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This study identifies persistent transcriptomic and epigenomic changes in non-human primate airway epithelial cells after wood smoke exposure, revealing lasting molecular effects despite no visible histological changes.

The paper estimates heritability of subcortical brain volumes in adolescents using a multi-site cohort, finding high heritability in cerebellum cortex and hippocampus.

This study evaluates genetic mosaicism in Daphnia species after CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, finding mosaicism in 9 out of 11 targeted genes.

This study evaluates graph attention networks (GAT) for genomic prediction in crops, finding that ensembles of GAT models outperform single models using gene network structures.

The paper analyzes splicing in 729 pediatric brain tumors, identifies splicing-defined subgroups, and highlights CLK1 exon 4 as an oncofetal event linked to tumor prognosis.

The paper presents a chromosome-level, haplotype-resolved genome assembly for the barn owl, resolving microchromosomes and enabling structural variation studies.

This study compares 16S rRNA gene sequencing and meta-transcriptomic analyses of endometrial microbiota, finding weak correlation in low-biomass environments and highlighting the value of RNA-based functional insights.

The paper demonstrates an integrative approach combining cytological, genomic, and transcriptomic methods to detect and characterize complex structural variants affecting specific genes and report a new neurodevelopmental phenotype.

This study identifies glucocorticoid-induced transcriptomic changes in human trabecular meshwork and Schlemm's canal cells using RNA-seq, finding genes associated with glaucoma and intraocular pressure.

This study identifies candidate genes associated with salt tolerance in Vigna luteola by analyzing root transcriptomes and QTL regions.

The paper provides a detailed CUT&RUN protocol for high-resolution epigenomic profiling, including best practices and controls for efficient target profiling.

This study identifies balancing and positive selection in sunflower genomic regions related to abiotic stress tolerance, finding that modern cultivars have higher deleterious mutation loads and that some ancestral alleles enhance salt tolerance.

The paper develops a framework that optimizes breeding strategies by updating genomic prediction models during breeding schemes, showing improved performance under moderate to low selection intensities.

The paper introduces MORALE, a domain adaptation framework for cross-species TF binding prediction, achieving state-of-the-art performance without adversarial training.

The paper identifies small RNA biomarkers, including tRFs and miRNAs, associated with IRI and EAD in liver transplantation using tissue and perfusate samples.

AmalgaMo merges similar DNA motifs to improve regression-based motif enrichment analysis using human datasets.

This study identifies plasmids as key drivers in the dissemination and diversification of Type VI Secretion Systems (T6SSs) across bacterial lineages.

The paper analyzes viromics datasets to compare microdiversity between temperate and virulent phages in soil environments, finding higher microdiversity in temperate phages in most datasets.

The paper identifies a novel seaweed virus with extreme GC3 codon bias and pseudoambigrammatic characteristics, suggesting a new RNA virus survival strategy.