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Expression, Purification, and Biological Characterization of CHO-Derived Recombinant Porcine Interleukin-6

This study successfully established a CHO-based expression and purification system for recombinant porcine interleukin-6, confirming its high purity and demonstrating its biological activity through the upregulation of specific genes in porcine macrophages and the promotion of cell migration in B16F10 cells.

Xiaowei Wu, Xin Liu, Mengjie Zhao, Jie Zhang, Zhixu Guo, Yi Ru, Jinping Zhang, Feifei Li, Ting Li, Xinxing Fu, Lingyun J (…)2026-08-10
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Genetic Architecture and Introgression Signatures Underlying Complex Coat Color Variation in Lufeng Cattle

This study elucidates the genetic architecture of complex coat color variation in Lufeng cattle by integrating population genomics and epigenomics to reveal that background pigmentation and white-pattern distribution are driven by partially independent mechanisms involving wild bovine introgression, regulatory variation, and specific candidate genes.

Yating Wei, Sheng Tan, Ningbo Chen, Xiaoyu Luo, Liyun Zhang, Wei Luo, Naqash khan, Halima Jafari, Jin Jin, Yushan Li, Zh (…)2026-08-10
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Tangeretin Attenuates Polystyrene Nanoplastics–Induced Oxidative Stress and Steroidogenic Injury in TM3 Leydig Cells: Cellular and Docking Evidence

This study demonstrates that tangeretin protects TM3 Leydig cells from polystyrene nanoplastic-induced oxidative stress and steroidogenic dysfunction by modulating the NOX4/Nrf2 signaling axis and preserving testosterone production, as validated through combined in vitro experiments and molecular docking simulations.

Hefnawy Ahmad A., Abdulelah F. Alhusain, Ali G. Alqahtani2026-08-10
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A variance-component criterion for deciding when internal-control normalisation improves molecular quantification

This paper establishes a variance-component criterion to determine when internal-control normalization improves molecular quantification on the Ct scale, demonstrating that estimating an optimal control coefficient is generally more robust than assuming a unit coefficient, particularly when the shared processing variance exceeds the sum of control-specific and measurement variances.

Juan Monteiro da Silva, Thuany Vulcão Raniéri Brito2026-08-10
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Passive metaviromic surveillance using a honey-baited FTA card trap reveals vertebrate-associated and zoonotic viral signals in mosquitoes from northeastern Brazil

This study demonstrates that the BR-ArboTrap, a passive surveillance device using honey-baited FTA cards, effectively captures diverse vertebrate-associated and zoonotic viral signals from mosquito salivary deposits in northeastern Brazil, offering a scalable, cold-chain-independent strategy for early detection of emerging pathogens.

Luísa Maria Inácio Silva, Larissa Krokovsky, Rafaela Cassiano Matos, Alexandre Freitas Silva, Gabriel da Luz Wallau, Mar (…)2026-08-10
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LLM-H2G: biomedical semantic-enhanced hypergraph contrastive learning for herb--disease association prediction

The paper introduces LLM-H2G, a biomedical semantic-enhanced hypergraph contrastive learning framework that integrates large language model-derived text embeddings with heterogeneous hypergraph structures to significantly improve the prediction and interpretability of herb–disease associations, particularly in sparse networks.

Jun Zhang, Hengchuang Yin, Chao Wu, Jinhao Yao, Yue Yang, Ziwen Cui, Dongxu Li, Pengwei Hu, Lun Hu2026-08-10
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Phosphorylation of dynamin-related protein 1 at Ser616 promotes autophagy to suppress Mycobacterium tuberculosis survival via the ROS/HIF-1α axis in macrophages

This study demonstrates that Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection triggers phosphorylation of dynamin-related protein 1 at Ser616 in macrophages, which drives ROS-mediated HIF-1α stabilization to promote xenophagic clearance of the bacteria, thereby identifying Drp1 S616 phosphorylation as a critical host-directed therapeutic target for tuberculosis.

Qianna Li, Qi Wang, Binchi Mo, Bo Zhu, Lingming Lin, Hongxuan Li, Jintang He, Shuo Chen, Zhenyu Han, Minna Xu, Qian Wen (…)2026-08-10
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Parametric resilience in a closed ecological reactor: The Wood Wide Web as a distributed PID controller for life support

This paper proposes a 3D reaction-diffusion-chemotaxis model demonstrating that the mycorrhizal "Wood Wide Web" functions as a distributed PID controller in a closed ecological reactor, providing parametric resilience that maintains stable CO₂ levels despite significant fluctuations in cooperation coefficients and signal speeds.

Christophe Marcel TROUILLEFOU2026-08-10
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Human-Relevant 3D In Vitro Liver Spheroids for Preclinical Hepatotoxicity Prediction

This study demonstrates that 3D HepaRG liver spheroids, particularly in coculture with hepatic stellate cells, serve as a reproducible, cost-effective, and physiologically relevant in vitro platform for predicting drug-induced liver injury by integrating multiple functional endpoints to achieve high classification accuracy.

Bano Subia, Hoshang Patel, Simran Nathwani, Mukul Jain, Kasinath Viswanathan2026-08-10