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- Cell BiologybioRxivPreprint
A Human Precision Cut Kidney Slice Platform for Studying Glomerular Biology and Therapeutic Responses
Shreeram Akilesh, Xianwu Li, Bre Mills…·Kelly D. Smith
This study uses human precision cut kidney slices to analyze gene expression responses to culture conditions and IFNγ stimulation, showing reproducible APOL1 expression changes.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.16.759734 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
mixKIN: An ancestry-aware kinship estimation method for low coverage genomes
Muhammed Sıddık Kılıç, Anna‐Sapfo Malaspinas, Dilek Koptekin
mixKIN improves kinship estimation from low-coverage genomes by accounting for ancestry, outperforming existing methods in admixed and heterogeneous populations.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.13.758828 - ImmunologybioRxivPreprint
Macrophage PHOX Restricts Aspergillus fumigatus Germination and Hyphal Development Through ROS-Dependent Immunity
M. Lynette Goins, Sourabh Dhingra, Emily E. Rosowski
This study shows macrophage-derived ROS restricts A. fumigatus germination and hyphal growth, while fungal melanin limits ROS activity, promoting immune evasion.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.13.758795 - BiophysicsbioRxivPreprint
Inferring protein-induced spontaneous curvature of lipid bilayers from molecular simulation
Amirali Hossein, Melanie A. Brunet, Noah Englander…·Alexander J. Sodt
This paper introduces a method to estimate protein-induced curvature of lipid bilayers using molecular simulations by correlating molecular position with curvature in thermally fluctuating bilayer modes.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.15.759481 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
ClonoDeconv: reference-based α - β paired recurrent clonotype proportion estimation from bulk-TCR sequencing
Yuze Zhou, Elie Antoun, Mariana Pereira Pinho…·Tao Dong
ClonoDeconv estimates paired TCR clonotype proportions from bulk-TCR sequencing using a single-cell reference, capturing longitudinal T-cell clonal dynamics.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.13.758550 - GenomicsbioRxivPreprint
Whole-genome alignment of 23 genomes reveals the tempo and genomic determinants of de novo gene birth in the Brassicaceae
Adekola Owoyemi, Sierra Sanders, Catherine Chaison…·Claudio Casola
The paper identifies 22,377 de novo genes in 21 Brassicaceae genomes, showing variation in birth/death rates and factors influencing their turnover.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.13.758884 - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Entering and Exiting Awareness are Asymmetrical: Evidence from tracking Continuous Flash Suppression
Cameron K. Phan, Reuben Rideaux, David Alais
This paper introduces a mathematical model to correct for reaction-time-induced overshoot in continuous flash suppression paradigms, revealing asymmetry in thresholds for entering and exiting awareness.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.18.759988 - BiochemistrybioRxivPreprint
Heteromeric LGP2-MDA5 receptor complexes drive antiviral signaling
Gina Buchel, Ling Xu, Yu-Chieh Sung, Anna Marie Pyle
This study shows LGP2 is not just a recruitment factor for MDA5 but becomes an integral part of MDA5 filaments, stabilizing them and reducing the number of MDA5 molecules needed for signaling.
DOI 10.64898/2026.08.20.745998 - BiophysicsbioRxivPreprint
Force-induced unfolding versus unbinding of a cellulosomal carbohydrate-binding module from cellulose interface
Kolattukudy Poulose Santo, Ryan P. Murphy, Markus Hackl…·Alexander V. Neimark
This study investigates how mechanical pulling affects the unbinding of a cellulosomal carbohydrate-binding module from cellulose using simulations and experiments, showing that pulling orientation significantly impacts unfolding and unbinding dynamics.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.16.759631 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
RDEmbed: A Sentence-Embedding Framework for Rare Disease Phenotype Representation and Phenotypic Similarity Analysis
Xinghua Wang, Jianlian Wang, Zijian Zhang…·Arif Harmanci
RDEmbed uses sentence embeddings to analyze rare disease phenotypes from clinical text, outperforming ontology-based methods in similarity analysis and clustering.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.16.759399 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Spatial proteomic profiling of cardiac stromal populations and microenvironments in systemic sclerosis-associated primary myocardial involvement
Ayla Nadja Stütz, Giacomo Davide De Luca, Alexandru‐Emil Matei…·Andrea-Hermina Gyoerfi
The paper uses spatial proteomic profiling to analyze cardiac stromal populations and microenvironments in systemic sclerosis-associated myocarditis, identifying distinct fibroblast subtypes and their spatial interactions.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.17.758293 - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Isoflurane anesthesia CNS recovery state: ultra-slow oscillations and cellular-stress-responsive gene expression
Mantre Dehnad, Theresa E. Bjorness, Ashwinikumar Kulkarni…·Robert W. Greene
This study compares the neurophysiological and molecular recovery from isoflurane anesthesia with sleep and sleep deprivation in mice, finding distinct gene expression patterns and EEG features.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.18.760000 - BiochemistrybioRxivPreprint
Evolutionary plasticity of regulatory--catalytic coupling in mono- and poly-ADP-ribosyl transferases
Makwana Milee, Shambhavi Khare, Shanavas P Greeshma…·Eerappa Rajakumara
The paper investigates how regulatory and catalytic domains of ADP-ribosyltransferases co-evolve, showing functional complementarity across species and enzyme classes.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.17.759577 - Cancer BiologybioRxivPreprint
LIN28B is a post-transcriptional regulator of Wnt signalling in myeloid leukemia cells and dual targeting promotes cytotoxicity
Okan Sevim, Megan Wagstaff, Rebecca E. Ling…·Gareth Morgan
This study identifies LIN28B as a post-transcriptional regulator of Wnt/{beta}-catenin signalling in myeloid leukemia cells and shows that dual targeting enhances cytotoxicity.
- NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
GPNMB enables lysosomal adaptation required for myelin clearance and nerve regeneration after peripheral nerve injury
Najwa Ouali Alami, Moh Panesar, Michael Obrecht…·Michael Bidinosti
This study identifies GPNMB as a critical regulator of lysosomal function in macrophages, essential for myelin clearance and nerve regeneration after peripheral nerve injury.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.12.758439 - PathologybioRxivPreprint
New whole slide image analysis method for detection and quantification of hepatocellular vacuolization in European flounder (Platichthys flesus) in multipollutant exposure context
Valentin Geslin, Mamadou Diop, Jérôme Couteau…·Jean Laroche
The paper develops a new whole slide image analysis method to detect and quantify hepatocellular vacuolization in European flounder exposed to multiple pollutants, showing significant differences between polluted and control sites.
- GenomicsbioRxivPreprint
Chromosomal-Level Whole Genome Assemblies of Crassostrea Virginica
Liam Cawood, Shiying Wang, Eli Kleiman…·Josephine Hoh
The paper generates a chromosome-level reference genome for Crassostrea virginica using PacBio HiFi, Illumina, and Hi-C data, achieving high completeness and reduced duplication.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.13.758928 - Pharmacology & ToxicologybioRxivPreprint
Establishing toxicologically relevant primary alveolar macrophage models to enable a realistic assessment of nanomaterials safety
Hongyu Ren, Chenxi Li, Haiyun Zhang…·Lianyong Han
The paper evaluates six alveolar macrophage models to identify those best representing in vivo AMs for assessing nanomaterial toxicity, finding AMs GTR and BM-AMs most suitable.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.12.758669