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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Arrayed single-gene perturbations identify drivers of human anterior neural tube closure

    Roya E Huang, Giridhar M Anand ... Sharad Ramanathan
    A method for arrayed CRISPRi screening in organoids enables the investigation of morphogenesis in human stem cell-derived tissues, revealing the roles of ZIC2, SOX11, and ZNF521 in neural tube closure.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Optimised genome editing for precise DNA insertion and substitution using prime editors in zebrafish

    Yosuke Ono, Martin Peterka ... Steffen Scholpp
    Nickase and nuclease Prime Editors offer complementary routes for precise zebrafish genome editing, balancing accuracy for substitutions with efficiency for short insertions.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Ligand-dependent enhancer activation indirectly modulates non-target promoters in a chromatin domain

    Darshika Bohra, Zubairul Islam ... Dimple Notani
    Ligand-driven enhancer activation selectively boosts target gene expression while indirectly repressing neighboring non-target genes, revealing dynamic and competitive regulation during early transcriptional responses.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    A coma pattern-based autofocusing method resolves bacterial cold shock response at single-cell level

    Sihong Li, Zhixin Ma ... Shuqiang Huang
    A robust autofocusing method enables continuous single-cell imaging during rapid cooling, revealing sustained bacterial proliferation hidden by growth arrest inferred from optical-density measurements.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Mechanistic insights into transcriptional regulation of ARHGAP36 expression identify a factor predictive of neuroblastoma survival

    Serhiy Havrylov, Armin M Gamper, Ordan J Lehmann
    Genetic experiments integrated with ChIP-sequencing and CRISPR interference reveal that overexpression of Foxc1 transcriptionally activates the expression of Arhgap36 and dysregulates multiple facets of Hedgehog pathway activity.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Lipid packing contributes to the confinement of caveolae to the plasma membrane

    Elin Larsson, Aleksei Kabedev ... Richard Lundmark
    Membrane insertion of Dyngo-4a results in a dynamin-independent inhibition of caveola dynamics, revealing that outer leaflet lipid packing in the plasma membrane contributes to the confinement of caveolae.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Activity-dependent CO2 production in the axon triggers opening of Connexin32 in the Schwann cell paranode

    Jack Butler, Lowell Mott ... Nicholas Dale
    Gaseous CO2 acts as a neuron to glia messenger in peripheral myelin to trigger opening of Schwann Cell Cx32 hemichannels in response to axonal action potential propagation.
    1. Neuroscience

    Neural activity profiles reveal overlapping, intermingled subpopulations spanning area borders in mouse sensorimotor cortex

    Sohrab Salimian, Harrison Grier, Matthew Tyler Kaufman
    Single neurons in mouse sensorimotor cortex are organized by their activity features into distinct subpopulations with area-spanning footprints whose boundaries align closely with anatomical and somatotopic borders.
    1. Neuroscience

    Analysis of dendritic input currents during place field dynamics

    Bence Fogel, Balazs B Ujfalussy
    A new analysis method to measure the propagation of different membrane currents along complex dendritic trees reveals the conditions leading to burst firing in a computational model of place cells.