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Computer Vision Methods for Behavioral Phenotyping in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review

This systematic review evaluates computer vision methods for fine-grained behavioral phenotyping in Autism Spectrum Disorder, highlighting their potential for severity assessment and differential diagnosis while identifying critical gaps in standardized datasets, evaluation metrics, and longitudinal research.

Ayisha Firoz, Moutaz Saleh, Somaya Al-Maadeed, Younes Akbari, Jayakanth Kunhoth2026-09-02
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Cold-dependent ELF6 accumulation drives H3K27me3 demethylation to regulate flowering time response to low ambient temperature

This study reveals that low ambient temperature promotes the accumulation and early recruitment of the histone demethylase ELF6, which works redundantly with JMJ13 to remove repressive H3K27me3 marks from floral repressors like FLM and FLC, thereby fine-tuning flowering time in response to cold.

Ana Luna, Laura Poza-Viejo, Iván del Olmo, Burcu Arikan, Sara González-Bodí, Wenhao Yan, Kerstin Kaufmann, Franziska Tur (…)2026-09-02
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Efficiency and Interpretability in MYC Status Prediction: A Comparative Study of Vision Transformers

This study benchmarks five Vision Transformer architectures for predicting MYC status in Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma, revealing that while the Swin Transformer offers superior speed and risk stratification, the Hierarchical ViT achieves the highest diagnostic accuracy, thereby establishing a mathematically validated framework for optimizing architectural trade-offs in digital pathology.

GEI KI TANG, CHEE CHIN LIM, FAEZAHTUL ARBAEYAH HUSSAIN, QI WEI OUNG, AIDY IRMAN YAJID, SUMAYYAH MOHAMMAD AZMI2026-09-02
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Strategic Enrichment of Endophytic Bacteria and Consortium Design to Enhance Plant Adaptation to Salinity Stress

This study demonstrates that a salinity-driven enrichment strategy combined with rational design of synthetic bacterial consortia significantly enhances rice growth and salt stress tolerance by leveraging synergistic interactions that improve strain colonization and persistence compared to single-strain inoculations.

Denise Khouri Chalouhi, Iris Bertani, Oumaima Ezzahidi, Lykeang Muk, Danilo Licastro, Naida Babic Jordamovic, Alfonso Es (…)2026-09-02
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A genome catalog reveals the global landscape of the human gut archaeome and its relevance to inflammatory bowel disease

This study establishes a comprehensive genomic catalog of 2,096 human gut archaea to reveal global variations and identify specific species and syntrophic interactions associated with inflammatory bowel disease, thereby providing a high-resolution framework for integrating the archaeome into precision medicine.

Qiulong Yan, Changming Chen, Wei Yang, Yue Zhang, Guangyang Wang, Pan Zhang, Yawen Ni, Ruochun Guo, Yidi Zhang, Chenghao (…)2026-09-01
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Midgut-mediated glycolipid metabolism plasticity confers adaptive tolerance to α-solanine in Phthorimaea operculella larvae

This study demonstrates that *Phthorimaea operculella* larvae adapt to the toxic effects of the potato-derived alkaloid α-solanine by activating midgut-mediated glycolipid metabolism, which involves upregulating catabolic enzymes and downregulating biosynthetic pathways to facilitate detoxification and maintain survival.

Yujie Ji, Meizhu Huo, Junjie Yan, Subba Reddy Palli, Yulin Gao2026-09-01
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Trichinella spiralis infection-induced ursodeoxycholic acid ameliorates colitis by regulating dendritic cells and macrophages via NLRP3 inflammasome signaling pathway

This study demonstrates that *Trichinella spiralis* infection ameliorates colitis by reshaping the gut microbiota to enrich *Bacteroides acidifaciens*, which produces ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) that binds to TGR5 receptors on dendritic cells and macrophages to inhibit NLRP3 inflammasome activation, reduce inflammatory cytokines, and restore intestinal barrier integrity.

Ying Xue, Hongye Li, Minghan Li, Kaidian Yang, Tianxu Pan, Dongyu Zhao, Hechun Li, Songyang Li, Tiankui Guo, Wenhui Cao (…)2026-09-01
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Investigating biomarkers and regulatory mechanisms associated with depression and anxiety in obesity based on transcriptome sequencing and experimental validation

This study identifies CPOX and SLC35F5 as key downregulated biomarkers for depression and anxiety in obesity through integrated bioinformatic analysis and experimental validation, revealing their association with Toll-like receptor signaling and proposing subtype-specific therapeutic candidates like mazindol and FK-866.

Xiaochen Ren, Ziqi Zhao, Ning Xu, Qianjing Yang, Yuyang Lan, Yuntao Ma, Qinghua Zhang, Bin Wang, Bin Wang2026-09-01
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Multivariate analysis of a large-scale auditory screen reveals new candidate hearing loss genes

By applying multivariate, Bayesian, and clustering approaches to International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium data, this study identifies 59 novel hearing loss genes and establishes a methodological framework that significantly enhances the sensitivity and specificity of large-scale auditory gene discovery compared to traditional univariate analyses.

Michael Bowl, Sherylanne Newton, Liam Barrett, Carlos Aguilar, Marisa Flook, Jamie Lee, Andrew Parker, Nischay Mehta2026-09-01