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The human gut microbiome across the life course

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Despite significant individual variation and continuous change throughout life, the human gut microbiome follows some life stage‐specific trends. This article provides a brief overview of how gut microbiome composition shifts across different phases of life. Created in BioRender. Özkurt, E. (2026) https://BioRender.com/8q4nrnc.
Alise J. Ponsero, Basak Bahcivanci, Antonietta Hayhoe, Animesh Acharjee, Ezgi Özkurt   +4 more
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The Relationship Between Proprioceptive Drift and Body Ownership Varies with the Mediolateral Position of a Virtual Hand

Applied Sciences
The sense of body ownership refers to the attribution of the body or body parts to oneself. Proprioceptive drift is a phenomenon in which the perceived position of a body part changes during body ownership illusions.
Asaki Kawaguchi, Shogo Okamoto, Masayuki Hara   +2 more
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More Plausible Models of Body Ownership Could Benefit Virtual Reality Applications

Computers, 2021
Embodiment of an avatar is important in many seated VR applications. We investigate a Bayesian Causal Inference model of body ownership. According to the model, when available sensory signals (e.g., tactile and visual signals) are attributed to a single ...
Moritz Schubert, Dominik Endres
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Degradation mechanism of the von Willebrand factor A2 domain by nattokinase

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Nattokinase, a natto‐derived protease, exhibits potent antithrombotic effects. This study demonstrates that nattokinase directly cleaves the von Willebrand factor (vWF) A2 domain in vitro. Unlike the native regulator ADAMTS13, nattokinase degrades folded vWF independently of shear stress.
Ryuichi Hyakumoto, Masatomo So, Ayako Furukawa, Kenji Sugase   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Case Series Clinical Trial of a Novel Approach Using Augmented Reality That Inspires Self-body Cognition in Patients With Stroke: Effects on Motor Function and Resting-State Brain Functional Connectivity

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2019
Barring a few studies, there are not enough established treatments to improve upper limb motor function in patients with severe impairments due to chronic stroke.
Fuminari Kaneko, Fuminari Kaneko, Keiichiro Shindo, Keiichiro Shindo, Masaki Yoneta, Masaki Yoneta, Masaki Yoneta, Megumi Okawada, Megumi Okawada, Megumi Okawada, Kazuto Akaboshi, Kazuto Akaboshi, Kazuto Akaboshi, Meigen Liu   +13 more
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An Investigation of Lower Limb Representations Underlying Vision, Touch, and Proprioception in Body Integrity Identity Disorder

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020
Individuals with Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) have a (non-psychotic) longstanding desire to amputate or paralyze one or more fully-functioning limbs, often the legs.
Kayla D. Stone, Clara A. E. Kornblad, Manja M. Engel, H. Chris Dijkerman, Rianne M. Blom, Anouk Keizer   +5 more
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Engineering peptides into antibodies—opportunities and strategies for therapeutic innovation

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Peptides and antibodies occupy complementary therapeutic niches. Peptides recognize difficult targets in a compact format, while antibodies add specificity, long half‐life, and effector functions. This review examines strategies that merge both modalities—peptide grafting into loops, terminal and Fc fusions, and bioconjugation—highlighting how ...
Jinling Wang, Ruslana Romaniuk, Hristo L. Svilenov   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Artificial molecular machines and motors—Design and control of nanoscale motion

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Molecules are constantly moving because of thermal fluctuations, but random motion alone cannot be exploited to perform directional tasks. Artificial molecular machines use chemical, electrical, or light energy to bias this motion. Molecular shuttles, rotary motors, and supramolecular pumps illustrate how nanoscale movement can be controlled and ...
Leonardo Andreoni, Alberto Credi
wiley   +1 more source

Relationships Between Personality Features and the Rubber Hand Illusion: An Exploratory Study

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
The rubber hand illusion paradigm allows investigating human body ownership by inducing an illusion of owning a life-sized fake hand. Despite the wide consensus on the fact that integration of multisensory signals is the main interpretative framework of ...
Dalila Burin, Claudia Pignolo, Francesca Ales, Luciano Giromini, Maria Pyasik, Davide Ghirardello, Alessandro Zennaro, Miriana Angilletta, Laura Castellino, Lorenzo Pia, Lorenzo Pia   +10 more
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Membrane composition and thermodynamic identity as boundaries of life for synthetic cell research

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
What makes a cell a cell? The boundary of a living cell is not just a wall. Read as a Markov blanket, the membrane separates internal from external states, generating identity and non‐equilibrium order. Can this identity be rebuilt from scratch in a synthetic cell?
Caterina Presutti, Bert Poolman
wiley   +1 more source