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Faculty Publications Feb. 20-27

A Comprehensive Digest of Research Publications From Cedars-Sinai Investigators and a Sampling of Recent Media Coverage Featuring Faculty

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published Feb. 20-27. If you have a published paper from this period that does not appear on this list, please contact Sue Marone.

 

Cedars-Sinai in the News

Can Supplements Actually Boost Your Immune System? | The New York Times 
Michael Ben-Aderet, MD 

How to Stop a Runny Nose Fast, According to Doctors | SELF
Nicole J. Van Groningen, MD 

Thyroid Cancer is Overdiagnosed in the US—Could Ozempic be Making the Problem Worse? | Health 
Zachary Zumsteg, MD 

Does Taking ‘The Pill’ Reduce Ovarian Cancer Risk? | Medscape 
BJ Rimel, MD 

Estradiol Cream and Libido—Does It Make Menopause Sex Better? | HONE 
Paige Kuhlmann, MD 

8 Easy Products to Treat Hemorrhoids at Home, According to Doctors | HuffPost
Karen Zaghiyan, MD 

Clinical Trials to Watch in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer | Cure 
Yuan Yuan, MD, PhD 

Lab Study Shows Tumor-Invading Protein Delivers Therapy Straight to the Brain | FirstWord PHARMA
Lali Medina-Kauwe, PhD

 

Faculty Publications

Biomedical Sciences

Editorial: Hiding Features in Myeloid Cells: Metabolism Preference in Different Disease Models. Shen, Jie, and DuoYao Cao. Frontiers in Immunology 16: 1565258.

Identification of Wnt-5a Receptors Important in Diabetic and Non-Diabetic Corneal Epithelial Wound Healing. Shah, Ruchi, Cynthia Amador, Adam J. Poe, Tanya M. Spektor, Priyanka Bhandary, Yizhou Wang, Zhiping Paul Wang, Daniel J. Weisenberger, Vanessa F. Borges, Onkar B. Sawant, Ezra Maguen, Pedram Hamrah, Andrei A. Kramerov, Mehrnoosh Saghizadeh, and Alexander V. Ljubimov. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 66 (2): 64.

Neighborhood Environment, DNA Methylation, and Presence of Crown-Like Structures of the Breast. Harris, Alexandra R., Jeri D. Hughes, Wayne R. Lawrence, Petra Lenz, Jamirra Franklin, Praphulla M. S. Bhawsar, Tiffany H. Dorsey, Emily L. Rossi, Catherine M. Pichardo, Margaret S. Pichardo, Alexandra J. White, Cody Ramin, Máire A. Duggan, Mustapha Abubakar, Aaron M. Rozeboom, Jonas S. Almeida, Gretchen L. Gierach, Stefan Ambs, and Brittany D. Jenkins. JAMA Network Open 8 (2): e2461334.

Multiomic QTL Mapping Reveals Phenotypic Complexity of GWAS Loci and Prioritizes Putative Causal Variants. Arthur, Timothy D., Jennifer P. Nguyen, Benjamin A. Henson, Agnieszka D’Antonio-Chronowska, Jeffrey Jaureguy, Nayara Silva, iPSCORE Consortium, Athanasia D. Panopoulos, Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, Matteo D’Antonio, Graham McVicker, and Kelly A. Frazer. Cell Genomics, February, 100775.

Self-Control, Food Choices, and Affective Well-Being in Daily Life: An Experience Sampling Study. Sleboda, Patrycja, Michael Sobolev, Frederick Muench, Sarah-Jeanne Salvy, and Geetanjali D. Datta. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, February.

Systemic HER3 Ligand-Mimicking Nanobioparticles Enter the Brain and Reduce Intracranial Tumour Growth. Alonso-Valenteen, Felix, Simoun Mikhael, HongQiang Wang, Jessica Sims, Michael Taguiam, James Teh, Sam Sances, Michelle Wong, Tianxin Miao, Dustin Srinivas, Nelyda Gonzalez-Almeyda, Ryan H. Cho, Romny Sanchez, Kimngan Nguyenle, Erik Serrano, Briana Ondatje, Rebecca L. Benhaghnazar, Harry B. Gray, Zeev Gross, John Yu, Clive N. Svendsen, Ravinder Abrol, and Lali K. Medina-Kauwe. Nature Nanotechnology, February.

