Y. Ogawa

A new leaf sensing organ in a predatory insect group, the praying mantises (Mantodea)

The paper describes a new sensory organ in praying mantises that detects plant volatiles, supporting their leaf-planking life strategy.

Combining Unity with machine vision to create low latency, flexible, and simple virtual realities

This paper develops a virtual reality system using Unity and machine vision tools to create low-latency, flexible VR environments for behavioral studies in tethered animals.

A novel vaccine strategy using quick and easy conversion of bacterial pathogens to unnatural amino acid-auxotrophic suicide derivatives

This paper introduces a method to convert bacterial pathogens into live vaccines using unnatural amino acid-auxotrophic suicide derivatives, showing enhanced immunogenicity and safety.

Engineering the substrate specificity of toluene degrading enzyme XylM using biosensor XylS and machine learning

This paper uses a biosensor and machine learning to engineer XylM for improved substrate specificity, achieving 15 times higher productivity than the wild-type.

Hoverfly (Eristalis tenax) pursuit of artificial targets

This study investigates hoverfly pursuit behavior using an indoor arena, finding that hoverflies do not use strict heuristic rules and exhibit two distinct pursuit stages.

Cryo-electron tomography of Birbeck granules reveals the molecular mechanism of langerin lattice formation

This study uses cryo-electron tomography to reveal how langerin trimers interact to form the zippered membrane structure of Birbeck granules, showing that a flexible loop mediates this interaction and is critical for granule formation and HIV internalization.

Ocellar spatial vision in Myrmecia ants

This study investigates the contribution of compound eyes to ocellar spatial vision in ants and bees using pERG, finding that compound eyes significantly enhance ocellar contrast sensitivity.

THz irradiation inhibits cell division by affecting actin dynamics

This study shows THz irradiation inhibits cell division by preventing the disappearance of the contractile ring and promoting F-actin polymerization in human cells.

Highly contiguous assemblies of 101 drosophilid genomes

The paper presents high-quality genome assemblies for 101 drosophilid lines using Oxford Nanopore sequencing, achieving high contig N50 and BUSCO completeness.

Diagnosis of central serous chorioretinopathy by deep learning analysis of en face images of choroidal vasculature

This study uses deep learning to classify central serous chorioretinopathy from OCT images, achieving high accuracy with different models and showing DL focuses on choroidal vessel regions.

Relationship between serum bilirubin levels, urinary biopyrrin levels, and retinopathy in patients with diabetes

The paper investigates the relationship between serum bilirubin, urinary biopyrrin, and retinopathy severity in diabetic patients, finding that proliferative diabetic retinopathy is negatively associated with bilirubin levels.

Interleukin-19 alleviates experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis by attenuating antigen-presenting cell activation

This study shows IL-19 reduces experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis by inhibiting macrophage activation and Th17 cell expansion, suggesting potential therapeutic use in multiple sclerosis.

Propagation of THz irradiation energy through aqueous layers: Demolition of actin filaments in living cells

THz radiation propagates through aqueous media and demolishes actin filaments in living cells without affecting cell viability.

Inoculum size effects in blaIMP-6 and plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance gene-positive Enterobacteriaceae in Japan

This study examines resistance genes and inoculum size effects in IMP-6 MBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae with reduced susceptibility to fluoroquinolones and amikacin in Japan.