Long-read genome and RNA sequencing resolve a pathogenic intronic germline LINE-1 insertion in APC by Alexandra A. Baumann, Lisanne I. Knol, Marie Arlt, Tim Hutschenreiter, Anja Richter, Thomas J. Widmann, Marcus Franke, Karl Hackmann, Sylke Winkler, Daniela Richter, Isabel Spier, Stefan Aretz, Daniela Aust, Joseph Porrmann, Doreen William, Evelin Schröck, Hanno Glimm, Arne Jahn

“…Confirmation of diagnosis was not achieved by cancer gene panel and exome sequencing or custom array-CGH in a family with suspected FAP across five generations. …”
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A Flexible Sandwich Nanogenerator for Harvesting Piezoelectric Potential from Single Crystalline Zinc Oxide Nanowires by E. S. Nour, Azam Khan, Omer Nur, Magnus Willander

“…High-quality single crystalline zinc oxide nanowires were grown on silver and gold coated plastic substrates for the fabrication of a sandwich-like nanogenerator using the aqueous chemical growth method. …”
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Cell modeling using frequency modulation. by Jerry Jacob, Nitish Patel, Sucheta Sehgal

“…The building blocks of the FM model have direct integer equivalents, making them suitable for implementation on digital platforms like Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA). We have demonstrated wavefront propagation in 1-D and 2-D models of tissue. …”
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Deep Neural Emulation of the Supermassive Black Hole Binary Population by Nima Laal, Stephen R. Taylor, Luke Zoltan Kelley, Joseph Simon, Kayhan Gültekin, David Wright, Bence Bécsy, J. Andrew Casey-Clyde, Siyuan Chen, Alexander Cingoranelli, Daniel J. D’Orazio, Emiko C. Gardiner, William G. Lamb, Cayenne Matt, Magdalena S. Siwek, Jeremy M. Wachter

“…While supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries are not the only viable source for the low-frequency gravitational wave background (GWB) signal evidenced by the most recent pulsar timing array (PTA) data sets, they are expected to be the most likely. …”
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SHEARING TESTS APPLIED TO PANTOGRAPHIC STRUCTURES by Gregor Ganzosch, Francesco dell’Isola, Emilio Turco, Tomasz Lekszycki, Wolfgang H. Müller

“…Five differently-sized samples were subjected to shear-like loading while their deformation response was analyzed. …”
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Flexible piezoelectric energy harvester made of vertically-aligned ZnO nanowires hydrothermally-grown by template-assisted synthesis in poled PVDF by Marie Clémence Sigallon, Adrien Baillard, Vincent Consonni, Florian Aubrit, Natalia Potrzebowska, Romain Grasset, Mohamed Tabellout, Noelle Gogneau, Eliott Sarrey, Jean-Eric Wegrowe, Marie-Claude Clochard

