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Design and analysis strategies for robust microbiome ageing research

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The gut microbiome changes with age and associates with age‐related morbidity and mortality, establishing it as a potential biomarker and intervention target for ageing. Realising this potential requires methodological rigour, yet distinguishing biological signals from methodological artefacts remains challenging across cohorts. This review provides an
Mark Olenik, İsmail Güderer, Yi Wang, Tayyaba Alvi, Prasoon Pandey, Handan Melike Dönertaş   +5 more
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Reconstructing enzyme evolution by protein engineering

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Natural enzyme evolution can be retraced by protein engineering methods such as directed evolution, rational design, and ancestral sequence reconstruction. These approaches reveal how enzymes emerged from ligand‐binding scaffolds, developed varying substrate preferences, formed oligomeric complexes, adapted to environmental changes, and evolved novel ...
Lukas Drexler, Markus R. Busch, Reinhard Sterner   +2 more
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Subtype‐specific enhancer RNAs define transcriptional regulators and prognosis in breast cancers

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study employed machine learning methodologies to perform the subtype‐specific classification of RNA‐seq data sets, which are mapped on enhancers from TCGA‐derived breast cancer patients. Their integration with gene expression (referred to as ProxCReAM eRNAs) and chromatin accessibility profiles has the potential to identify lineage‐specific and ...
Aamena Y. Patel, Peyman Zarrineh, Nathnael T. Tuffa, Jigar H. Sheth, Sumitra Mohan, Mudassar Iqbal, Sankari Nagarajan   +6 more
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Non-associative learning underlies pollination interaction of pollinators and flowering plants

National Science Open
The behavioral response of pollinators is significantly influenced by the prior experience of flower visiting. Learning of pollinators, including non-associative learning, associative learning, and operant conditioning, is determined by the presence or ...
Zhang Wu-Fan, Luo Yi-Bo
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Vicarious reward unblocks associative learning about novel cues in male rats

eLife, 2020
Many species, including rats, are sensitive to social signals and their valuation is important in social learning. Here we introduce a task that investigates if mutual reward delivery in male rats can drive associative learning.
Sander van Gurp, Jochen Hoog, Tobias Kalenscher, Marijn van Wingerden   +3 more
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Interpreting the effects of DNA polymerase variants at the structural level

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Using MAVISp and molecular dynamics simulations, we analyzed over 60 000 missense variants in POLE and POLD1 from ClinVar, COSMIC, cBioPortal, and saturation mutagenesis. Identified mechanistic indicators, including stability, binding, and long‐range, enable structural interpretation, providing ACMG‐like evidence for possible reclassification of VUS ...
Matteo Arnaudi, Karolina Krzesińska, Ludovica Beltrame, Pablo Sánchez‐Izquierdo Besora, Matteo Tiberti, Mef Nilbert, Anna Rohlin, Elena Papaleo   +7 more
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The pigeon as a machine: Complex category structures can be acquired by a simple associative model

iScience, 2023
Summary: Never known for its smarts, the pigeon has proven to be a prodigious classifier of complex visual stimuli. What explains its surprising success? Does it possess elaborate executive functions akin to those deployed by humans?
Brandon M. Turner, Edward A. Wasserman
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Developmental programmes drive cellular plasticity, disease progression and therapy resistance in lung adenocarcinoma

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study shows that lung adenocarcinomas exploit developmental branching morphogenesis to acquire a therapy resistant basal‐like tumour cell state. This process was found to be regulated by combined TP53 loss‐of‐function and type‐I interferon signalling, identifying a novel axis for biomarker and therapeutic target discovery.
Kamila J Bienkowska, Stephany Gallardo, Nur S. Zainal, Leena Arora, Matthew Ellis, Maria‐Antoinette Lopez, Judith Austine, Sai Pittla, Serena J Chee, Aiman Alzetani, Emily C Shaw, Christian H Ottensmeier, Gareth J Thomas, Christopher J Hanley   +13 more
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Synapse Innervation and Associative Memory Cell Are Recruited for Integrative Storage of Whisker and Odor Signals in the Barrel Cortex through miRNA-Mediated Processes

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2017
Associative learning is a common way for information acquisition, and the integrative storage of multiple associated signals is essential for associative thinking and logical reasoning.
Zhuofan Lei, Zhuofan Lei, Zhuofan Lei, Dangui Wang, Na Chen, Ke Ma, Wei Lu, Wei Lu, Zhenhua Song, Shan Cui, Jin-Hui Wang, Jin-Hui Wang, Jin-Hui Wang   +12 more
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Longitudinal genome‐wide aneuploidy measurements in circulating cell‐free DNA to predict lack of benefit from pembrolizumab in patients with metastatic urothelial cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Many patients with urothelial cancer do not benefit from treatment with pembrolizumab, while at risk of severe side effects. Changes in the levels of circulating tumor DNA early during treatment, measured by a simple and affordable assay that can be easily implemented in the clinic, can be used as a prognostic tool to identify these patients.
Youssra Salhi, Stavros Makrodimitris, Sandra van Wilpe, Iris te Paske, Vanja de Weerd, Corine M. Beaufort, Hans M. Westgeest, Jens Voortman, Maureen J. B. Aarts, Maud Rijnders, Astrid A. M. van der Veldt, Ronald de Wit, Niven Mehra, Saskia M. Wilting, Debbie G. J. Robbrecht   +14 more
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