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Sustained pulvinar activity and early thalamic responses reveal dual temporal dynamics of human attention

By recording intracranial thalamic activity in epilepsy patients, this study reveals that the human pulvinar exhibits distinct temporal dynamics, characterized by a dominant sustained response that supports prolonged attentional states, alongside a less frequent early transient response for rapid stimulus detection.

Francesca Pizzo, Tommaso Biagioni, Victor Lopez-Madrona, Maria Fratello, Giacomo De Nicola, Virginie Laguitton, Roy Haas (…)2026-07-09
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A novel gain of function variant in NUAK2 causes oculomotor apraxia in a three-generation family

This study identifies a novel heterozygous gain-of-function missense variant in the NUAK2 gene as the cause of autosomal dominant congenital oculomotor apraxia and cerebellar vermis hypoplasia in a three-generation family, expanding the gene's known pathogenic mechanisms beyond previously reported loss-of-function variants.

Manjekah Dunn, Janine Smith, Christopher R Horne, Meredith Wilson, Elizabeth Emma Palmer, Samuel N Young, Rocio Rius, Jo (…)2026-07-09
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A Collaborative Framework for Coordinated Analysis Developed by the Genetics of DNA Methylation Consortium

The Genetics of DNA Methylation Consortium (GoDMC) has developed an expanded, community-driven software framework that standardizes cohort-level processing and enables reproducible, summary-statistics-based analyses integrating DNA methylation and genetic variation.

Josine Min, Carlos Ruiz-Arenas, Olalekan Monsir Awoniran, Olivia Castellini-Pérez, Thomas Hendrik Jonkman, Natalia Llong (…)2026-07-09
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Predictive single cell foundation model for gene regulation and aging with privacy-preserving tabular learning

The paper introduces Tabula, a privacy-preserving single-cell foundation model that leverages federated learning to explicitly capture the tabular structure of genomic data, enabling the discovery of regulatory logic and the identification of rejuvenation factors without sharing raw data across institutions.

Xiaojie Qiu, Jiayuan Ding, Jianhui Lin, Ziyang Miao, Nils Mechtel, Shiyu Jiang, Yixin Wang, Zhaoyu Fang, Jorge Martin-Ru (…)2026-07-09
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A cross-national network for environmental DNA monitoring of nearshore fish biodiversity across the Northeast Pacific

This paper presents the Pacific eDNA Coastal Observatory, a cross-national network spanning 16 nodes from San Diego to Juneau that utilized 1,041 seawater samples over four years to generate a comprehensive, validated dataset of nearshore fish biodiversity across the Northeast Pacific, demonstrating the effectiveness of coordinated eDNA monitoring for large-scale comparative inference.

Jennifer M. Sunday, Kate Sheridan, Margot Hessing-Lewis, Rute B. G. Clemente-Carvalho, Salvador Babinet, Jennifer L. Rue (…)2026-07-09