Subthreshold intracortical microstimulation of human somatosensory cortex enhances tactile sensitivity by Luke E. Osborn, Breanne Christie, David P. McMullen, Victoria Arriola, Tessy M. Thomas, Ambarish S. Pawar, Robert W. Nickl, Manuel A. Anaya, Brock A. Wester, Charles M. Greenspon, Gabriela L. Cantarero, Pablo A. Celnik, Sliman J. Bensmaia, Jeffrey M. Yau, Matthew S. Fifer, Francesco V. Tenore

“…Results: We found that subthreshold ICMS enhanced sensitivity to touch on the skin, as evidenced by a reduction in vibrotactile detection thresholds (median: 1.5 dB), but subthreshold vibration did not systematically impact the detectability of ICMS. …”
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Adaptive immune changes in colorectal cancer: a focus on T and B cell activation genes by Mona Rady, Albert Ashraf, Hesham Abdelaziz, Mohamed El-Azizi

“…A panel of 84 genes involved in T and B cell activation was analyzed to assess changes in expression using RT2 QPCR arrays. Additionally, we measured serum levels of the four IgG subclasses (IgG1, IgG2, IgG3, and IgG4) in CRC patients to explore possible alterations in humoral immunity. …”
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Fine mapping genetic variants affecting birth weight in sheep: a GWAS of 3007 individuals using low-coverage whole genome sequencing by Ran Li, Yuheng Bai, Maqiang Zhao, Xinyue Zhang, Haiyan Wang, Bo Feng, Shuo Zhang, Huanhuan Zhang, Gang Ren, Xihong Wang, Yu Jiang

“…However, its genetic architecture remains poorly understood due to historical limitations in sample size and reliance on low-density SNP arrays. In this study, we utilized low-coverage whole-genome sequencing (lcWGS) to genotype 3,007 Hu sheep, bypassing the cost and resolution constraints of conventional genotyping arrays while achieving scalable genome-wide variant detection. …”
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The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO). X. Dust Substructures, Disk Geometries, and Dust-disk Radii by Miguel Vioque, Nicolás T. Kurtovic, Leon Trapman, Anibal Sierra, Laura M. Pérez, Ke Zhang, Pietro Curone, Giovanni P. Rosotti, John Carpenter, Benoît Tabone, Paola Pinilla, Dingshan Deng, Ilaria Pascucci, James Miley, Carolina Agurto-Gangas, Lucas A. Cieza, Rossella Anania, Dary A. Ruiz-Rodriguez, Camilo González-Ruilova, Estephani E. TorresVillanueva, Aleksandra Kuznetsova

“…We perform visibility fitting to the dust continuum Band 6 1.3 mm data of the 30 protoplanetary disks in the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO) Large Program. …”
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The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO). III. Dust and Gas Disk Properties in the Lupus Star-forming Region by Dingshan Deng, Miguel Vioque, Ilaria Pascucci, Laura M. Pérez, Ke Zhang, Nicolás Kurtovic, Leon Trapman, Estephani E. TorresVillanueva, Carolina Agurto-Gangas, John Carpenter, Paola Pinilla, Uma Gorti, Benoît Tabone, Anibal Sierra, Giovanni P. Rosotti, Lucas A. Cieza, Rossella Anania, Camilo González-Ruilova, Michiel R. Hogerheijde, James Miley, Dary A. Ruiz-Rodriguez, Maxime Ruaud, Kamber Schwarz

“…All of our sources are detected in ^12 CO and ^13 CO; seven out of ten are detected in C ^18 O; and three are detected in N _2 H ^+ . …”
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Timing and Spectral Evolution of the Magnetar 1E 1841-045 in Outburst by George Younes, Samuel K. Lander, Matthew G. Baring, Marlon L. Bause, Rachael Stewart, Zaven Arzoumanian, Hoa Dinh Thi, Teruaki Enoto, Keith C. Gendreau, Tolga Güver, Alice K. Harding, Wynn C. G. Ho, Chin-Ping Hu, Alex Van Kooten, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Niccolò Di Lalla, Alexander McEwen, Michela Negro, Mason Ng, David M. Palmer, Laura G. Spitler, Zorawar Wadiasingh

