🧬 biology

Interactive Effects of Orienteering Experience and Cognitive Performance on Dynamic Prefrontal Activation: An fNIRS Study Using a Maze Task

This fNIRS study demonstrates that experienced orienteers outperform novices in spatial maze tasks by exhibiting enhanced and more focused activation in the dorsolateral and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, indicating that long-term orienteering training optimizes prefrontal neural efficiency to improve spatial cognition and decision-making.

Jingkang Zhao, Yingying Liu, Yuhang Gu, Baoshan Qian2026-09-15
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MSM/Ms-derived chromosome 12 centromeric regions confer resistance to age-related hearing loss beyond a single locus in C57BL/6J mice

This study demonstrates that resistance to age-related hearing loss in C57BL/6J mice is conferred by a broad MSM/Ms-derived centromeric region on chromosome 12 extending beyond the single *ahl10* locus, while also revealing that females exhibit earlier hearing loss progression than males across all tested genetic backgrounds.

Shumpei Yasuda, Kayoko Tahara, Xuehan Hou, Yuta Seki, Ai Takahashi, Ornjira Prakhongcheep, Hiroshi Shitara, Hiroshi Hibi (…)2026-09-15
📄 medicine

Evaluating Kinematic and Plyometric characteristics of Drop Jump in Young Basketball Players: a cross-sectional study

This cross-sectional study of young male basketball players reveals that drop jump kinematics undergo significant age-related adaptations between 13 and 16 years, characterized by a shift from knee-dominant to ankle-dominant mechanics that enhance plyometric performance, as identified through linear regression and machine learning analysis.

Andrea Bonini, Miloš Ajčević, Valentina Tommasini, Beatrice Blasio, Marco Prenassi, Francesca Policastro, Francesco Fron (…)2026-09-15
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Integrated Polygenic Risk Scores: Composite and Ensemble Learning Approaches for Precision Medicine

This paper proposes and validates novel composite and adaptive ensemble learning methods for integrating disease and pharmacogenomics GWAS data to overcome existing limitations in polygenic risk score development, thereby significantly improving drug response prediction and patient stratification in precision medicine.

Judong Shen, Junming Guan, Song Zhai, Wujuan Zhong, Devan Mehrotra2026-09-15
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Human Organotypic Skin Explant Culture (hOSEC): An Alternative Approach to Staphylococcus aureus Colonization Assays

This pilot study validates the Human Organotypic Skin Explant Culture (hOSEC) as a viable, cost-effective ex vivo alternative to animal models for evaluating *Staphylococcus aureus* colonization, infection dynamics, and antibiotic efficacy while preserving human skin structural and immune integrity.

Lara Fabian Teixeira Lisboa, Luize Dianin Barbosa, Fabiana Giarola, Lorena Covre Galani, Wagner Pinto da Costa, Marco An (…)2026-09-15
🧬 biology

Comparative Genomics and Rhizosphere Microbiome Profiling Reveal Crop-Dependent Responses to Closely Related Bacillus subtilis Strains in Chickpea and Maize

This study demonstrates that closely related *Bacillus subtilis* strains (HM01 and HM04) elicit distinct, crop-specific growth promotion in chickpea and maize, respectively, driven by unique accessory genomic traits and differential restructuring of the rhizosphere microbiome.

Bhagyashri J. Poddar, Rajesh Pal, Prabhakar D. Pandit, Hemant J. Purohit, Rahul Warke, Gangadhar M. Warke2026-09-15
📄 medicine

Glycyrrhizic Acid Suppresses Bladder Cancer via NF-κB and PI3K/AKT Inhibition: Integrated Network Pharmacology and Experimental Validation

This study demonstrates that glycyrrhizic acid suppresses bladder cancer progression and sensitizes tumor cells to cisplatin by inhibiting the NF-κB and PI3K/AKT signaling pathways, as validated through integrated network pharmacology and experimental assays.

Zhaoliang Xu, Sheng Zeng, Minghao Yue, Shaoqiang Xing, Yaowen Li, Wenzhou Xing, Zhibiao Guo, Qian Liu2026-09-15