Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Chengtai Li, Ying Weng, Yiming Zhang, Boding Wang
Summary: Artificial intelligence has made significant progress in the medical field, particularly in the diagnosis of breast cancer. However, effectively utilizing AI techniques in breast cancer-related medical care remains a challenge due to its complexity. This systematic review explores recent trends in the application of natural language processing-based AI in breast cancer research.
Review
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Min Zhang, Shulin Liu, Zhao Wang, Yaqin Yuan, Zhifang Zhang, Qianjin Liang, Xia Yang, Zongbiao Duan, Yucheng Liu, Fanjiang Kong, Baohui Liu, Bo Ren, Zhixi Tian
Summary: Soybean breeding needs to be accelerated to meet the needs of a growing world population and address environmental changes, relying on discoveries in gene functional studies. Research progress in soybean omics, germplasm development, gene discovery, and transformation technology over the past decade has been significant, but current challenges and future directions still need to be addressed.
PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Edward Armstrong, Miikka Tallavaara, Peter O. Hopcroft, Paul J. Valdes
Summary: A study has found that periodic wet phases in the Sahara region, known as North African Humid Periods, were influenced by Earth's orbital variations and were suppressed during glacial periods due to extensive ice sheets. This has implications for understanding the out of Africa dispersal of plants and animals during the Quaternary.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Max C. A. Torbenson, Ulf Buentgen, Jan Esper, Otmar Urban, Jan Balek, Frederick Reinig, Paul J. Krusic, Edurne Martinez del Castillo, Rudolf Brazdil, Daniela Semeradova, Petr Stepanek, Natallie Pernicova, Tomas Kolar, Michal Rybnicek, Eva Konasova, Juliana Arbelaez, Miroslav Trnka
Summary: Central Europe has been experiencing unprecedented summer droughts since 2015, with significant effects on natural and agricultural systems. By analyzing tree-ring isotopes, we reconstructed temperature and moisture variability in central Europe over the past 2000 years. These reconstructions provide historical context and can be used for future climate projections.
JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Huw S. Groucutt, Tom S. White, Eleanor M. L. Scerri, Eric Andrieux, Richard Clark-Wilson, Paul S. Breeze, Simon J. Armitage, Mathew Stewart, Nick Drake, Julien Louys, Gilbert J. Price, Mathieu Duval, Ash Parton, Ian Candy, W. Christopher Carleton, Ceri Shipton, Richard P. Jennings, Muhammad Zahir, James Blinkhorn, Simon Blockley, Abdulaziz Al-Omari, Abdullah M. Alsharekh, Michael D. Petraglia
Summary: The research reveals distinct biological and cultural shifts between different hominin groups in Southwest Asia, with limited records from the vast arid region. Through studying sedimentary sequences, stone tools, and vertebrate fossils in the Nefud Desert, it is discovered that there were at least five early human expansions into the Arabian interior, coinciding with periods of reduced aridity. This suggests that ancient humans were sensitive to climate change and potentially migrated during times of decreased aridity.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Elke Zeller, Axel Timmermann, Kyung-Sook Yun, Pasquale Raia, Karl Stein, Jiaoyang Ruan
Summary: By simulating the evolution of the earth system-biome and analyzing extensive hominin fossil and archaeological data, we examine the impact of vegetation and ecosystem diversity on hominin adaptation and migration. The findings indicate that early African hominins primarily inhabited open environments such as grasslands and dry shrublands. As they migrated to Eurasia, hominins gradually adapted to a wider range of biomes. Furthermore, our ancestors actively selected spatially diverse environments, as evidenced by the correlation between the location and age of hominin sites and simulated regional biomes. In light of the quantitative results, a new diversity hypothesis is proposed, suggesting that Homo species, particularly Homo sapiens, possessed special abilities to adapt to landscape mosaics.
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Zipeng Yu, Feng Zhang, Jiri Friml, Zhaojun Ding
Summary: Auxin, one of the most widely studied phytohormones, has been a hot topic in plant biology. The advances in understanding auxin signaling, including perception, rapid responses, transcriptional and non-transcriptional branches, and epigenetic regulation, have been highlighted. Feedback inhibition mechanisms and non-canonical signaling have also been explored. Further identification of auxin signaling components and their regulation will deepen our understanding of how auxin signals regulate plant growth and development at the cellular level.
JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Surgery
Hongyi Liu, Maolin Xu, Rong Liu, Baoqing Jia, Zhiming Zhao
Summary: Robot-assisted colonic resection surgery is increasingly adopted due to its advantages in terms of shorter hospital stay, lower conversion rate to open surgery, and reduced rate of intraoperative complications, compared to laparoscopy-assisted surgery.
