Existential Concerns | List of Frontiers open access articles

Original Research

Published on 06 Mar 2026

Segregate, Test, Observe and Persevere (STOP): strengthening ex situ breeding programs for biodiversity in zoos amid highly pathogenic avian influenza threats - a case approach

in Zoological Medicine

Anne Günther
Marco Roller
Lukas Reese
Ulrike Foldenauer
Judith Tyczka
Anne Pohlmann
Martin Beer
Dominik Fischer
Timm Harder

Frontiers in Veterinary Science

doi 10.3389/fvets.2026.1708354

450 views

Original Research

Published on 06 Mar 2026

Rice tiller number estimation based on an improved Swin-UNet model and multi-feature fusion

in Sustainable and Intelligent Phytoprotection

Xiao Liang
Junnuo Wu
Cheng Zhang
Lielie Qin
Xingcheng Liu
Yingli Cao

Frontiers in Plant Science

doi 10.3389/fpls.2025.1693548

415 views

Original Research

Published on 06 Mar 2026

Left ventricular myocardial work in pregnant women with autoimmune diseases

in Cardiovascular Imaging

Lu Zhang
Yilu Shi
Yaxi Wang
Xiaoshan Zhang
Shasha Duan

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

doi 10.3389/fcvm.2026.1691607

Review

Published on 06 Mar 2026

Immunometabolism in rheumatoid arthritis: mechanisms, biomarkers, and the path to precision medicine

in Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory Disorders: Autoinflammatory Disorders

Xinyu Liu
Jiajia Wang
Tong Lou
Qiaomu Tang
Zixin Fang
Wenfeng Zhang
Yinghua Hu

Frontiers in Immunology

doi 10.3389/fimmu.2026.1691946

491 views

Original Research

Published on 06 Mar 2026

Global burden and projections of cardiometabolic diseases attributable to high alcohol use: a comparative risk assessment based on the GBD 2021 study

in Nutritional Epidemiology

Yuqing Tang
Derong Lin
Honglin Xu
Liman Xu
Sien Guo
Xuankun Zheng
Meiyi Su
Kefeng Zeng
Wenwei Feng
Jianfeng Ye

Frontiers in Nutrition

doi 10.3389/fnut.2026.1698730

Original Research

Published on 06 Mar 2026

Association between baseline hemoglobin levels and pathological complete response in 404 female breast cancer patients undergoing neoadjuvant therapy in Western Guangdong region: a retrospective cohort study

in Breast Cancer

Lixia Li
Jiacheng Yang
Huijie Deng
Biyao Zhang
Guangyu Zheng
Yuzhi Wu
Ziheng Yang
Yuzhou Wang
Zhongcheng Liang
Yuanqi Zhang

Frontiers in Oncology

doi 10.3389/fonc.2026.1699201

Brief Research Report

Published on 06 Mar 2026

Young children's understanding of social class groups: family and community demographic variation

in Social and Emotional Development

Andrea Kinghorn Busby
Peter J. Reschke
Ashley Michelle Fraser
Jennie Jasperson
Abigail Jaglowski

Frontiers in Developmental Psychology

doi 10.3389/fdpys.2026.1699361

149 views

Original Research

Published on 06 Mar 2026

CRISPR1-mediated virulence and erythromycin resistance stabilization drives regional dominance of Streptococcus agalactiae ST10 in China

in Bacteria and Host

Xiaohui Qiao
Ke Dai
Jilong Su
Yimeng Zhang
Yuxi Bai
Xinhua Zhang
Li Zhang

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

doi 10.3389/fcimb.2026.1703530

Original Research

Published on 06 Mar 2026

Effects of central and peripheral Go/No-Go signals on reactions to peripheral stimuli in virtual reality

in Virtual Reality and Human Behaviour

Dan Bürger
Katalin Altrogge
Florian Heilmann
Stefan Pastel
Kerstin Witte

Frontiers in Virtual Reality

doi 10.3389/frvir.2026.1706034

137 views

Original Research

Published on 06 Mar 2026

Brain fog symptoms in individuals with and without post COVID-19 condition: translation and validation of the brain fog scale

in Neuroimaging

Maria Loizidou
Ioulia Solomou
Flora Nikolaou
Fofi Constantinidou

Frontiers in Psychiatry

doi 10.3389/fpsyt.2026.1681452

130 views

Original Research

Published on 06 Mar 2026

Dynamics of psychological distress: understanding the impact of intraindividual and interindividual factors in the Belgian population during the COVID-19 pandemic—a multilevel prospective cohort study

in Public Mental Health

Camille Duveau
Pablo Nicaise
Pierre Smith
Katharina Seeber
Richard Bryant
Giovanni Corrao
Mireia Félez-Nóbrega
Josep Maria Haro
Irwin Hecker
Kerry Rodríguez McGreevy

