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In mice and pigs with traumatic brain injury, dynamic compressive tibial axial loading promoted motor and cognitive recovery, and osteocyte Piezo1 was required for the benefit in mice.CAUSALLeans supported
Chemical dissociation of cytosolic myddosomes disrupted inflammatory activities of TLR-stimulated cells in vitro and in vivo.CAUSALLeans supported
TRAM-dependent long-lasting myddosome activity determines hours-long NF-κB activation and secondary response gene expression in the studied TLR pathways.CAUSALLeans supported
In macrophage models, TRAM regulates myddosome assembly by dissociating MyD88 from the TLR–TIRAP complex, enabling maturation of receptor-free cytosolic myddosomes and downstream signaling.CAUSALLeans supported
The study's GWAS, cell-interaction analyses, and mouse validation indicate that peripheral nerves fine-tune maxilla shape during embryonic development.CAUSALLeans supported
In the facial atlas, gene-expression associations with facial traits were strongest in early mesenchymal progenitor cells and became more region restricted over development.OBSERVATIONALSupported
The study created a multimodal facial atlas across embryonic weeks 6–11 using single-cell transcriptomics, chromatin accessibility, and spatial transcriptomics, and characterized 56 cell states.QUANTITATIVESupported
The STEP analysis found no significant treatment-by-metabolic-syndrome interaction for cardiovascular or safety outcomes, although hypotension was numerically more frequent with intensive treatment in the highest tertile.QUANTITATIVESupported
Over a median 3.32-year follow-up, intensive systolic blood-pressure lowering was associated with lower primary cardiovascular-outcome risk than standard treatment across metabolic-syndrome tertiles; the largest reduction was in the middle tertile (HR 0.66, 95% CI 0.44–0.99).QUANTITATIVESupported
A post hoc STEP-trial analysis included 8,231 participants with complete metabolic-syndrome severity data and used an age-, sex-, and ethnicity-specific scoring model.OBSERVATIONALSupported
In the trial, closed-loop auditory stimulation enhanced stimulation-evoked slow-wave and fast-spindle activity while preserving sleep architecture and subjective sleep quality.COMPARATIVESupported
In the trial, closed-loop auditory stimulation significantly improved overnight word-pair consolidation, with Cohen’s dz = 0.42 and p = 0.04.QUANTITATIVESupported
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover trial tested one night of closed-loop auditory stimulation against sham stimulation in 37 patients with biomarker-confirmed early symptomatic Alzheimer disease.QUANTITATIVESupported
The Foodsmart trial included 460 U.S. adults insured with Medicaid and experiencing persistently elevated blood sugar, with approximately two-thirds using insulin.QUANTITATIVESupported
After six months in the trial, 8.9% of the intervention group versus 3.4% of the usual-care group reached HbA1c below 7%.QUANTITATIVESupported
In a six-month randomized trial, the medically tailored-groceries plus telehealth intervention group had a larger HbA1c decrease than the usual-care group, 0.66 versus 0.44 percentage points.QUANTITATIVEUnresolved
The study tested selected synthetic promoters in primary human CD8-positive T cells and characterized an NR4A2-responsive subset in vitro and in tumor-infiltrating engineered T cells in a melanoma xenograft model.OBSERVATIONALSupported
The study developed synthetic promoters responsive to seven transcription factors identified from T-cell activation programs, with a broad dynamic range of inducibility and basal expression.OBSERVATIONALSupported
In the study's mouse model of lung protease hypersensitivity, memory of the initial event was stored in CCL11-expressing adventitial stromal cells; Ccl11 accessibility increased with papain exposure through IL-4/IL-13 and was blocked by interferon-γ.OBSERVATIONALSupported
In the study's tumour models, abrupt stress increases rather than cumulative or peak stress magnitude determined epithelial–mesenchymal transition induction.OBSERVATIONALSupported
The mechanoMR microparticle sensor study calibrated quantitative local tissue-stress measurements over a 0–15 kPa range and used the platform in tumour spheroids and mouse xenografts.QUANTITATIVESupported
In aged-heart models, cardiac Vegfc overexpression or Il33 silencing restored lymphatic density and tissue homeostasis, identifying the VEGFC–IL-33 axis as a potential target for age-related cardiac dysfunction.CAUSALSupported
