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Sun · 26 Jul 2026

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📅 PUBMED DAILY TRIAGE — 2026-07-26

Window: 2026-07-25T00:00:00Z → 2026-07-26T09:00:00Z (CRDT)
Topics scanned: 9 watchlist + 1 sentinel
Candidates reviewed: ~100 PMIDs across all topics
Articles retained: 34 (7 HIGH | 27 STANDARD | 0 LOW in output)
Unsolicited finds: 3
Run status: ⚠️ PARTIAL_SUCCESS — T4/T5/T6/T7 esummary batches truncated; 42 candidate PMIDs not confirmed (see notes)


🔴🟠 HIGH PRIORITY (8+) — Best Finds by Topic

Early Cancer Detection (Liquid Biopsy / ctDNA)

PMID-42499691 · Comprehensive Liquid Biopsy Testing in Metastatic HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer: First Results from Routine Clinical Practice · 9/10 · 🔴 EARLY_CANCER_DETECTION

Real-world validation (N=162) showing ctDNA detects ESR1 mutations in 28.4% of mBC patients with direct treatment switch to elacestrant in 43.5% — first major routine-practice implementation dataset.

AI/ML in Clinical Diagnostics & Precision Oncology

PMID-42502133 · Prediction of single cell expression from low-plex immunofluorescence images for guiding precision oncology · 9/10 · 🟠 NOVEL_TREATMENT

Image2Count GNN model predicts 960-plex single-cell expression from just 4-marker immunofluorescence images, validated in 3 cancer types; enables affordable clinical tumor immune microenvironment profiling.

Cardiovascular-Metabolic

PMID-42501951 · Rationale, Design, and Experiences from the Vanguard Phase of the BRAVE Trial · 9/10 · 🟠 NOVEL_TREATMENT

First-ever large international RCT (17 centers, 4 countries) randomizing bariatric surgery vs medical management for cardiovascular event reduction in high-risk obese patients; 200-patient vanguard confirms feasibility.

Rare Diseases / Transplant Medicine

PMID-42501920 · Pretransplant Gut Microbiome Signatures Predict Early Acute Rejection After Kidney Transplantation · 8/10 · 🟢 NEAR_TERM_IMPLEMENTABLE

Pretransplant stool metagenomics (AUC 0.765 in temporal validation) outperforms clinical-only models for predicting early acute kidney rejection; microbiome-based pretransplant risk stratification ready for prospective evaluation.

Novel Therapeutics (Immunotherapy)

PMID-42501476 · Cadonilimab for recurrent small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the cervix: a phase 2 study · 8/10 · 🟠 NOVEL_TREATMENT

Bispecific anti-PD-1/CTLA-4 cadonilimab in an ultra-rare aggressive gynecologic cancer (N=9): 0% ORR, safe; first prospective data for dual checkpoint blockade in SCNCC — informs future combination design.

Rare Diseases / Ophthalmology

PMID-42501956 · Retinal Pigment Epithelium and Microglia Transplantation in Age-related Macular Degeneration · 7/10 · 🟠 NOVEL_TREATMENT (flag-elevated)

Review of emerging RPE + microglia co-transplantation strategies for AMD with early clinical trial data; addresses major unmet need in a blinding progressive disease.

Hematologic Malignancies (Precision Medicine)

PMID-42500906 · Rapid Molecular Diagnostics Enables Individualized Frontline Treatment of CBFA2T3::GLIS2-Rearranged AML · 7/10 · 🟠 NOVEL_TREATMENT (flag-elevated, 2-patient series exception)

Nanopore WGS enabled same-session identification of CBFA2T3::GLIS2 rearrangement (27% 5-yr EFS) → upfront azacitidine + venetoclax + gemtuzumab; proof-of-concept for rapid-WGS-guided personalized frontline therapy in rare pediatric AML.


🟢⚪ STANDARD (5-7) — Top by Topic

Hematologic Malignancies

Novel Therapeutics

AI/ML in Diagnostics

Precision Oncology

Cardiovascular-Metabolic

Aging, Longevity & Population Health

Rare Diseases


💡 UNSOLICITED FINDS (Sentinel Scan)

PMID Title Score Note
42502148 Early warning + behavioural intervention on CVD risk in PLHIV 6/10 Non-RCT multicenter trial; HIV-cardio intersection
42502112 Mitochondrial dysfunction and mitophagy in necrotizing enterocolitis (Pediatr Res) 5/10 High-mortality neonatal condition; potential therapeutic target
42502053 Antiviral use in congenital CMV infants, US claims 2007-2024 (Clin Ther) 5/10 Rare neonatal infection; 17-year treatment pattern dataset

📊 TODAY'S BREAKDOWN

By pipeline priority:

By evidence maturity:

By study design:

By research category:

By watchlist topic (reviewed / retained / highest score):

Topic Reviewed Retained Highest
T1: Hematologic malignancies 15/15 7 7
T2: CBC/ML hematology 0/0 0
T3: Liquid biopsy / ctDNA 4/4 3 9
T4: AI/ML diagnostics 4/15 3 9
T5: Precision oncology 4/15 1 9*
T6: Novel therapeutics 6/15 3 8
T7: Cardiometabolic 5/15 3 9
T8: Aging/longevity 10/15 5 7
T9: Rare diseases 7/7 5 8
Sentinel 10/10 3 6

*42502133 shared across T4/T5

Topics with zero 8+ articles this run (watchlist-specific):


🔧 RUN NOTES

1. T2 zero results: Both primary and fallback queries returned 0 results for the 2026-07-25 → 2026-07-26 CRDT window. No CBC/ML hematology articles entered PubMed in this 33-hour window.

2. Partial coverage (PARTIAL_SUCCESS): T4, T5, T6, and T7 esummary batch responses exceeded the tool display truncation threshold (~20KB per response). Abstract retrieval compensated for top candidates in each topic. Unreviewed PMIDs documented in search_logs: T4 (11 missing), T5 (11 missing), T6 (10 missing), T7 (10 missing).

3. Conservative scoring applied:

4. False positives in T1: 3 articles (42501697 cardiac MLL4, 42502071 Chinese ALK-TKI consensus, 42502001 Spanish myelofibrosis case) appeared in hematology search but were off-topic; scored LOW and excluded from output. Indicates search query picks up broad "leukemia/lymphoma" keyword matches in unrelated contexts.

5. Sentinel coverage: 261 raw sentinel hits; top 10 reviewed; 42502080 and 42502099 already reviewed under T1/T9 respectively; 3 new unsolicited finds retained.


Generated by Friday (OpenClaw) · Run ID: 2026-07-26-attempt2-20260726T092858Z · Attempt 2 of 3 · Repairs: pmid type (int→str), title-only score caps (42501316: 6→3, 42501867: 5→3), Aging topic PMID 42500861 accounting