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        <title><![CDATA[Sequencing life on Earth: why the Global South must be central]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-11T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Sibelle Torres Vilaça</author><author>Alexandre Aleixo</author><author>Juliana A. Vianna</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Lanthanide-based probes: beyond conventional imaging agents]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-07-30T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Jiating Xu</author><author>Jiawei Qu</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Lanthanide carriers: biomedical imaging redefined]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-07-30T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Yuxia Liu</author><author>Zixuan Chen</author><author>Mingyu Sui</author><author>Hongxuan Wang</author><author>Marco Bettinelli</author><author>Luís D. Carlos</author><author>Daniel Jaque</author><author>Oscar L. Malta</author><author>Jorge Méndez-Ramos</author><author>Cyrille Richard</author><author>Bruno Viana</author><author>Ka-Leung Wong</author><author>Xiaogang Liu</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Lanthanide-based carriers have emerged as powerful platforms for next-generation biomedical imaging, combining unique optical and magnetic features to address key limitations of conventional agents. Owing to their 4f electron configuration, lanthanide ions provide sharp emission lines, long lifetimes, high photostability, and strong paramagnetism, enabling high-resolution, multiplexed, and deep-tissue imaging with minimal photodamage. This review surveys recent advances across optical, X-ray, and magnetic resonance modalities, focusing on how material design influences performance. We examine representative carriers, such as lanthanide-doped nanoparticles, organic complexes, and lanthanide-binding proteins, and their roles in near-infrared (NIR) imaging (long-term single-particle tracking, molecular sensing, and NIR-II modalities), X-ray imaging (contrast media, scintillators, and persistent emitters for low-dose diagnostics), and magnetic resonance imaging (chemical and biosynthetic agents with enhanced relaxivity, specificity, and safety, including targeted protein constructs). We highlight molecular engineering and surface modification strategies that boost signal and biocompatibility, and discuss emerging directions such as artificial intelligence-enabled data analysis and the integration of multimodal probes to deliver integrated anatomical and functional information. While most advances are still at the proof-of-concept stage, lanthanide carriers show great potential for bridging materials science, biophysics, and clinical needs, and are reshaping biomedical imaging toward more precise, responsive, and personalized diagnostics.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The glucose ketone index: a proposed quantitative biomarker to support cancer and chronic disease prevention and management]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-07-14T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Derek C. Lee</author><author>Tomas Duraj</author><author>Isabella D. Cooper</author><author>Joseph C. Maroon</author><author>Kris Smith</author><author>Wafaa Abdel-Hadi</author><author>Egiroh Omene</author><author>Athanasios E. Evangeliou</author><author>Thomas N. Seyfried</author>
        <description><![CDATA[The chronic disease burden is rapidly becoming the most significant health challenge of the 21st century. Chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are replacing infectious diseases as the most significant factor in poor global health outcomes. NCDs account for 75% of disability adjusted life years. Cancer is one of the deadliest chronic diseases and is now on the verge of overtaking heart disease as the leading cause of death in the United States. Mitochondrial dysfunction linked to nutritional imbalance, lack of physical activity, and exposure to a broad range of environmental toxins is implicated in cancer and many chronic diseases. Although nutrition and exercise recommendations have been emphasized for primary prevention, overall health remains poor due to conflicting information and the inability to easily assess adherence. The glucose ketone index (GKI) was originally developed as a quantitative point-of-care blood biomarker for assessing diet adherence in cancer therapy. However, the ratio of glucose to ketones (specifically β-hydroxybutyrate) can also be linked to the risk of chronic diseases and may help predict risk more accurately than the glucose reading alone. Low GKI ratios are hypothesized to decrease risk, while high GKI are hypothesized to increase risk. Non-insulin-compensated euglycemia may help reduce chronic inflammation, insulin resistance, and pro-tumorigenic pathways. Endogenous ketone production reduces glucose requirements while simultaneously enhancing the bioenergetic efficiency of mitochondrial energy metabolism, thus supporting metabolic homeostasis. Hence, we assert that the GKI could represent a parsimonious, individualized, and impartial biomarker for use, together with exercise and nutrition, to support therapeutic strategies to prevent and manage mitochondrial dysfunction, which contributes to cancer and many chronic diseases.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Regulatory T cells: master orchestrators of immune tolerance and tissue homeostasis]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-06-25T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Jeffrey A. Bluestone</author><author>Megan K. Levings</author><author>Frederick J. Ramsdell</author><author>Alexander Y. Rudensky</author><author>Qizhi Tang</author><author>Piotr Trzonkowski</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Harnessing the biology of regulatory T cells (Tregs) for therapeutic development is one of medicine’s most promising opportunities to transform disease treatment. Initially viewed simply as guardians against destructive immune responses, we now understand that Tregs are adaptive and highly specialized coordinators of immune tolerance and tissue repair. This strategic roadmap examines how evolving insights into their central role in maintaining tolerance and health can transform therapeutic development across medical specialties. Early efforts to evaluate Treg therapies have proven safe and shown some clinical benefit. The convergence of biological insights and technological advances has the potential to harness and exploit this specialized tolerogenic population by augmenting function through environmental cues and reinforcing tissue-repair capabilities. Advanced engineering approaches can now endow Treg therapies with antigen-specificity, enforce suppressive programming, and enable off-the-shelf or in vivo gene therapy opportunities. This new class of therapeutics promises to shift treatment paradigms from lifelong management to drug-free durable remissions or even cures for diseases currently requiring chronic immunosuppression. The recognition that dysregulated inflammation underlies countless human diseases opens unprecedented possibilities for treating intractable conditions across specialties—from transplantation and autoimmunity, metabolic disorders and cardiovascular disease, to neurodegeneration and even aging itself. Realizing the potential of Treg-based therapies remains a primary goal for the field, representing a strategic shift from systemic immunosuppression to precision tolerance restoration as a unifying therapeutic paradigm.