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Structured preliminary reviews of recent open-access papers, generated and continuously updated by the Evolve analysis engine. Each review condenses what the paper claims, how solid the evidence is, and the questions a rigorous peer reviewer would ask — English analysis with abstracts in your language. These are independent AI analyses, not peer review; the canonical record always lives at the publisher.
Building dynamical models of multi-step state transitions from single cell gene expression trajectories
You, Y., Caranica, C., Dai, G., Lu, M.
NetDes infers ODE TF-network models from scRNA-seq trajectories; benchmarks strong and code available, but prior-network circularity tempers claimed advantage.
Effects of different slow paced breathing regimes on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) oscillations
Nasseri, P., Banks, M., Li, A. Y., Lewis, L. D. et al.
Claims infraslow paced sighing (0.02-0.03 Hz) strengthens CSF-BOLD coupling in waking humans; well-powered, but sigh-vs-frequency confound and motion limits.
Cellular source and circuit context organize functional specificity in the Drosophila NPF system
Endres, M. N., Dadyala, T. S., Christie, K. W., Sinakevitch, I. T. et al.
Connectome-defined Drosophila NPF cell types drive distinct, sometimes opposing behaviors; sound, but key claims lack female-only testing and effect sizes.
Molecular identification of wide-field amacrine cells in mouse retina that encode stimulus orientation
Park, S. J., Lei, W., Pisano, J., Orpia, A. et al.
Genetically identifies orientation-tuned wide-field amacrine cells; strong multimodal but correlational evidence; heterogeneity and causal gaps remain.
Patient-derived monoclonal anti-HPA-1a can induce platelet activation through FcγRIIa
Oosterhoff, J. J., van Brummelen, S. R., Giulini, M., De Cuyper, I. M. et al.
Claims M-204 anti-HPA-1a mAb aggregates platelets via bivalent binding and FcγRIIa; convincing fragment controls but n=2–3 donors and indirect mechanism.
Phosphoproteome modifications and cortical circuit dysfunction are linked to the early-stage progression of alpha-synuclein aggregation.
Dutta, S., Hensel, J., Scott, A., Mohallem, R. et al.
Multi-omics study claims aSyn PFF seeding drives cortical phosphoproteomic change and circuit dysfunction with novel pERK+GVB-like structures; credible but underpowered validation, permissive q<0.1 and male-only cohorts temper it.
Investigating the role of the hippocampus in the implicit and explicit expression of statistical learning in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy
Cordeiro, E., Herrera-Chaves, D., Talaei, N., Castro, I. et al.
TLE study: implicit SL intact, explicit impaired — hippocampus needed only for explicit expression; confounds (education, bedside testing) temper causality.
Universal donor plasmids for biallelic degron-tagging in mammalian cells and organoids
Pohl, S. O., Hernandez-Moran, B. A., Guzman Cardoso, C., Giller, A. et al.
Universal CRISPaint donors enable biallelic degron tagging in cells and organoids; useful method advance, though only few loci validated and stats are thin.
Sequential sampling from memory underlies perceptual decisions unyoked from actions
Sharma, P., Shadlen, M., Shushruth, S.
Like macaques, humans postpone direction decisions until targets appear; diffusion fits support sampling from memory, though only six subjects were tested.
Coupling cell growth to protein secretion enables pooled screening at single-cell resolution in bioreactors
Galez, H., Franja Da Silva, A., Capela, C., Napolitano, S. et al.
A growth-secretion coupling biosensor enables bioreactor pooled screening; proof-of-concept convincing, but readout is periplasmic POI, not secreted amount.
KSTAR v1.2: A faster and more and accessible KSTAR for kinase activity inference
Crowl, S., Custer, J.-L., Salazar Lopez, G., Lei-Dadey, C. et al.
KSTAR v1.2 replaces per-experiment nulls with pregenerated ones, cutting runtime and memory massively with claimed unchanged accuracy; evidence is thin but credible.
Tractography from Serial Optical Coherence Tomography: How and Why?
