Core Mycorrhizal Fungi Promote Seedling Growth in <i>Dendrobium officinale</i>: An Important Medicinal Orchid by Yi-Hua Wu, Xiang-Gui Chen, Neng-Qi Li, Tai-Qiang Li, Rengasamy Anbazhakan, Jiang-Yun Gao

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Enhanced Mechanical and Multifunctional Properties of GNPs/CNTs Hybridized PLA Nanocomposites by Implementing Dual‐Processing of Pickering Emulsion‐Melt Blending Methods by Bozhen Wu, Yidong Wu, Maolin Zhang, Hongxin Guo, Tong Liu, Guangyi Lin, Tairong Kuang

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Characterization of novel nitazene recreational drugs: Insights into their risk potential from in vitro µ-opioid receptor assays and in vivo behavioral studies in mice by Marthe M. Vandeputte, Grant C. Glatfelter, Donna Walther, Nathan K. Layle, Danielle M. St. Germaine, István Ujváry, Donna M. Iula, Michael H. Baumann, Christophe P. Stove

“…The most potent analogue of the panel across all functional assays was α’-methyl etonitazene. …”
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Recycled Sericin Biopolymer in Biotechnology and Bioelectronics by Davide Vurro, Aris Liboà, Ilenia D’Onofrio, Giuseppe De Giorgio, Zirong Zhou, Vardan Galstyan, Yajie Qin, Xiongchuan Huang, Pasquale D’Angelo, Giuseppe Tarabella

“…Furthermore, preparing and studying new environmentally friendly functional polymers with attractive physicochemical properties can open new opportunities for developing next-generation materials and composites. …”
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Trio-based whole-exome sequencing reveals mutations in early-onset high myopia by Ding Chen, Xiu-Feng Huang, Juan Huang, Yi-Ming Guo, Junhan Wei, Lu Ye, Yi-Xin Cai, Jiejing Bi, Fen-Fen Li

“…Subsequently, computational methodologies were employed for functional annotations and pathogenicity assessments.Results Our investigation identified 7 genes and 10 variants associated with HM across 7 families, including a novel mutation in the ARR3 gene (c.139C&gt;T, p.Arg47*) and two mutations in the P3H2 gene (c.1865T&gt;C, p.Phe622Ser and c.212T&gt;C, p.Leu71Pro). …”
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Net2Brain: a toolbox to compare artificial vision models with human brain responses by Domenic Bersch, Domenic Bersch, Martina G. Vilas, Martina G. Vilas, Sari Saba-Sadiya, Timothy Schaumlöffel, Timothy Schaumlöffel, Kshitij Dwivedi, Christina Sartzetaki, Radoslaw M. Cichy, Radoslaw M. Cichy, Radoslaw M. Cichy, Gemma Roig, Gemma Roig

“…Net2Brain provides functionalities in four key areas. First, it offers access to over 600 DNNs trained on diverse tasks across multiple modalities, including vision, language, audio, and multimodal data, organized through a carefully structured taxonomy. …”
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Lithic industries, modern tools, and language: An evolutionary perspective through fMRI by Chloé Bryche, Mathieu Lesourd, Arthur Seye, Alexandre Bluet, Natalie Uomini, Yves Rossetti, Emanuelle Reynaud, Giovanni Federico, François Osiurak

“…Participants performed a tool evaluation task, in which they assessed the functionality of both tool types across three levels of complexity designed to reflect embedded constraints. …”
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Multi-channel spatio-temporal graph attention contrastive network for brain disease diagnosis by Chaojun Li, Kai Ma, Shengrong Li, Xiangshui Meng, Ran Wang, Daoqiang Zhang, Qi Zhu

“…Specifically, we first construct dynamic brain functional networks from fMRI data with sliding windows, and embed the structural connectivity derived from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to the dynamic functional connectivity graph representation to construct multi-modal brain network. …”
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Xyloglucan endotransglucosylase/hydrolase 25 positively regulates the lead tolerance in Raphanus sativus by Tong Han, Yongmei Cui, Yang Jing, Meiying Liu, Xuanchao Chen, Yinghui Song, Xinping Gu, Jiahao Wang, Long Wang, Long Wang

“…Gene structure analysis revealed the presence of eight conserved motifs, along with variations in exon-intron organization and chromosomal distribution across all chromosomes. Phylogenetic analysis of XTH genes from R. sativus, Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryza sativa grouped them into five distinct clades, suggesting their evolutionary conservation and potential functional diversification. …”
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Comprehensive Analysis of the <i>UGT</i> Gene Superfamily in <i>Spodoptera frugiperda</i> by Yang Liu, Minghui Guan, Kunliang Zou, Tonghan Wang, Haiyang Wang, Lu Sun, Bo Feng, Jiali Ding, Xiang Gao, Yongfu Wang, Degong Wu, Junli Du

“…These findings provide a foundation for further exploration of the biological functions of the <i>UGT</i> gene family.…”
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Longitudinal transitions in frailty and health-related quality of life investigated by a 5-year community study by Ryotaro Oishi, Naoki Segi, Masaki Okazaki, Sadayuki Ito, Jun Ouchida, Ippei Yamauchi, Taisuke Seki, Yasuhiko Takegami, Shinya Ishizuka, Atsushi Hashizume, Yukiharu Hasegawa, Shiro Imagama, Hiroaki Nakashima

