The Altmetric Top 100 – 2019
What research caught the public imagination in 2019? Check out our annual list of papers with the most attention.
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Systemic inflammation impairs myelopoiesis and interferon type I responses in humans
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Vision: protecting and restoring a prized sense
Nature – The scale of work to improve therapies for eye disease reflects the importance people place on sight.
Treatment of acute myeloid leukemia models by targeting a cell surface RNA-binding protein
Nature Biotechnology – An RNA-binding protein on leukemia cells provides an effective target in mouse models.
Robotic surgery
Nature Reviews Bioengineering – Surgical robots can assist in medical procedures or autonomously perform surgical tasks. This Review explores the design and application of passive,…
Similarities and differences between dog–human and human–human relationships
Scientific Reports – Similarities and differences between dog–human and human–human relationships
Improved detection of decreased glucose handling capacities via continuous glucose monitoring-derived indices
Communications Medicine – Sugimoto et al. investigate the potential of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM)-derived indices to assess glucose handling capacity. They show that AC_Var, a…
Age-related divergence of circulating immune responses in patients with solid tumors treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors
Nature Communications – The aging immune system is characterized by changes in immune cell frequencies and functionality. Here the authors report dynamics of age-related divergence…
Continental-scale behavioral response of birds to a total solar eclipse
Scientific Reports – Continental-scale behavioral response of birds to a total solar eclipse
Meta-prediction of coronary artery disease risk
Nature Medicine – A meta-prediction framework integrating polygenic risk scores spanning multiple conditions and nongenetic factors, such as laboratory tests and baseline diagnoses, had superior…