Poirier, C., Petit, L., Lefebvre, J., Descoteaux, M.
Promising S-OCT μODF tractography at 10 μm in mouse brain, but the headline PFT-vs-baseline comparison is confounded by ground-truth-derived tracking maps.
Pareto Suboptimal Resource Allocation and Microbial Growth
Baldazzi, V., Mairet, F., Gedeon, T., de Jong, H.
Pareto-suboptimal phenotypes can arise from many allocation strategies; theory + E. coli model support it, but biomass evidence is inferred, not measured.
Unlocking Sensitive Data with SPHERE in the Age of AI
He, Z., Park, J., Pulgrossi, R. C., Lee, J. et al.
SPHERE claims exact-moment synthetic twins with strong privacy and AI-agent utility; algorithm secrecy and non-standard privacy framework limit verification.
Attachment site, not linker length, bounds tethered base editor windows
Mahaboob Ali, A. A., Nelson, E. J. R.
Geometric model argues attachment site, not linker length, bounds editor windows; elegant, unusually honest, but unvalidated and fails on Cas12a.
Locat: Joint enrichment and depletion testing identifies localized marker genes in single-cell transcriptomics
Lewis, W. R., Aizenbud, Y., Strino, F., Kluger, Y. et al.
Locat joint-tests expression concentration and depletion for specific cell markers; sound statistics and public code, but validation metrics are self-defined.
Gelato streamlines reproducible and auditable assembly of Western blot figures
Pirozhkova, M. A., Babitz, E., Benhalevy, D.
Presents Gelato, an open-source Fiji plugin logging Western blot figure assembly for audit; promising tool, but claims lack empirical evaluation.
Guard cell size and initial conductance influence stomatal closure kinetics
Muir, C. D., Lim, W. S.
Wild tomato study: smaller guard cells and lower initial conductance speed stomatal closure; rigorous, transparent, but HARKed f_gmax claim needs replication.
Development of a Wearable Sensor-PAM for Continuous Monitoring of Photosynthetic Dynamics
Miyamoto, K.-i., Ifuku, K., Yoshinobu, T., Kohzuma, K.
A $30 wearable PAM fluorometer tracks leaf Y(II) for days; validation vs a commercial unit is convincing, but statistics are thin and data stay confidential.
Local interaction networks reconstructed from global biodiversity data improve pollinator restoration decision making
Baiotto, T., Cosma, C., Cheung, Y. Y. J., Narango, D. et al.
NECTAR infers statewide plant-pollinator networks from global biodiversity data for restoration; strong validation of visitation links, host links untested.
Predictive control of human pancreatic cell fate using a digital model of in vitro differentiation
Sanchez-Castro, E. E., Ishahak, M., Le, T., Maestas, M. M. et al.
Digital model of 400,603-cell SC-islet differentiation nominates STAT1/ZEB1 fate regulators, validated in vitro; strong resource, thin statistics.
Discovery of broad-spectrum bacterial polyamine detoxification inhibitors as potential antivirulence agents and antibiotic adjuvants
Moulding, P. B., Flannagan, R. S., Wong, J., Martin-Camara, O. et al.
biorxiv: screen yields spermine-synergizing inhibitors via SSAT SpeG/PaiASa; broad activity but potency-gap and SAT1/hemolysis limits mean leads need more work
Rhomboid protease Rhbdl2 regulates macrophage recruitment and wound regeneration in zebrafish
Gourkanti, S., Ramakrishnan, G., Cheung, J., Schoen, T. J. et al.
This zebrafish study claims Rhbdl2 brakes macrophage-driven wound repair; KO+inhibitor data are solid, but the Rac2 mechanism rests on proteomics+MO.
Waking the sleepers: lincRNA overexpression compromises DHX36 activity and global protein synthesis
Pasieka, R., Plewka, P., Vitale, E., Kapuscinska, I. et al.
Proposes a lncRNA cascade (ARRDC4-1→ADCYAP1-2→DHX36) cutting protein synthesis ~50%; broad multi-omics support, but key mechanistic links remain correlative.