Patterns of Associations With Epidemiologic Factors by High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer Gene Expression Subtypes. Collin, Lindsay J., Kara L. Cushing-Haugen, Kathryn L. Terry, Ellen L. Goode, Anna H. Wu, Holly R. Harris, Naoko Sasamoto, Daniel W. Cramer, Francesmary Modugno, Esther Elishaev, Zhuxuan Fu, Kirsten B. Moysich, Peter A. Fasching, Celeste Leigh Pearce, Usha Menon, Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj, Simon A. Gayther, Nicolas Wentzensen, Marc T. Goodman, Joshy George, Aline Talhouk, Michael S. Anglesio, Susan J. Ramus, David Dl Bowtell, Shelley S. Tworoger, Joellen M. Schildkraut, Penelope M. Webb, and Jennifer A. Doherty. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention: A Publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, Cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology, February.

Cardiology

Mirror-Image Artifact Due to Insulation Breach on Adjacent Leads. Ezzeddine, Fatima M., Paul A. Friedman, Siva K. Mulpuru, Alan Sugrue, Charles D. Swerdlow, and Ammar M. Killu. JACC. Clinical Electrophysiology, January, S2405-500X(24)01089-2.

Cultivating a Thriving Environment for Women in Cardiology Through Leadership and Inclusion. Bullock-Palmer, Renée P., Martha Gulati, Gina Lundberg, Monika Sanghavi, Odayme Quesada, Nosheen Reza, Julia Grapsa, Jessica Lee, Annabelle Santos Volgman, Laxmi Mehta, Sandra J. Lewis, and Kamala P. Tamirisa. American Heart Journal Plus: Cardiology Research and Practice 50 (February): 100500.

Revascularization Recommendations for Patients With Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease: Reestablished at Last. Ruel, Marc, Michael E. Farkouh, Michelle Graham, Rosemary F. Kelly, Maral Ouzounian, Paul Poirier, Louise Y. Sun, Anne E. Williams, and Faisal G. Bakaeen. The Canadian Journal of Cardiology, February, S0828-282X(25)00134-5.

Independent Prognostic Significance of Myocardial Flow Reserve Over Coronary Artery Calcium, Myocardial Perfusion, and Clinical Variables in Patients Without Known CAD, According to Diabetes Status. Lee, Su Nam, Pankaj Malhotra, Robert J. H. Miller, Heidi Gransar, Sean W. Hayes, John D. Friedman, Louise E. J. Thomson, Alan Rozanski, Piotr J. Slomka, Donghee Han, and Daniel S. Berman. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, February, 102165.

TIMI Frame Count and Coronary Function in Women With Suspected Ischemia and Nonobstructed Coronary Arteries. Paquin, Amélie, Amer Muhyieddeen, Janet Wei, Galen Cook Wiens, Yujie Cui, Carl J. Pepine, Eileen M. Handberg, John W. Petersen, and C. Noel Bairey Merz. JACC. Advances 4 (3): 101611.

Incidence of Secondary Pericardial Effusions Associated With Different Etiologies: A Comprehensive Review of Literature. Ebrahimi, Pouya, Homa Taheri, Pegah Bahiraie, Florian Rader, Robert J. Siegel, Mohammad Hosein Mandegar, Kaveh Hosseini, and Farhan Shahid. Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 20 (1): 141.

Predicted Heart Mass and Outcomes in the Contemporary Era of Heart Transplantation: Insights From the Dallas Heart Study. DeFilippis, Ersilia M., Lauren K. Truby, Sonia Garg, Elaine Wu, Hadi Beaini, Matthias Peltz, Mark H. Drazner, Natalie Bello, and Maryjane A. Farr. Journal of Cardiac Failure, February, S1071-9164(25)00089-2.

Enhancing Proteomics Quality Control: Insights From the Visualization Tool QCeltis. Vegesna, Manasa, Niveda Sundararaman, Ajay Bharadwaj, Kirstin Washington, Rakhi Pandey, Ali Haghani, Blandine Chazarin, Aleksandra Binek, Qin Fu, Susan Cheng, David Herrington, and Jennifer E. Van Eyk. Journal of Proteome Research, February.

Heart Rhythm Society’s Survey Assessing Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices and Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Liu, Christopher F., Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, Mina K. Chung, Andrew D. Krahn, Timothy R. Larsen, David J. Slotwiner, Mark H. Schoenfeld, Molly Sachdev, Sumeet K. Mainigi, Adam E. Berman, J. Peter Weiss, Amit J. Thosani, Scott J. Greenberg, Jonathan W. Dukes, Arvindh N. Kanagasundram, Sabina Hadziabdulahovic, Lisa Miller, Anne Marie Smith, and Amit J. Shanker. Heart Rhythm, February, S1547-5271(25)00208-5.

