Tumor mutational burden and survival on immune checkpoint inhibition in >8000 patients across 24 cancer types by Vivek Subbiah, Samuel J Klempner, Neeraj Agarwal, David P Carbone, Amit Mahipal, Shilpa Gupta, David Fabrizio, Jeffrey S Ross, Gerald Li, David R Gandara, Miles C Andrews, Jonathan W Riess, Ramez N Eskander, Ryon P Graf, Geoffrey R Oxnard, Sarah Sammons, Jeremy Snider, Lilia Bouzit, Cheryl Cho-Phan, Megan Price, Julia C F Quintanilha, Richard Sheng Poe Huang

“…Deidentified data from electronic health records from approximately 280 cancer treatment facilities were captured into a clinico-genomic database. This study used the TMB algorithm from the FDA-approved test supporting solid tumor CDx and composite mortality variable validated against the national death index: real-world overall survival (rwOS). …”
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PneumoniaCheck, a novel aerosol collection device, permits capture of airborne Mycobacterium tuberculosis and characterisation of the cough aeromicrobiome in people with tuberculos... by Tinaye L. Chiyaka, Georgina R. Nyawo, Charissa C. Naidoo, Suventha Moodley, Jose C. Clemente, Stephanus T. Malherbe, Robin M. Warren, David N. Ku, Leopoldo N. Segal, Grant Theron

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Diverse fox circovirus (Circovirus canine) variants circulate at high prevalence in grey wolves (Canis lupus) from the Northwest Territories, Canada by Canuti, Marta, King, Abigail V.L., Franzo, Giovanni, Cluff, H. Dean, Larsen, Lars E., Fenton, Heather, Dufour, Suzanne C., Lang, Andrew S.

“…Phylogenetic analysis of all available complete fox circovirus genomes (32 from foxes and 15 from wolves from North America and Europe) demonstrated four lineages, each including sequences from this study. …”
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Exometabolomic exploration of culturable airborne microorganisms from an urban atmosphere by R. Jin, W. Hu, W. Hu, P. Duan, M. Sheng, D. Liu, Z. Huang, M. Niu, L. Wu, J. Deng, P. Fu, P. Fu

“…Annotation through the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes database helped identify metabolic processes. …”
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The bacterial microbiome modulates the initiation of brain metastasis by impacting the gut-to-brain axis by Matteo Massara, Michelle Ballabio, Bastien Dolfi, Golnaz Morad, Vladimir Wischnewski, Eleni Lamprou, Joao Lourenco, Stéphanie Claudinot, Hector Gallart-Ayala, Rui Santalla Méndez, Annamaria Kauzlaric, Nadine Fournier, Ashish V. Damania, Matthew C. Wong, Julijana Ivanisevic, Nadim J. Ajami, Jennifer A. Wargo, Johanna A. Joyce

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Differentiation of high risk prostate cancer with a facile urinary exosome detection workflow by Shuai Qiu, Yue Li, Zheng Zhang, Chunchang Li, Haoyu Wang, Ao Chen, Zhi Yan, Yang Liu, Zifei Li, Hua Huang, Yi Liu, Yiqi Seow, Ruibing Chen, Jinhong Guo, Simeng Wen, Jing Tian, Hongtuan Zhang, Ranlu Liu, Gang Han, Baolong Wang, Yong Wang, Yuanjie Niu, HaiFang Yin

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