Why chocolate tastes so good: microbes that fine-tune its flavour Summary Researchers investigated how cocoa-bean fermentation conditions shape chocolate flavour and showed that pH, temperature and the composition of microbial…
Why nurturing the gut microbiota could resolve depression and anxiety Summary The article examines growing evidence that the gut microbiota — the trillions of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract —…
Immunotherapy using CAR T cells shows promising long-term outcomes for people with the blood cancer myeloma Summary This News & Views piece in Nature reviews long-term clinical-trial data for the…
Raw ingredients: turning algal protein into mock meat Summary Stefan Guldin, a materials scientist now working on meat alternatives, discusses his lab’s efforts to turn microalgae proteins into textured mock-meat…
A baby benefits from personalised gene editing in the clinic Content summary Scientists used base editing to correct a disease-causing mutation in an infant with a rare, life-threatening metabolic disorder.…
Tiny flier could soar through the mesosphere powered only by light Summary Researchers report that tiny, perforated structures can sustain flight in near-space (the mesosphere) using only sunlight, exploiting a…
A sit in the sauna can save endangered frogs Summary Conservation biologist Anthony Waddle and collaborators have developed a simple, low-cost ‘frog sauna’ — a small greenhouse over a stack…
Engineered yeast provides rare but essential pollen sterols for honeybees Summary This Nature paper reports the engineering of the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica to produce the key sterols that honeybees…
A fluorescent-protein spin qubit Summary This Nature paper reports optical detection, coherent control and sensing with a spin qubit formed by the metastable triplet of a fluorescent protein (enhanced yellow…
Electrochemical loading enhances deuterium fusion rates in a metal target Summary The authors built a benchtop particle accelerator, the ‘Thunderbird Reactor’, to test whether electrochemical loading of deuterium into a…