Aging reduced cardiac lymphatic-vessel density in humans and mice, and experimentally reducing cardiac lymphatics in young mice recapitulated inflammation and impaired lymphatic integrity associated with cardiac aging.CAUSALSupported
In streptomycin-treated mouse models of Salmonella Typhimurium infection, prophylactic colonization with engineered E. coli producing obligately lytic P22* phage reduced pathogen colonization and improved survival.OBSERVATIONALSupported
In the study’s 14,644-patient RW2 cohort, EAGLE-Plus reduced false positives by 72.7% while maintaining comparable sensitivity.QUANTITATIVESupported
In the study’s eight-center external CT test cohorts, EAGLE achieved 98.5% specificity, 90.0% cancer sensitivity and 52.5% precancerous-lesion sensitivity.QUANTITATIVESupported
The EAGLE model was trained on 6,813 patients and validated across 12 centers in three countries involving 80,612 patients.QUANTITATIVESupported
In experimental renal fibrosis, SRPX2 interacted with IRP1 and disrupted iron-regulatory signaling, and iron dextran supplementation alleviated UUO-induced renal fibrosis.CAUSALSupported
SRPX2 expression was elevated in CKD patient kidney and serum samples and in experimental renal-fibrosis models, while global or tubular-epithelial deletion of Srpx2 attenuated kidney injury and fibrosis in mice.CAUSALSupported
In mouse heart-attack models, blocking succinate dehydrogenase specifically in cardiomyocytes produced a transient proliferation increase that was insufficient by itself to improve heart function.OBSERVATIONALSupported
In mouse heart-attack models, blocking succinate dehydrogenase in cardiac fibroblasts suppressed fibroblast activation and reduced scar formation, resulting in improved cardiac function.OBSERVATIONALSupported
In the same skin-infection model, a later neutrophil-recruitment phase depended on Toll-like receptor and CXCL2 signaling, marking a transition to canonical pathogen-driven innate immunity.CAUSALSupported
In a skin-infection model with pathogenic bacteria and fungi, microbial adhesion initiated an early PRR-independent neutrophil-recruitment phase by engaging Piezo1 and promoting leukotriene B4, interleukin-1α, and CXCL1 signaling.CAUSALSupported
In a global analysis of 58,319 outbreak event records for 32 diseases, reporting declined by a median of 32% for each additional hour of travel time from a health facility.QUANTITATIVEInsufficient evidence
Sex-specific biological aging clocks predicted systemic diseases and all-cause mortality in sex-dependent and organ-dependent ways in longitudinal survival analyses.COMPARATIVESupported
A study developed 38 sex-specific biological aging clocks across 15 organ systems and found marked divergence between female and male clock outputs.QUANTITATIVESupported
In a 15-cluster Singapore randomized trial, releases of irradiated Wolbachia wAlbB-infected male Aedes aegypti were associated with time-varying reductions in dengue incidence and an estimated 2,351 cases averted, though the effect attenuated during an inter-epidemic period.QUANTITATIVELeans supported
In the randomized phase 3 LONESTAR trial of 166 immunotherapy-naive patients with metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer, adding local consolidative radiation or surgery after nivolumab plus ipilimumab did not significantly improve overall or progression-free survival.QUANTITATIVESupported
In the NOHARM stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial across six surgical centers, an EHR-based strategy promoting nondrug pain management reduced postoperative opioid exposure without worsening patient-reported pain interference, physical function, or reported safety outcomes.QUANTITATIVESupported
In a double-blind pilot randomized trial of opioid-exposed newborns managed with Eat, Sleep, Console, high-calorie versus standard feeds showed no significant differences in weight loss, length of stay, or stool frequency, while breastfeeding at discharge was more frequent with high-calorie feeds.QUANTITATIVESupported
In the Alliance A071801 randomized phase 3 trial of 242 patients with resected large brain metastases, three-to-five-session radiosurgery improved one-year surgical-bed control and median survival versus single-session radiosurgery without significant overall adverse-event differences.QUANTITATIVESupported
In a 45-eye randomized trial of pseudophakic primary open-angle glaucoma, GATT produced greater 24-month intraocular-pressure and medication reductions and higher complete surgical success than BANG, with similar reoperation counts.QUANTITATIVEInsufficient evidence
