Featured this week: 

• Vladimir Badovinac, PhD
• Andrew Bellizzi, MD
• Matthew Gosse, MD
• Matthew Krasowski, MD, PhD
• Steven Moore, MD, PhD

• Exhausted CD8⁺ T cell fate is programmed by dynamic CTCF-mediated enhancer activation and invariant CTCF-imposed barriers. Hu W, Zhu S, Chen Q, Badovinac VP, Peng W, Xue HH. Nat Immunol. 2026 Jul 6. doi: 10.1038/s41590-026-02585-5. Online ahead of print. PMID: 42409949
   
• Mapping self-associating chromatin hubs identifies Id proteins as key determinants of exhausted CD8⁺ T cell fate. Hu W, Chen Q, Zhu S, Hu SS, Yu H, Patel V, Wang Y, Badovinac VP, Zhang Y, Zang C, Peng W, Xue HH. Nat Immunol. 2026 Jul 6. doi: 10.1038/s41590-026-02578-4. Online ahead of print. PMID: 42409948
   
• Care Patterns and Gastric Cancer-Related Outcomes in Patients With Pathogenic/Likely Pathogenic Germline CDH1 Variants: A 14-Year Single-Center Analysis. Schoeneich R, Patel RR, Lee BR, Disano P, Gao MT, VanDerGraaf M, Gosse M, El Abiad R, Levin A, Chandrasekharan C, Hoshi H, Bellizzi AM, Fei NH, Grewal US.Am J Clin Oncol. 2026 Jun 30. doi: 10.1097/COC.0000000000001350. Online ahead of print.PMID: 42397948
   
• Regenerative Index: a method to assess muscle regeneration in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Smid JK, McPherson CA, Monast JG, Rayagiri SSS, Moore SA, Rudnicki MA. Skelet Muscle. 2026 Jul 1. doi: 10.1186/s13395-026-00436-3. Online ahead of print. PMID: 42387635
   
• ADLM Guidance Document on Incorporating Gender Diversity in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Thomas TA, Winston-McPherson GN, Amarillo I, Berry AD, Davidge-Pitts CJ, Devaraj S, Goldstein Z, Karon BS, Katzman BM, Khalifa MA, Luu HS, Nichols JH, Stockley TL, Stoffel MR, Greene DN, Krasowski MD. J Appl Lab Med. 2026 Jul 1;11(4):887-926. doi: 10.1093/jalm/jfag071. PMID: 42383916