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iMeta Science @imetascience.bsky.social · Mar 20
Tidyplots empowers life scientists with easy code‐based data visualization
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#Bioinformatics #R #Rstudio #visualization
Tidyplots empowers life scientists with easy code‐based data visualization
Effective data visualization is vital for analyzing and communicating experimental results. However, most code-based plotting tools require substantial programming experience, posing a significant ba....
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🗑️ Global landfill systems are major hotspots for antibiotic resistance genes!
⚙️ Metagenomic analyses reveal highly mobile, plasmid-enriched ARGs—dominated by multidrug resistance—and extensive resistome flows within and beyond landfills.
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Resistome flow in global landfill systems
Global landfill systems represent key hubs of resistome, serving as dynamic reservoirs and amplifiers through plasmid-driven gene mobility. Waste flows and environmental pathways sustain the transbou...
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January 15, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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🌊A global estuarine virome reveals active virus-carried antibiotic resistance genes.
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Diversity, transfer potential, and transcriptional activity of virus‐carried antibiotic resistance genes in global estuaries
Estuaries are vital hotspots for antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) due to substantial antibiotic pollution. Although viruses have been proposed as key reservoirs and important disseminators of ARGs ...
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January 14, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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A fast, robust readout framework advances large-fragment DNA data storage. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Fast bootstrap and reliable readout using hidden references for DNA data storage
This study provides a bootstrap readout framework for DNA data storage based on multiple-fold hidden references. We employ a multi-stage alignment and error correction strategy, transforming the de n...
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January 12, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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👶 MOMMY study profile: a large prospective birth cohort uncovering early-life microbiome transmission in China.
💡 A unique resource to advance global understanding of early-life microbiome–health trajectories. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
MOMMY study profile: An integrative early‐life multi‐omics cohort in China
MOMMY cohort (The MOther-infant Microbiota transmission and its link to long terM health of babY) is a large, prospective birth cohort uniquely designed to investigate maternal-paternal-infant microb...
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January 9, 2026 at 10:54 AM
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Tidyplots empowers life scientists with easy code‐based data visualization
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January 8, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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Gut microbes help black soldier fly larvae cope with excess uric acid.
⚙️ A uric acid–degrading Enterococcus faecalis strain restores larval growth and improves bioconversion efficiency by catabolizing dietary UA. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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January 7, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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🎯 Engineered bacteria target cancer-associated fibroblasts to break tumor protection!
⚙️ CAT-BLAST, a FAP-targeting E. coli platform, selectively eliminates Cancer-associated fibroblasts and induces tumor cell apoptosis via ClyA secretion.
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CAT‐BLAST: Engineered bacteria for robust targeting and elimination of cancer‐associated fibroblasts
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) construct a protective stromal barrier that promotes tumor growth and resistance to therapy. To dismantle this, we developed CAT-BLAST, an engineered bacterial pl...
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January 6, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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🧪 Nanoplastic exposure disrupts bile acid metabolism and gut microbiota, driving systemic metabolic collapse.
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Nano‐plastics disrupt systemic metabolism by remodeling the bile acid–microbiota axis and driving hepatic–intestinal dysfunction
The pervasiveness of microplastic pollution poses a growing health risk, yet its long-term metabolic consequences remain poorly defined. Here, we exposed mice to polyethylene terephthalate nanopartic...
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January 5, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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Antioxidants promote metabolic remodeling in cattle rumen epithelium revealed by single‐cell resolution 🐄https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/imt2.70100
Antioxidants promote metabolic remodeling in cattle rumen epithelium revealed by single‐cell resolution
Single-cell and transcriptomics from 1.79 million cells identify the forestomach epithelium as the dominant site of antioxidant activity and oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) in the bovine gastroint...
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January 5, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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Efficacy and biomarker analysis of neoadjuvant disitamab vedotin (RC48‐ADC) combined immunotherapy in patients with muscle‐invasive bladder cancer
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December 30, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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💡 An Interpretable Machine Learning Model for Predicting 5-Year Survival in Breast Cancer Based on Integration of Proteomics and Clinical Data! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
An Interpretable Machine Learning Model for Predicting 5‐Year Survival in Breast Cancer Based on Integration of Proteomics and Clinical Data
This study first introduced Kolmogorov–Arnold Network (KAN) into the deep learning model for the integration of clinical and proteomics data in predicting 5-year survival in breast cancer. The optima...
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December 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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How does time‐restricted feeding mitigate Alzheimer's disease‐associated cognitive impairments? The role of the B. pseudolongum‐propionic acid‐FFAR3 axis. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
December 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Dynamics and Regulation of Maternal–Fetal Interface Macrophages: From Immune Tolerance to Pregnancy Outcomes
🧐How macrophage signaling transforms maternal-fetal health and therapeutic discovery？
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Dynamics and Regulation of Maternal–Fetal Interface Macrophages: From Immune Tolerance to Pregnancy Outcomes
The maternal–fetal interface demands tolerance alongside antimicrobial defense. Plastic macrophages orchestrate inflammation resolution, tissue remodeling, and angiogenesis in normal gestation; compl...
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December 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Network perturbation analysis identifies new molecular subtypes of endometrial cancer
💫Three distinct subtypes show different clinical outcomes.
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Network Perturbation Analysis Identifies Three Molecular Subtypes With Distinct Clinical Outcomes and Therapeutic Vulnerabilities in Endometrial Cancer
We performed network perturbation analysis on transcriptomic data from endometrial cancer patients across multiple cohorts and identified three molecular subtypes with distinct clinical outcomes. The...
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December 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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⚡️Gut microbes and liver metabolism collaborate to fight fatty liver!
