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Moritz L, Nath K, Walsh EP et al. · 2026 · Preprint
ABSTRACT Magnetoreception, the ability to perceive the geomagnetic field, is widespread across animals. The underlying sensory mechanism remains elusive, but a long-standing hypothesis proposes single-domain magnetite linked to…
View details →Luedke SG, Lawrence TE, Lucherk LW et al. · 2026 · Journal of food protection
Foreign material contamination remains a leading source of consumer complaints in the meat industry, especially in the beef sector. Metallic foreign objects may enter carcasses during upstream animal handling or during processing, creating…
View details →Rodríguez-Sánchez GT, Rogers DW, Rainey PB · 2026 · Preprint
Understanding the genetic basis of adaptive traits requires linking mutation to phenotypic change and fit-ness. The Wrinkly Spreader (WS) mutants of Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25, which colonize the air–liquid interface (ALI) in static…
View details →Zeldenrust EG, Carlton K, Jenkins EJ et al. · 2026 · Veterinary parasitology
Klossiella equi Baumann, 1946 (Apicomplexa: Coccidia) is a globally distributed adeleorinid parasite that infects the kidneys of equid hosts. Considered an uncommon parasite, when K. equi is detected, it is typically an incidental finding…
View details →Lecher S, Jaisinghani N, Previti M et al. · 2026 · Preprint
MmpL proteins play an important role in the various mechanisms associated with mycobacterial virulence. Identification of interacting protein partners required for a detailed understanding of their role remains hampered because of their…
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Because of the low reported levels of progesterone in breastmilk, even with the high-dose products, amounts ingested by the infant are small and would not be expected to cause any adverse effects in breastfed infants. The progesterone…
View details →Shyam Kumar R, Chakraborty S, Jayakumar H et al. · 2026 · Molecular biology reports
Background N6-methyladenosine (m6A) modification of mRNAs through METTL3 maintains homeostasis in many cell types. The mechanism by which METTL3 complexes together with reader proteins, especially the YTH domain-containing protein, governs…
View details →Li S, Lv C, Xie P et al. · 2026 · Clinical nuclear medicine
A 6-year-old boy presented with a 2-month history of fever of unknown origin. 18F-FDG PET/CT was performed to identify the potential source, revealing a solitary focus of abnormal radiotracer uptake in the left humerus. Bone marrow biopsy…
View details →Karimi E, Momeni Z, Nasiri V et al. · 2026 · Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
Blastocystis is a genetically diverse unicellular eukaryotic intestinal parasite with no gold-standard diagnostic method. This study, conducted in Iran, is the first to directly compare Sequence-Tagged Site (STS) PCR and restriction…
View details →Prpic V, Mariconda A, Pileggi S et al. · 2025 · Preprint
According to the neural overlap hypothesis (Fias et al., 2001) magnitude information is automatically extracted from digits when there is a sufficient degree of neural overlap between structures dedicated to the processing of relevant and…
View details →Deng D, Shiotani H, Kawakami Y · 2025 · Journal of anatomy
Quantifying strain in the free Achilles tendon (AT F ) is essential for understanding its mechanical function, yet existing in vivo studies report inconsistent strain values, even under comparable loading. These discrepancies are partly…
View details →Lye G, Pollard RE, Hartman A et al. · 2026 · Veterinary radiology & ultrasound : the official journal of the American College of Veterinary Radiology and the International Veterinary Radiology Association
The intrathoracic lymph nodes (LN) of clinical interest in dogs are the sternal (STLN), cranial mediastinal (CrMLN), and tracheobronchial (TBLN) groups. Although computed tomography (CT) depicts and measures these nodes well, thoracic…
View details →Hashimoto R, Otsuki Y, Nakamura T · 2026 · Cureus
Pulmonary metastases from papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) are usually detectable by computed tomography (CT) or radioactive iodine (RAI) scanning. Pathologically proven pulmonary micrometastases that are completely undetectable by…
View details →Khin STMM, Jafar SM, Ju M et al. · 2025 · Journal of virological methods
Feline morbillivirus (FeMV) is a globally emerging virus that has been linked to chronic kidney disease (CKD) in infected cats. Immunological assays, such as enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), are important for studying the virus…
View details →Lowe BG, Woolgar A, Smit S et al. · 2026 · Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior
Sustaining attention is effortful but crucial for daily life. Despite this, attentional lapses are common and can have fatal consequences (e.g., when driving). The spontaneous nature of these lapses makes studying their underlying…
