Publications by authors named "R J Seager"

Multiple recent record-shattering weather events raise questions about the adequacy of climate models to effectively predict and prepare for unprecedented climate impacts on human life, infrastructure, and ecosystems. Here, we show that extreme heat in several regions globally is increasing significantly and faster in magnitude than what state-of-the-art climate models have predicted under present warming even after accounting for their regional summer background warming. Across all global land area, models underestimate positive trends exceeding 0.

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The limited success of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in the adjuvant setting for glioblastoma highlights the need to explore administering ICIs prior to immunosuppressive radiation. To address the feasibility and safety of this approach, we conducted a phase I study in patients with newly diagnosed Grade 3 and Grade 4 gliomas. Patients received nivolumab 300 mg every 2 weeks and ipilimumab 1 mg/kg every 6 weeks until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

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Mitochondria undergo fragmentation in response to bioenergetic stress, mediated by dynamin-related protein 1 (DRP1) recruitment to the mitochondria. The major pro-fission DRP1 receptor is mitochondrial fission factor (MFF), and mitochondrial dynamics proteins of 49 and 51 kilodaltons (MiD49/51), which can sequester inactive DRP1. Together, they form a trimeric DRP1-MiD-MFF complex.

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  • The eastern tropical Pacific is not following the warming trend that is seen worldwide.
  • Scientists found two different patterns affecting the climate: one called the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) and another called the Pacific Climate Change (PCC) pattern, which started around the 1950s.
  • These patterns have unique effects on temperature and ocean behaviors, and figuring them out can help us understand the differences between natural climate changes and those caused by human activity.
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  • The study investigates the differences in immune gene expression and survival outcomes between HER2-low and HER2-zero breast cancers, focusing on the tumor immune microenvironment (TME).
  • Comprehensive genomic analysis was conducted on samples from 129 patients with advanced HER2-negative breast cancer, assessing immune-related gene expressions and their correlation with patient survival rates.
  • Results indicate that while there were no significant differences in immune gene expression between HER2-low and HER2-zero cancers, patients with HER2-low tumors exhibited a higher rate of estrogen receptor positivity and significantly better overall survival.
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