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Tau deposition patterns within the medial temporal lobe follow the connectivity of the entorhinal and perirhinal cortex – a combined post-mortem and 7T fMRI study

This combined post-mortem and 7T fMRI study demonstrates that tau deposition patterns within the medial temporal lobe are significantly shaped by the intrinsic functional connectivity of the entorhinal and perirhinal cortices, suggesting that network organization drives tau propagation even before amyloidosis.

Hannah de Bruin, Xenia Przygodda, Laura E. M. Wisse, Sadhana Ravikumar, Emrah Duezel, Yolande A. L. Pijnenburg, Paul A. (…)2026-09-02
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Cell-Type-Specific Immuno-Angiogenic Modulation in Trophoblasts by Curcumin Solid Lipid Nanoparticles

This study demonstrates that curcumin-loaded solid lipid nanoparticles (SLN-Cur), engineered via a Quality-by-Design framework, exhibit high biocompatibility and induce cell-type-specific modulation of immuno-redox and angiogenic pathways in trophoblasts, promoting a protective phenotype in healthy cells while showing an inverted response in dysfunctional models.

Tathyana Benetis Piau, Thalita do Espírito Santo Alves, Lívia Mello Tonnera, Ana Clara Guedes de Souza, Sofia Passaponti (…)2026-09-02
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Genome-wide association and polygenic risk score analysis of prediabetes in South Indian women

This study of South Indian women identified a suggestive regional signal at the MTNR1B locus associated with prediabetes and demonstrated that while a European-derived polygenic risk score shows a significant association with the condition, its predictive accuracy remains weak, underscoring the need for ancestry-specific models.

Gayathri K. S., Tarun Sanjai G, Elezebeth Mathews, Manickavelu Alagu2026-09-02
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A continental-scale synthesis of phospholipid fatty acid data from the National Ecological Observatory Network

This study presents a continental-scale synthesis of standardized phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) data from 11,399 soil samples across 47 National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) sites, accompanied by an open-source R workflow and Shiny application that reveal strong latitudinal gradients in microbial community composition and provide unprecedented resources for investigating soil microbial biogeography.

Cedric J. Hagen, Michael D. SanClements, Hugh Cross, Samantha Weintraub-Leff, Edward Ayres2026-09-02
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Fluorescence-lifetime encoding for scalable single-protein-resolution imaging

This paper introduces RE-FLIM, a fluorescence-lifetime encoding technique that overcomes the quadratic scaling limitations of previous methods to achieve single-protein-resolution imaging, enabling the visualization of individual HIV-1 Env trimer protomers in intact cell membranes.

Sabrina Simoncelli, Alessia Gentili, Robert Hollmann, Cecilia Zaza, Harry Holmes, Karol Kołątaj, David Williamson, Irene (…)2026-09-02
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Performance Evaluation of the all_ratio Algorithm for Pathogenic Microorganism and Antibiotic Resistance Gene Detection Using Nanopore Sequencing

This study validates that the all_ratio algorithm, a four-dimensional weighted scoring system, enables rapid, accurate, and simultaneous detection of pathogenic bacteria, fungi, and antibiotic resistance genes in nanopore metagenomic data, effectively overcoming the limitations of traditional methods by identifying low-abundance pathogens and achieving precise gene-host matching.

Guoqin Mai, Wanyue Zhang, Yan Zhang, Yanxin Liu, Yuanyuan Li, Ziqi Li, Ying Dai2026-09-02
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Cross-cohort transcriptomic analysis identifies a reproducible immune-active program associated with neoadjuvant treatment response in rectal cancer

This study identifies a reproducible, immune-active transcriptional program, specifically the "Allograft rejection" pathway, that is consistently associated with favorable neoadjuvant treatment response across multiple rectal cancer cohorts, although the current signature lacks sufficient discriminatory power for immediate clinical prediction.

Xichang FEI, Haimin CHEN, Ying ZHANG, Fan ZHOU2026-09-02
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Genetic Variant Mapping Using Multi-Tissue Transcriptomes Reveals Genome-wide Regulatory Signatures in Bovine IVP and MOET Calves

This study utilizes multi-tissue transcriptome analysis to identify genome-wide regulatory signatures and specific cis-regulatory loci, particularly within immune-related pathways, that underlie gene expression differences between in vitro produced (IVP) and multiple ovulation and embryo transfer (MOET) derived bovine calves.

Udayaraja GK, Pratik P. Pathade, Jan Bojsen-Møller Secher, Haja N Kadarmideen2026-09-02
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Parasite and host factors associated with malaria parasite liver stage latency

This study identifies the RNA-binding protein PvPUF1 as a key molecular regulator of *Plasmodium vivax* hypnozoite persistence by linking it to a specific RNA motif and the CCR4–NOT deadenylation complex, while also revealing that hypnozoites reside in a distinct, transcriptionally quiescent host microenvironment.

Stefan Kappe, Gigliola Zanghi, Kim Chi Vo, Lindsay Clark, Sumana Chakravarty, Erika Flannery, Vorada Chuenchob, Yu Cao (…)2026-09-02✓ Author reviewed