A reported 13-year follow-up of a Danish randomized trial found no significant adolescent bone-mineral or fracture benefit from 2800 IU/day prenatal vitamin D compared with the standard 400 IU/day recommendation, despite earlier childhood gains.QUANTITATIVESupported
A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis reported that laboratory-confirmed enteric infection was associated with higher odds of childhood stunting, while grading the certainty of the evidence as very low.QUANTITATIVESupported
In a murine MRSA infection model, IMP-2380 combined with ciprofloxacin produced a significant 100-fold reduction in bacterial burden, with three of five infections below the assay detection limit.QUANTITATIVESupported
In a triple-masked randomized trial of 75 adults with subacromial pain syndrome, clinician-curated ChatGPT-4o and DeepSeek-R1 exercise programs added to standard physiotherapy did not improve six-week shoulder disability more than conventional programming, although an exploratory resting-pain difference favored DeepSeek-R1.QUANTITATIVESupported
In a single-center randomized trial of 288 low-risk adults undergoing elective thyroid surgery, omitting face-mask ventilation caused no observed desaturation in either group, but formal non-inferiority was not established because the trial stopped early; exploratory gastric insufflation occurred only with ventilation.QUANTITATIVESupported
In a randomized trial of 46 patients with lumbar disc herniation, both brochure-based and web telerehabilitation home exercise improved most outcomes; baseline-adjusted analyses favored telerehabilitation for activity-related pain and dynamic lumbar muscle performance, but not overall superiority.QUANTITATIVESupported
In the phase 1 mRNA-1215 trial, antibody responses increased after the booster dose and remained elevated for at least one year.QUANTITATIVESupported
In a phase 1, first-in-human trial of mRNA-1215 in 40 healthy adults, no serious adverse events occurred during the study.QUANTITATIVESupported
In a stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial across 15 German NICUs involving 1,627 very-low-birth-weight infants, structured lactation support combined with donor-milk banking increased exclusive mother’s own milk feeding at discharge by 11 percentage points without observed increases in major complications or length of stay.QUANTITATIVESupported
In a nationwide prospective Swedish cohort of 181 children with acute leukemia, an integrated phenotyping, germline WGS panel, and tumor-sequencing strategy found cancer-predisposition diagnoses in 5.0%, with six of nine previously unrecognized and management changes in some cases.QUANTITATIVESupported
In an Ethiopian phase II randomized trial of 183 adults with localized Leishmania aethiopica cutaneous leishmaniasis, single-session thermotherapy and weekly intralesional sodium stibogluconate had comparable intention-to-treat cure rates, while per-protocol final cure favored drug treatment; no serious adverse events occurred.QUANTITATIVESupported
In a triple-blind multicenter randomized trial of 132 patients with persistent schizophrenia symptoms, low-intensity transcranial random-noise stimulation produced no significant improvement over sham at day 5 or on secondary outcomes, though it was well tolerated.QUANTITATIVESupported
In a randomized controlled trial of 249 physicians in Indonesia, Kenya, and the Netherlands, GPT-4o access improved clinical-performance scores relative to control by 18 percentage points in Kenya, 10.7 in Indonesia, and 7.2 in the Netherlands under controlled conditions; harms were not assessed.QUANTITATIVESupported
In the Proyecto Mamá randomized trial of 123 predominantly Puerto Rican women with overweight or obesity before pregnancy, a culturally tailored lifestyle intervention increased sports/exercise, household/caregiving, and light-intensity postpartum activity and doubled the odds of meeting ACOG activity guidelines, but did not improve combined moderate-to-vigorous activity or self-efficacy.QUANTITATIVESupported
In an open-label pilot of 30 adults with Crohn’s disease, a single colonoscopic fecal microbiota transplant was associated with mucosal adherent-invasive E. coli decolonization in all 8 evaluable baseline-positive patients, with no FMT-related serious adverse events.QUANTITATIVESupported
In a nationwide prospective Swedish cohort of 181 children with acute leukemia, a three-pronged phenotyping and sequencing strategy identified pathogenic germline alterations in 9 patients (5.0%); 8 of 9 received tailored surveillance and 4 of 9 had treatment modifications.QUANTITATIVESupported
