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The Crying Wolf Effect in AI-Assisted Colonoscopy | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Visualized Medicine: an emerging and widely applied subject for future healthcare | Research Communities by Springer Nature

A new field to explore, and a powerful tool to apply

Bridging Dental Education and Technology | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Can mobile apps revolutionize dental education? Our study developed and tested a smartphone-based app for teaching oral health needs assessment. While the app didn’t outperform traditional methods, students' enthusiasm for mobile learning highlights opportunities for future innovation.

Super Graphene-Skinned Materials | Research Communities by Springer Nature

“Super graphene-skinned materials” is an innovative strategy toward graphene practical applications, which will inspire more approaches to achieve the translation of graphene's exceptional properties from atomic-scale structures to macroscopic bulk materials.

Cyber Jurisprudence: A Leap Forward | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Advancing digital sensing in mental health research: The workshop behind the paper | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Our Perspective report draws on ideation and reports generated from the 2023 Workshop on Advancing Digital Sensing Tools for Mental Health, hosted by UCLA and sponsored by Wellcome, the National Institute of Mental Health and the UCLA Depression Grand Challenge.

Sharing Primate Phenotypes | Research Communities by Springer Nature

My colleagues and I present the most extensive primate phenotypic dataset to date, comprising >6,000 3D scans of ~400 specimens digitized from various natural collections. The data are freely available through MorphoSource, empowering the future of primate phenomics. This is the project's story.

Collaborative management of hydrological ecosystem services: a multilevel social network analysis of a Mexican watershed | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Who and how do those who manage water ecosystem services in a watershed relate to each other? Who is relevant to what?

Guided Search: How Transcription Factors Navigate the Genome to Change Cell Identity | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Sustainable transition assessments need realistic energy consumer details | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Building a just and sustainable future requires understanding energy consumer realities. Climate, income, and location shape their choices, yet many models assume homogenous, rational agents. Embracing their true complexity enables accurate analysis, informed policies, and sustainable transitions.

How ready are our students for e‑learning? Evidence from Ethiopia | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Seeing the Unseen: HistoTME's AI Vision Reveals Secrets of the Lung Cancer Tumor Microenvironment | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Aerosol forces mesoscale secondary circulations occurrence: evidence of emission reduction | Research Communities by Springer Nature

How calcium-regulated reprogramming primes legume root cells to welcome beneficial rhizobia symbionts | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Legumes host symbiotic nitrogen-fixing rhizobia within root nodules. To deliver rhizobia to nodules, the plant transiently creates cytoplasmic bridges to allow rhizobia entry and progression. Here we dissected the underlying extensive ultrastructural reprogramming and fine-tuned calcium regulation.

A Multimodal Dataset for Mixed Emotion Recognition | Research Communities by Springer Nature

This paper proposed a multimodal dataset for mixed emotion recognition, which includes EEG, GSR, PPG, and facial video data recorded from 73 participants while watching 32 emotion-eliciting video clips, along with their corresponding subjective rating data.

Candidate genes for ART- and subfertility-associated phenotypes | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Dynamics of the Blood Plasma Proteome During Hyperacute HIV-1 Infection | Research Communities by Springer Nature

In our recent study in Nature Communications, we employed cutting-edge proteomics to explore changes in blood plasma proteins during early HIV-1 infection. The results advance our understanding of early host responses and highlight mechanisms that influence viral control and disease progression.

World AIDS Day 2024: Putting the ‘care’ back in healthcare: Friendly health providers can improve outcomes for PLHIV | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Healthcare is about more than just diagnosing illnesses and prescribing treatments – it’s also about creating meaningful connections. For people living with HIV (PLHIV), the experience of care—how they are treated by health workers—can greatly affect their health outcomes.

Exploring the role of nonlocal Coulomb interactions in perovskite transition metal oxides | Research Communities by Springer Nature

High-quality alligator gar chromosome-level genome aids in exploring its internal invasion mechanism | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Our study generated a high contiguity, completeness, and accuracy genome assembly of alligator gar at the chromosome level using Oxford Nanopore Technology and Hi-C sequencing techniques, deepening our understanding of the genomic basis of its ecology, evolution, and invasiveness.

A Common Mechanism Regulating Stem Cell Multipotency | Research Communities by Springer Nature

GGCP10: Bridging Data Gaps in Global Food Security Assessment | Research Communities by Springer Nature

As maize, wheat, rice, and soybean collectively account for over 64% of global caloric intake, tracking their production is essential for assessing global food security. We developed GGCP10, a novel dataset enabling applications from food security to agricultural sustainability assessment.

