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Light Perturbations Rapidly Reshape Community Structure and Functional Potential of Synechococcus and Its Co-occurring Bacterial Community in an Estuarine Ecosystem

This study demonstrates that short-term light perturbations in the Yellow River Estuary rapidly alter the community structure, functional potential, and metabolite profiles of *Synechococcus* and its co-occurring bacterial community, highlighting the dynamic response of estuarine microbial processes to fluctuating light conditions.

Yuting Zhou, Ting Wang, Jialin Li, Huiwang Gao, Song Qin2026-10-27
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Probing the sequence variability tolerance in a de novo α-helical barrel biocatalyst

This study demonstrates that combining AlphaFold2-guided RosettaRemodel and ProteinMPNN enables the successful engineering of a de novo α-helical barrel biocatalyst with a truncated structure and significantly improved soluble yield, while retaining its core architecture, thermal stability, and catalytic activity despite substantial sequence variability.

Wael Elaily, Markus Braun, David Stoll, Morakot Chakatok, Matteo Aleotti, Birgit Grill, Aleksandar Bijelic, Mélanie Hall (…)2026-10-27
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Polynomial Time Quantum Approximation Schemes for Constrained Optimization

This paper establishes that a noisy quantum-classical pipeline based on Constraint-Enhanced QAOA, augmented with shot amplification and deterministic repair, constitutes a fully polynomial randomized approximation scheme (FPRASq_q) and an ε\varepsilon-Polynomial-Time Quantum Approximation Scheme (ε\varepsilon-PTQAS) for constrained optimization, demonstrating a provable quantum advantage over classical samplers and validating the approach on 127-qubit hardware.

Chinonso Onah, Kristel Michielsen2026-10-27
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The effect of eight weeks of interval swimming training with galantamine on antioxidant capacity, inflammation and depression markers in rats exposed to post-traumatic stress disorder

This study demonstrates that eight weeks of combined interval swimming training and galantamine administration exerts synergistic neuroprotective effects in rats with post-traumatic stress disorder by significantly reducing inflammation and oxidative stress while enhancing antioxidant capacity, neurotransmitter function, and beneficial microRNA expression compared to either treatment alone.

Iman Fathi, Seyed Hossein MirDehghan, Fatemeh Rezaei Homden, Zahra Momeni Raghabadi, Ismaeil Kanaani, Omidreza Salehi2026-10-27
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Extracellular vesicle-associated COMP from cancer-associated fibroblasts promotes ferroptosis resistance in hepatocellular carcinoma

This study reveals that cancer-associated fibroblast-derived extracellular vesicles carrying cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP) promote ferroptosis resistance and hepatocellular carcinoma progression by enhancing HIF-1α SUMOylation via RANBP2, which subsequently upregulates SLC7A11 expression.

Si Xiong, Qiaodan Zhou, Wei Chen, Tingting Xiao, Hai Huang, Qingxiong Ma, Xianzheng Qin, Jiamei Jiang, Wang Peng, Shuya (…)2026-10-27
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CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knockout of AKAP12 gene increases susceptibility to doxorubicin in MCF-7/ADR breast cancer cell line

This study demonstrates that CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knockout of the AKAP12 gene in MCF-7/ADR breast cancer cells reverses doxorubicin resistance by impairing proliferation, migration, and survival while promoting apoptosis, suggesting AKAP12 acts as a chemoresistance regulator and a potential therapeutic target.

Ali Miri, Aslan Fanni, Javad Gharechahi, Hadi Esmaeili Gouvarchinghaleh, Kazem Sharifi, Vahid Jajarmi2026-10-27
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Triple Validation of a Neuronal Cell Model and Standardized Amyloid-β Aggregation Uncovers Key Sources of Variability in Aβ1-42 Toxicity Assessment

This study establishes a standardized and reproducible in vitro framework for assessing Aβ1–42 toxicity by integrating a triple-validated neuronal model with controlled peptide aggregation, revealing that toxicity outcomes critically depend on peptide aggregation state, neuronal maturation, and the specific viability assay employed.

Anne Cécile Van Baelen, Clément Poteaux, Philippe Robin, Xavier Iturrioz, Steven Panek, Norbert Sewald, Denis Servent, N (…)2026-10-27
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Beyond Exact Recovery: Operational Success Probability and Sampling Cost for Approximate Quantum Optimization under Stochastic Uncertainty

This paper proposes an end-to-end evaluation framework for approximate quantum optimization that distinguishes between exact mathematical recovery, surrogate near-optimality, and downstream operational acceptability, demonstrating that defining success by operational consequences significantly alters sampling cost requirements and reveals that, on small inventory-control instances, classical baselines currently outperform QAOA despite these nuanced success metrics.

Roberto Garrone2026-10-27
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Brain dynamics exhibit scale-dependent reversibility during consciousness transitions

This study reveals that while local neural dynamics and functional connectivity largely retrace their paths during transitions between consciousness and unconsciousness, global brain organization follows distinct, asymmetric trajectories, indicating that recovery of consciousness is an active process of large-scale network reorganization rather than a simple reversal of anesthetic suppression.

Nanyin Zhang, Xu Han, Xiaoai Chen, Samuel Cramer, Yizhuo Ding2026-10-27