In a single-center single-arm phase-2 trial of 20 patients with advanced fumarate-hydratase-deficient renal-cell carcinoma, first-line tislelizumab plus lenvatinib produced a 95% objective response rate and 100% disease-control rate, while grade 3-or-higher treatment-related adverse events occurred in 45%.QUANTITATIVESupported
In pooled test-negative case-control data from 2,243 Indian children hospitalized with acute gastroenteritis, three doses of ROTASIIL had 52% adjusted effectiveness against rotavirus-gastroenteritis hospitalization among children aged 3–23 months.QUANTITATIVESupported
In a multicenter double-blind randomized trial of 1,152 women aged 35–42 at 13 Chinese fertility centers, non-invasive preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy did not significantly improve ongoing pregnancy rate versus morphology-based embryo selection.QUANTITATIVESupported
In the SHIP HOPE cluster-randomized trial of 2,514 children in 10 Chinese primary schools, a comprehensive hygiene package did not significantly reduce one-year H. pylori prevalence or incidence, although it substantially improved H. pylori knowledge.QUANTITATIVESupported
In a 12-month randomized HealthMPowerment trial among young Black and Latinx men who have sex with men and transgender women, the smartphone intervention did not improve routine HIV testing; apparent viral-suppression benefits were no longer significant after adjustment for baseline suppression, age and income.QUANTITATIVESupported
In the Baby’s First Years randomized trial, low-income US mothers receiving US$333 per month rather than US$20 during their child’s first four years had four-year-old children with a 0.17-standard-deviation lower salivary DunedinPACE score, while maternal epigenetic indices showed no effect and child Epigenetic-g results were inconclusive.QUANTITATIVESupported
In the three-month NeuroFit randomized trial of 52 healthy middle-aged UK adults, structured live-online exercise did not significantly improve pattern separation, but reduced depressive symptoms and changed an in-vitro proliferative-cell measure.QUANTITATIVESupported
In the Southwest Ethiopia study, presumptive E. coli, Salmonella spp., Shigella spp., and Listeria spp. were observed at 42.1%, 29.2%, 18.6%, and 13.5%, respectively, across water, beef, and environmental samples, with significant variation by sample type and source.QUANTITATIVESupported
A Southwest Ethiopia slaughter-to-plate study collected 349 samples from water, beef cuts, colon contents, and carcass swabs across a catchment river, two abattoirs, and 44 randomly selected beef retailers between February and May 2024.QUANTITATIVESupported
In the phase II randomized RIO trial of 68 adult men living with HIV who interrupted ART, long-acting 3BNC117-LS and 10-1074-LS delayed viral rebound: median ART restart was 45.4 weeks with antibodies versus 4.6 weeks with placebo, and intact proviruses declined in the antibody arm.QUANTITATIVESupported
The exploratory clinical-trial social-media comparison reported a Jaccard similarity coefficient of 0.159 between the Bluesky and Twitter/X discussion datasets.QUANTITATIVESupported
In an exploratory comparison of clinical-trial discussions, Bluesky discourse was more cohesive and research-oriented with more specialized vocabulary, whereas Twitter/X discourse was more fragmented and event-driven.COMPARATIVESupported
In a 711-participant randomized phase 2b trial of heart failure with preserved or mildly reduced ejection fraction, 48 weeks of mitiperstat did not improve symptoms, six-minute walk distance, or secondary endpoints versus placebo, although safety was generally similar.QUANTITATIVESupported
In the U.S. oncology-trial analysis, ZIP codes in the lowest median-income tercile had significantly lower trial success rates than ZIP codes in the middle and highest income terciles; the lowest-versus-highest comparison reported p < 0.0001 and OR 1.13 [1.10–1.16].QUANTITATIVESupported
An analysis of 15,658 U.S. oncology clinical trials found that trial locations were skewed away from ZIP codes with lower median incomes.QUANTITATIVESupported
In the NHS-Galleri trial's evaluable intervention participants across three annual rounds, the multi-cancer early-detection test had 99.50–99.60% specificity and 26.7–37.2% episode sensitivity for all cancers; these performance analyses were descriptive and the trial's primary late-stage-cancer endpoint was not met.QUANTITATIVESupported
In a pragmatic cluster-randomized trial across 16 Kenyan primary-care facilities, LLM-assisted clinical officers did not significantly change 14-day treatment-failure rates versus control: 2.2% versus 2.0% (adjusted odds ratio 0.77, 95% CI 0.55–1.08, P=0.13).QUANTITATIVESupported
