Revealing Gene Expression Patterns Associated with Synaptic Density Network Dysfunction in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Background Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE) is the most common form of focal epilepsy, and its pathological features and mechanisms have long drawn extensive attention in the field of neuroscience. This disorder involves not only a single b...
REF-1 Overexpression in Neovascular Eye Diseases and Therapeutic Targeting with a Novel Inhibitor Academic Background Neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) is a common blinding eye disease predominantly affecting individuals aged 60 years and older. nAMD is characterized by the formation of subretinal neovascularization, leading to re...
Demonstration of Femtosecond Laser Induced Refractive Index Change in Silk-Fibroin Hydrogels: A New Hope for Future Ophthalmic Biocompatible Implants In today’s era of advanced biotechnology and rapid developments in the biomedical field, refractive correction techniques have become a global research hotspot in ophthalmology. However, current corre...
A New Chapter in the Molecular Understanding of the Human Placenta: Breakthroughs in Spatial Multiomics Background and Research Questions The placenta is the first fetal organ to develop during human pregnancy and plays a critical role in ensuring successful gestation and healthy fetal development. Despite its importance, our understanding of the m...
A New Method for Scalable Spatial Transcriptomics via Large-Format Microarrays: The Birth of Array-Seq Technology Background and Research Motivation In recent years, spatiomolecular analyses have become pivotal tools in biomedical research and clinical pathology due to their ability to study how the spatial organization of cells and molecules withi...
A New Platform for Efficient Signal Amplification of Nucleic Acid Targets in Tissue and Clinical Research: PSABER Background and Related Knowledge Since its first introduction by Pardue and Gall in the 1960s, in situ hybridization (ISH) has been widely adopted in research and clinical applications for its ability to spatially map nucleic acid targe...
Single-Molecule Dynamic Structural Biology: Breakthrough in Observing DNA-Protein Interactions Using Graphene Background Introduction The intricate and precise interactions between DNA and proteins play a crucial role in fundamental biological functions such as DNA replication, transcription, and repair. However, observing these interaction process...
Extreme Compression and Reconstruction of Protein Sequence Space: A Breakthrough Study on EvoAI Background Protein design and optimization have become central challenges in fields like biotechnology, medicine, and synthetic biology. The functions of proteins are determined by their sequences and structures, but this functional sequence space is hig...
Exploration of Gene Set Function Discovery Using Large Language Models: GPT-4 Excels Academic Background In functional genomics, gene set enrichment analysis is a critical methodology for understanding gene functions and their associated biological processes. However, existing enrichment analyses rely heavily on curated gene function databases, suc...
Overcoming the Preferred-Orientation Problem in Single-Particle Cryo-EM: An Innovative Solution through Deep Learning Background Introduction In recent years, single-particle cryogenic electron microscopy (Single-Particle Cryo-EM) has become a core technique in structural biology due to its ability to resolve the atomic-resolution structures of bio...