“…Significant trends toward higher scores on the physical component summary (PCS), role/social component summary (RCS), and subscales of physical functioning, role-physical, vitality, social functioning, and role-emotional were detected across groups with improvements in their frailty status from 2014 to 2019. …”
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Actionable Wearables Data for the Neurology Clinic: A Proof‐of‐Concept Tool by Nicolette Miller, Ebenezer Chinedu‐Eneh, Jaeleene Wijangco, Kyra Henderson, Nikki Sisodia, Narender Sara, Jennifer Reihm, Shane Poole, Jim Rowson, Chu‐Yueh Guo, Jeffrey M. Gelfand, Valerie J. Block, Riley Bove

“…Results During development, 25 clinicians and four engineers across eight clinical settings provided feedback. …”
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Revolutionizing pharmacology: AI-powered approaches in molecular modeling and ADMET prediction by Irfan Pathan, Arif Raza, Adarsh Sahu, Mohit Joshi, Yamini Sahu, Yash Patil, Mohammad Adnan Raza, Ajazuddin

“…The convergence of AI with quantum chemistry and density functional theory (DFT) is illustrated through surrogate modeling and reaction mechanism prediction. …”
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Does preeclampsia impact the gut microbiota of preterm offspring during early infancy? by Yang Chen, Zhou-Ting Yi, Hai-Long Yu, Xiao-Yan Wu, Jun-Ping Wang, Chuan Nie, Hui Li, Sheng-Hui Li, Qiu-Long Yan, Tian-Wen He, Min-Chai Chen, Xin-Yue Yang, Ji-Ying Wen, Li-Juan Lv

“…The gut virome analysis showed no significant differences among the groups. Functional analysis revealed distinct metabolic pathway activities across the groups, suggesting that early disturbances due to PE impact the establishment of healthy gut microbiota. …”
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Evaluation of familial phenotype deviation to measure the impact of de novo mutations in autism by Soo-Whee Kim, Hyeji Lee, Da Yea Song, Gang-Hee Lee, Jae Hyun Han, Jee Won Lee, Hee Jung Byun, Ji Hyun Son, Ye Rim Kim, Yoojeong Lee, Eunjoon Kim, Donna M. Werling, So Hyun Kim, Stephan J. Sanders, Hee Jeong Yoo, Joon-Yong An

“…Results We observed that ASD probands with disruptive DNVs exhibited greater behavioral symptoms and lower adaptive functioning relative to their within-family unaffected members. …”
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HJURP modulates cell proliferation and chemoresistance via the MYC/TOP2A transcriptional axis in gastric cancer by Xu Li, Xu Li, Xiwen Li, Yanlin Ren, Ling Wang, Zehao Mao, Shikun Gao, Shikun Gao, Peng Ma, Junjie Chen, Junjie Chen

“…Functional experiments were carried out on the AGS and HGC-27 GC cell lines. …”
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Genotype-specific rhizosphere microbiome assembly and its impact on soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merri.) yield traits by Xiaodong Han, Xiaomin Zhang, Minli Su, Shuqian Yang, Shilin Feng, Tian Tian, NarenTuya Chen, Guofen Zhao, Lichun Huang, Guihua Wang

“…However, the genotype-specific dynamics and functional influence of these microbial communities on soybean (Glycine max (L.) …”
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Genome-wide analyses reveal intricate genetic mechanisms underlying egg production efficiency in chickens by Lizhi Tan, Xinyu Cai, Yuan Kong, Zexuan Liu, Zilong Wen, Lina Bu, Yuzhan Wang, Xiaojun Liu, Zhiwu Zhang, Jianlin Han, Dandan Wang, Yiqiang Zhao

“…By combining the signals of Singleton Density Score (SDS), which is a population-genetic statistic designed to detect recent selection by leveraging the distribution of singletons, and association analyses, multiple egg-laying traits related to egg production efficiency were found to have experienced polygenic selection. Consistently, functional analysis of associated genes demonstrates that egg production efficiency benefits from multiple physiological functions. …”
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Unraveling Fish Community Diversity and Structure in the Yellow Sea: Evidence from Environmental DNA Metabarcoding and Bottom Trawling by Jinyong Zhang, Xiaoyu Cui, Lin Lin, Yuan Liu, Jinqing Ye, Weiyue Zhang, Hongjun Li

“…The use of environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding to analyze fish species diversity across different aquatic ecosystems is well documented. …”
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Analysis of histone modifications in key cellular subpopulations in the context of azoospermia using spermatogenic single-cell RNA-seq data by Qiu Wang, Qiu Wang, Hong Yang, Fang Li, Fang Li, Song Ge, Song Ge, Ling Ji, Ling Ji, Xiaofeng Li, Xiaofeng Li

“…HDAC2, a pivotal regulator of histone acetylation, exhibited significant upregulation. Functional pathway analysis implicated these genes in critical biological processes, including nuclear transport, RNA splicing, and autophagy. …”
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