“…We present timing and spectral analyses of Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), and IXPE observations of the magnetar 1E 1841−045 covering 82 days following its 2024 August bursting activity as well as radio observations utilizing MeerKAT and Effelsberg. …”
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Autoantibody against UBE2E3 is a common biomarker for atherosclerotic diseases and digestive tract cancer by Takaki Hiwasa, Yoichi Yoshida, Masaaki Kubota, Bo-Shi Zhang, Shu-Yang Li, Tomoo Matsutani, Seiichiro Hirono, Minoru Takemoto, Katsuro Iwase, Seiichiro Mine, Toshio Machida, Yoshio Kobayashi, Hirotaka Takizawa, Masaaki Ito, Satoshi Yajima, Hideaki Shimada, Koutaro Yokote, Yoshinori Higuchi

“…Therefore, identifying novel autoantibody biomarkers associated with atherosclerosis-related conditions is crucial for improving early diagnosis and risk assessment. Methods: We used an array of 9,480 proteins to detect IgG antibodies in the serum of patients with atherosclerosis. …”
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Radio Afterglows from Tidal Disruption Events: An Unbiased Sample from ASKAP RACS by Akash Anumarlapudi, Dougal Dobie, David L. Kaplan, Tara Murphy, Assaf Horesh, Emil Lenc, Laura Driessen, Stefan W. Duchesne, Hannah Dykaar, B. M. Gaensler, Timothy J. Galvin, Joe Grundy, George Heald, Aidan W. Hotan, Minh Huynh, James K. Leung, David McConnell, Vanessa A. Moss, Joshua Pritchard, Wasim Raja, Kovi Rose, Gregory Sivakoff, Yuanming Wang, Ziteng Wang, Mark H. Wieringa, Matthew T. Whiting

“…Using all-sky multiepoch data from the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), taken as a part of the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS), we searched for radio counterparts to a sample of optically discovered TDEs. …”
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Long-wavelength VCSELs with buried tunnel junction: design optimization by Andrey V Babichev, Yakov N Kovach, Sergey A Blokhin, Leonid Ya Karachinsky, Innokenty I Novikov, Anton Yu Egorov, Si-Cong Tian, Dieter Bimberg

“…A modified SC design was also used for 2D VCSEL arrays applied as a short wave infrared illuminator. …”
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A portable biosensor for simultaneous diagnosis of TNF-<i>α</i> and IL-1<i>β</i> in saliva biomarkers using twin electronic devices by M. Monajjemi, F. Mollaamin, M. Dehghandar, S. Shahriari, P. Latifi, S. Mohammadi

“…In this research, we present a sensor platform model that can enable one to detect biomarkers quickly; specifically, this platform can be used to detect TNF-<span class="inline-formula"><i>α</i></span> and IL-1<span class="inline-formula"><i>β</i></span> in saliva. …”
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Serum profiling of the antibody response to HPV in women with or without abnormal cervical cytology undergoing cervical cancer screening by Radwa Ewaisha, Mack T. Ruffin, Stacy Williams, Yunro Chung, Yunro Chung, Cecilia R. DeGraffinreid, Electra D. Paskett, Electra D. Paskett, Paul L. Reiter, Ji Qiu, Dean E. Brenner, Karen S. Anderson

“…This study aimed to profile the humoral immune response to the proteomes of 12 HPV types in women with or without abnormal cervical cytology undergoing cervical cancer screening.MethodsTo detect serum antibodies (Abs) against HPV, we developed custom HPV high-density diffusion-free nucleic acid programmable protein arrays (HD-NAPPA) displaying the proteomes of 2 low-risk (HPV6 and 11) and 10 high-risk (HR) HPV types (HPV16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52 and 58). …”
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X-Ray and Optical Polarization Aligned with the Radio Jet Ejecta in GX 339–4 by G. Mastroserio, B. De Marco, M. C. Baglio, F. Carotenuto, S. Fabiani, T. D. Russell, F. Capitanio, Y. Cavecchi, S. Motta, D. M. Russell, M. Dovčiak, M. Del Santo, K. Alabarta, A. Ambrifi, S. Campana, P. Casella, S. Covino, G. Illiano, E. Kara, E. V. Lai, G. Lodato, A. Manca, I. Mariani, A. Marino, C. Miceli, P. Saikia, A. W. Shaw, J. Svoboda, F. M. Vincentelli, J. Wang

