Featured this week: 

• John Blau, MD
• Dustin Bosch, MD, PhD
• Ethan Chodur
• Maddisen Dwelley, BS
• Emma Gardner, BS
• Alexandra Isaacson, MD
• Nitin Karandikar, MD, PhD
• Ashutosh Mangalam, PhD
• Aracely Miron-Ocampo, BS
• Bishal Parajuli, BS
• Apruva Patel, PhD
• Robert Robinson, MD, PhD

• Distinct immunomodulatory effects of synthetic progestins compared with natural progesterone in human immune cells. Patel AJ, Karandikar AN, Miron-Ocampo A, Karandikar NJ, Mangalam AK. Immunohorizons. 2026 Aug 4;10(8):vlag046. doi: 10.1093/immhor/vlag046. PMID: 42607301
   
• Secreted nuclease effector neutralization by active site mimicry in Bacillota. Abbasian R, Parajuli B, Yu L, Durocher B, Gardner E, Chodur E, Dwelley MK, Ellermeier CD, Ho TD, Bosch DE. mBio. 2026 Aug 17:e0151626. doi: 10.1128/mbio.01516-26. Online ahead of print. PMID: 42606298
   

• Scalable, modular whole-slide imaging pipelines for low-resource settings: A practical framework and open notebook implementation. Githuka A, Balis UGJ, Kim YC, Weinheimer-Haus EM, Williams CL, Cheng JI, Yao K, Blau J, Baker JA, Njenga P, Chepkemoi W, Parker RK, Waljee AK, Sayed S, Saleh MN. J Pathol Inform. 2026 Jul 18;22:100692. doi: 10.1016/j.jpi.2026.100692. eCollection 2026 Aug. PMID: 42602888
   

• Generative artificial intelligence in manuscript writing and peer review for the Journal of Neuroimmunology. Wu GF, Klein RS, Mangalam AK, Funk KE, Touil H, Liu Q, Gold R, Piccio L. J Neuroimmunol. 2026 Jul 30:579042. doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2026.579042. Online ahead of print. PMID: 42601234
   
• Discrepancies with Final Diagnosis in Head and Neck Intraoperative Frozen Section. Albright S, Isaacson A, Robinson R.Head Neck Pathol. 2026 Aug 14;20(1):91. doi: 10.1007/s12105-026-01959-3.PMID: 42599558