The comprehensive SARS-CoV-2 ‘hijackome’ knowledge base | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants differ in infection dynamics, immune evasion, and pathogenicity. Our multi-omics study (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-024-00748-y) reveals how they manipulate host cells, uncovering variant-specific pathways and potential targets for intervention.

Meet Cardiovascular Diabetology's Associate Editor of the Year - Dr. Jens Kroll | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Dr. Jens Kroll has recently been awarded with Cardiovascular Diabetology’s annual Associate Editor Award. In this Q&A we find out what Dr. Jens Kroll likes about the work as Associate Editor and what impact it has made for his own work.

Atmospheric rivers cause warm winters and extreme heat events | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Atmospheric rivers are known to transport large quantities of moisture through the atmosphere – but our study finds that they also transport large quantities of heat.

Meet Cardiovascular Diabetology's Associate Editor of the Year - Dr Natalia Eberhardt | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Dr Natalia Eberhardt has recently been awarded with Cardiovascular Diabetology’s annual Associate Editor Award. In this Q&A Natalia shares why she is passionate about researching the complex interplay between cardiovascular diseases and diabetes as well as what she has learnt as Associate Editor.

Terahertz field-induced metastable magnetization near criticality | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Intense terahertz pulses are used to induce metastable magnetization with a remarkably long lifetime of more than 2.5 milliseconds in a van der Waals antiferromagnet

E- Learning experience of the medical profession’s college students during COVID-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia | Research Communities by Springer Nature

This study explored the e-learning experience of the students of the colleges of health sciences with regard to the technical preparedness, academic achievements, e-learning advantages and limitations.

Spatio-temporal rainfall variability and trends using a Kriging-interpolation and Innovative trend analysis approach: the case of Wolaita zone, south Ethiopia | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Understanding climate change and its local impacts has become crucial in addressing global sustainability challenges.

Integrated ab initio modelling of atomic ordering and magnetic anisotropy for design of rare-earth-free permanent magnets | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Aging-dependent loss of functional connectivity in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease and reversal by mGluR5 modulator | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Alzheimer’s disease is challenging to tackle: it can affect the brain years before symptoms like memory loss arise. Yet, this slow progress gives us a long window where early detection could slow or stop its progression. Our study dives into how brain imaging and mouse models can help us get there.

International Migrants Day 2024 | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Honouring the Contributions of Migrants and Respecting their Rights: a pressing call that should resonate deeply in UN member states

Challenges in Microbiology | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Microbiology is becoming more challenging daily because the evolution of other species might take several decades of thousands of years but microbes are evolving very fast. They have direct relevance to humans because they are an intricate part of the human system as a human microbiome.

The effects of remdesivir on long-term symptoms in patients hospitalised for COVID-19: a pre-specified exploratory analysis | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Remdesivir is a medicine that is used to treat people with COVID-19. It does not seem to help patients while they're in the hospital, but does it help them avoid symptoms of long-COVID?

The mathematics-related specificity of problem-gambling awareness: Toward the adequacy of warning messages, counselling, and gambling descriptions | Research Communities by Springer Nature

The mathematics-related specificity of gambling addiction has not been clearly established and thus has not been exploited much in problem-gambling research; but specificity should be reflected in warning messages and counselling content and new research is needed to address this issue.

Validation of the newly-revised International Staging System in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Looking back at 40 years of health assistance to migrant or displaced persons. | Research Communities by Springer Nature

For IMD 2024, Aldo Morrone, specialist in Tropical & Infectious Dermatology, Venereology, and Migration Medicine, shares thoughts on migrant health after decades of work in countries such as Ethiopia, Iraqi Kurdistan, Lebanon, Syria, Cuba, Burkina Faso, and Morocco.

Paranoid and Teleological Thinking give rise to distinct Social Hallucinations in Vision | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Paranoia―the belief that others intend harm― and excessive teleological thinking―ascribing purpose to events― are correlated, and may cause a departure from consensual reality. In a social perception task, we found that higher scores confidently perceived intentions of chasing where none existed.

Behind the Paper: How IL-6 shapes the anti-tumor battle and supports TGFβ immune modulatory vaccines in pancreatic cancer | Research Communities by Springer Nature

The study highlights that the antitumor efficacy of TGFβ-specific T cells in pancreatic cancer critically depends on IL-6 signaling. IL-6R blockade compromises the immune response by reducing vaccine-induced T-cell infiltration as well as increasing immunosuppressive tumor-associated macrophages.

IMD 2024: Identifying gaps in protection of vulnerabilised people | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Dr Isotta Rossoni on gender-based violence in the context of migration and displacement, on the occasion of International Migrants Day 2024