Late Clinical Outcomes of Balloon-Expandable Valves in Small Annuli: Results From the PARTNER Trials. Hahn, Rebecca T., Philippe Pibarot, Amr Abbas, Raj Makkar, Vinod H. Thourani, Philippe Généreux, Susheel Kodali, Samir Kapadia, Vasilis Babaliaros, Julien Ternacle, Alexis Theron, Nicole Cristell, Sarah Clarke, Yanglu Zhao, Maria Alu, Mahesh V. Madhavan, David J. Cohen, Jonathon Leipsic, John Webb, Michael J. Mack, and Martin B. Leon. JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions 18 (4): 506–17.

Left Ventricular Entry to Reduce Brain Lesions During Catheter Ablation: A Randomized Trial. Marcus, Gregory M., Roderick Tung, Edward P. Gerstenfeld, Trisha F. Hue, Feng Lin, Jing Cheng, J. Peter Weiss, Wendy S. Tzou, Henry Hsia, Ashkan Ehdaie, Daniel H. Cooper, T. Jared Bunch, Jeffrey Arkles, Babak Nazer, Adam Lee, Alexios Hadjis, Duy T. Nguyen, Mihail G. Chelu, Joshua Moss, Jonathan C. Hsu, Miguel Valderrábano, Prashant D. Bhave, Andrew D. Beaser, Arvindh Kanagasundram, Oussama Wazni, Jason Bradfield, Grace Wall, Kathleen Chang, Michelle Yang, Gabrielle Montenegro, Sabrina Jarrott, Joel H. Kramer, Anthony S. Kim, Yvonne M. Morris, and William P. Dillon. Circulation, February.

Rationale and Design of the Women’s Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation Mechanisms of Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction Leading to Pre-Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (WISE Pre-HFpEF). Takahashi, Tatsunori, Janet Wei, Ana C. Iribarren, Martha Gulati, Galen Cook-Wiens, Michael D. Nelson, Behzad Sharif, Eileen M. Handberg, R. David Anderson, John Petersen, Daniel S. Berman, Carl J. Pepine, and C. Noel Bairey Merz. American Heart Journal, February, S0002-8703(25)00056-0.

The Association of Heart Rate With Adverse Outcomes and Recurrent Heart Failure Hospitalization in Peripartum Cardiomyopathy. Berkowitz, Julia, Emilija Sagaityte, Mahnoor Khalid, Diana Lopez, Donya Mohebali, Natalie Bello, Zoltan Arany, Katharine French, Athena Poppas, Marwa Sabe, Wen-Chih Wu, Jacob Joseph, Luc Djousse, Gaurav Choudhary, and Tasnim F. Imran. Clinical Research in Cardiology, February.

SARS-CoV-2 Infectivity Can Be Modulated Through Bacterial Grooming of the Glycocalyx. Martino, Cameron, Benjamin P. Kellman, Daniel R. Sandoval, Thomas Mandel Clausen, Robert Cooper, Alhosna Benjdia, Feryel Soualmia, Alex E. Clark, Aaron F. Garretson, Clarisse A. Marotz, Se Jin Song, Stephen Wandro, Rob Knight, et al. mBio, February, e0401524.

Sex-Divergent Blood Pressure Associations With Multiorgan System Metabolic Stress. Kwan, Alan C., Minhao Wang, Hongwei Ji, Brian Claggett, David Ouyang, Hirsh Trivedi, Sonia Sharma, John Shyy, Amanda Velazquez, Joseph E. Ebinger, and Susan Cheng. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, February.

QUIET WARRIOR - Rationale and Design: An Ancillary Study to the Women’s IschemiA TRial to Reduce Events in Nonobstructive CAD (WARRIOR). Dasa, Osama, Eileen Handberg, Damini Dey, Pinaki Sarder, Margaret C. Lo, Balaji K. Tamarappoo, Steven M. Smith, Leslee J. Shaw, C. Noel Bairey Merz, and Carl J. Pepine. American Heart Journal Plus: Cardiology Research and Practice 51 (March): 100508.

Computational Biomedicine

Study on the Mechanism of Huangqi Chifeng Decoction Regulating Ferroptosis Inhibiting Smooth Muscle Cells Derived Foam Cell Formation. Fu, Jiaqi, Hongyu Liu, Yuqin Liang, Yunhe Shi, Xin Gao, Pingping Chen, Donghua Yu, Yu Wang, Fang Lu, and Shumin Liu. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, February, 119507.

