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BEAM-1: A Biophysics-Informed Multiscale Mathematical Framework for CNS Pharmaceutical Permeability

This paper introduces BEAM-1, a biophysics-informed multiscale mathematical framework that integrates Fick's and Einstein-Stokes laws to predict and rank the blood-brain barrier permeability of 25 CNS drugs, successfully identifying Levodopa and Temozolomide as the most permeable while offering a cost-effective alternative to traditional in vitro testing.

Nithik Uppara Allabanda2026-07-22
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A Virtual Doctor for ADHD Based on Fully Automated EEG Reading

This study introduces a fully automated "virtual doctor" that diagnoses ADHD from standard 128-channel EEG recordings without expert intervention by utilizing a deep learning pipeline to identify diagnostically significant neurophysiological patterns—specifically in the 150-300 ms window—that traditional statistical methods overlook, thereby eliminating the human-expert bottleneck in EEG interpretation.

Zhikai Yu, Zijian Zhou, Yaoyao Li, Changming Wang2026-07-22
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Machine learning-assisted SHG morphometry reveals distinct collagen microarchitectures of trabecular bone and fibrosis in bone marrow biopsies

This study establishes a reproducible machine learning-assisted SHG microscopy workflow that reveals distinct collagen microarchitectures between fibrosis and trabecular bone in bone marrow biopsies, demonstrating that specific annotation strategies are critical for accurate quantitative morphometric analysis of tissue remodeling.

Zakhar P. Asaulenko, Anton A. Egorchev, Dmitry A. Peshekhonov, Leniz F. Nurullin, Anastasiia melnikova, Alexander A. Ros (…)2026-07-22
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Geometric Representations of Knowledge Inside Biological Large Language Models: an Empirical Analysis

This empirical study reveals that while biological large language models (SCFMs) do encode a real, low-dimensional, and partially linearized geometric structure for biological knowledge, this structure is modest, often nonlinearly entangled, and largely overlaps with what classical expression-based methods like PCA can already recover, falling short of the crisp, regular geometry observed in natural language models.

Olivia Denvis2026-07-22
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An Empirical Comparison of Virtual Cell Models: Perturbation Prediction, Representation, and the Baseline Gap

This paper presents a unified benchmark of eleven virtual cell models, revealing that while deep learning approaches significantly outperform baselines in representation tasks and combinatorial perturbation prediction, they generally fail to surpass simple linear models in predicting unseen single-gene perturbations, suggesting the field has achieved a "virtual microscope" for cell state analysis rather than a true "virtual simulator" for causal perturbation dynamics.

Olivia Denvis2026-07-22
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Findings from Sparse Autoencoders for DNA Sequence Models: Motif Detectors, Reading-Frame Features, and the Scarcity of Regulatory Logic

This study demonstrates that while sparse autoencoders effectively extract monosemantic, biologically interpretable features like sequence motifs and reading frames from DNA foundation models, they reveal a significant scarcity of features encoding complex regulatory logic, suggesting current models capture a genomic dictionary rather than a grammar engine.

Olivia Denvis2026-07-22