in stone tool use

    Elliot Howard-Spink, Tetsuro Matsuzawa ... Dora Biro
    Long-term standardized data collection on wild western chimpanzees reveals late-life changes in stone tool use, and the extent of these changes varies between individuals.
    1. Neuroscience

    Differential roles of NaV1.2 and NaV1.6 in neocortical pyramidal cell excitability

    Joshua D Garcia, Chenyu Wang ... Kevin J Bender
    NaV1.2 and NaV1.6 have unique functional roles in neocortical pyramidal cells, regulating dendritic and axonal excitability, respectively.
    1. Neuroscience

    High-throughput synapse profiling reveals cell-type-specific spatial configurations in the fly brain

    Hongyang Wu, Yoh Maekawa ... Hiromu Tanimoto
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Hippocampal single-cell RNA Atlas of chronic methamphetamine abuse-induced cognitive decline in mice

    Hai Qiu, Xia Yue ... Dongfang Qiao
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Development of Auditory and Spontaneous Movement Responses to Music over the First Year of Life

    Trinh Nguyen, Félix Bigand ... Giacomo Novembre
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Unreliable homeostatic action potential broadening in cultured dissociated neurons

    Andreas Ritzau-Jost, Salil Rajayer ... Stefan Hallermann
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    PD-linked LRRK2 G2019S mutation impairs astrocyte morphology and synapse maintenance via ERM hyperphosphorylation

    Shiyi Wang, Ryan Baumert ... Cagla Eroglu
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    A cortical–hippocampal communication undergoes rebalancing after new learning

    Arron F Hall, Dong V Wang
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    • Incomplete
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Molecular Landscape of the Mouse Adrenal Gland and Adjacent Adipose by Spatial Transcriptomics

    Małgorzata Blatkiewicz, Szymon Hryhorowicz ... Marcin Rucinski
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Solid
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    A quantitative pipeline for whole-mount deep imaging and analysis of multi-layered organoids across scales

    Alice Gros, Jules Vanaret ... Sham Tlili
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Neuroscience

    Humans underestimate their body mass in microgravity: evidence from reaching movements during spaceflight

    Zhaoran Zhang, Yu Tian ... Kunlin Wei
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Astrocytic modulation of population encoding in mouse visual cortex via GABA transporter 3 revealed by multiplexed CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing

    Jiho Park, Grayson O Sipe ... Mriganka Sur
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Compelling
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    PRDM16 functions as a co-repressor in the BMP pathway to suppress neural stem cell proliferation

    Li He, Jiayu Wen, Qi Dai
    PRDM16 directs BMP signaling outcomes by guiding SMAD complex genomic binding to repress neural stem cell proliferation and promote choroid plexus epithelial specification.
    1. Cancer Biology

    S100a4+ alveolar macrophages accelerate the progression of precancerous atypical adenomatous hyperplasia by promoting the angiogenic function regulated by fatty acid metabolism

    Hong Huang, Ying Yang ... Le Zhang
    S100a4+ alveolar macrophages facilitate angiogenesis through CPT1A-PPAR-γ-mediated fatty acid metabolism, thereby triggering atypical adenomatous hyperplasia.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Harnessing AlphaFold to reveal hERG channel conformational state secrets

    Khoa Ngo, Pei-Chi Yang ... Igor Vorobyov
    Customized AlphaFold-based modeling of distinct functional states of the hERG channel, a major drug anti-target, significantly improves drug affinity predictions, enhancing cardiac safety screening for arrhythmia risk.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Self-other generalisation shapes social interaction and is disrupted in borderline personality disorder

    Joseph M Barnby, Jen Nguyen ... London Personality and Mood Disorders Consortium
    Individuals with borderline personality disorder maintain rigid, distinct self-other representations, disrupting the bidirectional generalisation that underpins adaptive social learning and interpersonal trust.
    1. Neuroscience

    Normative evidence weighing and accumulation in correlated environments

    Nathan Tardiff, Jiwon Kang, Joshua I Gold
    Humans can appropriately use relationships among pieces of sensory evidence (pairwise correlations) to inform decisions, rather than relying only on the physical features of individual evidence samples.
    1. Physics of Living Systems
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Polyphosphate discriminates protein conformational ensembles more efficiently than DNA promoting diverse assembly and maturation behaviors

    Saloni Goyal, Divya Rajendran ... Athi N Naganathan
    Polyphosphate, a universal stress response regulator, binds distinctively to different starting ensembles of the same protein leading to either condensates or aggregates that in turn can solubilize or further aggregate, showcasing their ability to finely control the assembly process.
    1. Neuroscience

    The Self-Interest of Adolescents Overrules Cooperation in Social Dilemmas

    Xiaoyan Wu, Hongyu Fu ... Chao Liu
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    • Incomplete
    1. Cell Biology

    The microbiome interacts with the circadian clock and dietary composition to regulate metabolite cycling in the Drosophila gut

    Yueliang Zhang, Sara B Noya ... Amita Sehgal
    The Drosophila microbiome regulates the cycling of gut metabolites in a circadian clock and diet-dependent manner.
    1. Neuroscience

    Acquisition of auditory discrimination mediated by different processes through two distinct circuits linked to the lateral striatum

    Susumu Setogawa, Takashi Okauchi ... Kazuto Kobayashi
    Two lateral striatal subregions integrate the acquisition of stimulus-based decision-making in spatiotemporally and functionally different manners, challenging the prior model through a dominance change from the associative to sensorimotor subregions.
    1. Neuroscience

    Ultraslow serotonin oscillations in the hippocampus delineate substates across NREM and waking

    Claire Cooper, Daniel Parthier ... Dietmar Schmitz
    The fine-tuning of mutual inhibition and disinhibition of sleep-regulating neurons and also the memory consolidation that occurs during NREM sleep are controlled by oscillations in serotonin levels.
    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
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Neuroscience

    The magnitude and time course of pre-saccadic foveal prediction depend on the conspicuity of the saccade target

    Lisa M Kroell, Martin Rolfs
    Foveal sensitivity to the features of an imminent saccade target increases with the target’s conspicuity, supporting foveal prediction as a viable mechanism for maintaining visual continuity in high-contrast, naturalistic environments.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Bacteriophage infection drives loss of β-lactam resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    My Tran, Angel J Hernandez Viera ... Charlie Y Mo
    In methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, evolution of bacteriophage resistance causes trade-offs that re-sensitize the bacteriato β-lactam antibiotics.
    1. Developmental Biology

    NR2F2 is required in the embryonic testis for fetal Leydig cell development

    Aitana Perea-Gomez, Natividad Bellido Carreras ... Marie-Christine Chaboissier
    NR2F2 regulates fetal Leydig cell differentiation and steroidogenesis in mouse testes, providing mechanistic insight into testis development and the etiology of 46,XY differences in sex development.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    REPOP: bacterial population quantification from plate counts

    Pedro Pessoa, Carol Lu ... Steve Pressé
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    A high-resolution analysis of arrestin2 interactions responsible for CCR5 endocytosis

    Ivana Petrovic, Samit Desai ... Stephan Grzesiek
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Longitudinal tracking of neuronal activity from the same cells in the developing brain using Track2p

    Jure Majnik, Manon Mantez ... Rosa Cossart
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Fast evolution of SOS-independent multi-drug resistance in bacteria

    Le Zhang, Yunpeng Guan ... Dayong Jin
    A single β-lactam exposure rapidly drives stable multidrug resistance in RecA-deficient bacteria through an SOS-independent mechanism involving oxidative stress-induced mutagenesis and antibiotic-driven selection.
    1. Neuroscience

    A temporally restricted function of the dopamine receptor Dop1R2 during memory formation

    Jenifer C Kaldun, Emanuele Calia ... Simon G Sprecher
    The dopamine receptor Dop1R2 plays a crucial role in the formation of longer-lasting memories, while it is dispensable for short-term memories.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Prebiotic gas flow environment enables isothermal nucleic acid replication

    Philipp Schwintek, Emre Eren ... Dieter Braun
    Exponential nucleic acid replication can occur isothermally in a prebiotically plausible setting that accumulates and simultaneously separates the strands of nucleic acids through evaporation-driven flows at the gas–water interface.
    1. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    CRISPR-edited DPSCs constitutively expressing BDNF enhance dentin regeneration in injured teeth

    Ji Hyun Kim, Muhammad Irfan ... Seung Chung
    Brain-derived neurotrophic factor/tropomyosin receptor kinase B signaling in promoting the differentiation and dentin-repair capacity of dental stem cells under inflammatory conditions offers a potential clinical strategy for repairing damaged teeth.
    1. Neuroscience

    Molecular characterization of gustatory second-order neurons reveals integrative mechanisms of gustatory and metabolic information

    Rubén Mollá-Albaladejo, Manuel Jiménez-Caballero, Juan Antonio Sanchez-Alcaniz
    Leucokinin neurons integrate sweet and bitter taste inputs with starvation signals to regulate feeding initiation, balancing nutrient intake against the risk of toxin ingestion.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Reorganization of spinal neural connectivity following recovery after thoracic spinal cord injury: insights from computational modelling

    Natalia A Shevtsova, Andrew B Lockhart ... Simon M Danner
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Coenzyme A governs proinflammatory macrophage metabolism

    Greg. A Timblin, Kevin. M Tharp ... Valerie M Weaver
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    The impact of ambient contamination on demultiplexing methods for single-nucleus multiome experiments

    Terence Li, Marcus Alvarez ... Noah Zaitlen
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    An abundant merozoite surface protein of Plasmodium falciparum modulates susceptibility to inhibitory antibodies

    Isabelle G Henshall, Jill Chmielewski ... Danny W Wilson
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    G protein-coupled receptor diversity and evolution in the closest living relatives of Metazoa

    Alain Garcia De Las Bayonas, Nicole King
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Homophilic wiring principles underpin neuronal network topology in vitro

    Danyal Akarca, Alexander WE Dunn ... Manuel Schröter
    1. Cell Biology

    Quantitative intra-Golgi transport and organization data suggest the stable compartment nature of the Golgi

    Hieng Chiong Tie, Haiyun Wang ... Lei Lu
    Quantitative measurements of intra-Golgi transport kinetics of diverse secretory cargos challenge the classic cisternal progression model and support the stable compartment model of the Golgi.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Diverse prey capture strategies in teleost larvae

    Duncan S Mearns, Sydney A Hunt ... Herwig Baier
    The evolution of hunting behavior in fish larvae has arrived at different, species-specific solutions, recombining a shared repertoire of locomotor and eye movement motifs.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Unraveling CRP/cAMP-mediated metabolic regulation in Escherichia coli persister cells

    Han G Ngo, Sayed Golam Mohiuddin ... Mehmet Orman
    CRP/cAMP plays a crucial role in the metabolic shift of Escherichia coli persisters from an anabolic state to oxidative phosphorylation, which is essential for their survival during antibiotic treatment.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    β-Glucan reprograms alveolar macrophages via neutrophil/IFNγ axis in a murine model of lung injury

    Renaud Prevel, Erwan Pernet ... Maziar Divangahi
    β-Glucan-mediated trained immunity activates alveolar macrophages which exacerbates acute lung injury induced by LPS.
    1. Neuroscience

    Humans adapt rationally to approximate estimates of uncertainty

    Erdem Pulcu, Michael Browning
    Humans estimate different forms of uncertainty during learning, but do so imprecisely, leading to the misattribution of random fluctuations as fundamental shifts.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Function and firing of the Streptomyces coelicolor contractile injection system requires the membrane protein CisA

    Bastien Casu, Joseph W Sallmen ... Susan Schlimpert
    CryoEM, genetic, and cell biological analyses reveal that the conserved membrane protein CisA mediates membrane recruitment of contractile injection systems Streptomyces coelicolor, enabling their activation under stress.
    1. Cell Biology

    Forward genetics in C. elegans reveals genetic adaptations to polyunsaturated fatty acid deficiency

    Delaney Kaper, Uroš Radović ... Marc Pilon
    Polyunsaturated fatty acids are not genetically replaceable in the nematode C. elegans and only mutations that help free ferrous ions can boost the activity of a poorly functioning desaturase enzyme.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Epithelial cell chirality emerges through the dynamic concentric pattern of actomyosin cytoskeleton

    Takaki Yamamoto, Tomoki Ishibashi ... Tatsuo Shibata
    Molecular chirality of actomyosin induces cell-scale chiral rotation without requiring a chiral arrangement of actomyosin filaments, revealing a key mechanism of cell chirality underlying left–right asymmetric tissue development.
    1. Neuroscience

    Neural Representation of Time across Complementary Reference Frames

    Yangwen Xu, Nicola Sartorato ... Roberto Bottini
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Medicine
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Magnetically steered cell therapy for reduction of intraocular pressure as a treatment strategy for open-angle glaucoma

    M Reza Bahranifard, Jessica Chan ... C Ross Ethier
    Magnetically steered mesenchymal stem cells significantly lowered intraocular pressure for 9 months in mice, motivating the translation of this technology for the treatment of glaucoma.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Medicine

    The ESCRT protein CHMP5 restricts bone formation by controlling endolysosome-mitochondrion-mediated cell senescence

    Fan Zhang, Yuan Wang ... Xianpeng Ge
    CHMP5 is crucial in preventing skeletal progenitor cell senescence and abnormal bone formation, and senolytic drugs represent potential therapeutic medicine for musculoskeletal abnormalities associated with a dysfunctional endolysosomal pathway.
    1. Cell Biology

    The molecular logic of Gtr1/2- and Pib2-dependent TORC1 regulation in budding yeast

    Jacob H Cecil, Cristina M Padilla ... Andrew P Capaldi
    Dual regulation of TORC1 by Gtr1/2 and Pib2 drives cells into three distinct signaling states, establishing a new paradigm for graded TORC1 signaling.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Highly sensitive in vivo detection of dynamic changes in enkephalins following acute stress in mice

    Marwa O Mikati, Petra Erdmann-Gilmore ... Ream Al-Hasani
    An analytical approach increases spatiotemporal resolution, optimizes real-time, in vivo detection of Met- and Leu-enkephalin, and provides novel insight into the relationship between Met- and Leu-enkephalin following stress.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    The C-terminus of the multi-drug efflux pump EmrE prevents proton leak by gating transport

    Merissa Brousseau, Da Teng ... Katherine A Henzler-Wildman
    The C-terminal tail acts as a secondary gate to regulate substrate access into the primary binding site for transport across the membrane.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Heat stress induces phage tolerance in Enterobacteriaceae

    Fan Zhang, Hao-Ze Chen ... Jia-Feng Liu
    Bacterial persistence against phages enables survival under infection, and heat treatment enhances this tolerance, facilitating resistance evolution and influencing the effectiveness of phage therapy.
    1. Neuroscience

    Cestode larvae excite host neuronal circuits via glutamatergic signalling

    Anja de Lange, Hayley Tomes ... Joseph V Raimondo
    Parasitic tapeworm larvae release glutamate and other excitatory molecules that can directly excite brain neurons.
    1. Plant Biology

    Competence for transcellular infection in the root cortex involves a post-replicative, cell-cycle exit decision in Medicago truncatula

