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25-Jun-2026
National Jewish Health researchers discover new driver of asthma-related inflammation
National Jewish Health
DENVER - Researchers at National Jewish Health have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that helps drive inflammation in allergic asthma, offering new insight into how the disease develops and potentially revealing new targets for future therapies.
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- Science Advances
25-Jun-2026
Weakly supervised teacher–student framework with progressive pseudo-mask refinement for gland segmentation
Xia & He Publishing Inc.
Colorectal cancer histopathological grading relies on the accurate segmentation of glandular structures. Current deep learning–based methods depend heavily on large-scale pixel-level annotations that are labor-intensive and not amenable to clinical practice. Weakly supervised semantic segmentation offers a promising alternative; yet, existing class activation map–based weakly supervised semantic segmentation approaches often produce incomplete, low-quality pseudo-masks that overemphasize discriminative regions and fail to provide reliable supervision for unannotated glandular structures, limiting their suitability for dense histopathology segmentation under sparse supervision. We propose a novel weakly supervised teacher–student framework that leverages sparse pathologists’ annotations and an Exponential Moving Average–stabilized teacher network to generate refined pseudo-masks.
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- Journal of Clinical and Translational Pathology
25-Jun-2026
Cardio-renal-neural phenotype shapes survival after liver transplant in ATTR amyloidosis
First Hospital of Jilin University
A global registry study of 1,762 patients with hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTRv), led by Professor Henryk Wilczek and colleagues from Karolinska Institutet and published in eGastroenterology, shows that pre-transplant phenotype strongly influences long-term outcomes after liver transplantation. Cardiac involvement predicts significantly worse survival, while renal involvement alone does not. Median survival reached 20.4 years overall but dropped to 15.2 years in cardiac phenotypes. Early autonomic neuropathy progression may signal disease recurrence. These findings refine patient selection and provide a benchmark for evaluating modern disease-modifying therapies.
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- eGastroenterology
25-Jun-2026
Plant peptides cross family lines to boost immunity
Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of Science
Plants carry their own alarm system. When cells are damaged by pathogens, small signaling molecules can alert surrounding tissues and switch on immune defenses. A new study shows that two pear-derived plant elicitor peptides (Peps), PbePep4 and PdrPep6, can strengthen resista
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- Horticulture Research
25-Jun-2026
How tomatoes balance salt stress and survival
Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of Science
Soil salinization is becoming a major constraint on crop production, especially where salt and alkaline stress strike together.
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- Horticulture Research
25-Jun-2026
How dispersal shaped a tropical legume
Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of Science
A new genome-based study has revealed how geographic dispersal reshaped the genetic diversity and key traits of Crotalaria pallida, a tropical legume valued for agriculture and medicine.
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- Horticulture Research
25-Jun-2026
Why purple plum leaves turn green
Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of SciencePurple leaves give ornamental trees their seasonal appeal, but in some cultivars this striking color does not last.
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- Horticulture Research
25-Jun-2026
How tall fescue reads future CO2 signals
Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of Science
Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide can boost plant growth, but this benefit depends strongly on how much nitrogen is available.
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- Horticulture Research
25-Jun-2026
Associations of normalization and regularization with machine learning overfitting in cross-dataset classification of deaths using transcriptomic and clinical data
Xia & He Publishing Inc.
Normalization can standardize and improve machine learning (ML) performance on omics data. However, it is unclear whether normalization is associated with overfitting (i.e., worse cross-dataset performance than intra-dataset performance). Therefore, we aimed to examine associations of normalization and regularization with overfitting of ML on omics data.
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- Journal of Clinical and Translational Pathology