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Treg therapy needs better trials]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-06-25T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Fadi Issa</author><author>Kathryn Wood</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Therapeutic potential of Tregs]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-06-25T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Giovanna Lombardi</author><author>Robert Lechler</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Rethinking discovery in soil science with artificial intelligence]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-21T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>J. K. Ladha</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Enhancing soil science research with multi-agent artificial intelligence systems]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-21T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Budiman Minasny</author><author>Alex McBratney</author><author>José A.M. Demattê</author><author>Mercedes Román Dobarco</author><author>Pete Smith</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Soil science is entering a new era characterized by the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) multi-agent systems, extending the field beyond traditional machine learning (ML) applications such as digital soil mapping and spectroscopy. While current ML tools are effective for specific tasks, they often lack the reasoning, contextual integration, and adaptability required to address complex, dynamic soil systems. We propose multi-agent AI systems—autonomous, interactive software agents capable of perceptual processing, planning, and scientific reasoning—as a novel framework to support and accelerate soil science research. These agents can fulfill diverse roles, including synthesizing data from field sensors and remote sensing to create dynamic digital soil twins, generating hypotheses, designing experiments, and simulating climate-driven changes in soil function. To illustrate this approach, we tasked a multi-agent system with creating research hypotheses on the topic of mineral-associated organic carbon saturation in soils. The agents generated five hypotheses on effective versus theoretical saturation thresholds, biological and chemical controls, climate influence, interdisciplinary feedback, and actionable management strategies. Each hypothesis was evaluated for empirical grounding, conceptual breadth, and scientific rigor by experts and a simulated peer review. Our findings highlight the potential of multi-agent AI systems, guided by human experts, to accelerate early-stage discovery, support interdisciplinary exploration, and emulate the scientific review process. Nonetheless, challenges remain, particularly around data quality, model transparency, epistemic overtrust, computational cost, ethical implications, and the retention of foundational scientific knowledge. We emphasize AI as an augmentative partner, not a replacement, for human-led discovery.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence research agents in soil science: the continuing importance of domain expertise]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-21T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Madlene Nussbaum</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Redefining surgical expertise in the age of artificial intelligence]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-07T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Zorawar Singh</author><author>Louis Kavoussi</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Evolving surgical teams in the age of artificial intelligence and robotics]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-07T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Alejandro Granados</author><author>Raghav Khanna</author><author>Nikola Fischer</author><author>Nicholas Raison</author><author>Margarita Ciabattini</author><author>Harry Robertshaw</author><author>Maxence Boels</author><author>Mohsan Malik</author><author>Veronica Granados</author><author>Tom Vercauteren</author><author>Jonathan Shapey</author><author>Thomas Booth</author><author>Asit Arora</author><author>Giorgio Gandaglia</author><author>Alberto Briganti</author><author>Francesco Montorsi</author><author>Christos Bergeles</author><author>Sebastien Ourselin</author><author>Prokar Dasgupta</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Surgery is a critical function of the healthcare system, key to addressing a substantial portion of the global disease burden. The integration of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics ecosystems into the operating room (OR) promises to radically transform surgery, with profound implications. This article analyzes the current state of surgical AI and robotic systems; presents a vision for their future, highlighting technological and research challenges and their associated impact on surgical teams; and discusses the ethical and regulatory implications. AI systems will use complex, multimodal data streams collected from patients, surgical teams, robots, and the OR environment to become increasingly capable of situational awareness, workflow recognition, performance benchmarking, causal inference, outcome prediction, and intraoperative decision-making to optimize surgical actions. Robotics will move from passive instrument-handling tools to autonomous systems with human-in-the-loop control, with embodied AI and enhanced sensor-based perception providing comprehensive spatial–temporal understanding, anticipatory behaviors, and adaptive learning. The surgeon’s role will shift toward supervision, coordination, and high-level decision-making, while nurses, assistants, and anesthesiologists will have additional competencies complemented by clinical data scientists and AI and robotic integration engineers. Ethical challenges will include liability and the implications of diluted authority chains, the potential for AI bias to exacerbate health inequalities, and the concentration of research and industry in resource-rich nations. New regulatory and compliance frameworks, trial methods, reporting standards, and training approaches will be needed to ensure the safety and effectiveness of these systems. Ultimately, AI and robotics should sustain, rather than disrupt, surgical practices by refining the skills of care providers to achieve true personalized surgery and propel procedural and technological advancements.