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This study shows that scanning behaviors in desert ants emerge from conserved neural circuits without a specialized module, using a biologically grounded model.

This study introduces an auxin-inducible degron system in Diplonema papillatum to enable conditional protein depletion and assesses its effects on key cellular processes.

This study identifies minJ and divIVA as essential for chromosome segregation in Bacillus subtilis when SMC function is impaired, highlighting the interdependence between chromosome segregation and cell division.

CelFDrive automates high-resolution 3D imaging of cells using deep learning for efficient detection of rare events in large populations.

This study shows that prenatal maternal cold stress causes male-specific changes in fetal microglia morphology and function in the hypothalamic PVN, which may contribute to sex differences in social behavior.

The paper shows that OspA antibodies rapidly stop B. burgdorferi motility, using single-cell fluorescence microscopy.

The paper uses whole genome sequencing to study cancer spread between monozygotic twins, revealing asymmetrical embryonic lineage contributions to the placenta and twins.

This study uses flexible electrodes to track and model representational drift in mouse visual cortex, enabling a stable decoder for brain-machine interfaces.

This paper introduces VIMA, a method for analyzing spatial molecular data to identify disease-associated spatial features, showing improved performance over existing methods in simulations and real datasets.

The paper shows that anticipating stimulus relevance enhances visual processing to support memory-guided selection.

This study identifies SRSF2 and U2AF1 mutations as biomarkers of sensitivity to ATR-CHK1 pathway inhibitors and RUNX1 mutations as a mechanism of resistance in MDS/AML.

This study shows that adding lung surfactant Poractant alfa to lipid nanoparticles improves their performance for pulmonary mRNA delivery, increasing transfection efficiency and particle concentration.

This study shows RNA synthesis and degradation dynamically regulate transcriptional condensates through non-equilibrium feedback, affecting their composition and stability.

This study evaluates maize-soybean intercropping's potential to enhance European soybean self-sufficiency while reducing land use compared to sole crops.

This study investigates how retinal flow affects walking trajectories in virtual reality, finding that ground-plane motion has a greater impact on path straightening than wall motion.

This study compares biotic and abiotic drivers of ecosystem functioning in temperate and tropical regions, finding differing patterns and drivers between the two zones.

This study uses a mutagenesis assay to show that single DNA lesions from oxidative damage can trigger strand-biased mutations at specific DNA sites.

This study uses Hi-C in mouse embryonic stem cells to show A/B compartment strength increases during S-phase, challenging previous views on cell-cycle dynamics.

The paper compares homologous chromosome pairing in adult and neonatal endothelial cells, finding higher pairing frequency in adults.