UPDATES IN SURGERY
(2021)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Jin Chunhan, Wang Bin, Liu Jian
Summary: The sea surface temperature in the equatorial central Pacific has shown a significant quasi-decadal oscillation since 1951, potentially linked to the 11-year solar cycle and the nonlinear behavior of ENSO. However, the reasons for the intensification of QDO over the past 70 years remain elusive.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Hairuo Fu, Shihong Zhang, Daniel J. Condon, Hanbiao Xian
Summary: Research reveals that the rate of movement of Earth's solid shell relative to its spin axis, known as true polar wander, is influenced by variations in mantle convection and viscosity. Analysis of paleomagnetic and geochronologic data from South China shows rapid true polar wander between 832 million years and 821 million years ago. The study also uncovers patterns of variation in true polar wander rates across supercontinent cycles.
Review
Immunology
Lei Gao, Anqi Zhang
Summary: Copper is an essential co-factor and vital trace element in the human body, participating in various important activities. Maintaining the equilibrium of copper ions is crucial in preventing cardiovascular diseases. Copper-induced cell death, known as cuprotosis, involves multiple mechanisms and has important implications in cancer therapy. Copper complexes synthesized by scholars have been studied for their significance and applications in cancer treatment.
FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ondrej Mottl, Suzette G. A. Flantua, Kuber P. Bhatta, Vivian A. Felde, Thomas Giesecke, Simon Goring, Eric C. Grimm, Simon Haberle, Henry Hooghiemstra, Sarah Ivory, Petr Kunes, Steffen Wolters, Alistair W. R. Seddon, John W. Williams
Summary: Over the past 18,000 years, global vegetation has undergone significant changes due to both climate fluctuations and increasing human activities. Utilizing fossil pollen sequences and statistical methods, researchers have observed a remarkable acceleration in vegetation compositional change globally, starting between 4.6 and 2.9 thousand years ago, surpassing any previous changes over the last 18,000 years.
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Bailing Li, Matthew Rodella
Summary: Severe floods and droughts are increasing in frequency and severity around the world due to climate change. This study identified and quantified extreme wet and dry events using satellite data, and found that these events are closely linked to large-scale oceanic oscillations and global temperature. The results highlight the importance of understanding changes in hydrological extremes and the need for continuous monitoring.
JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
(2023)
Editorial Material
Medicine, General & Internal
Sathish Muthu
Summary: Analyzing the articles published in a journal is important to evaluate its performance in academia. This study conducted a scientometric analysis of articles published in the World Journal of Clinical Cases over the past 5 years to provide data to readers.
WORLD JOURNAL OF CLINICAL CASES
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Tianyue Xu, Fumin Wang, Qiuxiang Yi, Lili Xie, Xiaoping Yao
Summary: This study conducted a bibliometric analysis of the field of rice remote sensing (RRS), revealing the increasing number of countries and institutions involved in RRS research. The results provided insights into the popular keywords, methods, and research institutions in this field. The findings of this study are important for readers to understand RRS and identify future research directions.
Review
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Karlie R. Sharma, Christine M. Colvis, Griffih P. Rodgers, Douglas M. Sheeley
Summary: There are many genes within the druggable genome that have not been studied, and the US National Institutes of Health's program provides resources to explore these genes, with the potential for rapid impact on human health.
DRUG DISCOVERY TODAY
(2024)
Review
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Mohammad Sameer Khan, B. H. Jaswanth Gowda, Waleed H. Almalki, Tanuja Singh, Amirhossein Sahebkar, Prashant Kesharwani
Summary: Mitochondria-specific functional liposomes hold great potential for cancer therapy. This review discusses the association between mitochondria and tumor formation, as well as the advantages of liposomes in delivering drugs to mitochondria.
DRUG DISCOVERY TODAY
(2024)
Review
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Choong Yong Ung, Cristina Correia, Hu Li, Christopher M. Adams, Jennifer J. Westendorf, Shizhen Zhu
Summary: With increasing human life expectancy, the global medical burden of chronic diseases is growing. Chronic diseases often involve malfunctioning of multiple organs, and understanding the interorgan crosstalk is crucial to understanding the etiology of chronic diseases. Researchers have proposed the locked-state model (LoSM) and cutting-edge systems biology and artificial intelligence strategies to decipher chronic multiorgan locked states. The findings have important clinical implications for improving treatments for chronic diseases.
DRUG DISCOVERY TODAY
(2024)