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[An emerging artificial intelligence-enabled partnership between surgical teams and robotics to enhance patient care]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-07T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Russell H. Taylor</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nature Positive: halting and reversing biodiversity loss toward restoring Earth system stability]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-04-09T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Harvey Locke</author><author>Johan Rockström</author><author>Raina K. Plowright</author><author>Dan Laffoley</author><author>Leroy Little Bear</author><author>Carlos A. Peres</author><author>Fuwen Wei</author><author>Krithi K. Karanth</author><author>Lydia Zemke</author><author>Robyn Seetal</author><author>F. Richard Hauer</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Human activities are driving a global decline in biodiversity and are interfering with the natural processes essential for human well-being. Achieving climate and development goals is impossible without keeping nature intact. In this article, we establish the urgent need for a paradigm shift toward a “Nature Positive” (NP) future, where the health and resilience of the Earth system are recognized as the fundamental basis for human prosperity. This requires that humanity acts to halt and reverse the loss of nature by 2030. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) provides a critical roadmap for this NP goal, and global policy increasingly recognizes that environmental targets can only be effective when integrated with global climate, ocean, and human development agreements. This requires a biodiversity conservation approach that accounts for both biotic and abiotic components of the Earth system. We assess the adequacy of GBF targets for stabilizing the Earth system and highlight key gaps. We employ the Three Global Conditions Framework (3Cs), which categorizes landscapes by human impact levels as a practical method for guiding appropriate NP actions, and we extend its application to the marine realm. We outline specific actions and metrics for patterns and processes across all scales needed to achieve biodiversity conservation in synergy with climate stabilization and securing freshwater systems. Our findings emphasize that preventing the loss of intact biomes, ecosystems, and species assemblages is the most critical strategy while acknowledging the urgency of extinction prevention and the need for restoration. Additionally, we highlight the importance of incorporating Indigenous and local knowledge systems alongside scientific methods to achieve effective and equitable conservation outcomes. Finally, we discuss the need for economic transformation and the private sector’s role in fostering an NP future.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[From biodiversity and ecosystem services assessments to a Nature Positive future: lessons from global and national science-policy efforts]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-04-09T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Carlos Alfredo Joly</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nature Positive across scales: from global biodiversity goals to Earth system stability]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-04-09T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Andrew Gonzalez</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Advancing microbial electrochemical technologies for the circular economy, energy resilience, and environmental sustainability]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-03-18T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Veera Gnaneswar Gude</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Beyond the zero-risk illusion: negotiating food safety in a One Health era]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-03-17T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Ana Allende</author><author>Sara Bover-Cid</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Balancing food safety and sustainability: trade-off risk assessments and predictive modeling]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-03-17T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Martin Wiedmann</author><author>Sriya Sunil</author><author>Andrea I. Moreno-Switt</author><author>Kitiya Vongkamjan</author><author>Sophia Johler</author>
        <description><![CDATA[The importance of food safety to public health is reflected in its inclusion in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being), and SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production)—and the World Health Organization’s food safety strategy. Its inclusion across multiple areas underscores how food safety is not an isolated objective but is closely tied to broader public health and sustainability goals. While the public often expects food to be “absolutely” safe, experts recognize that all foods carry a residual risk of causing foodborne illness and that zero risk is neither achievable nor desirable. Advances in diagnostics and surveillance systems (e.g., increases in test sensitivity and specificity) have increased the frequency of hazard detection in foods, including detection of hazards at levels that may pose minimal public health risks. However, efforts to manage these negligible risks can divert attention from more significant threats and may introduce unintended consequences that outweigh the intended benefits. To address this, holistic approaches and trade-off risk assessments are needed, accounting for the interrelationship between the health of humans, animals, and the environment (i.e., One Health) and evaluating both the costs and benefits of food safety measures, including direct expenses, externalities, social or legal constraints, and consumer preferences. Key tools enabling these risk assessments include Monte Carlo simulations and other modeling tools that are also being adopted for food safety applications, such as geographic information system models, agent-based models, and artificial intelligence (AI)-based predictive tools. These efforts can help define quantitative food safety goals that ensure appropriate, but not absolute, safety, so long as implemented controls are validated and verified. Technological advances, such as AI-enabled risk negotiation, offer new opportunities to integrate trade-offs in risk analysis and support more balanced, effective food safety strategies.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Toward the next generation of quantitative microbial risk assessment]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-03-17T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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