Frontiers in Psychiatry

doi 10.3389/fpsyt.2026.1716253

323 views

Review

Published on 06 Mar 2026

Psoriasis: microbiome dysbiosis and pathogenic mechanisms

in Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory Disorders: Autoinflammatory Disorders

Binghao Wang
Yi Zhang
Li Lin
Songyan Wang
Suqing Yang

Frontiers in Immunology

doi 10.3389/fimmu.2026.1714515

Original Research

Published on 06 Mar 2026

Interactive effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and organic amendments on maize growth under salinity stress

in Plant Abiotic Stress

Khaled D. Alotaibi

Frontiers in Plant Science

doi 10.3389/fpls.2026.1638742

195 views

Original Research

Published on 06 Mar 2026

Integrated long-read transcriptomic profiling of peripheral blood from ankylosing spondylitis patients identifies regulatory shifts and core genes associated with programmed cell death

in Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory Disorders: Autoinflammatory Disorders

Xue Cao
Panlong Li
Haoran Peng
Qiao Chen
Lipu Shi
Dong Chen
Tianshu Chu
Yanwei Cheng

Frontiers in Immunology

doi 10.3389/fimmu.2026.1640271

121 views

Brief Research Report

Published on 06 Mar 2026

Smart placement, faster robots—a comparison of algorithms for robot base-pose optimization

in Industrial Robotics and Automation

Matthias Mayer
Matthias Althoff

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

doi 10.3389/fmtec.2025.1642524

358 views

Original Research

Published on 06 Mar 2026

Inflammatory biomarkers and physiological reserve: an explainable machine learning model for predicting postoperative pulmonary complications in elderly laparoscopic surgery

in Clinical Infectious Diseases

Di Liu
Fei Jiang
Hui Huang
Yong Yang
Min Ye
Lei Zou

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

doi 10.3389/fcimb.2026.1677260

Articles

Segregate, Test, Observe and Persevere (STOP): strengthening ex situ breeding programs for biodiversity in zoos amid highly pathogenic avian influenza threats - a case approach

Rice tiller number estimation based on an improved Swin-UNet model and multi-feature fusion

Left ventricular myocardial work in pregnant women with autoimmune diseases

Immunometabolism in rheumatoid arthritis: mechanisms, biomarkers, and the path to precision medicine

Global burden and projections of cardiometabolic diseases attributable to high alcohol use: a comparative risk assessment based on the GBD 2021 study

Association between baseline hemoglobin levels and pathological complete response in 404 female breast cancer patients undergoing neoadjuvant therapy in Western Guangdong region: a retrospective cohort study

Young children's understanding of social class groups: family and community demographic variation

CRISPR1-mediated virulence and erythromycin resistance stabilization drives regional dominance of Streptococcus agalactiae ST10 in China

Effects of central and peripheral Go/No-Go signals on reactions to peripheral stimuli in virtual reality

Brain fog symptoms in individuals with and without post COVID-19 condition: translation and validation of the brain fog scale

Dynamics of psychological distress: understanding the impact of intraindividual and interindividual factors in the Belgian population during the COVID-19 pandemic—a multilevel prospective cohort study

Psoriasis: microbiome dysbiosis and pathogenic mechanisms

Interactive effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and organic amendments on maize growth under salinity stress

Integrated long-read transcriptomic profiling of peripheral blood from ankylosing spondylitis patients identifies regulatory shifts and core genes associated with programmed cell death

Smart placement, faster robots—a comparison of algorithms for robot base-pose optimization

Inflammatory biomarkers and physiological reserve: an explainable machine learning model for predicting postoperative pulmonary complications in elderly laparoscopic surgery