In the PATHFINDER 2 study, among 32,007 performance-analyzable participants, the multi-cancer early-detection test had a 0.54% cancer detection rate, 60.3% positive predictive value, 99.2% negative predictive value, and 99.64% specificity.QUANTITATIVESupported
In this real-world case-control study, prior metformin use was not associated with a statistically distinguishable difference in SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility (aOR 0.97, 95% CI 0.81–1.16).QUANTITATIVESupported
In this real-world case-control study, prior metformin use was associated with lower odds of COVID-19 hospitalization and disease progression than use of no antidiabetic medication (hospitalization aOR 0.70, 95% CI 0.51–0.97; progression aOR 0.66, 95% CI 0.45–0.98).QUANTITATIVESupported
In the study's MIRA-v2 evaluation, diagnostic behavioral consistency had AUC 0.860 for correctness discrimination and 0.875 under stress testing; a 0.90 threshold retained 49.4% of cases at 98.9% diagnostic accuracy.QUANTITATIVESupported
In two MIMIC-IV-derived benchmarks, the evaluated on-premise clinical AI agent achieved 90.04% accuracy on a seven-disease task and 83.8% accuracy on a four-disease task.QUANTITATIVESupported
In a retrospective metastatic prostate-cancer cohort, among cases classified as IMF6-high, androgen-receptor pathway inhibitor treatment was associated with lower treatment-failure risk than taxane treatment (HR 0.21, 95% CI 0.05–0.79, P = 0.021).QUANTITATIVESupported
In a study of 959 primary prostate-cancer donors, eight integrated mutational footprints collectively explained the mutational processes in 85% of primary prostate-cancer genomes; four footprints present in 37% of primary tumours were associated with shorter time to metastasis.QUANTITATIVESupported
In the same phase 1b/2 study, the regimen produced a 95% disease-control rate among the 40 analyzed participants.QUANTITATIVESupported
In a South Korean phase 1b/2 study of 40 participants with previously untreated HER2-positive advanced biliary tract cancer, the trastuzumab-nivolumab-gemcitabine-cisplatin regimen produced a 55% objective response rate.QUANTITATIVESupported
In that study, 6 of the 9 cancer-predisposition diagnoses were previously unrecognized; findings prompted tailored surveillance in 8 of 9 patients and treatment modifications in 4 of 9.QUANTITATIVESupported
In a Swedish nationwide prospective population-based study of 181 children with acute leukemia, a three-pronged diagnostic strategy identified pathogenic germline alterations in 9 patients, an overall diagnostic yield of 5.0%.QUANTITATIVESupported
In the testing cohort, PANXEON combined with CA19-9 detected stage I–II pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma with 86.8% sensitivity, with false-positive rates of 3.2% in low-risk controls and 15.6% in high-risk controls.QUANTITATIVESupported
Researchers applied prime assembly in primary human cells to targeted exon recoding, transgene integration, and megabase-scale rearrangements at therapeutically relevant loci.OBSERVATIONALSupported
Prime assembly enables RNA-programmable, site-specific integration of medium-to-large DNA sequences in human cells without relying on nuclease-driven double-strand breaks or cell-cycle progression.OBSERVATIONALSupported
In medical-record data, levetiracetam use was linked to longer survival for patients with diffuse midline gliomas but not for patients with hemispheric high-grade gliomas.COMPARATIVESupported
In mice grafted with human diffuse midline gliomas, levetiracetam slowed malignant-cell growth.OBSERVATIONALSupported
Mice vaccinated with the heat-stored MIT RNA-LNP formulation showed equivalent immune responses to mice receiving a comparable Moderna-like RNA-LNP formulation.COMPARATIVESupported
An MIT-developed lipid nanoparticle formulation kept RNA vaccine particles stable at room temperature for up to one year or at 37°C (98°F) for two months.QUANTITATIVESupported
Pairing Fountain Life's testing with healthy living changes improved members' brain age by 26 per cent.QUANTITATIVEContradicted
Advanced testing found that one quarter of Fountain Life's members had advanced brain age.QUANTITATIVESupported
Conservative estimates hold that 45 per cent of dementia cases are entirely preventable.QUANTITATIVESupported
The Navier-Stokes equations govern fluid dynamics and underpin aircraft design, submarine design and modelling blood flow in artificial hearts.OBSERVATIONALLeans supported