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Cellular Interaction Potential of Clinical Corynebacterium Striatum Isolates With Human Pneumocytes

This study demonstrates that clinical *Corynebacterium striatum* isolates from severe infections in Rio de Janeiro can adhere to and survive within human A549 pneumocytes for up to 24 hours, highlighting their potential role in pathogenicity and healthcare-associated infections.

Arize Duarte Vieira, Guilherme Goulart Cabral de Oliveira, Stêphanie Rocha Vieira Elexias, Cíntia Silva dos Santos, Fell (…)2026-08-14
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A Latent Class Approach to Profiling Genetic Literacy Among Emirati Adults in a Precision Medicine Context

This study utilizes latent class analysis on a survey of 509 Emirati adults to reveal that genetic literacy profiles are complex and heterogeneous, identifying distinct groups such as "confident but uninformed" individuals that challenge simple demographic segmentation and necessitate tailored educational interventions for precision medicine initiatives.

Thiago Guimarães Osório, Terrence Lee-St. John, Needa Qureshi, Leanne Cassidy, Laura Buckley, Salma Geissah, Bartlomiej (…)2026-08-14
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A reproducible low-dimensional architecture of human white-matter connectivity

This study introduces Structural Connectivity Gradient Mapping (SCGM), a reproducible framework that reveals four dominant low-dimensional axes of human white-matter organization across the cortex, subcortex, and cerebellum, which show limited correspondence with functional gradients and exhibit distinct age-related remodeling, particularly in a cerebellar-transmodal axis.

Dardo Tomasi, Blake Elliott, Joelle Sarlls, Nora Volkow2026-08-14
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A Hepatic Compartmental Model of Herbicide Bioconcentration in Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)

This study develops a hepatic compartmental model to decompose the bioconcentration factor of four sugarcane herbicides in Nile tilapia into interpretable physiological rate constants, revealing that while liver-to-muscle partitioning is generally consistent with independent data, the model's reliance on limited sampling and specific biotransformation rates highlights the need for improved constraints to accurately assess dietary risks and mixture-dependent elimination patterns.

LOURIVAL COSTA PARAÍBA, Claudio Martin Jonsson2026-08-14
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Entropy of Age Distribution as a Causal Driver of System Dysfunction: A Bristlebot Swarm Model of Mosaic Aging

This paper proposes a bristlebot swarm model to test the hypothesis that age heterogeneity (quantified as component age entropy) acts as a causal driver of system dysfunction, drawing parallels between the robot's collective order degradation and biological mosaic aging to establish a physical framework for understanding how structured temporal divergence disrupts complex systems.

Jaba Tqemaladze2026-08-14
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Long Non-Coding RNA XIST and TSIX Modulate TGF-β-Mediated Cellular Transdifferentiation and Fibrosis in Systemic Sclerosis

This study demonstrates that the long non-coding RNAs XIST and TSIX are upregulated in systemic sclerosis, where they act as upstream regulators of TGF-β-mediated fibrosis, suggesting their potential as disease biomarkers and therapeutic targets.

Dipanjan Bhattacharjee, Sanchaita Misra, Sudipta Chatterjee, Pradyot Sinhamahapatra, Madhurima Basak, Suchandrima Ghosh (…)2026-08-14
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Supervised Learning-Driven Prediction of Small-Molecule Modulator Bioactivity Against Protein-Protein Interactions

This study presents a supervised learning framework utilizing Random Forest models with RDKit descriptors to effectively predict the bioactivity of small-molecule modulators against protein-protein interactions, achieving strong performance on internal and blind datasets while highlighting the challenges of generalizing to structurally diverse external compounds.

Tanmoy Jana, Joy Karmakar, Raja Banerjee, Sudipto Saha2026-08-14