Quantitative imaging of lipid transport in mammalian cells Summary This paper describes a new, quantitative pipeline that combines minimally modified (bifunctional) lipid probes, ultra-high-resolution Fourier-transform mass spectrometry, live-cell fluorescence imaging…
Engineered yeast provides rare but essential pollen sterols for honeybees Summary This Nature paper describes how researchers engineered the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica to produce the rare pollen sterols honeybees…
Atomic dynamics of gas-dependent oxide reducibility Summary This Nature paper (Chen et al., 2025) combines in situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM), near-ambient-pressure XPS, in situ XRD/RGA and density functional theory…
Cancer-induced nerve injury promotes resistance to anti-PD-1 therapy Summary This Nature paper reports that cancer-induced nerve injury (CINI) — caused by direct cancer contact and myelin degradation of tumour-associated nerves…
A novel bacterial protein family that catalyses nitrous oxide reduction Summary Researchers report a previously unrecognised family of nitrous oxide reductases — clade III lactonase-type N2OR (L-NosZ) — that catalyses…
Electrochemical loading enhances deuterium fusion rates in a metal target Summary This Nature paper reports a benchtop particle accelerator — the “Thunderbird Reactor” — that couples plasma immersion ion implantation…
Realization of a doped quantum antiferromagnet in a Rydberg tweezer array Summary This Nature paper reports the experimental realisation of a doped quantum antiferromagnet using a programmable array of Rydberg…
A fluorescent-protein spin qubit Summary This Nature paper demonstrates that a common fluorescent protein (enhanced yellow fluorescent protein, EYFP) can be used as an optically addressable spin qubit. The team…
Experimental determination of partial charges with electron diffraction Summary This paper introduces iSFAC modelling, an experimental method that extracts absolute partial charges for every atom in a crystal structure by…
Targeting G1–S-checkpoint-compromised cancers with cyclin A/B RxL inhibitors Summary This Nature study describes the design, optimisation and preclinical evaluation of orally bioavailable macrocyclic peptides that block RxL motif docking on…
