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    1. Neuroscience

    A framework for analyzing global Caenorhabditis elegans neural activity

    Iulia Rusu, Zachary T Cecere ... Sreekanth H Chalasani
    Computational and theoretical analyses reveal that Caenorhabditis elegans whole-brain activity can be represented in an 8-dimensional hyperbolic manifold that hierarchically links sensory ON/OFF inputs to motor states, providing a compact geometric framework for how a nervous system processes sensory information.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Genome-wide mapping of Cas9-induced sister chromatid exchange across single and over 200 genomic sites in human cells

    Peter Chovanec, Shiyang He, Yi Yin
    Sci-L3-Strand-seq uncovers sister chromatid exchange as a frequent hidden outcome of Cas9-induced breaks, revealing genome-editing consequences that are invisible to conventional sequencing, and can be associated with structural variations.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Large-scale prospective evaluation of co-folding across hundreds of Mac1–ligand complexes and three virtual screens

    Jongbin Kim, Galen J Correy ... James S Fraser
    Co-folding methods accurately place and rank ligands within an optimization series, yet fail to separate true binders from docking false positives, suggesting complementary roles in drug discovery.
    1. Neuroscience

    Synaptic vesicle undocking induces low-frequency depression

    Melissa Silva, Federico F Trigo ... Alain Marty
    Low-frequency depression, an understudied form of synaptic plasticity, is proposed to reflect a reorganization of synaptic vesicles inside the readily releasable pool.
    1. Neuroscience

    Robust and replicable effects of ageing on resting-state brain electrophysiology measured with MEG

    Andrew J Quinn, Jemma Pitt ... Mark W Woolrich
    Resting-state MEG reveals a replicable, full-frequency profile of ageing that offers a foundation for comparing and validating brain health biomarkers although detecting specific effects requires careful consideration of statistical power.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Product-stabilized filamentation by human glutamine synthetase allosterically tunes metabolic activity

    Eric Greene, Richard Muniz ... James S Fraser
    Glutamine drives its own synthetase to assemble into inhibitory filaments, linking product concentration directly to a conformational switch that gates the active site.
    1. Neuroscience

    Synaptic connectome of a neurosecretory network in the Drosophila brain

    Theresa H McKim, Jayati Gera ... Meet Zandawala
    Connectome-level analysis of the Drosophila neuroendocrine system reveals the organizational logic by which the brain integrates sensory information to regulate hormonal signaling.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Svep1 orchestrates distal airway patterning and alveolar differentiation in murine lung development

    Nicole Foxworth, Julie Wells ... Maria Loscertales
    Genetic and functional analyses identify SVEP1 as an extracellular matrix regulator that coordinates airway branching, smooth muscle differentiation, and alveolar maturation during lung development.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    A membrane-disruptive action of VBIT-4 challenges its role as a widely used VDAC1 oligomerization inhibitor

    Varun Ravishankar, Luís Borges-Araújo ... Lucie Bergdoll
    VBIT-4 perturbs lipid membranes without detectably affecting VDAC1 channels or oligomerization, calling for careful interpretation of its biological effects and highlighting the need to assess membrane interactions of hydrophobic compounds.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    Role of desolvation on biomolecular liquid–liquid phase separation

    Kai Zhang, Zhiyu Peng ... Wei Wang
    A desolvation-aware coarse-grained framework enables efficient and physically realistic modeling of biomolecular phase separation by capturing water-mediated effects on phase behavior, dense-phase packing, conformational reorganization, and dynamics.