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  • An integrative multiomics approach in nondiabetic obese women identifies phenylacetate as a microbial metabolite contributing to the accumulation of lipids in the liver and hence to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.

    • Nathalie M. Delzenne
    • Laure B. Bindels
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  • The number, identity, and burden of mutations in clonal hematopoiesis are associated with the risk and timing of progression to acute myeloid leukemia.

    • Rob S. Sellar
    • Siddhartha Jaiswal
    • Benjamin L. Ebert
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  • A large retrospective study involving 62,565 Danish men shows that those who have been overweight in childhood have a lower risk of having type 2 diabetes in adulthood if they had remission of overweight before 13 years of age.

    • Daniel S. Hsia
    • Steven B. Heymsfield
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  • A metastatic hormone receptor–positive breast cancer, usually resistant to immunotherapy, is successfully treated with tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes enriched for neoantigen reactivity, underscoring the broad potential of this immunotherapeutic approach.

    • Laszlo G. Radvanyi
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  • Complete leukemic responses to chimeric antigen receptor–modified T cells are invariably accompanied by severe toxicity. Recently developed animal models allow mechanistic dissection and prevention of toxicity without loss of therapeutic benefit.

    • Cliona Rooney
    • Tim Sauer
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  • In triple-negative breast cancer, therapeutic response to carboplatin and docetaxel is similar. However, carboplatin therapy is superior to docetaxel in patients with germline BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations, but ‘BRCAness’ does not predict sensitivity to carboplatin. 

    • Ana C. Garrido-Castro
    • Eric P. Winer
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  • An artificial intelligence (AI) using a deep-learning approach can classify retinal images from optical coherence tomography for early diagnosis of retinal diseases and has the potential to be used in other image-based medical diagnoses.

    • Daniel S. W. Ting
    • Yong Liu
    • Tien Y. Wong
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  • Anti-GD2 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-modified T cells may be a new and innovative approach for the treatment of pediatric H3-K27M-mutant diffuse midline gliomas.

    • Vijay Ramaswamy
    • Michael D Taylor
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  • A crucial role for glucose metabolism has been identified in wound repair and in the pathogenesis of chronic inflammatory skin diseases, indicating that targeting metabolism is an approach for treating psoriasis.

    • Paul Hiebert
    • Sabine Werner
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  • Mass cytometry of acute B cell lymphoblastic leukemias at diagnosis reveals intrapatient phenotypic heterogeneity and specific signatures that mimic cell developmental stage and predict future relapse.

    • José Ignacio Martín-Subero
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  • A newly discovered antibody epitope on the liver-infective form of the parasite that causes malaria opens new doors for vaccine development.

    • Simon J Draper
    • Matthew K Higgins
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  • A key molecular mechanism has been identified that dictates whether memory will maintain or lose its details over time and that is relevant in post-traumatic stress disorder and dementia.

    • Josue Haubrich
    • Karim Nader
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  • The presence of multiple inflammatory cytokines predicts the failure of a topical 1% tenofovir microbicide gel to protect women against HIV infection.

    • Thomas J Hope
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