Capturing drought stress signals: the potential of dendrometers for monitoring tree water status.

The severity of droughts is expected to increase with climate change, leading to more frequent tree mortality and a decline in forest ecosystem services. Consequently, there is an urgent need for monitoring networks to provide early warnings of drought impacts on forests. Dendrometers capturing stem diameter variations may offer a simple and relatively low-cost opportunity.

Drought and heat stress interactions modify photorespiration and hydrogen peroxide content in Silver fir.

Photorespiration (PR) greatly reduces net carbon assimilation in trees (by c. 25%), but has received recent attention particular for its potential role in stress-signaling through the accumulation of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), a stress signaling agent. Despite an increasing frequency of drought and heat events affecting forests worldwide, little is known about how concurrent abiotic stressors may interact to affect PR and subsequent H2O2 accumulation in trees.

The emerging role of Artificial Intelligence in proton therapy: A review.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made a tremendous impact in the space of healthcare, and proton therapy is not an exception. Proton therapy has witnessed growing popularity in oncology over recent decades, and researchers are increasingly looking to develop AI and machine learning tools to aid in various steps of the treatment planning and delivery processes. This review delves into the emergent role of AI in proton therapy, evaluating its development, advantages, intended clinical contexts, and areas of application.

Acute toxicity in patients with oligometastatic cancer following metastasis-directed stereotactic body radiotherapy: An interim analysis of the E-RADIatE OligoCare cohort.

Aim: To evaluate acute toxicity at 6 months after stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) in patients with oligometastatic cancer within the OligoCare cohort.

Material And Methods: OligoCare is a prospective, registry-based, single-arm, observational study that aims to report prospective real-world data of patients with oligometastases from solid cancer treated with SBRT (NCT03818503). Primary tumor included non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), breast cancer (BC), colorectal cancer (CRC), and prostate cancer (PC).