“…A subsequent chemical etching in alkaline medium revealed these ion-tracks to form dense and statistical arrays of cylindrical nanopores (109 pores cm−2) along its thickness. …”
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Fine-Mapping of the 1p11.2 Breast Cancer Susceptibility Locus. by Hisani N Horne, Charles C Chung, Han Zhang, Kai Yu, Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson, Kyriaki Michailidou, Manjeet K Bolla, Qin Wang, Joe Dennis, John L Hopper, Melissa C Southey, Marjanka K Schmidt, Annegien Broeks, Kenneth Muir, Artitaya Lophatananon, Peter A Fasching, Matthias W Beckmann, Olivia Fletcher, Nichola Johnson, Elinor J Sawyer, Ian Tomlinson, Barbara Burwinkel, Frederik Marme, Pascal Guénel, Thérèse Truong, Stig E Bojesen, Henrik Flyger, Javier Benitez, Anna González-Neira, Hoda Anton-Culver, Susan L Neuhausen, Hermann Brenner, Volker Arndt, Alfons Meindl, Rita K Schmutzler, Hiltrud Brauch, Ute Hamann, Heli Nevanlinna, Sofia Khan, Keitaro Matsuo, Hiroji Iwata, Thilo Dörk, Natalia V Bogdanova, Annika Lindblom, Sara Margolin, Arto Mannermaa, Veli-Matti Kosma, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, kConFab/AOCS Investigators, Anna H Wu, David Ven den Berg, Ann Smeets, Hui Zhao, Jenny Chang-Claude, Anja Rudolph, Paolo Radice, Monica Barile, Fergus J Couch, Celine Vachon, Graham G Giles, Roger L Milne, Christopher A Haiman, Loic Le Marchand, Mark S Goldberg, Soo H Teo, Nur A M Taib, Vessela Kristensen, Anne-Lise Borresen-Dale, Wei Zheng, Martha Shrubsole, Robert Winqvist, Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen, Irene L Andrulis, Julia A Knight, Peter Devilee, Caroline Seynaeve, Montserrat García-Closas, Kamila Czene, Hatef Darabi, Antoinette Hollestelle, John W M Martens, Jingmei Li, Wei Lu, Xiao-Ou Shu, Angela Cox, Simon S Cross, William Blot, Qiuyin Cai, Mitul Shah, Craig Luccarini, Caroline Baynes, Patricia Harrington, Daehee Kang, Ji-Yeob Choi, Mikael Hartman, Kee Seng Chia, Maria Kabisch, Diana Torres, Anna Jakubowska, Jan Lubinski, Suleeporn Sangrajrang, Paul Brennan, Susan Slager, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Chen-Yang Shen, Ming-Feng Hou, Anthony Swerdlow, Nick Orr, Jacques Simard, Per Hall, Paul D P Pharoah, Douglas F Easton, Stephen J Chanock, Alison M Dunning, Jonine D Figueroa

“…Genotyping was done using iCOGS, a custom-built array. Due to the complicated nature of the region on chr1p11.2: 120,300,000-120,505,798, that lies near the centromere and contains seven duplicated genomic segments, we restricted analyses to 429 SNPs excluding the duplicated regions (42 genotyped and 387 imputed). …”
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Parkinson’s families project: a UK-wide study of early onset and familial Parkinson’s disease by Clodagh Towns, Zih-Hua Fang, Manuela M. X. Tan, Simona Jasaityte, Theresa M. Schmaderer, Eleanor J. Stafford, Miriam Pollard, Russel Tilney, Megan Hodgson, Lesley Wu, Robyn Labrum, Jason Hehir, James Polke, Lara M. Lange, Anthony H. V. Schapira, Kailash P. Bhatia, Parkinson’s Families Project (PFP) Study Group, Global Parkinson’s Genetics Program (GP2), Andrew B. Singleton, Cornelis Blauwendraat, Christine Klein, Henry Houlden, Nicholas W. Wood, Paul R. Jarman, Huw R. Morris, Raquel Real

“…We analysed DNA samples with a combination of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array genotyping, multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA), and whole-genome sequencing (WGS). …”
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Identification and functional characterization of G6PC2 coding variants influencing glycemic traits define an effector transcript at the G6PC2-ABCB11 locus. by Anubha Mahajan, Xueling Sim, Hui Jin Ng, Alisa Manning, Manuel A Rivas, Heather M Highland, Adam E Locke, Niels Grarup, Hae Kyung Im, Pablo Cingolani, Jason Flannick, Pierre Fontanillas, Christian Fuchsberger, Kyle J Gaulton, Tanya M Teslovich, N William Rayner, Neil R Robertson, Nicola L Beer, Jana K Rundle, Jette Bork-Jensen, Claes Ladenvall, Christine Blancher, David Buck, Gemma Buck, Noël P Burtt, Stacey Gabriel, Anette P Gjesing, Christopher J Groves, Mette Hollensted, Jeroen R Huyghe, Anne U Jackson, Goo Jun, Johanne Marie Justesen, Massimo Mangino, Jacquelyn Murphy, Matt Neville, Robert Onofrio, Kerrin S Small, Heather M Stringham, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Joseph Trakalo, Goncalo Abecasis, Graeme I Bell, John Blangero, Nancy J Cox, Ravindranath Duggirala, Craig L Hanis, Mark Seielstad, James G Wilson, Cramer Christensen, Ivan Brandslund, Rainer Rauramaa, Gabriela L Surdulescu, Alex S F Doney, Lars Lannfelt, Allan Linneberg, Bo Isomaa, Tiinamaija Tuomi, Marit E Jørgensen, Torben Jørgensen, Johanna Kuusisto, Matti Uusitupa, Veikko Salomaa, Timothy D Spector, Andrew D Morris, Colin N A Palmer, Francis S Collins, Karen L Mohlke, Richard N Bergman, Erik Ingelsson, Lars Lind, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Torben Hansen, Richard M Watanabe, Inga Prokopenko, Josee Dupuis, Fredrik Karpe, Leif Groop, Markku Laakso, Oluf Pedersen, Jose C Florez, Andrew P Morris, David Altshuler, James B Meigs, Michael Boehnke, Mark I McCarthy, Cecilia M Lindgren, Anna L Gloyn, T2D-GENES consortium and GoT2D consortium

