Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres Summary This Nature paper shows that many budding-yeast centromeres originated by co-option of Ty5 LTR retrotransposon sequences. The authors generated chromosome-level assemblies…
Nucleotide signals coordinate activation and inhibition of bacterial immunity Summary Article Date: 18 February 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10135-0 Article Image: not provided in the input This Nature paper describes the…
A roadmap for evaluating moral competence in large language models Summary This Nature Perspective argues that, as LLMs are used in sensitive roles (companionship, therapy, medical advice and agentic systems),…
Clinical-grade autonomous cytopathology through whole-slide edge tomography Summary This Nature paper describes a complete, clinically validated pipeline that digitises thick cytology samples in 3D at whole-slide scale and runs on-site…
Integrated photonics enabling ultra-wideband fibre–wireless communication Article Date: 18 February 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10172-9 Article Image: Figure 1 (full size) Summary This Nature paper demonstrates a unified ultra-wideband (UWB) all-optical…
Laser writing in glass for dense, fast and efficient archival data storage Summary Microsoft Research’s Project Silica team demonstrates Silica: a full archival storage system based on femtosecond laser direct…
Highly dynamic dural sinuses support meningeal immunity Summary This Nature paper maps the anatomy and live behaviour of the dorsal dural venous sinuses in mice and compares features with human…
RYK is a GPNMB receptor that drives MASH Article Date: 18 February 2026DOI / URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10160-z Summary This Nature paper identifies the receptor RYK as a functional binding partner for…
In vivo base editing of Chd3 rescues behavioural abnormalities in mice Summary This Nature paper reports a targeted in vivo base-editing approach that corrects a recurrent de novo CHD3 variant…
Roles of microtubules and LIS1 in dynein transport machinery assembly Article metadata Article Date: 18 February 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10153-y Article Image: (no central image provided) Summary This Nature study…
