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Communication-space representation of multicellular tissue organization

The paper introduces CommuSpace, a computational framework that redefines multicellular tissue organization by mapping cells into a communication space based on ligand–receptor interactions, thereby revealing emergent "communication ecosystems" as a fundamental higher-order layer of tissue architecture that transcends traditional cell identity and spatial niche classifications.

Hui-Sheng Li, Pai Peng, Yu-Ting Tan, Jia-Juan Tu, Xiao-Fei Zhang, Shou-Feng Shen, Luonan Chen2026-07-24
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Plant architecture reveals contrasting developmental strategies in two threatened West African timber species (Khaya senegalensisand Pterocarpus erinaceus): implications for conservation and sustainable forest management

This study provides the first comprehensive architectural characterization of the threatened West African timber species *Khaya senegalensis* and *Pterocarpus erinaceus*, revealing their distinct developmental models and plastic responses to environmental gradients to establish a scientific basis for optimizing their conservation, reforestation, and sustainable management.

Beda Innocent ADJI, Doffou Sélastique Akaffou, Kouadio Henri Kouassi, Marc Jaeger, Sylvie Annabel Sabatier, Jérôme Dumin (…)2026-07-24
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A Consensus Multifeature Deviation Index for Specific Detection of Locomotor Perturbation From Individualized-Baseline Wearable Inertial Signals

This paper introduces the Gait Perturbation Burden (GPB), an unsupervised, consensus multifeature index that leverages individualized wearable inertial baselines to specifically detect locomotor perturbations with significantly reduced false positives during normal walking compared to single-feature or amplitude-only methods.

Alex Kubiak, Farzad Haji Boloori, Jared Nichols2026-07-24
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Phylogeny-associated codon evolution and conditional boundary dinucleotide structure in Platycerium plastomes

This study demonstrates that synonymous codon usage in *Platycerium* plastomes retains phylogenetic signals across geographic lineages while revealing a conserved, evolutionarily significant deficit of CpG dinucleotides at codon boundaries that persists despite strict controls for sequence composition and codon counts.

Jun-Wei Yang, Cheng-Hsun Lee, Hsuan-Wei Huang, Wei-Mei Hsieh, Su-Lan Hsu2026-07-24
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Human Precursor microRNA Terminal Loop Regions Exhibit Distinct Sequence Characteristics and Motif Enrichment

This study provides the first comprehensive characterization of human pre-miRNA terminal loop regions, revealing distinct sequence architectures defined by specific length distributions, positional nucleotide biases, and enriched motifs that may influence miRNA biogenesis and protein interactions.

Amit Cohen, Mario Alberto Burgos-Aceves, Yoav Smith2026-07-24✓ Author reviewed
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Mechanistic Interpretability of Biological Foundation Models: An Empirical Analysis of scGPT Gene-Embedding Geometry

This paper empirically demonstrates that the static gene-token embedding space of the scGPT foundation model encodes detectable, albeit moderate, information about known physical protein-protein interactions, as evidenced by significantly higher cosine similarities and interaction prediction metrics for interacting gene pairs compared to non-interacting controls.

Liu Chen2026-07-24