Evaluating MicroRNAs as Diagnostic Tools for Lymph Node Metastasis in Breast Cancer: Findings from a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Lymph node metastasis (LNM) significantly affects the prognosis and clinical management of breast cancer (BC) patients. This systematic review and meta-analysis aim to identify microRNAs (miRNAs) associated with LNM in BC and evaluate their potential diagnostic and prognostic value. Following PRISMA guidelines, a comprehensive literature search was conducted in PubMed, Web of Science, and SCOPUS databases, to assess the role of miRNAs in LNM BC.

TEMPTED: time-informed dimensionality reduction for longitudinal microbiome studies.

Longitudinal studies are crucial for understanding complex microbiome dynamics and their link to health. We introduce TEMPoral TEnsor Decomposition (TEMPTED), a time-informed dimensionality reduction method for high-dimensional longitudinal data that treats time as a continuous variable, effectively characterizing temporal information and handling varying temporal sampling. TEMPTED captures key microbial dynamics, facilitates beta-diversity analysis, and enhances reproducibility by transferring learned representations to new data.

Early prediction of preeclampsia using the first trimester vaginal microbiome.

Preeclampsia is a severe obstetrical syndrome which contributes to 10-15% of all maternal deaths. Although the mechanisms underlying systemic damage in preeclampsia-such as impaired placentation, endothelial dysfunction, and immune dysregulation-are well studied, the initial triggers of the condition remain largely unknown. Furthermore, although the pathogenesis of preeclampsia begins early in pregnancy, there are no early diagnostics for this life-threatening syndrome, which is typically diagnosed much later, after systemic damage has already manifested.

The C. elegans LON-1 protein requires its CAP domain for function in regulating body size and BMP signaling.

The CAP (Cysteine-rich secretory proteins, Antigen-5, Pathogenesis-Related) proteins are widely expressed and have been implicated to play diverse roles ranging from mammalian reproduction to plant immune response. Increasing evidence supports a role of CAP proteins in lipid binding. The C.