Seismic detection of a 600-km solid inner core in Mars
Seismic detection of a 600-km solid inner core in Mars Summary This Nature study presents seismic evidence for a solid inner core (IC) in Mars with a radius of roughly…
Rewiring of cortical glucose metabolism fuels human brain cancer growth
Rewiring of cortical glucose metabolism fuels human brain cancer growth Summary This Nature study uses clinical stable-isotope infusions in eight patients and parallel mouse models to map how glioblastomas (GBMs)…
Dynamic fibroblast–immune interactions shape recovery after brain injury
Dynamic fibroblast–immune interactions shape recovery after brain injury Summary This Nature paper maps how central nervous system (CNS) fibroblasts respond to focal brain injury and how their interactions with immune…
One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants
One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants Summary This Nature paper reports a striking reproductive system in the harvester ant Messor ibericus: queens produce workers only…
Genetic suppression features ABHD18 as a Barth syndrome therapeutic target
Genetic suppression features ABHD18 as a Barth syndrome therapeutic target Summary This Nature paper reports a genome-wide genetic suppression search that identifies ABHD18 as a modulator of the Barth syndrome…
Multiple overlapping binding sites determine transcription factor occupancy
Multiple overlapping binding sites determine transcription factor occupancy Summary The authors introduce PADIT-seq (protein affinity to DNA by in vitro transcription and RNA sequencing), a high-throughput in vitro assay that…
A circuit that integrates drive state and social contact to gate mating
A circuit that integrates drive state and social contact to gate mating Summary This paper identifies a thalamic gating circuit that times the switch from appetitive to consummatory male mating…
Single-cell transcriptomic and genomic changes in the ageing human brain
Single-cell transcriptomic and genomic changes in the ageing human brain Summary This study uses single-nucleus RNA-seq (snRNA-seq), single-cell whole-genome sequencing (scWGS) and MERFISH spatial transcriptomics to map transcriptomic and somatic‑mutation…
Analog optical computer for AI inference and combinatorial optimization
Analog optical computer for AI inference and combinatorial optimisation Summary The paper presents the analog optical computer (AOC), an opto-electronic, fully analogue platform that performs iterative fixed-point searches to accelerate…
Divergent evolutionary strategies pre-empt tissue collision in gastrulation
Divergent evolutionary strategies pre-empt tissue collision in gastrulation Summary This study combines comparative embryology, genetics, optogenetics and quantitative imaging to show how fly species avoid destructive tissue collisions during early…