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A Cross-Sectional Network Analysis of Physical Exercise, Sleep Procrastination, Health Attitudes, Self-Control, and Short-Video Addiction Symptoms among College Students

This study utilizes a network analysis of 810 college students to reveal that sleep procrastination and impulse control are central to short-video addiction, while highlighting the bridging roles of physical exercise and health attitudes and identifying gender-specific patterns in these interconnected health behaviors.

Min Liu, Cong Liu, Hongcheng Cui2026-10-24
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Raptor distributions reveal the conservation consequences of forestry-driven landscape transformation in a grassland biome

This study demonstrates that while forestry cover drives the turnover of raptor communities from grassland specialists to generalists, landscape heterogeneity is the primary factor causing a coupled decline in the taxonomic and functional diversity of diurnal raptors in the Mesopotamian Pampas, highlighting the critical need to preserve extensive native open habitats.

Kevin Tkach, José Oddi, Fabricio Villalobos, Julieta Filloy2026-10-23
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Normal mucosal fibroblast remodeling during carcinogenesis promotes initial submucosal invasion of early-stage colorectal carcinoma

This study reveals that normal mucosal fibroblasts undergo a spatially organized remodeling into distinct cancer-associated fibroblast states during early colorectal cancer invasion, with flatter tumors exhibiting more extensive progression toward tumor-promoting fibroblast states that facilitate earlier submucosal invasion.

Shuichi Tsukamoto, Takaaki Nakanishi, Takayuki Kodama, Manabu Shigeoka, Yu-ichiro Koma, Shingo Sakashita, Genichiro Ishi (…)2026-10-23
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Tobacco callus as a novel bioproduction platform for β-ionone synthesis via carotenoid cleavage dioxygenases

This study establishes tobacco callus as a novel, low-cost green-manufacturing platform for synthesizing β-ionone via endogenous carotenoid cleavage, demonstrating that the engineered biomass can be directly incorporated into heated tobacco products to enhance aroma and flavor without the need for extraction.

Fan Li, Xu Zhang, Jun Wang, SiNan Chen, YueJuan Zhang, XiuLin Han, MengLiang Wen, XiaoWei Gong, Ying Mao, Yi Wan2026-10-23
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Phospho-eIF4E stimulation facilitates HSV-1 early entry by regulating host factors and aggravates virus-induced oxidative damage

This study reveals that HSV-1 rapidly induces eIF4E phosphorylation via the ICP0-Mnk1 and Us3-mTORC1 pathways to facilitate early viral entry by selectively upregulating host membrane factors ITGB2, CD63, and TSPAN3, while also exacerbating oxidative stress, thereby identifying p-eIF4E as a promising host-targeted therapeutic strategy.

Yan-Bing Bai, Jing-Ling You, Hong-Ping Tang, Feng-Ying Luo, Xiu-Zhong Zhang2026-10-23
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Structure-Based Drug–Drug Interaction Prediction from Morgan Fingerprints: A Degree-Controlled and Cold-Start Evaluation of a Random Forest Baseline

This study demonstrates that structure-based drug–drug interaction prediction models relying on Morgan fingerprints and physicochemical descriptors suffer from significant overestimation of performance due to flawed negative sampling and identity leakage, ultimately revealing that such models struggle to generalize to unseen drug pairs and require explicit uncertainty handling to be reliable.

Shrinivas Wable, Sayali chimbalkar2026-10-23
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Intramuscular immunization with a CpG-adjuvanted Cryptococcus neoformans vaccine induces sterilizing immune protection.

This study demonstrates that intramuscular immunization with a CpG-adjuvanted heat-inactivated *Cryptococcus neoformans* mutant (HK-fbp1) elicits robust, sterilizing immune protection against pulmonary infection and dissemination through a coordinated CD4⁺ T-cell response dependent on IFN-γ, offering a promising vaccine strategy even for immunocompromised hosts.

Yu Zhang, Yina Wang, Keyi Wang, Amariliz Rivera, Chaoyang Xue2026-10-23