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scBaseCount: An AI agent-curated, standardized, auto-updated single-cell data repository

scBaseCount is presently the largest public single-cell RNA-seq repository, containing over 502 million cells across 27 organisms and 75 tissues. An AI agent autonomously discovers, annotates, and uniformly reprocesses all 10× Genomics datasets in the SRA, creating a harmonized, continually updated resource for studying the diversity of cell biology and training AI models.

An open benchmark and language models for AI in aging biology

LongevityBench, Longevity-LLMs, and Longevity Claw evaluate the readiness of the state-of-the-art AI systems for spearheading aging research.

4D spatiotemporal landscape of mitochondrial phenotypes across cellular states unlocked through representation learning

Agarwal et al. introduce MitoSpace, a self-supervised model trained on 4D lattice light-sheet microscopy data. The model resolves drug-induced mitochondrial phenotypes without labels, predicts membrane potential from morphology and dynamics, generalizes to unseen perturbations and lung organoids, and shows that representation quality improves progressively from 2D to 4D.

Predicting cellular responses to perturbation across diverse contexts with State

Modeling perturbation effects across large single-cell populations requires flexibility to capture heterogeneity. By training over sets of cells in a shared embedding space, State outperforms baselines at generalizing effects to new contexts. Cell-Eval, the framework used for this comparison, provides a comprehensive benchmark for future models.

Fifteen challenges for generative AI applications to cell biology

Drawing inspiration from Hilbert’s list of 23 mathematical problems that have focused the mathematical community’s attention for more than a century, we propose fifteen grand AI challenges to focus the biomedical community’s attention on critically relevant questions, most of which still lack effective predictive methodologies.

Dietary arginine drives codon-dependent MHC class I translation and improves immunity in colon tumorigenesis and respiratory viral infection

Arginine availability regulates arginyl tRNA levels and codon-dependent translation of MHC class I, tuning antigen presentation and shaping anti-viral and anti-tumor immunity.

Spatial proximity sequencing maps developmental dynamics in the germinal center

Sprox-seq enables spatial profiling of protein complexes, surface proteins, and mRNAs in intact tissues by combining proximity ligation with spatial transcriptomics. In human tonsils, Sprox-seq maps germinal center interaction networks, links CD21-CD35 complexes to proliferative programs, reveals interaction-based B cell state transitions, and directly captures B cell-follicular dendritic cell communication.

The regulatory logic linking inflammation and fibrosis

3 September 2026 at 08:00
Fibrosis is a major contributor to disease and mortality yet lacks effective therapies. This review proposes that fibrotic states are maintained by chromatin-regulated circuits in fibroblasts and macrophages shaped by immune-stromal crosstalk and that rewiring this upstream regulatory logic offers a path beyond current antifibrotic approaches.

Sexual dimorphism in the complete Drosophila male central nervous system connectome

The Drosophila whole male central nervous system connectome enables end-to-end analysis of sensorimotor circuits. Comparison with existing female datasets shows that brain-wide wiring differences between the sexes are concentrated in higher centers.

Localized PD-1 CAR T therapy reprograms neuroinflammation

PD-1+ T follicular helper-like cells drive B cell-associated pathology in multiple sclerosis. Programmable PD-1-targeting CAR T cells selectively eliminate these pathogenic CD4 T cells while delivering IL-10 at sites of inflammation, thereby suppressing neuroinflammation across preclinical models.

A bivalent molecular glue linking lysine acetyltransferases to oncogene-induced cell death

Chemically induced proximity of lysine acetyltransferases (KATs) with BCL6 reprograms epigenetic signaling to eliminate lymphoma tumors. Structural and mechanistic studies demonstrate that fortuitous protein-protein contacts convert proximity induction into targeted changes in chromatin, revealing a key mechanism by which small molecules can co-opt oncogenic transcriptional regulators to elicit malignant cell death.

A comparison of deep multiomics profiles across ethnicity, geography, and age

Multiomics profiling of healthy individuals reveals differences across molecular layers and key pathways related to immune, metabolic, and microbiome-linked processes across ethnicities, while geographic relocation reshapes these networks and influences aging trajectories.

Fronto-insular circuit mechanisms of accelerated intermittent theta burst stimulation

An optogenetic model of accelerated intermittent theta burst stimulation reveals cell type-specific plasticity mechanisms and a key role for a fronto-insular circuit in driving the antidepressant effects of this treatment in humans.

Oncogenic and tumor-suppressive forces converge on a progenitor niche at the benign-to-malignant transition

Opposing oncogenic and tumor-suppressive forces establish a progenitor-like state that builds a self-reinforcing niche to drive benign-to-malignant transition in pancreatic cancer models. Disruption of p53 activity or KRAS inhibits malignancy by collapsing the niche.

Phages communicate across species to shape microbial ecosystems

Gallego-del-Sol et al. show that arbitrium-coding phages can sense non-cognate peptide signals from other phages to regulate lysis-lysogeny decisions. This crosstalk affects lysis-lysogeny outcomes of phage infections, mixed lysogenic communities, and polylysogens. Our results demonstrate that crosstalk is an important mechanism that drives phage interactions in microbial communities.

Pan-neurodegeneration proteomics reveals disease subtypes and molecular signatures

A pan-neurodegeneration atlas built from multilayer, deep proteomics of 2,279 brain samples across 6 major diseases integrates whole proteome, detergent-insoluble proteome, and posttranslational modifications to enable intra- and inter-disease comparisons to reveal disease-specific subtypes and dysregulated pathways, while identifying shared changes such as GPNMB upregulation and NPTX2 downregulation.

Controlled human influenza infection reveals heterogeneous expulsion of infectious virus into air

A platform called MIST enables quantification and genotyping of infectious influenza in expelled respiratory particles, revealing diverse, individual-specific viral loads and aerosolized variants that correlate with saliva and nasopharyngeal viral loads and symptoms. Overall, the findings indicate heterogeneity in transmission potential.
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