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A naturalistic database for understanding individual differences in affective responses to movie clips

This paper introduces a naturalistic database comprising 22 movie clips and associated emotional ratings from 108 healthy adults, designed to facilitate the study of individual differences in affective responses by analyzing dynamic, integrative, and normative features of emotional reactivity alongside biological and stimulus variables.

Einat Liebenthal, Jeffrey M Girard, Manuel Jose Marte, Xuehu Wei, Colin Galvin, Yanmei Tie2026-08-05
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Mice Undergo Organ-Specific Transcriptional and Metabolic Remodeling During Late Adolescence

This study reveals that C57Bl6 mice undergo a critical, organ-specific transcriptional and metabolic maturation between 8 and 12 weeks of age, characterized by a heart shift toward maintenance, kidney immune activation, and liver lipid metabolism dominance, all driven by a coordinated gut-liver axis transition that establishes a stable, energy-efficient adult phenotype.

Qing-xia Huang, Ahmad Al Ajami, Eva Kohnert, Temel Kilic, Christina Engel, Melanie Boerries, Clemens Kreutz, Katharina M (…)2026-08-05
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CPT2-Linked Fatty Acid Oxidation and Autophagy Nodes Connect NMN-Responsive Transcriptional Programs to Schizophrenia Biology

This study demonstrates that NMN-responsive transcriptional programs, particularly those involving CPT2-linked fatty acid oxidation and specific autophagy nodes, significantly overlap with the genetic liability of schizophrenia and treatment-resistant schizophrenia, suggesting new metabolic and cellular homeostasis targets for therapeutic intervention beyond traditional receptor-centered models.

Ngo Cheung2026-08-05
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The plasma proteome of an Ebola virus disease survivor reveals longitudinal changes in coagulation and innate immune pathways in the absence of therapy

This study presents longitudinal plasma proteome data from a critically ill Ebola virus disease survivor treated with a placebo, revealing that a broad reduction in plasma proteins coincided with the cessation of viral replication and providing detailed insights into the dysregulated coagulation and innate immune pathways that persist during recovery to inform future host-directed therapies.

Daniel Chertow, Luis Perez-Valencia, Kevin Vannella, Janhavi Athale, Angelique Biancotto, Ti-Shawn Wellington, Marcos Ra (…)2026-08-05
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NeuroSparkSNT: An Eight-Operator Framework for Behavioral Phase Dynamics in C. elegans Neural Simulation

NeuroSparkSNT is an eight-operator framework built on the C. elegans connectome that utilizes a semi-Markov phase controller to structurally enforce mutually exclusive behavioral states, successfully reproducing experimental locomotion dynamics and generating falsifiable predictions while offering a pathway toward a homeostatically regulated foraging agent without external reward functions.

Durhan Yazır2026-08-05
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Integrated multi-omics analysis reveals the remodeling characteristics of the immune microenvironment in mCRPC and the key regulatory role of BRAF

This study employs integrated multi-omics analysis to characterize the immune microenvironment remodeling in metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), identifying BRAF as a key upregulated regulator and highlighting the pivotal roles of tumor-associated macrophages and natural killer T cells in disease progression.

Hong Li, Chenye Tang, Xiao Guo, Xinghao Wang, Qian Zou2026-08-05
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Evaluation of the Antimicrobial Potential and Berberine Production from Endophytic Populations of Medicinal Plant Berberis aristata

This study demonstrates that endophytic strains *Talaromyces verruculosus* (FBL-5) and *Stenotrophomonas maltophilia* (BBL-13), isolated from the medicinal plant *Berberis aristata*, exhibit significant antimicrobial activity and produce the bioactive compound berberine, highlighting their potential as sustainable sources for pharmaceutical development and plant conservation.

Sheetal Sharma, Sarika Sharma, Andrea Mastinu, Jayanthi Barasarathi, Asiya Nazir2026-08-05
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A novel Flavobacterium quisquiliarum porphyrin binding protein independently disrupts Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms

This study identifies a novel ~21 kDa porphyrin-binding protein (Fq PBP) from *Flavobacterium quisquiliarum* that independently disrupts *Pseudomonas aeruginosa* biofilms through porphyrin sequestration and iron homeostasis interference, offering a potential therapeutic strategy against chronic infections.

Ieva Lelenaite, Charlotte Stenkjær Fletcher, William Houppy, Claire Morley, Adrian Brown, Gary W. Black, Adam K. Malekpo (…)2026-08-05
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Redistribution of electron flow between redox cofactors branches in photosystem I from the menB variants of cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

This study demonstrates that replacing native phylloquinones with plastoquinone-9 in the *menB* variants of *Synechocystis* sp. PCC 6803 drastically slows forward electron transfer and thermodynamically favors electron flow through the B-branch over the A-branch of Photosystem I.

Mahir Mamedov, Liya Vitukhnovskaya, Anastasia Petrova, Georgy Milanovsky, Dmitry Cherepanov, Alexey Semenov2026-08-05