Blood protein thwarts deadly fungal disease
Blood protein thwarts deadly fungal disease Summary Researchers report that low serum levels of the blood protein albumin are linked to worse clinical outcomes from mucormycosis, a severe infection caused…
Chronic pain could be eased by uncoupling the sensory and emotional experiences
Chronic pain could be eased by uncoupling the sensory and emotional experiences Summary Researchers report a way to separate the sensory detection of pain from the negative emotional experience that…
Exotic quasiparticles glimpsed in graphene
Exotic quasiparticles glimpsed in graphene Summary Researchers using bilayer graphene have observed robust Aharonov–Bohm interference patterns in even‑denominator fractional quantum Hall states. The measurements are consistent with the presence of…
A mechanical ratchet drives unilateral cytokinesis
A mechanical ratchet drives unilateral cytokinesis Article metadata Article Date: 07 January 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09915-x Article Image: Figure 1 Summary This study uses zebrafish blastomeres to explain how an…
Albumin orchestrates a natural host defence mechanism against mucormycosis
Albumin orchestrates a natural host defence mechanism against mucormycosis Summary This Nature study shows that human serum albumin (HSA) is a specialised host defence factor that selectively inhibits growth and…
ipRGC properties prevent light from shifting the SCN clock during daytime
ipRGC properties prevent light from shifting the SCN clock during daytime Article Meta data Article Date = 07 January 2026 Article URL = https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09894-z Article Title = ipRGC properties prevent…
Evidence accumulation from experience and observation in the cingulate cortex
Evidence accumulation from experience and observation in the cingulate cortex Summary This Nature article examines how neurons in the cingulate cortex accumulate evidence both from direct experience and from observing…
Stress controls heterochromatin inheritance via histone H3 ubiquitylation
Stress controls heterochromatin inheritance via histone H3 ubiquitylation Summary This Nature study identifies a stress‑responsive regulatory hub (HRH) that controls heterochromatin propagation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. The hub centres on the…
Oral 4′-fluorouridine rescues nonhuman primates from advanced Lassa fever
Oral 4′-fluorouridine rescues nonhuman primates from advanced Lassa fever Summary Article Date: 07 January 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09906-y Article Image: https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41586-025-09906-y/MediaObjects/41586_2025_9906_Fig1_HTML.png This Nature study tests the oral antiviral 4′-fluorouridine (4′-FIU,…
Towards fibre-like loss for photonic integration from violet to near-infrared
Towards fibre-like loss for photonic integration from violet to near-infrared Summary This Nature paper presents a germano-silicate (Ge-silica) planar photonic platform that achieves fibre-like, ultralow waveguide loss across the visible…