⚙️ Cetobacterium somerae converts arginine to putrescine, which the liver transforms into spermidine to reduce hepatic lipid accumulation.
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Host‐driven hepatic conversion of gut microbiota‐derived putrescine to spermidine mediates mannose's protective effects against hepatic steatosis in zebrafish
Evidence for liver metabolism of gut-derived microbial compounds into beneficial secondary metabolites has been lacking. Here, we demonstrate that Cetobacterium somerae (C. somerae), enriched by mann....
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December 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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💡 Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis Multi-Organ Chip Construction and Applications in Drug Evaluation
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Microbiota‐gut‐brain axis multi‐organ chip construction and applications in drug evaluation
Microbiota-gut-brain axis multiorgan chip and its applications in drug evaluation. The chip includes essential biological components such as gut microbiota, gut barrier, blood-brain barrier (BBB), an...
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December 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Wuda Granule Improves the Gastrointestinal Motility via Gut-Brain Axis in Beagle Dogs!
⚙️ Central Wuda Granule drives whole-gut motility.
#GutBrainAxis #TraditionalMedicine #Neurogastroenterology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Wuda Granule Improves the Gastrointestinal Motility via Gut‐Brain Axis in Beagle Dogs
Stress sensors were implanted in the gastric body, sinus, duodenum, jejunum, and colon of beagle dogs to record gastrointestinal motility. Gastrointestinal contractile motility was assessed before an...
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December 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Integrated multi-omics reveals how potassium sorbate may trigger acute kidney injury.
⚙️ Network toxicology, machine learning & single-cell analysis identify APP as a central hub driving oxidative stress, inflammation & endothelial–immune crosstalk.
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Potassium Sorbate Triggers Kidney Injury via Dysregulated Intercellular Communication: A Study Combining Network Toxicology, Machine Learning, Molecular Docking, and Single‐Cell RNA Sequencing
Amyloid precursor protein (APP)-mediated endothelial-immune cell crosstalk is a novel mechanism for potassium sorbate-induced renal injury. Multi-omics integration (network toxicology, machine learni....
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December 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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⚡️Using MicrobTiSDA to infer interspecies interactions from microbiome time-series data.
🔎A tool for analyzing the dynamic patterns of microbial abundance over time.
The complete analysis process from data preprocessing to result visualization. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
MicrobTiSDA: A flexible R package for inferring interspecies interactions and abundance dynamics in microbiome time‐series data
MicrobTiSDA is a user-friendly and flexible R package specifically designed for longitudinal microbiome data analysis. By integrating process-oriented functional modules—including data input, data pr...
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December 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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🦌🧬 Single-cell multi-omics reveals how deer antlers achieve centimeter-scale daily bone growth.
#SingleCell #BoneRegeneration #MultiOmics #DeerAntler
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A vast stem‐progenitor cell pool, richly vascular system, and hybrid ossification drive the daily centimeter‐scale elongation of bony antlers
Bone growth and regeneration remain major clinical challenges. Deer antlers, the fastest-growing mammalian bone, regenerate via endochondral ossification and elongate up to 2 cm per day, far surpassi....
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December 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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🧬Single-cell spatial transcriptomics reveals potential molecular mechanisms of Abelmoschus manihot (L.) medic in treating diabetic kidney disease
#scRNAseq #MolecularMechanisms #iMeta onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Single‐cell spatial transcriptomics reveals potential molecular mechanisms of Abelmoschus manihot (L.) medic in treating diabetic kidney disease
A clinical study reported that Abelmoschus manihot (L.) Medic (A. manihot), in the form of Huangkui capsule (HKC), combined with irbesartan (IRB) is an effective therapy for patients with diabetic ki...
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December 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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⏳ PhyloSuite v2 makes molecular dating analysis easier !
Using PhyloSuite v2 for molecular phylogeny and tree‐based analyses
#Phylogenetics #MolecularDating #Bioinformatics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
PhyloSuite v2: The development of an all‐in‐one, efficient and visualization‐oriented suite for molecular dating analysis and other advanced features
This graphical abstract illustrates the integrated molecular dating workflow in PhyloSuite v2. The new Molecular Dating Suite unifies data configuration, analysis, and visualization into a single, st...
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December 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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🚀iMeta has been cited over 14,000 times!
⚡️According to statistics from the Dimensions website, as of December 8, 2025, #iMeta has published 349 papers, which have been cited 14,366 times, with an average of 41.16 citations per paper, and it takes only two days to reach 100 citations.
December 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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💡 Toward a Medical Data Element Ecosystem (MDEE) for the digital health era!
🌏 Build a comprehensive medical data ecosystem framework that spans the entire data lifecycle and offers a new perspective for advancing practice in the field.
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Medical Data as a Key Asset in the Digital Health Era: A Framework for Challenges and Strategies
By conducting case studies and comparative analysis from a global perspective, this study develops the practical framework of Medical Data Element Ecosystem (MDEE)—one that facilitates MDEE construct....
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December 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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🧠 Copper exposure drives #neurotoxicity through a gut–brain metabolic axis!
🔥 It triggers #gut barrier damage and inflammation, leading to #neural injury.
💊 The #probiotic W. coagulans XY2 counteracts toxicity by targeting a multi-layered network.
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Weizmannia coagulans XY2 Mitigates Copper Neurotoxicity via Gut–Brain Axis Modulation of Tryptophan Metabolism and Oxidative‐Inflammatory Crosstalk
Copper interferes with tryptophan metabolism and 5-HT levels by modulating intestinal flora. Intestinal barrier breakdown and inflammatory response trigger nerve damage under copper exposure. W. coag...
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December 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM