TrASPr+BOS enables accurate prediction and design of tissue-specific RNA splicing, even for tissues not trained on, uncovering unseen regulatory elements and guiding sequence edits that reshape splicing outcomes.
ITCH is an important regulator of SARS-CoV-2 life cycle, coordinating ubiquitination, assembly, autophagosome-mediated secretion, and spike stability, highlighting ITCH as a promising therapeutic target for antiviral intervention.
Simone Daniela Rencken, Georgi Tushev ... Gilles Laurent
A chromosome-scale, annotated reference genome for the common cuttlefish Sepia officinalis clarifies its karyotype and reveals cephalopod-specific gene family expansions across neural and non-neural tissues.
Interaction between LFA-1 on natural killer cells and GBP-130 on infected erythrocytes enables immune recognition and killing of Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells.
Empirical substitution matrices from experimental measurements on 31,614 variants accurately predict cellular protein abundance changes using only amino-acid substitution and whether the site is buried or exposed.
Cryo-EM structures unexpectedly show that there are two binding sites for RAB5, with the VPS15 site being the most evolutionarily ancient site, which is essential for endocytic sorting.
Giovanni Diana, B Semihcan Sermet ... David A DiGregorio
A Bayesian particle Gibbs framework enables unbiased spike time inference with millisecond resolution and jointly estimates uncertainties in both spike timing and model parameters from fast calcium imaging.
Thomas Moss, Alexandra Wooldredge ... Shaeri Mukherjee
A phosphorylation site on Hsp70 previously linked to pathogen activity functions endogenously in DNA damage responses and connects chaperone regulation to cell cycle control.
Shoubhik Chandan Banerjee, Fritz A Francisco, Albert B Kao
A navigational model exploring social learning strategies differing in cognitive complexity in homing pigeons shows that simple averaging sufficiently explains collective route improvements, without requiring cumulative cultural evolution.
Glycolytic activation directly drives Kupffer cell loss in early metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, highlighting a targetable metabolic vulnerability.
Hearing impairment selectively disrupts neural tracking of speech at both short and long temporal scales during multi-speaker listening, while preserving intermediate linguistic processing.
BRCA1/2 mutations rewire the lung adenocarcinoma microenvironment through distinct immune programs, with BRCA1-linked type I interferon signaling and CD8+ T activation contrasting BRCA2-linked MHC-II antigen presentation and CD4+ T differentiation.
The optimized protocol for isolating small extracellular vesicles from small blood volumes, confirmed by independent methods including cryo-electron microscopy, ensures superior purity and high yield for reliable biomarker detection.
The Tapenade pipeline enables single-cell, whole-mount 3D quantification in dense multilayer organoids, linking spatial gene co-expression and nuclear deformation to emerging tissue-scale organization.
Dominic Rebindaine, Thomas W Crowther ... Constantin M Zohner
Faster early-season development, especially under nighttime warming, advances the point at which the autumn phenology of European beech becomes responsive to late-summer cooling.
Sarah Nicholas, Katja Sporar Klinge ... Karin Nordström
Descending neurons that encode widefield motion vision in the fly have sexually dimorphic velocity tuning, while the wing beat amplitude, which these neurons presumably control, is monomorphic.
Gustavo Aguilar, Michèle E Sickmann ... Martin Müller
Early enhancer logic precisely aligns developmental boundaries by integrating HOX, GATA, and signaling inputs, ensuring correct tissue patterning and preventing mirror-image duplications in the developing wing.
Exploring the differentiation of iPSC to trunk tenocytes and how the single-cell RNA sequencing and pathway analysis can assist in making it more specific.
Alina-Măriuca Marinescu, Eshita Kamal ... Marie A Labouesse
Within the nucleus accumbens shell, a spatially defined rostral subregion selectively modulates hedonic feeding, revealing functional heterogeneity in reward circuitry underlying food consumption.
Dana MS Cheung, Momchil Razsolkov ... J Simon C Arthur
B cell activation and antibody class switching requires coordinated metabolic rewiring, with essential roles for amino acid transport, cholesterol metabolism, and prenylation in driving proliferation across multiple activating stimuli.
EXOC6A cooperates with myosin-Va to regulate vesicle trafficking and membrane remodeling during ciliogenesis, enabling ciliary vesicle maturation, transition zone assembly, and proper delivery of ciliary membrane proteins.
Multimodal stacking of MRI‑based markers of cognition reveals a shared brain architecture that links cognitive performance with mental health, explaining nearly half of their observed association.
Sofia Lövestam, Jane L Wagstaff ... Sjors HW Scheres
Phosphomimetic mutations allow the assembly of full-length recombinant tau into Alzheimer's paired helical filaments by disrupting intramolecular contacts between its ordered core and fuzzy coat.
The dynamic internal fluidity of nuclear MORC2 condensates, rather than their mere assembly, is strictly required for transcriptional regulation and is selectively disrupted by neuropathy-linked mutations.
Sourav Banerjee, Nicola Minshall ... Mark Carrington
The glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored receptors in Trypanosoma brucei are not confined to the flagellar pocket but instead localise across the whole cell surface, reshaping our understanding of host immune evasion and nutrient uptake.
William Salvidge, Chris Brimson ... Chris Thompson
Experiments and mathematical modelling show cell fate in Dictyostelium discoideum partly depends on cell-cycle phase, but also on stochastic gene-expression variability which enhances robustness of developmental responses to cell-cycle perturbation.
Ophélie J Gosselin, Michael Taschner ... Stephan Gruber
A screen using in vitro-selected synthetic nanobodies identified inhibitors of SMC protein function in bacterial cells, revealing a coiled coil region as a vital component of the chromosome-folding machinery.
An evolution-guided framework is proposed to accelerate the discovery and therapeutic targeting of understudied dark channels by integrating sequence, structure, and functional data from diverse organisms.
Sabrina Riva, Maria Fernanda Ceriani ... Diana Lorena Franco
A semi-automated system for monitoring egg-laying reveals that lateral dorsal neurons are key regulators of circadian oviposition, showing that the neural circuits controlling oviposition and circadian locomotor behavior are different.
Functional and mechanistic analyses reveal that intranasal decoys engage phagocytic clearance beyond viral neutralization to provide effective protection, establishing immune redirection for developing broad-spectrum countermeasures against airborne viral threats.
Addictive drugs, as well as ketamine/xylazine, change the connectivity to ventral tegmental area dopamine cells, which may be related to cellular activity.
Drosophila female germline tumors mutant for bam or bgcn mimic the stem cell niche to inhibit the differentiation of neighboring wild-type germline stem cells.
Biochemical and genetic evidence identifies ATP5I as a biguanide target, redefining biguanide action through ATP synthase regulation and assembly, mitochondrial architecture, and mitochondrial protein turnover.
Replication origins in Trypanosoma brucei integrate multiple features previously described individually in opisthokonts, revealing a unified structural topology built from strand-specific nucleotide composition, G‑quadruplex enrichment, and distinctive nucleosome patterns.
Exposure of human cortical interneurons to hypoxia leads to decreased migration, a process that is likely altered in preterm infants and contributes to the increased risk for neurodevelopmental problems.
A newly developed chemo-immunological strategy enabled detection of acetoacetate-mediated lysine acetoacetylation, identified the associated regulatory enzymes, and revealed its distinct biological functions and physiological significance.
Elena Badillo Goicoechea, Phillip F Agres ... Joel L Voss
Meta-analysis indicates that network-targeted non-invasive brain stimulation consistently enhances memory function supported by the hippocampal network, thus providing robust evidence that specific memory abilities rely on specific modifiable brain networks.
Neural reward signals following effort are amplified for self-benefiting outcomes but attenuated for other-benefiting outcomes, contingent upon reward magnitude and individual effort sensitivity.
A Gata3 enhancer-embedded long non-coding RNA, Dreg1, was identified as being specifically required for optimal group 2 innate lymphoid cell development.
Mahdiyar Shahbazi, Olivier Codol ... Paul L Gribble
Recurrent neural network models trained on a novel motor skill exhibit a persistent shift in preparatory activity that enables faster relearning, without cognitive or contextual cues.
A biologically plausible reinforcement learning model that integrates associative memory and hippocampal remapping explains context-dependent flexible behavior, neural dynamics, and psychosis-related symptoms.
Mofida Abdelmageed, Premkumar Palanisamy ... Anirban Paul
Progressive DNA polymerase kappa relocalization in aging neurons associates with increased DNA damage and identifies a novel cell type- and activity-dependent role in neuronal genome maintenance.
Lamina I projection neurons that respond selectively to skin cooling receive monosynaptic input from Trpm8-expressing primary afferents and innervate brain regions involved in perception of cold and cold defence mechanisms.
The Drosophila ryanodine receptor plays a conserved role in setting functional and structural muscle properties, regulates embryonic muscle development and could be used to assess the impact of human RYR1 mutations.
Intravital microscopy of meningeal macrophage Ca²⁺ dynamics reveals previously unknown population heterogeneity, vasomotion-coupled activity, and diverse responses during steady state and neuroinflammatory conditions, offering relevant insights into brain immune regulation.
Marco Nigro, Lucas Silva Tortorelli ... Hongdian Yang
Inhibiting locus coeruleus input to the medial prefrontal cortex in mice impaired task performance, affected the tuning of single cortical neurons and disrupted population dynamics and encoding capacity during attentional switching.
Dissociable neural signatures of integration and segregation provide the first direct neuroimaging evidence for the integration-segregation theory of exogenous attention.
Ryan T Maloney, Athena Q Ye ... Benjamin L de Bivort
Individual flies have idiosyncratic preferences that shift over their lifetime in a way that depends on genotype and may be adaptive to rapidly changing environmental pressures.
Adriana Quijada-Freire, César A Santiago ... Mario Mellado
HIV-1 remodels the spatial organization of its co-receptor, CXCR4, on T cell membranes, showing that viral entry requires receptor clustering rather than simple receptor binding.
Mary L Phillips, Nicolai T Urban ... Ryohei Yasuda
Multiplexed spectral fingerprinting through a single implanted GRIN lens enables projection-resolved functional imaging of up to nine neuronal populations in freely behaving animals without post hoc histology.
In a stylized regime-shift detection task, human fMRI evidence shows that under- and overreactions to change arise from dissociable contributions of the frontoparietal network and ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
Using computational and theoretical models shows how adult-neurogenesis and spike-timing-dependent plasticity balance the flexibility and stability of odor representations.
Marion Brickwedde, Rupali Limachya ... Ali Mazaheri
Early visual alpha oscillations correlate on a trial-by-trial basis with steady-state responses at later stages of the processing stream, implying a role in signal enhancement and interareal communication.
Humans’ flexible temporal cognition, including mental time travel, arises from perspective-agnostic encoding of event sequences in the hippocampus and perspective-dependent retrieval and reconstruction in the posterior parietal cortex.
The Mettl5/Trmt112 complex alters rRNA methylation, increasing PERIOD protein linking ribosome function, clock genes, and proteasome in sleep regulation in Drosophila.
High levels of circulating estradiol enable the RP3V kisspeptin neuron population to exhibit long-lasting synchronized oscillatory behavior that drives GnRH neurons to initiate the LH surge.
A high-resolution 3D imaging platform reveals the periportal lamellar complex as a novel structural feature in the mouse liver, regulating bile duct and nerve migration during fibrosis.
Alicja Monaghan, Richard AI Bethlehem ... Duncan E Astle
Contrary to prior work, principal axes of structural and functional connectivity are established early in life, remaining stable and undergoing refinement throughout development.
Sara M Frangos, Henver S Brunetta ... Graham P Holloway
Multi-omic and bioenergetic profiling in a HER2-driven mouse model of mammary cancer reveals that reduced mitochondrial content does not limit tumor respiratory capacity, which is instead dramatically elevated compared to benign mammary tissue.
Continuous flash suppression reduces V1 orientation responses in an ocular-dominance-dependent manner, which may still allow low-level coarse orientation discrimination but provide insufficient information for higher-level visual and cognitive tasks.
The first all-atom models of the mycobacterial outer membrane reveal how lipid organization and asymmetry generate a structurally heterogeneous barrier that underlies its unique permeability properties.
Soenke Cordeiro, Robert Patejdl ... Marianne A Musinszki
Identification of mangostins as potent BK channel activators links natural xanthones to vascular smooth muscle relaxation, providing a mechanistic basis for their reported antihypertensive effects.
A fully computationally designed SaCas9 variant expands PAM recognition to NNNRRT, achieving up to 116-fold higher editing at noncanonical sites while matching the performance of experimentally evolved variants.
Allocating space, materials and energy to an eye's optics and photoreceptor array is a major factor in eye design that explains obvious differences between simple eyes and compound eyes.
Mark van der Kroeg, Sakshi Bansal ... Femke MS de Vrij
Human stem cell-derived adherent cortical organoids in 384-well plates provide a reproducible, long-term cortical organoid platform with neurons, glia, and robust network activity, enabling scalable disease modeling and therapeutic screening.
Real-time nanopore transcriptomics enables early detection of expression changes and sample quality, offering a rapid, cost-effective strategy for experimental quality control and transcriptomic analysis.
David Papadopoli, Ranveer Palia ... Ivan Topisirovic
Downregulation of the electron transfer flavoprotein dehydrogenase drives pro-tumorigenic metabolic programs via stimulating the mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1 signaling across a broad spectrum of cancers.
Theoretical and computational analyses demonstrate that cell intercalation within epithelial cell layers is analogous to the unbinding of topological defects in hexatic liquid crystals, offering a framework for calculating cellular forces and velocities during collective migration.
Friederike Steenken, Rainer Beutelmann ... Georg M Klump
In aging gerbils, compromised temporal fine structure perception is explained by a more prominent representation in auditory nerve fibers of temporal fluctuations of the signal envelope, rather than by synaptopathy.
A conserved neuropeptidergic circuit directly links internal glucose levels to sweet taste sensitivity, providing a central mechanism for coupling metabolic state to feeding behavior.
Residual plasma from rapid routine clinical chemistry tubes enables cell-free DNA NGS-based analysis, providing an untapped, scalable, and accessible resource without specialized collection workflows.
RadD recognition by NKp46 converts Fusobacterium nucleatum from an immune-evasive pathogen into a trigger of natural killer cell-mediated tumor control in a context-dependent manner.