Recent Advances in Mass Spectrometry-Based Bottom-Up Proteomics. Movassaghi, Cameron S., Jie Sun, Yuming Jiang, Natalie Turner, Vincent Chang, Nara Chung, Ryan J. Chen, Elizabeth N. Browne, Chuwei Lin, Devin K. Schweppe, Stacy A. Malaker, and Jesse G. Meyer. Analytical Chemistry, February.

Emergency Medicine

Curriculum Guidelines for Wilderness Medicine Medical Student Electives: 2025 Update. Plash, Walker B., Daniel F. Leiva, Kevin D. Watkins, Justin M. Gardner, Geoffrey Comp, and Stephanie A. Lareau. Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, February, 10806032251318582.

Medicine

Cedars-Sinai: Addressing Workforce Risks Through a New School. Anderson, Nicole. Frontiers of Health Services Management 41 (3): 30–37.

Sex Disparity in the Association Between Alcohol Consumption and Sarcopenia: A Population-Based Study. Yang, Longbao, Qiuju Ran, Yee Hui Yeo, Zhang Wen, Shuyue Tuo, Yong Li, Jia Yuan, Shejiao Dai, Jinhai Wang, Fanpu Ji, and Xinxing Tantai. Frontiers in Nutrition 12: 1536488.

Association Between Albuminuria and Glomerular Filtration Rate With Incident Frailty. Bongetti, Elisa K., Anna L. Wilkinson, James B. Wetmore, Anne M. Murray, Robyn L. Woods, Sara Espinoza, Michael E. Ernst, Michelle A. Fravel, Suzanne G. Orchard, Le Thi Phuong Thao, Joanne Ryan, Rory Wolfe, and Kevan R. Polkinghorne. Kidney International Reports 10 (2): 489–502.

Pembrolizumab in Microsatellite-Instability-High and Mismatch-Repair-Deficient Advanced Solid Tumors: Updated Results of the KEYNOTE-158 Trial. Marabelle, Aurelien, David M. O’Malley, Andrew E. Hendifar, Paolo A. Ascierto, Daniel Motola-Kuba, Nicolas Penel, Philippe A. Cassier, Giovanni Bariani, Ana De Jesus-Acosta, Toshihiko Doi, Federico Longo, Wilson H. Miller, Do-Youn Oh, Maya Gottfried, Lili Yao, Fan Jin, Alexander Gozman, and Michele Maio. Nature Cancer 6 (2): 253–58.

Ustekinumab Drug Clearance is Better Associated With Disease Control Than Serum Trough Concentrations in a Prospective Cohort of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Yarur, Andres J., Thierry Dervieux, Ryan Ungaro, Elizabeth A. Spencer, Alexandra Bruss, Lizbeth Nunez, Brandon Berens, Séverine Vermeire, Zhigang Wang, John C. Panetta, Erwin Dreesen, and Marla C. Dubinsky. Pharmaceutics 17 (2): 187.

Young Adults and Alcohol-Associated Liver Cancer: Incidence and Death from 2000 to 2021. Danpanichkul, Pojsakorn, Yanfang Pang, Luis Antonio Diaz, Juan Pablo Arab, Soo Young Hwang, Disatorn Dejvajara, Varshini Suresh, Thanathip Suenghataiphorn, Chalothorn Wannaphut, Kanokphong Suparan, Karn Wijarnpreecha, Hyunseok Kim, Donghee Kim, Amit G. Singal, and Ju Dong Yang. Cancers 17 (4): 609.

Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Perfusion Scoring Improves the Diagnostic Accuracy of Myocardial Perfusion Imaging. Miller, Robert J. H., Paul Kavanagh, Mark Lemley, Joanna X. Liang, Tali Sharir, Andrew J. Einstein, Mathews B. Fish, Terrence D. Ruddy, Philipp A. Kaufmann, Albert J. Sinusas, Edward J. Miller, Timothy M. Bateman, Sharmila Dorbala, Marcelo Di Carli, Sean Hayes, John Friedman, Daniel S. Berman, Damini Dey, and Piotr J. Slomka. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, February, jnumed.124.268079.

