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    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. 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. 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.