View details →Klement RJ, Sweeney RA · 2026 · Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al]
Purpose Ketogenic diets (KDs) have been proposed to target glycolytic cancer metabolism and synergize with radio- and chemotherapy. We herein report survival outcomes of rectal and head and neck cancer (HNC) patients who followed a KD…
View details →Peirano G, Walker SD, Duong MS et al. · 2026 · European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology
Introduction Metallo-β-lactamase (MBL)-producing Enterobacterales are increasing in frequency and treatment options are limited. Aztreonam/avibactam (AZA) and aztreonam (ATM) plus ceftazidime/avibactam (CZA) showed activities against these…
View details →Dimitriadis C, Konsta K, Çinar ME et al. · 2025 · Preprint
Abstract Citizen science has become a powerful tool for generating extensive ecological data and fostering public engagement in environmental monitoring and conservation initiatives. In marine environments, where monitoring is challenging…
View details →Hayashi T, Mizobuchi K, Higa N et al. · 2026 · Ophthalmic genetics
Purpose To assess the detectability of the pathogenic RP1 Alu insertion using the PrismGuide™ inherited retinal dystrophy (IRD) panel, which targets 82 IRD genes, and whole-exome sequencing (WES). Methods A girl diagnosed with early-onset…
View details →Nichols S, Estandía A, Young CM et al. · 2026 · International journal for parasitology
Parasites are ubiquitous and exert varied ecological and evolutionary pressures on their hosts. Yet, characterising parasite diversity and distributions can be challenging and costly. Leveraging existing data to identify parasites is thus…
View details →He C, Gu X, Liu Y et al. · 2026 · Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology
Objective This study aims to investigate the impact of mutations within the major hydrophilic region (MHR) of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) S gene on the expression, secretion, and antigenicity of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), and…
View details →Jimenez CM, Kreizinger Z, Gyuranecz M et al. · 2026 · Poultry science
The control and prevention of Mycoplasma (M.) synoviae infections have been significantly improved by the use of the MS-H live vaccine strain. This vaccine has been used globally for decades; therefore, many technical approaches have been…
View details →Zhang H, Wu W, Xu J · 2026 · Frontiers in oncology
Early ampullary tumors are challenging to diagnose due to their complex surrounding structures and deep anatomical location. We report a rare case in which enhanced computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), magnetic…
View details →Busi R, Machingal P, Hemachandra N et al. · 2025 · Preprint
The size of the protein sequence database is increasing without a consequent increase in the number of proteins with known molecular function, especially at the fine-grained level. Alignment-based approaches such as BLAST and profile…
View details →Sato T, Nishitsuka K, Itoh T et al. · 2025 · Preprint
Deep learning has shown promise in diabetic retinopathy screening using fundus images. However, many existing models operate as “black boxes,” providing limited interpretability at the lesion level. This study aimed to develop an…
View details →T JS, Chetty N · 2025 · Preprint
Abstract Wind speed distribution modelling serves as an essential tool to assess wind energy resources while identifying optimal wind turbine locations. Three statistical models, including Bimodal Mixture Weibull (BMW), Modified Bimodal…
View details →An SY, Kim I, Hong SH et al. · 2026 · Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society
Anti-CRISPR (Acr) proteins are phage-encoded anti-defense factors that suppress CRISPR-Cas immunity in bacteria. AcrIIA8 was previously identified as an inhibitor of Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpyCas9) through functional assays of…
View details →Nie YH, Li Q, Lu YJ et al. · 2026 · Protein expression and purification
C14orf119 is a functionally uncharacterized mitochondrial protein potentially implicated in ischemic stroke pathogenesis. To enable comprehensive biological studies, we developed and validated a specific polyclonal antibody against this…
View details →Hilgendorf J, Calisto V, Cardoso DN et al. · 2025 · Environmental toxicology and pharmacology
Sediments play a key role in chemical partitioning in aquatic ecosystems, acting as sinks for lipophilic and persistent compounds. However, sediment hazard assessment is limited, often underestimating risks by focusing on short-term,…
View details →Ito T, Yoshie T, Yoshimura S et al. · 2025 · Studies in health technology and informatics
In this study, we combined automatically generated labels from large language models (LLMs) with a small number of manual annotations to classify adverse event-related treatment discontinuations in Japanese EHRs. By fine-tuning JMedRoBERTa…
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