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Nociceptor-to-macrophage communication through CGRP/RAMP1 signaling drives endometriosis-associated pain and lesion growth in mice | Science Translational Medicine
Blocking nociceptor CGRP to RAMP1 signaling in macrophages reduces endometriosis pain and lesion growth in a mouse model of the disease.
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Integrative multiomic analysis identifies distinct molecular subtypes of NAFLD in a Chinese population | Science Translational Medicine
Integrative multiomic analysis identifies three molecular subtypes of NAFLD associated with distinct clinical risks.
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Engineering CAR-T therapies for autoimmune disease and beyond | Science Translational Medicine
Emerging CAR-T technologies offer transformative potential to address the needs of patients with autoimmunity or other diseases beyond cancer.
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Protumoral lipid droplet–loaded macrophages are enriched in human glioblastoma and can be therapeutically targeted | Science Translational Medicine
Protumoral foamy macrophages are associated with poorer survival in humans with glioblastoma and can be targeted by lipid droplet inhibitors.
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A kidney-specific fasting-mimicking diet induces podocyte reprogramming and restores renal function in glomerulopathy | Science Translational Medicine
A fasting-mimicking diet treatment restores renal function in glomerulopathy and provides preliminary evidence of beneficial effects in chronic kidney disease.
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Bayesian modeling for analyzing heterogeneous response in preclinical mouse tumor models | Science Translational Medicine
Statistical modeling allows the classification of individual tumor responses and assessment of treatment effects with heterogeneous response.
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Inhibition of an Alzheimer’s disease–associated form of necroptosis rescues neuronal death in mouse models | Science Translational Medicine
A granulovacuolar degeneration–associated form of necroptosis represents an Alzheimer’s disease–related type of nerve cell death that can be inhibited.
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Single-cell transcriptomic and proteomic analysis of Parkinson’s disease brains | Science Translational Medicine
A single-cell transcriptomic atlas with integrated proteomics for the prefrontal cortex of late-stage Parkinson’s disease human brains is presented.
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From blood to mucosa | Science Translational Medicine
Current COVID-19 vaccines induce suboptimal respiratory mucosal immunity even after mRNA boosters (Declercq et al. and Lasrado et al., this issue).
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SARS-CoV-2 XBB.1.5 mRNA booster vaccination elicits limited mucosal immunity | Science Translational Medicine
COVID-19 mRNA booster vaccines induce limited mucosal immunity.
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Repeated COVID-19 mRNA-based vaccination contributes to SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody responses in the mucosa | Science Translational Medicine
mRNA booster vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 induce circulating virus neutralizing antibodies that may enter the respiratory mucosa.
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Characterization of clonal dynamics using duplex sequencing in donor-recipient pairs decades after hematopoietic cell transplantation | Science Translational Medicine
Mutation load and clonal hematopoiesis are similar between donors and recipients, even decades after hematopoietic cell transplantation.
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Stromal reprogramming overcomes resistance to RAS-MAPK inhibition to improve pancreas cancer responses to cytotoxic and immune therapy | Science Translational Medicine
Stromal reprograming by FAK inhibition overcomes RAS-MAPK inhibition resistance and enhances responses to therapy in pancreas cancer models.
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Cryptosporidium lysyl-tRNA synthetase inhibitors define the interplay between solubility and permeability required to achieve efficacy | Science Translational Medicine
Potent lysyl-tRNA synthetase inhibitors advance our understanding of desirable properties for achieving efficacy in cryptosporidiosis animal models.
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Human OX40L–CAR-Tregs target activated antigen-presenting cells and control T cell alloreactivity | Science Translational Medicine
Human FOXP3 promoter–driven OX40L–CAR-Tregs potently suppress alloreactivity and control graft-versus-host disease.
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Intraoperative evaluation of tumor margins using a TROP2 near-infrared imaging probe to enable human breast-conserving surgery | Science Translational Medicine
Nuclide and optical probes targeting TROP2 support the identification of margins during breast-conserving surgery in patients with breast cancer.
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High-fidelity PAMless base editing of hematopoietic stem cells to treat chronic granulomatous disease | Science Translational Medicine
Versatile PAMless CRISPR base editors enable efficient and precise therapeutic correction of CGD mutations in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells.
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Melatonin receptor 1A variants as genetic cause of idiopathic osteoporosis | Science Translational Medicine
MTNR1A loss-of-function variant rs374152717 impairs bone turnover and provides evidence of a genetic etiology of idiopathic osteoporosis.
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Follistatin drives neuropathic pain in mice through IGF1R signaling in nociceptive neurons | Science Translational Medicine
After nerve injury, follistatin is up-regulated and interacts with IGF1R to activate Nav1.7 in nociceptive neurons, leading to neuropathic pain.
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An altered natural killer cell immunophenotype characterizes clinically severe pediatric RSV infection | Science Translational Medicine
Increased airway NK cells, altered circulating NK cell immunophenotype, and cytotoxic dysfunction are associated with severe pediatric RSV infection.
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