Short Reports

A Short Report allows authors to publish the results of a small number of experiments, provided the conclusion is clear and justified, and the findings are novel and judged to be of high importance.

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    1. Neuroscience

    A tight relationship between BOLD fMRI activation/deactivation and increase/decrease in single neuron responses in human association cortex

    Marie-Alphée Laurent, Corentin Jacques ... Bruno Rossion
    There is a striking correspondence between face-selective neural increases vs decreases of fMRI BOLD signal and spikes in neighboring human fusiform gyrus regions.
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    1. Neuroscience

    A stochastic explanation for observed local-to-global foraging states in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Andrew Margolis, Andrew Gordus
    Changes in internal state for stochastic behaviors can be more easily explained by a stochastic model with no state change.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Cell type-specific contributions to a persistent aggressive internal state in female Drosophila

    Hui Chiu, Alice A Robie ... Catherine E Schretter
    While persistent aggressive states in females are promoted by select cell types with recurrent connections (aIPg, pC1d+e), additional data and models are needed to explain the maintenance of these states.
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    1. Cancer Biology

    Metastatic small cell lung cancer arises from TP53/RB1-deficient and MYC overproduction hESC-derived PNECs

    Huanhuan Joyce Chen, Eric E Gardner ... Harold Varmus
    A human pluripotent stem cell-based model demonstrates how TP53/RB1 loss and MYC overexpression drive aggressive, neuroendocrine small cell lung cancer progression and metastasis, enabling investigation of tumor heterogeneity and therapeutic response in a defined genetic context.
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    1. Evolutionary Biology

    mirror determines the far posterior domain in butterfly wings

    Martik Chatterjee, Xin Yi Yu ... Robert D Reed
    The selector gene mirror defines the far posterior wing domain in butterflies, revealing how ancestral axial subdivisions have been evolutionarily reduced in Drosophila.
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Targeted protein degradation by KLHDC2 ligands identified by high-throughput screening

    Han Zhou, Tonglian Zhou ... Michael J Bollong
    A high-throughput chemical screen identifies ligands of the Kelch domain of E3 ligase KLHDC2 capable of being modified as proteolysis-targeting chimeras.
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    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Molecular requirements for C. elegans transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of pathogen avoidance

    Rachel Kaletsky, Rebecca S Moore ... Coleen T Murphy
    Deviating from established protocols is the most likely reason why Gainey et al. (2024) could not reproduce earlier results in a Caenorhabditis elegans transgenerational inheritance paradigm, and the earlier findings are also supported by tests with over 30 new genes.
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Allosteric modulation by the fatty acid site in the glycosylated SARS-CoV-2 spike

    A Sofia F Oliveira, Fiona L Kearns ... Adrian J Mulholland
    Equilibrium and nonequilibrium simulations uncover how the fatty acid site in the SARS-CoV-2 spike modulates protein dynamics, revealing its intricate allosteric connections and the impact of glycans on these networks.
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    1. Neuroscience

    A novel method (RIM-Deep) for enhancing imaging depth and resolution stability of deep cleared tissue in inverted confocal microscopy

    Yisi Liu, Pu Wang ... Hongwei Zhou
    RIM-Deep enhances imaging depth in confocal microscopy enabling high-quality visualization of large cleared samples across various fields with minimal cost.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Inhibiting NINJ1-dependent plasma membrane rupture protects against inflammasome-induced blood coagulation and inflammation

    Jian Cui, Hua Li ... Congqing Wu
    Procoagulant microvesicles derived from ruptured immune cells fuel blood coagulation.