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An analysis of three multi-cancer cohorts shows that the detection of ctDNA using liquid biopsies has the potential to improve the risk prediction of cancer-associated venous thromboembolism.

The authors timestamp the development of amyloid plaques in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease in order to examine how plaque age affects the surrounding brain tissue. This includes a growing loss of nearby synapses, an increase in toxicity, and an increase in structural aggregation.

Neurons in the rodent dorsomedial prefrontal cortex encode a flexible internal model of emotion by linking directly experienced and inferred associations with aversive experiences.

During chronic but not acute inflammation, chromatin remodelling is influenced by nuclear autophagy through WSTF interaction with ATG8 in the nucleus, leading to WSTF nuclear export and its subsequent degradation.

Global commitments to reducing antimicrobial use in agrifood systems underscore the urgent need to address antimicrobial resistance. Here, the authors project changes in antibiotic use in livestock through 2040, exploring various potential pathways

In a large cohort of patients who underwent non-cardiac surgery, postoperative prescription of oral anticoagulation medication decreased the risk of stroke in patients with postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF), especially for patients deemed to be at high risk for POAF based on a newly developed risk score.

Impaired gut barrier function is a central driver of alcohol-related liver disease. This study indicates that the postbiotic ReFerm® improves gut barrier function and reduce liver stiffness and liver fibrosis, suggesting the gut barrier function as a potential treatment target.

The authors report findings from the MOBILIZE trial, which found that exercise therapy and self-management support improved patient-reported quality of life in individuals with multiple chronic conditions.

Excitatory spiny stellate neurons in the somatosensory cortex are shaped by innervating thalamic inputs and unique expression of genes. Here, the authors show that these neurons play a crucial role in processing distinct whisker signals and forming specialized circuits for sensory perception.

The impact of accident-related release of radionuclides after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in 2011 was minor and relatively short-lived compared with that of natural background levels, when seafood restrictions were taken into account, according to an assessment of seafood ingestion in adults in Tohoku region of Northeast Japan.

Alzheimer’s disease is heterogeneous in its neuroimaging and clinical phenotypes. Here the authors present a semi-supervised deep learning method, Smile-GAN, to show four neurodegenerative patterns and two progression pathways providing prognostic and clinical information.

A set of neurons in the peri-locus coeruleus region controls arousal and avoidance states, providing an understanding of the neurobiological basis of arousal and exploratory behaviours.

During starvation, muscle strength and endurance, are still critical for survival. Seven days of complete fasting did not reduce maximal strength in leg muscles, but maximal endurance capacity was decreased because carbohydrate oxidation was restrained.

In this study, the authors characterise post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC) in two large cohorts based on electronic health records from the USA. They identify a broad range of PASC-related conditions which were only partially replicated across the two cohorts, indicating possible heterogeneity between populations.

NMDA receptors are glutamate-gated ion channels that regulate fast signaling in the brain. Here, the authors show that the opening and closing patterns of the channel derive from the action of two gates that are regulated by distinct subunits.

Regulated subcellular localization changes control protein function. Here, the authors provide a seamless spatial proteomics pipeline for mapping whole-cell protein localization dynamics, which includes a scalable workflow and a software suite for automated data analysis and visualization.

TANK-binding kinase-1 (TBK1) and its homologue IκB kinase-ε (IKKε) are critical in the induction of the interferon response and the response to infection by pathogens. Here the authors show that pharmacological targeting of TBK1 AND IKKε reduces the immunopathology seen in a murine model of SARS-COV-2 infection.

The affected cellular populations during Alzheimer’s disease progression remain understudied. Here the authors use a cohort of 84 donors, quantitative neuropathology and multimodal datasets from the BRAIN Initiative. Their pseudoprogression analysis revealed two disease phases.

Haue, Holm et al. use unsupervised clustering to subgroup a large set of ischemic heart disease patients from their pre-existing diseases, covering the entire multimorbidity spectrum. They identify subgroups that have different risk profiles and are characterized by different patterns when looking at patient blood tests and genetic profiles.

Nitrogen depletion in the ocean provides a favourable niche for nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria, which can form symbioses with eukaryotic algae. This study reports the discovery of two distinct marine pennate diatom–diazotroph symbioses, which had previously only been observed in freshwater environments and represent an overlooked but widespread source of bioavailable nitrogen in marine habitats.

Timothy Frayling, Joel Hirschhorn, Peter Visscher and colleagues report a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for adult height in 253,288 individuals. They identify 697 variants in 423 loci significantly associated with adult height and find that these variants cluster in pathways involved in growth and together explain one-fifth of the heritability for this trait.

Combining brain imaging, genetics and behavioral data, this study shows that distinct brainwide distributions of serotonin receptors explain the known division of serotonin effects on human impulsivity and aversive processing.

The chromosomal kinase JIL-1 is responsible for interphase histone H3S10 phosphorylation and has been proposed to protect active chromatin from heterochromatinisation. Here, the authors show that JIL-1 is stabilized and anchored to active genes and telomeric transposons by JASPer, which binds to H3K36me3 nucleosomes via its PWWP domain.

A trapped-ion quantum processor is used to create ground-states and excitations of non-Abelian topological order on a kagome lattice of 27 qubits with high fidelity.

In lung cancer, relatively few germline mutations are known to impact risk. Here the authors looked at rare variants in 39,146 individuals and find novel germline mutations associated with risk, as well as implicating ATM and a new candidate gene for lung cancer risk.

Current vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 reduce mortality but are less effective in preventing infection. Here the authors show that intranasal vaccination with a subunit vaccine including an TLR2-stimulating adjuvant induces strong neutralising antibody and T-cell responses against SARS-CoV-2 in the lungs that protect against infection.