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🧬 biology

Decoding Viral Signatures: Comparative Transcriptomics of SARS-CoV-2, Influenza A, and RSV Reveals Virus-Specific Host Responses

This study utilizes comparative transcriptomics of SARS-CoV-2, Influenza A, and RSV infections in human airway epithelial cells to reveal that these respiratory viruses elicit largely distinct, virus-specific host transcriptional responses with minimal shared gene signatures, suggesting a need for pathogen-targeted therapeutic and diagnostic strategies.

Oluwadamilola Sadiku2026-07-10✓ Author reviewed
🤖 machine learning

MuScriptor: An Open Model for Multi-Instrument Music Transcription

MuScriptor is an open-weight model that achieves effective multi-instrument music transcription on real-world recordings by combining synthetic pre-training, real-data fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and instrument-conditioning to overcome the generalization limitations of existing methods.

Simon Rouard, Michael Krause, Axel Roebel, Carl-Johann Simon-Gabriel, Alexandre Défossez2026-07-10✓ Author reviewed
🔬 physics

Resolving the aragonite (CaCO3) superstructure paradox

This study resolves the long-standing aragonite superstructure paradox by demonstrating that mysterious symmetry-forbidden reflections, previously mistaken for new CaCO3 polytypes, are actually diffraction artifacts caused by nanoscale polysynthetic twinning, a finding validated through modeling and experiments that offers a generalized framework for identifying similar artifacts in other twinned materials.

Vesna Ribić, Zsombor Molnár, Péter Pekker, Péter Németh, István Dódony, Mihály Pósfai, Pavel Gavryushkin, Aleksander Reč (…)2026-07-10✓ Author reviewed
📄 other

The Evolution of Sustainability Research in the Semiconductor Industry: Trends, Knowledge Structures, and Future Research Directions

This bibliometric study analyzes 734 Scopus-indexed publications from 2000 to 2026 to map the evolution, key themes, and knowledge structures of sustainability research in the semiconductor industry, identifying major contributors, core topics like recycling and environmental management, and promising future directions such as the circular economy and renewable energy.

Abdullah, Aliza2026-07-10✓ Author reviewed
💻 computer science

StructFix: A Structure-Aware Reasoning Framework for Automated Program Repair with Code Property Graphs

StructFix is a structure-aware automated program repair framework that enhances masked language models by integrating Code Property Graphs to better capture control and data dependencies, thereby improving repair effectiveness and cross-language robustness compared to existing token-sequence-based approaches.

Mengtian Cui, Yangfan Liu, Zhibo Lu, Yancui Hu, Peican Zhu2026-07-10✓ Author reviewed
⚛️ phenomenology

Phenomenology of Leptophilic Gauge Interactions at Future e+ee^+e^- Colliders

This paper presents an observable-driven study demonstrating that angular observables, particularly the forward-backward asymmetry and a newly proposed interference-normalized quantity, offer robust sensitivity to leptophilic gauge interactions mediated by a ZZ_\ell boson at future e+ee^+e^- colliders, even in off-shell regimes where interference effects dominate over resonant enhancements. The leptophilic gauge boson is not restricted to electrons and muons alone, but more generally couples to leptons, depending on the specific model.

S. O. Kara2026-07-09✓ Author reviewed