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Integrative Transcriptomic Analysis and Machine Learning Identify Robust Gene Expression Signatures for Cardiovascular Disease Classification

This study integrates multiple transcriptomic datasets and machine learning algorithms to identify robust gene expression signatures that effectively distinguish cardiovascular disease samples from healthy controls, offering potential biomarkers for early diagnosis and improved understanding of disease mechanisms.

Varsha R, Santhosh Kumar B, Sasireka E, Savitha G, Savitha G, R Mahalakshmi2026-08-05
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High human-caused mortality in GPS-tracked red kites across Europe

A comprehensive GPS tracking study of 2,346 red kites across Europe reveals that human activities, particularly poisoning and collisions, account for nearly 70% of adult mortality, underscoring the urgent need for coordinated international conservation efforts to mitigate these anthropogenic threats.

Rainer Raab, Connor T. Panter, Carina Nebel, Maximilian Raab, Moritz Mercker, Jan Škrábal, Rainhard Raab, Hannah Böing (…)2026-08-05
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Local-to-global response of coherent active fluids to localized activity suppression

This study demonstrates that microtubule–kinesin active fluids exhibit fundamentally different responses to localized activity suppression depending on their flow state, where incoherent flows show only local effects while coherent flows display a striking system-wide, long-range coupling that alters flow speed, order, and response timescales.

Kun-Ta Wu, Opeoluwa Balogun, Joshua Dickie, Tianhong Xu, Logan Kaelbling, Haoran Wang2026-08-05
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Robust and Interpretable Metagenomic Modeling Through Structure-Aware Multi-View Learning and Attribution-Guided Biological Insight

The paper introduces SAMECAT, a structure-aware deep learning framework that robustly integrates metagenomic and clinical data to predict bone mineral density with superior generalizability and interpretability by revealing coherent functional themes and hub taxa through a novel stability-oriented attribution workflow.

Hong-Wen Deng, Lindong Jiang, Martha Gonzalez-Ramirez, Kuan-Jui Su, Xiao Zhang, Anqi Liu, Chuan Qiu, Zhe Luo, Qing Tian (…)2026-08-05
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Estradiol and memory circuitry in the postmenopause: Modification by APOE4

This study reveals that in postmenopausal women, the relationship between endogenous estradiol and hippocampal functional connectivity during memory tasks differs by APOE4 status, where higher estradiol levels correlate with maladaptive brain patterns and increased Alzheimer's risk in APOE4 carriers but with beneficial effects in non-carriers.

Rachel Schroeder, Rebecca Thurston, Minjie Wu, Howard Aizenstein, Thomas Karikari, M. Ilyas Kamboh, Ann Cohen, Pauline M (…)2026-08-04
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Context-Aware Evidence-Gated Plasticity for Multi-Goal Learning in Spiking Neural Networks

This paper demonstrates that a biologically inspired spiking neural network achieves robust continual multi-goal navigation by employing a target-context evidence-gated plasticity mechanism that accumulates and selectively consolidates synaptic changes based on reward evidence, thereby effectively mitigating interference between competing goals.

Samuel A Neymotin, Hananel Hazan, Gozde Unal, Christopher Earl, Haroon Anwar, Piotr J Franaszczuk, David Boothe2026-08-04
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MacaSurfer: automated surface-volume mapping across the macaque lifespan

The paper introduces MacaSurfer, a fully automated and containerized framework that enables robust, standardized surface-volume mapping of macaque MRI across the entire lifespan and diverse acquisition sites, validated on over 1,300 imaging sessions to establish normative morphometric trajectories for translational and comparative neuroscience.

Lingzhong Fan, Yahui Wei, Haiyan Wang, Yufan Wang, Lixin chen, Luqi Cheng, Jinquan Gao, Qi Zhu, Chaohong Gao, YiCheng Qi (…)2026-08-04