Distinct Mural Cells and Fibroblasts Promote Pathogenic Plasma Cell Accumulation in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Yang, Zhi, Gaoyuan Cao, Xiaosheng Tan, Sarah Orfanos, Joseph Jude, Gaetan Barbet, Steven S. An, Dianhua Jiang, Reynold A. Panettieri, and Qi Yang. The European Respiratory Journal, February, 2401114.

Association of Genetic Liability to Allergic Diseases with Overall and Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer Risk: A Mendelian Randomization Study. Alduhayh, Saleh, Ruhina Shirin Laskar, Xia Jiang, Zhaozhong Zhu, Emma E. Vincent, Andrei-Emil Constantinescu, Daniel D. Buchanan, Robert C. Grant, Amanda I. Phipps, Hermann Brenner, Wen-Yi Huang, Sun-Seog Kweon, Li Li, Rachel Pearlman, Sergi Castellví-Bel, Stephen B. Gruber, Christopher I. Li, Andrew Pellatt, Elizabeth A. Platz, Bethany Van Guelpen, Wei Zheng, Andrew T. Chan, Jane C. Figueiredo, Shuji Ogino, Cornelia M. Ulrich, Marc J. Gunter, Philip Haycock, Gianluca Severi, Neil Murphy, and Niki Dimou. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention: A Publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, Cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology, February.

Frailty Trajectories After a Cardiovascular Event Among Community-Dwelling Older People. Phyo, Aung Zaw Zaw, Andrew Tonkin, Sara E. Espinoza, Swarna Vishwanath, Anne M. Murray, Robyn L. Woods, Kathryn E. Callahan, Ruth Peters, and Joanne Ryan. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, February, zwaf095.

Sedentary Behavior and Physical Activity One Year After Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis: Results From the ColoCare Study. Viskochil, Richard H., Tengda Lin, Biljana Gigic, Caroline Himbert, Victoria M. Bandera, Stephanie Skender, Andreana N. Holowatyj, Petra Schrotz-King, Karen Steindorf, Ildiko Strehli, Matthew G. Mutch, Dante Chao, Adetunji T. Toriola, David Shibata, Erin M. Siegel, Christopher I. Li, Sheetal Hardikar, Anita R. Peoples, Jane C. Figueiredo, Martin Schneider, Cornelia M. Ulrich, and Jennifer Ose. Journal of Cancer Survivorship: Research and Practice, February.

Spatial Transcriptomics of Glomerulo-Centric Antibody Mediated Rejection in Renal Transplants. Margeta, Dajana, Hirotsugu Noguchi, Sepideh Khazaie, Leal C. Herlitz, Joshua J. Augustine, Peter S. Heeger, Anat R. Tambur, Robert L. Fairchild, and William M. Baldwin. Clinical Immunology (Orlando, Fla.), February, 110460.

Reply: Different Phenotypes of CMRFs Lead to Different Pathophysiological Processes Among Individuals With MASLD/MetALD. Kim, Hyun-Seok, Minsun Kwak, and Ju Dong Yang. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.), February.

A Pilot Study of Senolytics to Improve Cognition and Mobility in Older Adults at Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease. Millar, Courtney L., Ike Iloputaife, Kathryn Baldyga, Amani M. Norling, Afroditi Boulougoura, Theodoros Vichos, Tamara Tchkonia, Aaron Deisinger, Tamar Pirtskhalava, James L. Kirkland, Thomas G. Travison, and Lewis A. Lipsitz. EBioMedicine 113 (February): 105612.

SenSkinTM: A Human Skin-Specific Cellular Senescence Gene Set. Wyles, Saranya P., Grace T. Yu, Clarisse Ganier, Tamar Tchkonia, Magnus D. Lynch, George A. Kuchel, and James L. Kirkland. GeroScience, February.

The Role of Virtual Reality in Managing Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Novel Approach to Bridging Mental and Physical Health. Anand, Rajsavi, Alvin T. George, David T. Rubin, Brennan M. R. Spiegel, and Charles N. Bernstein. Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology 8 (Suppl 2): S15–20.

Neurosurgery

Ventral Midline Hysterectomy, Ovariectomy, and Ovariohysterectomy in Mus Musculus: A Surgical Protocol. Nisson, Peyton L., Takuma Maeda, Hiroki Uchikawa, Oscar Cisneros, Michael T. Lawton, and Tomoki Hashimoto. Scientific Reports 15 (1): 6625.

Flexion-Extension Cervical MRI Imaging in Pediatric Patients With Achondroplasia Unsupervised by Neurosurgery or Radiology, Is It Safe? Masarwy, Aseel, Christopher Watterson, Alexander Tuchman, and Moise Danielpour. Child’s Nervous System: ChNS, 41 (1): 122.

