A recent review in MedComm – Future Medicine examines long COVID across SARS-CoV-2 variants, focusing on variant-specific clinical features, pathogenesis, and implications for treatment. The study highlights that recent variants like Omicron are associated with lower incidence and milder symptoms, with vaccinations playing a substantial role in reducing long COVID's prevalence and severity. The research underscores the need for standardized diagnostic criteria and calls for more controlled studies, especially in unique populations, to uncover actionable insights into long COVID mechanisms and treatment options.

A deep learning model has been introduced that significantly enhances the precision of Mini-LED backlight inspection.

In this study, the authors investigated the mineralization, humification characteristics, and dynamics of microbial communities of two organic materials, including chicken manure (CM) and composted kitchen waste compost (KW) in farmland soil by conducting nylon mesh bag in-situ incubation experiments combined with indoor analysis and high-throughput microbial sequencing technology.

This study examines the socio-economic feasibility of green hydrogen as a sustainable energy solution in Europe, focusing on production costs, public awareness, and acceptance. It highlights the potential of green hydrogen to support energy transitions while addressing challenges related to knowledge gaps and societal resistance, emphasizing the need for effective spatial energy planning and public engagement strategies.

A research team led by Profs. XU Tao and HE Shunmin from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has recently constructed a global polymorphism genetic map of variable number tandem repeats (VNTRs), termed the NyuWa VNTR Polymorphism Map.

Hyaluronan (HA) is a polysaccharide with various functions. This article reviews its properties, roles in skin, orthopedic diseases, gastrointestinal tract, and liver, and its applications, highlighting HA's significance in multiple fields.

A collaborative study has uncovered evidence of rice beer dating back approximately 10,000 years at the Shangshan site in Zhejiang Province, China, providing new insights into the origins of alcoholic beverage brewing in East Asia. This discovery highlights the connection between rice fermentation at Shangshan and the region’s cultural and environmental context as well as the broader development of early rice agriculture and social structures.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex developmental disorder that causes significant social, communication, and behavioral challenges. Early diagnosis, along with suitable therapies, is crucial to alleviating the symptoms. To this end, a team of researchers from the United States of America has developed an advanced screening model to identify toddlers with autism from underserved areas. Their model holds the potential for accessible diagnosis for toddlers from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), led by Prof. LIU Qi, in collaboration with Harvard Medical School’s Marinka Zitnik lab, have developed a novel deep generative algorithm, PocketGen. This algorithm, based on graph representation learning and protein language models, efficiently generates protein pocket sequences and spatial structures for binding small molecules. The study was published in Nature Machine Intelligence.