How does a single cell know when the liver has reached its correct size? by Nadine Hohmann, Wei Weiwei, Uta Dahmen, Olaf Dirsch, Andreas Deutsch, Anja Voss-Böhme

“…After loss of functional liver mass the liver grows back to its original, individual size through hepatocyte proliferation and apoptosis. How does a single hepatocyte 'know' when the organ has grown to its final size? …”
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Childhood Family Structure and Tertiary Education Attainment across Generations in Spain: The Role of Economic Deprivation, Socioeconomic Status and Parental Contact by Manuel Mejías-Leiva, Almudena Moreno-Mínguez

“…This study investigates how living in single-parent families during childhood influences tertiary education attainment, exploring the mechanisms involved, their heterogeneity by parental socioeconomic status and their variation over time. …”
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Interreligious Dialogue as a Communicative Process: Intersubjectivity and Misunderstandings in Brescia by Maddalena Colombo

“…It seeks to answer the following questions: what was the fundamental message that the promoters wanted to convey? How do the single actors communicate their perspective of religious “others”, and what results did they achieve or not achieve? …”
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The Impact of Dual-Channel Investments and Contract Mechanisms on Telecommunications Supply Chains by Yongjae Kim

“…Using a game-theoretic framework, we evaluate how different contracts—single wholesale pricing, revenue sharing, and quantity discounts—shape strategic decisions, particularly in the presence of investment spillovers between parties. …”
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Functional outcomes of post-traumatic metacarpal hand reconstruction with free toe-to-hand transfer by Hari Venkatramani, Praveen Bhardwaj, Adam Sierakowski, S. Raja Sabapathy

“…Conclusion: This study shows how even a single toe transfer can restore useful function to a hand that has otherwise lost all prehensile ability.…”
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The structural pathway of interleukin 1 (IL-1) initiated signaling reveals mechanisms of oncogenic mutations and SNPs in inflammation and cancer. by Saliha Ece Acuner Ozbabacan, Attila Gursoy, Ruth Nussinov, Ozlem Keskin

“…In silico mutagenesis and comparison of the predicted binding energies reveal the mechanisms of how oncogenic and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) mutations can abrogate the interactions or increase the binding affinity of the mutant to the native partner. …”
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Listen or Read? The Impact of Proficiency and Visual Complexity on Learners’ Reliance on Captions by Yan Li

“…This study investigates how Chinese EFL (English as a foreign language) learners of low- and high-proficiency levels allocate attention between captions and audio while watching videos, and how visual complexity (single- vs. multi-speaker content) influences caption reliance. …”
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Differentiation of zebrafish melanophores depends on transcription factors AP2 alpha and AP2 epsilon. by Eric Van Otterloo, Wei Li, Gregory Bonde, Kristopher M Day, Mei-Yu Hsu, Robert A Cornell

“…This work illustrates how analysis of single-gene mutants may fail to identify steps in a GRN that are affected by the redundant activity of related proteins.…”
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Characterizing Fibroblast Heterogeneity in Diabetic Wounds Through Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing by Helen H. Wang, Maria Korah, Serena L. Jing, Charlotte E. Berry, Michelle F. Griffin, Michael T. Longaker, Michael Januszyk

“…Herein, we review the history of scRNAseq and its application to the study of diabetic wound healing, focusing on how innovations in single-cell sequencing have transformed strategies for fibroblast analysis. …”
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Energy renovation of Swedish single-family houses—a survey of barriers, drivers, and green loans by Pardis Niknafs, Gustav Holmqvist, Patrik Thollander, Patrik Rohdin

“…Therefore, it is important to gain a deeper understanding of how owners of single-family houses perceive energy efficiency measures, energy renovation, and barriers and drivers that influence their decision-making. …”
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Loss of plant functional group mediates microbial community assembly in litter decomposition of alpine fir forest by Qianwei Li, Yamei Chen, Lin Xu, Xinglei Cui, Hongwei Xu, Lixia Wang, Chengming You, Xingjun Tian, Xinhua He, Yang Liu

“…To address this, we conducted a two-year in situ litter decomposition experiment in alpine fir forest using mesh bags, manipulating leaf litter composition to assess how loss of single plant functional group influences microbial community assembly (fungi and bacteria, abundant and rare taxa). …”
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