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Here we report a simple and nonradioactive biochemical assay which is capable of accurately determining the substrate methylation sites of human RNA N6-methyladenosine methyltransferases METTL3/METTL14 and METTL16. This method employs enzyme-assisted chemical labelling of a specific base in an RNA substrate with the assistance of an allyl-substituted methyltransferase cofactor, and enables precise identification of the labelling site by a mutation signal from standard nucleic acid sequencing. Our method provides a platform to investigate the enzymatic methylations of long and structurally complex RNA substrates, and facilitates the discovery of new methyltransferases.
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Arch Orthop Trauma Surg
September 2025
Division of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Cantonal Hospital Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland.
Background: Accurate acetabular cup orientation in total hip arthroplasty (THA) is crucial for successful outcomes. Intraoperative fluoroscopy may be used to evaluate acetabular cup placement. This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of purely visual estimation of cup inclination and anteversion using intraoperative fluoroscopy, considering different surgeon experience levels and cup designs.
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October 2025
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Introduction: Sepsis remains a leading cause of mortality, with mortality from septic shock exceeding 40%. Standardized resuscitation (30 mL/kg) may cause adverse outcomes, including fluid overload or prolonged hypotension, emphasizing the need for individualized strategies. Sepsis-induced shock arises from varying degrees of vasodilation and hypovolemia, yet patients often present with similar clinical signs in the emergency department (ED).
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September 2025
College of Big Data, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China.
Introduction: Accurate identification of cherry maturity and precise detection of harvestable cherry contours are essential for the development of cherry-picking robots. However, occlusion, lighting variation, and blurriness in natural orchard environments present significant challenges for real-time semantic segmentation.
Methods: To address these issues, we propose a machine vision approach based on the PIDNet real-time semantic segmentation framework.
Medicine (Baltimore)
September 2025
The Second School of Clinical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Growing evidence indicates that coronary plaque instability is an independent risk factor for adverse coronary events, yet current optical coherence tomography (OCT) assessment of high-risk plaque characteristics (HRPC) relies largely on qualitative interpretation. The index of plaque attenuation (IPA) is a quantitative OCT-based metric that may provide a more objective evaluation. This retrospective observational diagnostic accuracy study assessed the performance of OCT-derived IPA for HRPC detection in patients with acute coronary syndrome or stable angina, using expert consensus qualitative OCT analysis as the reference standard.
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September 2025
Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
For effective treatment of bacterial infections, it is essential to identify the species causing the infection as early as possible. Current methods typically require hours of overnight culturing of a bacterial sample and a larger quantity of cells to function effectively. This study uses one-hour phase-contrast time-lapses of single-cell bacterial growth collected from microfluidic chip traps, also known as a "mother machine".
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