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Red drum lowered oxygen consumption behind mangrove- and oyster-mimicking bluff bodies at flows to 100 cm/s, yet telemetered fish were detected mostly in low-velocity nearshore habitat.

Short UG-rich RNAs bind and stabilize TDP-43 RNA-recognition motifs to allosterically destabilize its prion-like domain helical region, preventing aggregation and mitigating neurodegeneration in cells and mice.

Three mRNA-LNP products sharing one lipid matrix show rat intramuscular biodistribution (injection site, lymph nodes, spleen) and rapid clearance, with no Spike accumulation after repeat dosing.

Human arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy hearts harbor a lesion niche of POSTN fibroblasts and NLRP3+ inflammatory macrophages; IL-1β neutralization in Dsg2-mutant mice reduced fibrosis, dysfunction, and ventricular ectopy.

A 96-well square plate zebrafish larva thigmotaxis assay with visual and acoustic stimuli matched 24-well round plates and detected neuroactive chemicals more sensitively than locomotion.

Across 105 rhesus macaque matrilines at two primate centers, family grooming cohesion drops below a mean kinship threshold of 0.16, while lower kinship continuously increases severe within-family aggression.

Adding distributed muscle mass to 1D Hill-type models alters predicted human leg-muscle forces by under 1% at natural size; differences grow with scale and cadence.

Cambrian luolishaniid lobopodian appendage mesh spacing scales sublinearly with body length, and their predator-prey size ratios match modern suspension feeders rather than raptorial chaetognaths.

Using the share of AMELY-specific among all sex-specific amelogenin peptides (RAMELY), enamel proteomes are sexed consistently across four search engines, tolerating false-positive AMELY hits without manual checks.

Polygenic score variants in HAQERs (Human Ancestor Quickly Evolved Regions, <0.1% of the genome) predict spoken language but not nonverbal IQ; language associations replicate in SPARK, ABCD and UK Biobank.

Single-cell aortic transcriptomics and plasma bioassays in aged mice show that intermittent fisetin treatment clears senescent endothelial cells and reverses endothelial dysfunction partially driven by circulating CXCL12.

Human Developmental Cell Atlas integrates ~4.6 million cells/nuclei from 4-22 post-conception weeks into 454 refined cell types and maps 114 spatial niches across 6PCW whole-embryo sections.

Bovine oviductal organoids treated with estradiol or a progesterone analog reproduce follicular and luteal transcriptomes and secretomes; estradiol-stimulated secretions boost bull sperm capacitation and acrosome reaction.

Reporter alleles of all ten C. elegans DMRT genes show six are sexually dimorphic across tissues; mab-3, dmd-3 and mab-23 nulls alter male neuronal identities.

Spatial transcriptomics of live healthy donor livers shows most hepatocyte genes are zonated, with key functions pericentrally shifted versus mouse, pig, boar and cow.

Relocating a captive naked mole rat colony paused the queen's breeding; two daughters then sequentially became breeders without aggression, ending in peaceful succession.

In mouse pancreatic cancer models, p53, CDKN2A and SMAD4 programs converge on a rare Kras-mutant progenitor-like state whose niche KRAS inhibition collapses and p53 loss expands.

The Portal Project archives over 40 years of continuous monthly rodent, biannual plant, multi-decade ant, and automated weather data from 24 experimentally manipulated Chihuahuan Desert plots with automated quality control.

Fifty micro-CT-scanned archaeological petrous bones from Argentina did not differ significantly from 43 unscanned ones on six ancient DNA metrics, motivating a multi-step workflow that scans bones before destructive sampling.

Random forest predictors PARAS and PARASECT, trained on 3,653 curated adenylation domains, outperform earlier NRPS substrate predictors and correctly assigned L-Trp to an unusual tryptopeptin synthetase domain.