    Morgane Batzenschlager, Beatrice Lace ... Thomas Ott
    Imaging deep root tissues with a combination of cell-cycle reporters reveals that a cortical cell file traversed by symbiotic bacteria exhibits reduced proliferative potential and enters a prolonged G2 phase.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Developmental Biology

    Drosophila hamlet mediates epithelial tissue assembly of the reproductive system

    Huazhen Wang, Ludivine Bertonnier-Brouty ... Qi Dai
    Hamlet regulates heterotypic epithelial fusion by controlling spatial and temporal expression of known and novel epithelial regulators like Wnt and Tl pathway components, a mechanism potentially conserved through evolution.
    1. Neuroscience

    Multifaceted role of galanin in brain excitability

    Nicolas N Rieser, Milena Ronchetti ... Stephan CF Neuhauss
    The neuropeptide galanin modulates whole-brain activity and stress responses in zebrafish, revealing a complex, receptor-dependent role in seizure regulation with implications for epilepsy, and related neurological disorders.
    1. Neuroscience

    The interplay between homeostatic synaptic scaling and homeostatic structural plasticity maintains the robust firing rate of neural networks

    Han Lu, Sandra Diaz-Pier ... Andreas Vlachos
    A biphasic structural plasticity rule interacts with homeostatic synaptic scaling to maintain firing rate homeostasis in neural networks.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Glial betaPix is essential for blood vessel integrity in the zebrafish brain

    ShihChing Chiu, Qinchao Zhou ... Jing-Wei Xiong
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    The human cytomegalovirus-encoded pUS28 antagonizes CD4+ T cell recognition by targeting CIITA

    Fabienne Maassen, Vu Thuy Khanh Le-Trilling ... Mirko Trilling
    Through the destabilization of CIITA, the human cytomegalovirus-encoded protein pUS28 antagonizes the expression of the HLA-II molecules CD74/Ii, HLA-DR, HLA-DQ, HLA-DM, and HLA-DP, diminishing the activation of HCMV-specific CD4+ T cells and reducing their secretion of antiviral cytokines.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Heterogeneous efflux pump expression underpins phenotypic resistance to antimicrobial peptides

    Ka Kiu Lee, Urszula Łapińska ... Stefano Pagliara
    Sub-populations of non growing bacteria survive treatment with antimicrobial peptides by mounting an efflux response.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Responses to membrane potential-modulating ionic solutions measured by magnetic resonance imaging of cultured cells and in vivo rat cortex

    Kyeongseon Min, Sungkwon Chung ... Jang-Yeon Park
    Magnetic resonance imaging, through its sensitivity to ionic environments that modulate membrane potential, enables noninvasive assessment of biological systems.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Assemblies, synapse clustering, and network topology interact with plasticity to explain structure-function relationships of the cortical connectome

    András Ecker, Daniela Egas Santander ... Michael W Reimann
    A new framework for exploring the mechanisms underlying learning in cortical microcircuits is established.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Medicine

    C-C chemokine receptor 4 deficiency exacerbates early atherosclerosis in mice

    Toru Tanaka, Naoto Sasaki ... Yoshiyuki Rikitake
    CCR4 expression in Tregs is critical for limiting proinflammatory Th1 cell-mediated immune responses and atherosclerosis by maintaining the suppressive and migratory functions of Tregs.
    1. Neuroscience

    Elucidating the selection mechanisms in context-dependent computation through low-rank neural network modeling

    Yiteng Zhang, Jianfeng Feng, Bin Min
    Mechanistic modeling with low-rank recurrent networks uncovers the relationship between network connectivity, neural dynamics, and selection modulation mechanisms in context-dependent computation.
    1. Neuroscience

    Intrinsic dynamic shapes responses to external stimulation in the human brain

    Maximilian Nentwich, Marcin Leszczynski ... Lucas C Parra
    A new computational model improves estimation of Granger connectivity by removing spurious effects of external inputs, and estimation of linear encoding models by removing spurious effects of recurrent connections.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Genetic compensation in podocalyxin-like mutants during zebrafish liver development