“…We also detect a discrete jet knot from radio observations with the Australia Telescope Compact Array taken later in time; this knot would have been ejected from the system around the same time as the hard-to-soft X-ray state transition, and a bright radio flare occurred ∼3 months earlier. …”
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Design and Implementation of a Low-Power Biopotential Amplifier in 28 nm CMOS Technology with a Compact Die-Area of 2500 μm² and an Ultra-High Input Impedance by Esmaeil Ranjbar Koleibi, William Lemaire, Konin Koua, Maher Benhouria, Reza Bostani, Mahziar Serri Mazandarani, Luis-Philip Gauthier, Marwan Besrour, Jérémy Ménard, Mahdi Majdoub, Benoit Gosselin, Sébastien Roy, Réjean Fontaine

“…Neural signal recording demands compact, low-power, high-performance amplifiers, to enable large-scale, multi-channel electrode arrays. This work presents a bioamplifier optimized for action potential detection, designed using TSMC 28 nm HPC CMOS technology. …”
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The ALMA-CRISTAL Survey: Weak Evidence for Star-formation-driven Outflows in z ∼ 5 Main-sequence Galaxies by Jack E. Birkin, Justin S. Spilker, Rodrigo Herrera-Camus, Rebecca L. Davies, Lilian L. Lee, Manuel Aravena, Roberto J. Assef, Loreto Barcos-Muñoz, Alberto Bolatto, Tanio Diaz-Santos, Andreas L. Faisst, Andrea Ferrara, Deanne B. Fisher, Jorge González-López, Ryota Ikeda, Kirsten Knudsen, Juno Li, Yuan Li, Ilse de Looze, Dieter Lutz, Ikki Mitsuhashi, Ana Posses, Monica Relaño, Manuel Solimano, Ken-ichi Tadaki, Vicente Villanueva

“…To this end, we utilize deep, high-resolution [C II ] emission-line data taken as part of the [C II ] resolved interstellar medium (ISM) in star-forming galaxies with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (CRISTAL) survey. Excluding sources with kinematic evidence for gravitational interactions, we perform a rigorous stacking analysis of the remaining 15 galaxies to search for broad emission features that are too weak to detect in the individual spectra, finding only weak evidence that a broad component is needed to explain the composite spectrum. …”
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Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). XXI. Limited Role of Streamers in Mass Supply to the Disk in the Class 0 Protostar IRAS 16544-1604 by Miyu Kido, Hsi-Wei Yen, Jinshi Sai, Shigehisa Takakuwa, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Yuri Aikawa, Yusuke Aso, Christian Flores, Ilseung Han, Patrick M. Koch, Woojin Kwon, Jeong-Eun Lee, Zhi-Yun Li, Leslie W. Looney, Mayank Narang, Kazuya Saigo, Rajeeb Sharma, Travis J. Thieme, Kengo Tomida, Jonathan P. Williams

“…By combining data from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) and Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), we investigate the physical properties of the streamers and parental dense core in the Class 0 protostar, IRAS 16544–1604. …”
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Monitoring Livestock Health by Modeling Rumination Behavior According to Accelerometer-Based Information by E. Vahedi Tekmehdash, H. Navid, H. Ghasemzadeh, H. Karimi, M. Javani Holan