Orthopaedics

Biomechanical Evaluation of Posterolateral Corner Reconstruction With Suture Augmentation in a Posterolateral Corner and Posterior Cruciate Ligament Deficient Knee Model. Malige, Ajith, Andrew Carbone, Dave T. Huang, Shrey Kanjiya, Omar Rahman, Michael Banffy, and Melodie F. Metzger. Clinical Biomechanics (Bristol, Avon) 123 (February): 106461.

Investigating the Epigenetic Landscape of Symptomatic Disk Degeneration: A Case Study. Yeater, Taylor D., Yuya Kawarai, Seunghwan Lee, Kumar G. Belani, David S. Beebe, Dmitriy Sheyn, Manuel R. Pinto, and Laura S. Stone. Pain Reports 10 (2): e1237.

Pediatrics

Phoenix Sepsis Criteria in Critically Ill Children: Retrospective Validation Using a United States Nine-Center Dataset, 2012-2018. Sanchez-Pinto, L. Nelson, Latasha A. Daniels, Mihir Atreya, E. Vincent S. Faustino, Reid W. D. Farris, Alon Geva, Robinder G. Khemani, Colin Rogerson, Sareen S. Shah, Scott L. Weiss, and Tellen D. Bennett. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: A Journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 26 (2): e155–65.

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Exercise Guidelines in Pancreatic Cancer Based on the Dietz Model. Chang, Philip J., Andrew E. Hendifar, Gillian Gresham, An Ngo-Huang, Paul E. Oberstein, Nathan Parker, and Andrew L. Coveler. Cancers 17 (4): 630.

Radiation Oncology

Predicting Dose Response to Prostate Cancer Radiotherapy: Validation of a Radiation Signature in the Randomized Phase III NRG/RTOG 0126 and SAKK 09/10 Trials. Dal Pra, A., P. Ghadjar, H. M. Ryu, J. A. Proudfoot, S. Hayoz, J. M. Michalski, D. E. Spratt, Y. Liu, C. Schär, A. M. Berlin, D. R. Zwahlen, J. P. Simko, T. Hölscher, J. A. Efstathiou, B. Polat, H. M. Sandler, G. Hildebrandt, M. B. Parliament, A.-C. Mueller, I. S. Dayes, L. Plasswilm, R. J. M. Correa, J. M. Robertson, T. G. Karrison, E. Davicioni, W. A. Hall, F. Y. Feng, A. Pollack, G. N. Thalmann, P. L. Nguyen, D. M. Aebersold, P. T. Tran, and S. G. Zhao. Annals of Oncology, February, S0923-7534(25)00025-0.

Surgery

Explainability and Uncertainty: Two Sides of the Same Coin for Enhancing the Interpretability of Deep Learning Models in Healthcare. Salvi, Massimo, Silvia Seoni, Andrea Campagner, Arkadiusz Gertych, U. Rajendra Acharya, Filippo Molinari, and Federico Cabitza. International Journal of Medical Informatics 197 (February): 105846.

Which Technical Difficulty Score Can Best Predict Postoperative Outcomes After Minimally Invasive Liver Resections? Bolm, Louisa, Martina Nebbia, Onofrio Catalano, Gabriella Lionetto, Johanna von Bresinsky, Jannis Duhn, Shahrzad Arya, Marco Ventin, Julia Straesser, and Cristina R. Ferrone. Langenbeck’s Archives of Surgery 410 (1): 79.

Urology

Editorial: Deciphering the Regulatory Role of Transcription Factors in Cancer Immune Infiltration. Yang, Qian, Jinfen Xiao, and Yujia Lan. Frontiers in Oncology 15: 1563949.

A Class of Large Cell-like Extracellular Vesicles. D’Souza-Schorey, Crislyn, and Dolores Di Vizio. Nature Cell Biology, February.

A Free Method for Patient-Specific 3D-VR Anatomical Modeling for Presurgical Planning Using DICOM Images and Open-Source Software. Ells, Zachary, Vinicius Ludwig, Adam B. Weiner, Koichiro Kimura, Andrea Farolfi, Karim Chamie, Joseph Shirk, Nicholas M. Donin, Robert Reiter, Johannes Czernin, Jeremie Calais, and Magnus Dahlbom. Methods (San Diego, Calif.) 236 (February): 10–16.