    Alexis N Ross, Natalie M Miscik ... Kimberley Jane Evason
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Incomplete
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Insights from aquaporin structures into drug-resistant sleeping sickness

    Modestas Matusevicius, Robin A Corey ... Simone N Weyand
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Epidermal Resident Memory T Cell Fitness Requires Antigen Encounter in the Skin

    Eric S Weiss, Toshiro Hirai ... Daniel H Kaplan
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Hunger shifts attention and attribute weighting in dietary choice

    Jennifer March, Sebastian Gluth
    Extended multi-attribute attentional drift diffusion model reveals how attentional dynamics and weight shifts lead to less healthy decisions under hunger.
    1. Neuroscience

    Inference technique for the synaptic conductances in rhythmically active networks and application to respiratory central pattern generation circuits

    Yaroslav Molkov, Anke Borgmann ... Jeffrey Smith
    A robust method to infer excitatory and inhibitory synaptic conductances from neuronal recordings reveals functional circuit organization in rhythmic networks.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Planar cell polarity coordination in a cnidarian embryo provides clues to animal body axis evolution

    Julie Uveira, Antoine Donati ... Tsuyoshi Momose
    The jellyfish embryonic body axis is globally coordinated by conserved planar cell polarity (PCP) mechanisms and oriented by localised Wnt3 in two steps, highlighting PCP’s role in animal axis evolution.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structural insights into heterohexameric assembly of epilepsy-related ligand–receptor complex LGI1–ADAM22

    Takayuki Yamaguchi, Kei Okatsu ... Shuya Fukai
    Cryo-electron microscopy and high-speed atomic force microscopy analyses of an epilepsy-related ligand–receptor complex LGI1–ADAM22 reveal the three-dimensional structure and dynamics of the 3:3 heterohexameric assembly of LGI1–ADAM22.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Human eIF2A has a minimal role in translation initiation and in uORF-mediated translational control in HeLa cells

    Mykola Roiuk, Marilena Neff, Aurelio A Teleman
    Although eIF2A is thought to be a translation initiation factor, loss of eIF2A has no effect on cellular mRNA translation in either unstressed or stressed conditions.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Exploiting functional regions in the viral RNA genome as druggable entities

    Dehua Luo, Yingge Zheng ... Dengguo Wei
    SHAPE-MaP reveals functional RNA structures in the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus genome, enabling targeted siRNA design and offering a promising strategy to inhibit viral replication.
    1. Cell Biology

    Negative regulation of miRNA sorting into EVs is mediated by the capacity of RBP PCBP2 to impair the SYNCRIP-dependent miRNA loading

    Francesco Marocco, Sabrina Garbo ... Marco Tripodi
    PCBP2 promotes miRNA cell retention by counteracting SYNCRIP-dependent miRNAs EV loading.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Engineering NIR-Sighted Bacteria

    Stefanie SM Meier, Michael Hörzing ... Andreas Möglich
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Developmental Biology

    Cardiac fibroblasts regulate myocardium and coronary vasculature development in the murine heart via the collagen signaling pathway

    Yiting Deng, Yuanhang He ... Guang Li
    Cardiac fibroblasts play a critical role throughout the various phases of murine heart development ranging from the embryonic to the neonatal stage.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Current insights into insect immune memory

    Gabriela Krejčová, Adam Bajgar
    Insects possess a remarkable ability to develop innate immune memory, and the mechanisms underlying this process are becoming a central topic in innate immunity research.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    A neuromorphic model of active vision shows how spatiotemporal encoding in lobula neurons can aid pattern recognition in bees

    HaDi MaBouDi, Mark Roper ... James AR Marshall
    Active vision dynamically refines spatiotemporal neural representations, optimising visual processing through scanning behaviour and non-associative learning, providing insights into efficient sensory encoding in dynamic environments.