Wave Energy Projects Have Come a Long Way After 10 Years
Wave Energy Projects Have Come a Long Way After 10 Years Summary A recent 41-page review (first deployed around 2014) and accompanying news coverage distil a decade of progress in…
Will the latest skin substitutes revolutionize the treatment of burns and other wounds?
Will the latest skin substitutes revolutionize the treatment of burns and other wounds? Summary Researchers are advancing engineered skin substitutes that better mimic full-thickness human skin, aiming to move beyond…
Gene therapy marks a turning point for rare skin diseases
Gene therapy marks a turning point for rare skin diseases Summary A recent Nature Outlook piece profiles major advances in gene therapy for inherited skin disorders, focusing on epidermolysis bullosa…
Acne vaccines could offer robust defence
Acne vaccines could offer robust defence By Benjamin Plackett Summary Researchers are developing vaccines that train the immune system to tackle the bacteria-driven inflammation behind acne, offering a potential step-change…
How did life get multicellular? Five simple organisms could have the answer
How did life get multicellular? Five simple organisms could have the answer Summary For roughly three billion years life was single-celled. About a billion years ago, repeated moves to team…
Five highlights from skin research
Five highlights from skin research Summary Giving robots a human face Researchers at the University of Tokyo developed a method to anchor living, multilayered synthetic skin to complex robot surfaces…
Cocaine chemogenetics blunts drug-seeking by synthetic physiology
Summary This Nature paper describes the engineering of cocaine-gated chemogenetic ion channels and their use to suppress cocaine-seeking in rodents by creating an artificial, drug-dependent negative-feedback signal. The team mutated…
A psoriasis cure could be in touching distance
A psoriasis cure could be in touching distance Summary Highly targeted antibody drugs that block key cytokines (TNF-α, IL-17, IL-23) have transformed moderate to severe psoriasis but normally need lifelong…
Attosecond control and measurement of chiral photoionization dynamics
Summary This Nature paper reports the first use of circularly polarised attosecond extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) pulses to probe and control chiral photoionization in molecules. By combining a circularly polarised attosecond pulse…
Topological prethermal strong zero modes on superconducting processors
Topological prethermal strong zero modes on superconducting processors Summary This Nature paper reports the experimental observation of long‑lived topological edge modes at finite (even effectively infinite) temperature in a disorder‑free…