“…To test this, we analyzed exome-array data from up to 33,231 non-diabetic individuals of European ancestry. …”
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Oscillations of ultralight dark photon into gravitational waves by Wei Chao, Jing-jing Feng, Huai-ke Guo, Tong Li

“…These stochastic local GWs exhibit a pulse-like spectrum, with frequency depending on the mass of the ULDP, and can be detected in Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) or future space-based interferometers. …”
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Deep Learning‐Based 3D Microseismic Event Direct Location Using Simultaneous Surface and Borehole Data by Yuanyuan Yang, Omar M. Saad, Tariq Alkhalifah

“…Abstract Microseismic monitoring is crucial for characterizing and assessing fracture systems developed during subsurface operations like geothermal reservoir development, CO2 sequestration, and hydraulic fracturing. …”
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Bridging the Gap between SERS Enhancement and Reproducibility by Salt Aggregated Silver Nanoparticles by Sam Mehigan, Ciarán A. Smyth, Eithne M. McCabe

“…Silver colloids aggregated into large flake-like structures have been investigated for their surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) properties. …”
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ALESS-JWST: Joint (Sub)kiloparsec JWST and ALMA Imaging of z ~ 3 Submillimeter Galaxies Reveals Heavily Obscured Bulge Formation Events by J. A. Hodge, E. da Cunha, S. Kendrew, J. Li, I. Smail, B. A. Westoby, O. Nayak, A. M. Swinbank, C.-C. Chen, F. Walter, P. van der Werf, M. Cracraft, A. Battisti, W. N. Brandt, G. Calistro Rivera, S. C. Chapman, P. Cox, H. Dannerbauer, R. Decarli, M. Frias Castillo, T. R. Greve, K. K. Knudsen, S. Leslie, K. M. Menten, M. Rybak, E. Schinnerer, J. L. Wardlow, A. Weiss

“…Finally, we find no strong stellar bars in the rest-frame near-infrared, suggesting the extended bar-like features seen at 870 μ m are highly obscured and/or gas-dominated structures that are likely early precursors to significant bulge growth.…”
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UNCOVER: Candidate Red Active Galactic Nuclei at 3 < z < 7 with JWST and ALMA by Ivo Labbe, Jenny E. Greene, Rachel Bezanson, Seiji Fujimoto, Lukas J. Furtak, Andy D. Goulding, Jorryt Matthee, Rohan P. Naidu, Pascal A. Oesch, Hakim Atek, Gabriel Brammer, Iryna Chemerynska, Dan Coe, Sam E. Cutler, Pratika Dayal, Robert Feldmann, Marijn Franx, Karl Glazebrook, Joel Leja, Michael Maseda, Danilo Marchesini, Themiya Nanayakkara, Erica J. Nelson, Richard Pan, Casey Papovich, Sedona H. Price, Katherine A. Suess, Bingjie Wang, John R. Weaver, Katherine E. Whitaker, Christina C. Williams, Adi Zitrin

