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This study shows that increased cognitive load expands and stabilizes visual representations across the brain, enhances cross-regional coordination, and reduces neural variability.

This paper evaluates generative models for predicting novel enzymatic reactions, finding they can generate correct reactions for 25% of test cases and improve over existing methods.

The paper shows that a dual-band vibration burst improves anti-kindling in a spiking network model compared to single-frequency stimulation.

This study shows that amyloid structure and condensate stability independently influence the hnRNPA2 condensate-to-fibril transition, revealing a structural framework for this process.

The paper identifies widespread Saccharomyces hybridization in agave fermentations, showing multiple independent origins and asymmetric parental genetic diversity.

This paper expands the RatGTEx resource with transcriptome-wide associations across 3,160 RNA-seq samples, identifying 7,473 gene-trait links and 144,876 QTLs for 22,599 genes.

This study evaluates 11 Hibiscus mutabilis cultivars for food use using Delphi and AHP, identifying three top cultivars for food development.

The paper predicts how preprocessing affects fMRI connectivity estimates using prior scans, showing personalized models outperform average predictions.

This study evaluates the ecotoxicological effects of transition metal-containing LDH nanoparticles on maize, tomato, and C. elegans, finding low phytotoxicity but greater toxicity in the nematode.

The paper identifies shared and distinct genetic architectures for cardiac structure and function using UK Biobank data, revealing common variants influencing multiple chambers and phenotypic variability.

This paper introduces pLM-bVAE, a binary variational autoencoder enhanced with protein language model representations, showing improved sequence reconstruction and design performance in quantum annealing-based protein sequence design.

This study compares gliflozins and finds canagliflozin uniquely reduces vascular calcification through mechanisms beyond SGLT2 inhibition, affecting VSMC metabolism and calcification.

The paper analyzes molecular and morphological evolution rates across eukaryotes and finds little correlation between them, suggesting distinct evolutionary drivers at genomic and phenotypic levels.

The paper estimates Madagascar's insect fauna contains at least 250,000 species, most unrecorded, and finds global homeostatic forces, not lineage composition, shape its ecological similarity to temperate forests.

The paper examines sex differences in functional brain connectivity across youth, finding that males show greater network integration while females show greater network segregation along the sensorimotor-association axis.

This study shows that maltose enhances somatic embryogenesis in hybrid fir by promoting a mature biochemical profile with earlier raffinose synthesis and higher carbohydrate retention post-desiccation.

The paper develops a mathematical model to show that targeting interconversion patterns in neuroblastoma can improve treatment outcomes by stabilizing tumor dynamics.

This paper develops a multiscale model of fungal colony growth combining discrete hyphal mechanics with a stochastic traveling-wave surrogate to simulate growth efficiently and reveal macroscopic patterns.

The paper identifies high piRNA abundance as a key feature of evolutionarily persistent piRNA-producing loci across mouse and primate species.

This study shows that deleting tyrosine hydroxylase in Ntsr1 neurons reduces diet-induced weight gain without increasing energy expenditure or activity.