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Automated lens density screening exposes myopia's unique cataract signature
Science China PressPeer-Reviewed Publication
A Peking University team has automated cataract screening from routine IOL Master 700 scans. Their "lens average density" biomarker achieved an AUC of 0.975 and correlated strongly with the clinical LOCS III standard (ρ = 0.804). The study revealed that highly myopic eyes (axial length ≥26 mm) carry a distinct nuclear cataract signature—83% prevalence versus 40% in normal-length eyes—emerging roughly 12 years earlier. The approach could embed early screening into existing workflows without extra patient burden.
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- Medicine Plus
Multimodal AI roadmaps the future of personalized cancer immunotherapy
Science China PressPeer-Reviewed Publication
Cancer immunotherapy offers long-term remissions but struggles with primary resistance, complex progression, and severe side effects. A landmark review in Science Bulletin highlights how multimodal AI integrates multi-scale data—from spatial omics and pathology to imaging and health records—to transform patient stratification. Tracing AI's evolution into foundation models and "virtual cells," the authors outline a clinical roadmap balancing efficacy, toxicity, and disease dynamics.
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- Science Bulletin
Efficacy of homoharringtonine-based induction regimen in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with double-mutated CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein alpha (CEBPA): A prospective multicenter, single-arm trial
Chinese Medical Journals Publishing House Co., Ltd.Highlights
• Homoharringtonine (HHT) downregulates CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein alpha (CEBPA) expression.
• The homoharringtonine, daunorubicin, and cytarabine (HAD) induction regimen demonstrates efficacy in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with CEBPA double mutations (CEBPAdm).
• The HAD regimen produces encouraging event-free survival (EFS) and relapse-free survival (RFS) in patients with CEBPAdm AML, both of which met the predetermined objectives.
- Journal
- Cancer Pathogenesis and Therapy
An immune exhaustion signature predicts prognosis and identifies patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) who derive preferential benefit from chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy
Chinese Medical Journals Publishing House Co., Ltd.Highlights
• Single-cell analysis defines the adverse diffuse large B-cell lymphoma tumor microenvironment (DLBCL TME) as a state of classical T-cell exhaustion rather than immune quiescence.
• A robust five-gene score (immune exhaustion-Related Prognostic Score, IERPS) independently predicts poor survival across multiple cohorts.
• IERPS exhibits clinical significance in individualized medicine for chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy.
• IERPS dynamically tracks clinical response to the T-cell engager glofitamab.
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- Cancer Pathogenesis and Therapy
Long-term fertilization enriches soil food web mainly through bottom-up regulation in a rice–wheat cropping system
KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.Peer-Reviewed Publication
Long-term fertilization enhances most functional groups. Manure and manure+NPK surpass NPK in enriching food web components. Manure and manure+NPK surpass NPK in enriching food web components. Manure and manure+NPK surpass NPK in enriching food web components.
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- Journal of Integrative Agriculture
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China
SBEIIb is responsible for the chalk2 phenotype by regulating the formation of resistant starch in indica rice
KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.Peer-Reviewed Publication
A novel OsSBEIIb allele was identified in an indica rice mutant. The OsSBEIIb mutation increases the resistant starch (RS) content in raw rice flour, as well as in retrograded and heated rice. The chalk2 mutant serves as a valuable indica rice germplasm for breeding high-RS rice varieties.
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- Journal of Integrative Agriculture
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province, China, Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
From elite germplasm to transformation platform: Breaking recalcitrance in Tartary buckwheat
KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.Peer-Reviewed Publication
An elite germplasm, G253, with superior morphogenic callus induction and proliferation capacity was identified. A stable Agrobacterium-mediated transformation platform enabling transgenic plant generation was established. An efficient protoplast transient transformation system was developed from the morphogenic callus.
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- Journal of Integrative Agriculture
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Key Research and Development Program of China, National Science Centre of Poland, Research Project SONATA BIS 10
Integrin α3 (ITGA3) expression across breast cancer subtypes: Prognosis and therapeutic relevance
Chinese Medical Journals Publishing House Co., Ltd.Peer-Reviewed Publication
Highlights
• Integrin alpha 3 (ITGA3) protein expression was detected in approximately 85% of breast cancer specimens by immunohistochemistry.
• ITGA3 expression was significantly higher in human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive and hormone receptor(HR)-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer than in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).
• High ITGA3 protein expression was associated with shorter 5-year recurrence-free survival.
• ITGA3 alterations in the Molecular Taxonomy of Breast Cancer International Consortium (METABRIC) cohort were associated with worse relapse-free and overall survival.
• Integrin α3β1 represents a potential prognostic biomarker and therapeutic target warranting prospective validation.
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- Cancer Pathogenesis and Therapy
New deep-learning framework Crop-GPA 2.0 enables transferable decoding of crop genotype-phenotype associations across species
KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.Peer-Reviewed Publication
Building upon their earlier platform Crop-GPA 1.0, a team of researchers in China developed Crop-GPA 2.0 to enable transferable SNP-level genotype–phenotype association prediction across crop species. Across multiple crop species, Crop-GPA 2.0 improved cross-species prediction performance, remained robust under limited training data, and identified biologically meaningful SNPs supported by previously reported quantitative trait locus (QTL) evidence.
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- The Crop Journal