“…Using a NIRCam-only selection to F444W < 27.7 mag, we find 26 sources over the ∼45 arcmin ^2 field that are blue in F115W − F200W ∼ 0 (or β _UV ∼ –2.0 for f _λ ∝ λ ^β ), red in F200W − F444W = 1−4 ( β _opt ∼ +2.0), and are dominated by a point-source-like central component. Of the 20 sources with deep Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) 1.2 mm coverage, none are detected individually or in a stack. …”
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exoALMA. XVI. Predicting Signatures of Large-scale Turbulence in Protoplanetary Disks by Marcelo Barraza-Alfaro, Mario Flock, William Béthune, Richard Teague, Jaehan Bae, Myriam Benisty, Gianni Cataldi, Pietro Curone, Ian Czekala, Stefano Facchini, Daniele Fasano, Misato Fukagawa, Maria Galloway-Sprietsma, Himanshi Garg, Cassandra Hall, Jane Huang, John D. Ilee, Andrés F. Izquierdo, Kazuhiro Kanagawa, Eric W. Koch, Geoffroy Lesur, Cristiano Longarini, Ryan A. Loomis, Ryuta Orihara, Christophe Pinte, Daniel J. Price, Giovanni Rosotti, Jochen Stadler, Gaylor Wafflard-Fernandez, Andrew J. Winter, Lisa Wölfer, Hsi-Wei Yen, Tomohiro C. Yoshida, Brianna Zawadzki

“…We aim to predict the observational signatures of such large-scale flows, as they would appear in high-resolution Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observations of CO rotational lines, such as those conducted by the exoALMA Large Program. …”
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Identifiying and Prioritizing the Iran’s Handicrafts Export Challenges (the Case of Marquetry) by Reza Karimi Mehrani, Hamid Reza Irani, Mostafa Esmaeili Mahyari

“…With a millennia-old legacy in handicraft production, Iran boasts a rich array of artisanal products, positioning it alongside China and India as a leading producer. …”
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Human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cell therapy for atopic dermatitis through inhibition of neutrophil chemotaxis by Jinjin Shao, Zhiqi Xie, Zhichao Ye, Guoyu Chen, Yiru Wang, Lili Zhang, Fang Liu, Siming Zhang, Xiaobo Lin, Jiahong Wang, Ying Chen, Yunxiang Chen, Xin Pan, Feifei Wu, Ruolang Pan, Jinfeng Liang, Lijiang Zhang

“…Mechanistic studies included RNA sequencing, cytokine arrays, and exosome characterization. Results Both hUC-MSCs and hUC-MSC-CM significantly alleviated AD-like symptoms, including erythema, epidermal thickening, and inflammatory cell infiltration in DNCB- and OVA-induced models. …”
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Extracellular bioelectrical lexicon: detecting rhythmic patterns within dermal fibroblast populations by Rute C. Félix, Maria C. Medeiros, Youssef Elamine, Deborah M. Power, Henrique Leonel Gomes

“…Abstract This study uses a bioelectronic-based method to establish how non-electrogenic cells, like dermal fibroblast, employ bioelectrical signals to convey information. …”
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Single Nanocrown Electrodes for High‐Quality Intracellular Recording of Cardiomyocytes by Ching‐Ting Tsai, Hongyan Gao, Csaba Forro, Yang Yang, Viktoriya Shautsova, Xingyuan Zhang, Zeinab Jahed, Bianxiao Cui

“…Abstract Nanoelectrode arrays (NEAs) are emerging as promising technologies for minimally‐invasive, parallel intracellular recording. …”
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Coupled Bilayer Photonic Crystal Slab Electro-Optic Spatial Light Modulators by Yi-Chen Shuai, Deyin Zhao, Yonghao Liu, Corey Stambaugh, John Lawall, Weidong Zhou

“…We demonstrate here a surface-normal ultracompact Fano resonance electro-optic spatial light modulator employing a stacked photonic crystal membrane capacitor-like structure. Vertically coupled optical resonance near 1.5 &#x03BC;m was observed, and both blue and red spectral shifts were achieved by means of appropriate electrical bias. …”
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