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The wavefunction doesn’t exist

The wavefunction is mathematically effective, while its physical status remains interpretation-dependent; competing views can share predictions.

Dark energy

Accelerated expansion is well measured, but the mechanism remains unknown; current evidence still strongly favors ΛCDM.

Bee host–microbiome toxin metabolism

In vivo and enzyme evidence supports gut bacterial clearance of a prunasin intermediate, although final cyanide production remains incompletely measured.

Starship transposons and fungal virulence

Comparative genomics links Starships to genome plasticity and virulence cargo in Verticillium, while broad causal claims remain inference-heavy.

Information capacity of biological oscillators

Quality factor can limit frequency labels, but biological usefulness also depends on persistence, readout, and rewriting times that remain partly estimated.

Visual deprivation and intrinsic neuronal plasticity

Rodent L5 data support deprivation-related failure of intrinsic gain plasticity involving Kv2.1 and endocytosis, with broader cortical generality unresolved.

NUDT5 and thiopurine response in leukemia

CRISPR loss and rescue in B-ALL cells support NUDT5 control of thiopurine metabolite pools and drug sensitivity, with patient variation still important.

Urolithin A and human longevity

Cell, animal, and early human findings support biological plausibility, but increased human lifespan or survival has not been demonstrated.

Quinoa metabolome genetics

A 603-accession, multi-tissue mGWAS identifies candidate pathway genes, while drought network links remain mainly correlational.

Evidence-bearing AI memory

Typed records with provenance, uncertainty, corroboration, and policy fields are a proposed governance improvement, not yet a validated standard.

NF-κB regulation in closed chromatin

Cross-species multi-assay evidence supports conserved NF-κB occupancy at nucleosome-occluded sites, with genome-wide causality still limited.

Primate dorsal cochlear nucleus

Rhesus EM and molecular labeling support conserved excitatory parallel-fiber synapses, but direct functional measurements remain absent.

AI in clinical decision-making

Accountability, privacy, bias, and unfaithful explanations create documented ethical risks that require lifecycle monitoring and human oversight.

Spatially selective competition

Localized resource use may suppress invaders with less resident damage, but preservation of unused niches remains a testable ecological inference.

Developmental timing and regulatory architecture

Time-course and reciprocal F1 data support heterochronic and amplitude shifts, while cis/trans assignments are constrained by hybrid misexpression.

Sea-slug kleptoplast longevity

Donor alga and feeding history affect photosynthetic retention in Elysia crispata, but molecular repair mechanisms remain unresolved.

Naked mole-rat oxygen choice

Choice assays report social shifts in preferred oxygen levels, while proposed energetic mechanisms need concurrent physiological measurements.

Lentiviral RNA packaging and propagation

Engineered virion assays show that RNA packaging and productive propagation can separate across retroviral families, informing biosafety assessment.

Extremophile biology

Stability and energy conservation are well-supported adaptation themes, while motif-linked DNA physical properties remain a correlative hypothesis.

Biofilm control of arsenite oxidation

Column kinetics and inhibition support a shift toward biological As(III) oxidation, although mineral redox and inhibitor specificity remain alternative explanations.

Calbistrin biosynthesis in Penicillium

CRISPR deletions and metabolite profiling support distinct synthesis, regulation, and export roles within a 13-gene cluster.

Map-based rice genome sequence

The chromosome-scale reference enabled gene, transposon, centromere, and marker analyses, with coverage and annotation blind spots requiring care.

SCNN1D evolution and sodium sensing

Repeated marine-lineage pseudogenization is consistent with ecological loss, but cetacean δ-ENaC function has not been directly shown.

Cortical GABA during motor learning

7T MRS links learning-specific GABA:tCr reduction with later performance, but metabolite pools are indirect and not temporally precise.

CRISPRi and human neural tube closure

Arrayed CRISPRi with single-cell guide capture identifies closure and ectopic-point phenotypes, while organoid-to-embryo validity remains limited.

TuMV, stomata, and drought tolerance

Arabidopsis infection closes stomata yet worsens drought survival, with ABA and RD29A links supported mainly by expression and mutant evidence.

Maternal transcript inheritance in eggs

Reciprocal crosses support parent-of-origin effects on egg transcripts, while causal epigenetic mechanisms and developmental consequences remain open.

Dolphin acoustic disturbance indicators

Boat presence correlates with higher signature-whistle frequencies in one Sardinian population, but sound exposure and causality were not directly measured.

Tree-related microhabitats and food webs

Beech TreMs host distinct micro-invertebrate communities and isotope niches, although seasonal and single-site limits temper broader claims.

Mesothelioma histomorphological atlas

Self-supervised analysis of 3,446 whole-slide images yields interpretable morphology mixtures linked to subtype and survival, with cohort-shift risks.

Lessons from the 1918 influenza pandemic

Historical pathology supports a major role for secondary bacterial pneumonia, but retrospective records cannot fully resolve competing mechanisms.

Switchgrass drought and biofuel yield

Drought timing changes metabolites and fermentation performance, with saponins predicting lag time; causal inhibitor removal remains untested.

Synergies among extinction drivers

Theory and case synthesis support greater-than-additive risks near population viability thresholds, while context-specific effect sizes remain difficult to predict.

Cold-induced mitochondrial fragmentation

Arabidopsis genetics supports a cold response requiring DRP3A but not ELM1/ELM2, while fusion changes and recruitment physics remain unmeasured.

Hsp-90 and nematode biology

Geldanamycin binding tracks nematode life history more clearly than selected Hsp-90 residues, leaving client and co-chaperone effects plausible.

Mechanism-driven multispecific antibodies

A narrative review maps antibody geometry to trafficking and immune activation, but lacks systematic quantitative comparison across formats.

Plant heat-stress memory

Review evidence supports layered transcriptional, protein, and microRNA persistence, but no single universal memory switch is established.

Genomic prediction for high-yield rice

Haplotype-block prediction and region replacement support faster multi-trait breeding, while environment and epistasis validation remains limited.

Type 2 diabetes risk in slum areas

A large cross-sectional study reports higher urban-slum prevalence, but weak BMI links and fair diagnostic agreement limit causal interpretation.

Early microbiota, autism, and Parkinson’s disease

The proposed gut–brain pathway is biologically plausible and hypothesis-generating, but the perspective presents no new causal longitudinal data.

Capsid stability and phage fitness

Deep mutational scanning supports strong destabilization as a viability gate, while stability explains little fitness variation among viable mutants.

Melatonin and waterlogged maize

Cultivar and water depth alter antioxidant and photosynthetic responses after melatonin treatment, with causal pathway roles still inferred.

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