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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The regulatory logic linking inflammation and fibrosis

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Disrupted molecular glue complex drives RAS inhibitor resistance

Cancers evade RAS-targeting molecular glues through distinct alterations that converge on disrupting synthetic complex formation, exposing strategies for improved drug design and rational combination therapy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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