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This paper tracks radiation damage in cells during scanning SAXS using a synchronized brightfield microscope.

This paper evaluates the impact of NIH's K23 trial pathway on trial leadership, finding increased K-trial leadership but no significant increase in new trials.

The study finds that male red-capped manakins discriminate between stranger and neighbor vocalizations at leks, responding more quickly to strangers.

This study improves genome assemblies of Noccaea caerulescens accessions and identifies gene copy number variations linked to metal hyperaccumulation and adaptation.

This study shows that neural substrates for space, time, and numerosity overlap more during target encoding than during reproduction and performance evaluation phases.

This paper introduces a hierarchical RNN that mimics spatial navigation circuits, reproducing key cell types and dynamics through task-driven learning.

The paper shows that strong mnemonic prediction errors enhance cognitive control, attention, and arousal, leading to better learning of unexpected stimuli.

This study shows that GRP170 protects podocytes from stress-induced glomerular injury by modulating the UPR, as demonstrated in a podocyte-specific knockout mouse model.

The paper adapts the Geometric Viability assay to measure C. difficile spore germination, finding it highly consistent with conventional methods and capable of detecting germination sensitivity differences.

The paper reconstructs a rare Δ10 desaturation pathway in Camelina sativa to produce yellow peach moth pheromone precursors, achieving up to 4.7% target fatty acids in seeds.

The paper develops function-oriented microglial transcriptional scores to capture post-activation functions in Alzheimer's disease, validated across multiple endpoints and datasets.

This study identifies Aurora kinase A's role in promoting collective cell invasion and metastasis by enabling leader cell phenotypes and stabilizing cohesion with follower cells.

The paper introduces KASM to integrate functional annotations and estimate heritability of rare protein coding variants across 786,871 exomes, finding higher heritability than previous estimates.

The paper describes Sissivirus, a giant virus with a 4-megabase genome and a large repeatome, identifying repeat accumulation as a key driver of its genome expansion.

This study shows that sleep reactivation enhances memory for event content but impairs temporal-order memory, with effects varying over time.

This study identifies a CAG repeat expansion in EP400 as a novel cause of spinocerebellar ataxia in Serbian patients, with an inverse correlation between repeat number and age at onset.

The paper models how coral host pigments affect light propagation and tissue heating, showing distinct roles of chromoproteins and fluorescent proteins in energy distribution and heat generation.

This study identifies the absence of lipoprotein biosynthesis machinery in Orientia tsutsugamushi and describes alternative mechanisms for its proteins.

This paper introduces a Bayesian variable selection method for identifying selection in phylogenetic datasets, showing it outperforms Dirichlet-process models and avoids phantom selection artifacts.