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by Yingying Lu, Jie Liu, Chengyu Liu, Zehua Zuo, Michael Ewing, Hang Chen, Toren Finkel, Stephen H. Leppla, Shihui Liu

Hemolysin BL (HBL) is a tripartite α‑pore‑forming toxin and a major Bacillus cereus virulence factor. Although LITAF and its homolog CDIP1 were previously identified as host receptors that promote HBL‑induced cytolysis, mice lacking both proteins ...

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by Tong Zhang, Xiaoguang Tian, Tatiana Malevich, Matthias P. Baumann, Ziad M. Hafed

Microsaccades have been convincingly linked to extrafoveal covert attention shifts for more than two decades. However, the direction of causality between individual microsaccade generation and an alteration in both extrafoveal visual sensitivity and behavior remains debated: do microsacca...

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by Ryssa Moffat, Guillaume Dumas, Emily S. Cross

Loneliness is globally acknowledged as a severe and burgeoning health risk, fueling interest in helping people of all ages form meaningful social connections. One promising approach consists of intergenerational social programs. While behavioral and qualitative evidence derived from such programs promise health and wellbei...

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by Zhenrun J. Zhang, Yifat Merbl, Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez

Computational and experimental advances have led to the discovery of a large and diverse repertoire of bioactive peptides encrypted within proteins from across the tree of life. Mounting evidence suggests that these peptides can contribute to host defense not only through direct antimicrobial activity, but also t...

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