Biology
Serial Swarming Selection Yields Elongated, Genetically Distinct Enterobacter Variants
Repeated selection at expanding swarm fronts transformed a clonal Enterobacter strain into five elongated, highly persistent lineages carrying distinctive population-level...
Hip fat pad may hold key to stem cell therapy for osteoarthritis
A new review argues that the hip's cotyloid fossa fat pad is a promising but still uncharacterized source of therapeutic...
Scientists Launch Global Push to Outmaneuver a Fungus That Kills More Than Half Its Victims
A new PLOS Pathogens review introduces the NIAID-funded MUCOR-ADVANCE consortium, which unites diagnostics, immunotherapy and pathogenesis research against mucormycosis, a...
Research report: Recombination rate and efficiency of linked selection in small and large stickleback populations
A study of nine-spined stickleback populations finds that linked selection reduces nucleotide diversity in low-recombination regions, and that one small...
Neural Field Model Fitting Suggests Reduced Corticothalamic Integrity in Disorders of Consciousness
A multicentre study fitted individualised corticothalamic neural field models to EEG from 547 participants, showing reduced corticothalamic integrity in unresponsive...
Dog’s chemotherapy wound heals without surgery after delayed epirubicin extravasation
A case report describes complete healing of a delayed epirubicin extravasation ulcer in a dog treated conservatively with hyperbaric gaseous...
Many German Horses Carry Antibodies Against Tapeworms, ELISA Study Finds
A survey of nearly 1,000 horses across six German federal states found saliva and plasma ELISAs detected far more Anoplocephalidae...
Switchgrass gene PvHIPP23 acts as a brake on cadmium tolerance
A genome-wide study of switchgrass identified 79 HIPP genes and found that silencing PvHIPP23 improves cadmium tolerance while reducing root...
Genetic study of endangered Ethiopian kebericho reveals moderate diversity shaped by geography
A DArTseq SNP analysis of 60 Ethiopian kebericho accessions from 36 locations found moderate genetic diversity, with 77 percent of...
Brain Map Shows Fractions and Integers Share a Single Number Line
High-resolution fMRI reveals a shared cortical map in which fractions and integers are organized by magnitude in educated adults performing...
Five New Dwarf Spider Species Unearthed in China’s Mountain Leaf Litter
Researchers have described five new species of the dwarf spider genus Shaanxinus from mountain leaf litter in Gansu, Guizhou, Shaanxi,...
Pregnant Elite Athletes Face Training Dilemmas as Review Maps Exercise Risks and Benefits
A new review of 40 studies covering more than 4,163 women maps how pregnancy reshapes athletic physiology, where high-intensity training...
Differential Impacts of Anthropogenic Disturbance on Community Composition and Alpha Diversity of Macroinvertebrates at a Large Urban River System
A survey of 385 river sites in Ningbo, China, found that urban and agricultural land use significantly restructures macroinvertebrate communities...
Plants Read Their Microbes Along a Chemical Continuum, Review Argues
A new review argues that plant recognition of microbes is a fluid, context-dependent chemical process rather than a binary split...
Lipid droplet kinase shapes lipid storage, stress response, and infectivity in Chagas parasite
Deleting the lipid droplet kinase gene in Trypanosoma cruzi reduced lipid droplet accumulation, increased resistance to hydrogen peroxide, and sharply...
Nitrogen Ion Beam Mutagenesis Boosts Sophorolipid Output in Starmerella bombicola
Nitrogen ion beam mutagenesis produced stable Starmerella bombicola mutants, one of which yielded 224.31 g/L of total sophorolipids in a...
Stem Cell Exosomes Deliver pVHL to Degrade HIF-1α and Ease Kidney Scarring
Human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cell exosomes reduced kidney fibrosis in a preclinical model by delivering pVHL, which drives HIF-1α...
AI learns to fix CT scans by protecting what algorithms actually measure
A new BMC Bioinformatics study shows that expert preference-guided correction of CT projections can reduce motion artifacts while preserving the...
CRISPR centromere editing reshapes wheat chromosomes
A CRISPR–Cas9 strategy targeting centromeric repeats reconfigures up to 11 wheat chromosomes in one generation and yields heritable reciprocal translocations.
Vitrobot-based protocol makes graphene oxide cryo-EM grids reproducible and accessible
A new Vitrobot-based protocol produces graphene oxide cryo-EM grids with 55 percent average coverage and supports apoferritin and β-galactosidase reconstructions...
