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    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Signature-scoring methods developed for bulk samples are not adequate for cancer single-cell RNA sequencing data

    Nighat Noureen, Zhenqing Ye ... Siyuan Zheng
    Dropouts in single cell RNA sequencing data are associated with cell states and can affect gene signature scoring if methods do not account for them.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Body mass index and adipose distribution have opposing genetic impacts on human blood traits

    Christopher S Thom, Madison B Wilken ... Benjamin F Voight
    Body mass index and adipose distribution have opposing and broad effects on human blood trait variation by Mendelian randomization analysis, helping to clarify the complex interplay between cardiometabolic traits and hematopoiesis at the genetic level.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Nanoscale binding site localization by molecular distance estimation on native cell surfaces using topological image averaging

    Vibha Kumra Ahnlide, Johannes Kumra Ahnlide ... Pontus Nordenfelt
    A method to carefully measure the molecular distance between a site of interest and a reference surface by the repeated acquisition of the two image channels followed by the statistical calculation of the relative difference.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    A novel gene ZNF862 causes hereditary gingival fibromatosis

    Juan Wu, Dongna Chen ... Wei Li
    The third causative gene ZNF862 was novelly identified for hereditary gingival fibromatosis in a large Chinese family.
    1. Neuroscience

    Cannabidiol activates neuronal Kv7 channels

    Han-Xiong Bear Zhang, Laurel Heckman ... Bruce P Bean
    The phytocannabinoid cannabidiol, an antiepileptic agent whose molecular targets are unclear, was found to potently enhance current carried by cloned human Kv7.2/7.3 channels and native M-current in mouse and rat neurons.
    1. Ecology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Alternate patterns of temperature variation bring about very different disease outcomes at different mean temperatures

    Charlotte Kunze, Pepijn Luijckx ... Ian Donohue
    Temperature variation caused by heatwaves and diurnal fluctuations has distinct effects on host and pathogen traits at different mean temperatures, leading to large and unexpected differences in disease burden making the impact of global warming on diseases hard to predict.
    1. Neuroscience

    A vibrissa pathway that activates the limbic system

    Michaël Elbaz, Amalia Callado Perez ... Martin Deschenes
    A predominant but less studied sensory pathway for both vibrissa self-motion and touch inputs is shown to broadcast broadly to brainstem regions involved in regulation of autonomic functions as well as forebrain regions involved in expression of emotional reactions.
    1. Neuroscience

    Charting brain growth and aging at high spatial precision

    Saige Rutherford, Charlotte Fraza ... Andre F Marquand
    During an individual's lifetime, their brain undergoes a unique transformation that we have precisely mapped across thousands of people to create and share reference growth charts of the human brain's lifespan which allow for single subject exploration and inference.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Native proline-rich motifs exploit sequence context to target actin-remodeling Ena/VASP protein ENAH

    Theresa Hwang, Sara S Parker ... Amy E Keating
    Short linear motifs throughout the intrinsically disordered proteome use sequence context in diverse ways to target actin remodeler ENAH.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Connexins evolved after early chordates lost innexin diversity

    Georg Welzel, Stefan Schuster
    An in silico analysis of gap junction proteins supports the hypothesis that connexins replaced the primordial innexins in chordate gap junctions due to an evolutionary bottleneck.