“…Finally, the performance of the final model and sensor was evaluated in the field for a few days.Results and DiscussionAfter calculating the evaluation criteria for different calculation factors, four optimal factors were finally selected from the 50 arrays. Muzzle mode was found to be the best place to install the sensor. …”
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Ultrasensitive bionic photonic-electronic skin with wide red-shift mechanochromic response by Tianqi Wang, Lei Chen, Haogeng Liu, Haoran Zhu, Zijie Zeng, Yixin Lu, Ping Zhang, Yaofei Chen, Yue Huang, Gui-Shi Liu, Yunhan Luo, Zhe Chen

“…The PC layer containing in-plane-spaced and interplane-packed nanoparticle arrays was fabricated via a fast, facile, combined method of “Marangoni self-assembly”, “plasma etching”, and “adhesive PDMS transfer”. …”
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ALESS-JWST: Joint (Sub)kiloparsec JWST and ALMA Imaging of z ~ 3 Submillimeter Galaxies Reveals Heavily Obscured Bulge Formation Events by J. A. Hodge, E. da Cunha, S. Kendrew, J. Li, I. Smail, B. A. Westoby, O. Nayak, A. M. Swinbank, C.-C. Chen, F. Walter, P. van der Werf, M. Cracraft, A. Battisti, W. N. Brandt, G. Calistro Rivera, S. C. Chapman, P. Cox, H. Dannerbauer, R. Decarli, M. Frias Castillo, T. R. Greve, K. K. Knudsen, S. Leslie, K. M. Menten, M. Rybak, E. Schinnerer, J. L. Wardlow, A. Weiss

“…\limits^{^{\prime\prime} }$ 16) Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array 870 μ m imaging. The 2.0–4.4 μ m (observed frame) NIRCam imaging reveals the rest-frame near-infrared stellar emission in these submillimeter-selected galaxies at the same (sub)kiloparsec resolution as the 870 μ m dust continuum. …”
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UNCOVER: Candidate Red Active Galactic Nuclei at 3 < z < 7 with JWST and ALMA by Ivo Labbe, Jenny E. Greene, Rachel Bezanson, Seiji Fujimoto, Lukas J. Furtak, Andy D. Goulding, Jorryt Matthee, Rohan P. Naidu, Pascal A. Oesch, Hakim Atek, Gabriel Brammer, Iryna Chemerynska, Dan Coe, Sam E. Cutler, Pratika Dayal, Robert Feldmann, Marijn Franx, Karl Glazebrook, Joel Leja, Michael Maseda, Danilo Marchesini, Themiya Nanayakkara, Erica J. Nelson, Richard Pan, Casey Papovich, Sedona H. Price, Katherine A. Suess, Bingjie Wang, John R. Weaver, Katherine E. Whitaker, Christina C. Williams, Adi Zitrin

“…Of the 20 sources with deep Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) 1.2 mm coverage, none are detected individually or in a stack. …”
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GOALS-JWST: The Warm Molecular Outflows of the Merging Starburst Galaxy NGC 3256 by Thomas Bohn, Hanae Inami, Aditya Togi, Lee Armus, Thomas S.-Y. Lai, Loreto Barcos-Munoz, Yiqing Song, S. T. Linden, Jason Surace, Marina Bianchin, Vivian U, Aaron S. Evans, Torsten Böker, Matthew A. Malkan, Kirsten L. Larson, Sabrina Stierwalt, Victorine A. Buiten, Vassilis Charmandaris, Tanio Diaz-Santos, Justin H. Howell, George C. Privon, Claudio Ricci, Paul P. van der Werf, Susanne Aalto, Christopher C. Hayward, Justin A. Kader, Joseph M. Mazzarella, Francisco Muller-Sanchez, David B. Sanders

“…The gas mass of the warm H _2 outflow component is estimated to be M _warm _,out = (1.4 ± 0.2) × 10 ^6 M _⊙ , as much as 6% of the cold H _2 mass estimated using Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array CO data. The outflow timescale is about 7 × 10 ^5 yr, resulting in a mass outflow rate ${\dot{M}}_{\mathrm{warm},\mathrm{out}}=2.0\pm 0.8\,{M}_{\odot }\,{\mathrm{yr}}^{-1}$ and kinetic power P _warm,out ∼ 4 × 10 ^41 erg s ^−1 . …”
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