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Potent type-specific de novo antibodies complement broadly reactive imprinted antibodies in immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 variants

Abstract For rapidly mutating viruses such as influenza viruses and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), immune memory recalled by antigenically drifted variants primarily comprises antibodies that cross-react to the priming strain rather than de novo eli...

Twenty years of the EPINET database

Abstract The EPINET project (Euclidean Patterns In Non-Euclidean Tilings) catalogues crystalline frameworks (three-periodic nets) generated from tilings of triply periodic minimal surfaces. These nets have a broad distribution of structural motifs that are of potential interest t...

Interpreting exploratory immune signals and parent‐reported outcomes after labour epidural analgesia

The prospective BASIC/U-BIRTH analysis by Asif et al. followed 1962 mother–child dyads and showed that the crude 18-month Child Behaviour Checklist differences associated with labour epidural analgesia were not sustained after confounder adjustment or at 6- and 11-year follow-up...

The chiral gyrating H’-T surface family: construction from the dual qtz – qzd nets and existence proof using a toroidal Weierstrass method

Abstract This paper provides an existence proof for a one-parameter family of chiral unbalanced triply periodic minimal surfaces of genus four. We name these gyrating H’-T surfaces because they are related to Schoen’s H’-T surfaces in a similar way as the gyroid is to the primiti...

Hexagulation numbers: symmetry breaking on the gyroid surface

Abstract The regular arrangements of identical spheres on the gyroid surface have been investigated using Monte Carlo simulations of hard spheres undergoing the Alder transition. In our preceding study, we showed that these regular structures on saddle-shaped triply periodic mini...

Formation of a silica scaffold with a hyperbolic surface structure as a time-frozen glimpse by ultraviolet curing

Abstract Triply periodic hyperbolic surfaces have been extensively investigated in various natural and artificial self-assembled systems and have attracted great attention because of their complexity and geometrical beauty. However, understanding their formation during bottom-up...

Sugammadex and postoperative pulmonary complications after upper gastrointestinal endoscopy

Tsai et al. report that sugammadex use was associated with fewer postoperative pulmonary complications than neostigmine following upper gastrointestinal endoscopy [1]. These findings contribute to the growing body of evidence supporting the respiratory benefits of sugammadex comp...

Gravity Wave Energy Baselines (∼30–110 km) Established From Lidar Observations at McMurdo (77.84°S, 166.67°E), Antarctica: Energy Dissipation and Constituent Diffusion

Abstract Lidar observations above McMurdo, Antarctica from 2011 to 2024 are used to characterize gravity wave (GWs) potential energies () in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT). Alongside characterizations in the middle atmosphere (30–70 km), the GW baselines show dissipa...

Trace Elements in Total Atmospheric Deposition Directly Measured Over the Caribbean Region: Natural Versus Anthropogenic Sources and Geographic Origin

Abstract Dust, sea salt, and anthropogenic and biogenic particles in total atmospheric deposition are sources of essential elements that can significantly impact biogeochemical cycles in the Atlantic Ocean and in islands of the Caribbean region. This unique 41‐month data set reco...

Structure and Dynamicsof the HIV-1 EnvelopeProtein on the Virion Envelope

HIV-1 buds from infected cells as immature virion particles with a scattered envelope glycoprotein (Env) distribution on their envelope. It then undergoes maturation, during which the viral protease cleaves the Gag polyprotein at multiple sites, leading to structural reorganizati...

Morphological and Size‐Dependent Enrichment of Endotoxins in Coastal Spray Aerosols: Implications for Regional Respiratory Health Risks

Abstract Sea spray aerosols (SSA) transport bioactive substances that affect the Earth's environmental and climate system. We investigated the enrichment of endotoxins (LPS), characterized their influence on the SSA morphologies, and evaluated the respiratory tract deposition. LP...

Political Polarization and Counter-attitudinal Information Consumption and Internalization

Abstract Political polarization can undermine democratic governance by weakening electoral accountability through biases in voter information consumption and processing. A growing literature, primarily from high-income countries, has identified promising interventions to reduce n...

Variations on the three-sphere: Laves' labyrinth lopped

Abstract Inspired by the structure of srs Laves networks in R3 that underpin the celebrated gyroid surface, we construct a Laves network of identical three-coordinated vertices on S3 with a double twist. This network is a subset of the vertices and edges of the 600-cell, and can...

Genetic variability and population structure within the Anopheles tessellatus complex (Theobald, 1901) in Indonesia using ITS2 nuclear and COI, COII mitochondrial sequences

Abstract Some Anopheles species that act as malaria vectors are members of species complexes, a concept whereby sibling species cannot be differentiated solely on the basis of morphological characters. Therefore, species complexes represent a major problem in malaria vector contr...

A permeable protein nanocage enables facile cargo loading and cytosolic protein delivery

Abstract The cytosolic delivery of therapeutic proteins remains one of the most persistent challenges in modern drug delivery. Here, we report the discovery and characterization of an encapsulin-based protein nanocage, QtEnc, with unexpected permeability properties and the abilit...

Entanglement by design: symmetry-guided periodic helical assemblies

Abstract In this paper, a selection of elegant, highly symmetric examples of three-periodic tangled nets and filaments is presented. They are constructed via familiar crystal nets using edges as geometric scaffolds for n-fold helical windings. Rather than providing a complete cla...

Structure-based TCR-pMHC binding prediction and generalization to unseen peptides

Abstract The interaction between T-cell receptors (TCRs) with the peptide-bound major histocompatibility complex (MHC) intricately impacts the functional specificity of T-cell-mediated adaptive immune response. Consequently, implication in immunotherapy has contributed to the eve...

Topological robustness of optical skyrmions through a real-world free-space link

Structured light offers a promising solution for the increasing data demands of modern optical networks, opening up degrees of freedom that can be leveraged for greater channel capacity and more bits per photon. However, its implementation is hindered by real-world distortions, f...

Hardware implementation of photonic neuromorphic autonomous navigation

Reinforcement learning enables artificial intelligence to move beyond perception toward decision-making, but its deployment on conventional electronic hardware is limited by the latency and energy consumption of the von Neumann architecture. Here, we propose a photonic spiking tw...

Learning with constraints: A physics-guided Bayesian framework for reliable geothermal temperature mapping in northeastern Italy

Reliable deep-temperature estimation remains a central challenge in geothermal exploration, particularly in sedimentary–carbonate provinces where borehole data are sparse and vertically imbalanced. These conditions lead to unreliable extrapolation and poor uncertainty characteriz...