Feeding bees with engineered yeast combats colony decline Summary Researchers have engineered yeast to produce rare but essential sterol molecules normally found in pollen. When included in a bee diet,…
Summary Lipid molecules build and organise cellular membranes. This Research Briefing summarises a new Nature paper that uses quantitative imaging to track how different lipids move between organelles in mammalian…
Axonal injury is a targetable driver of glioblastoma progression Summary This study (Clements et al., Nature, 2025) shows that axonal injury in white-matter (WM) regions is an early, active driver…
Discovery of a widespread chemical signalling pathway in the Bacteroidota Summary Researchers report the discovery and characterisation of a cell-density-dependent chemical signalling system—termed the N-acyl-cyclolysine (ACL) system—found broadly across the…
Flat-panel laser displays through large-scale photonic integrated circuits Summary This paper from Reality Labs Research (Meta) demonstrates a new flat-panel laser-display architecture that uses large-scale visible photonic integrated circuits (PICs)…
SLC45A4 is a pain gene encoding a neuronal polyamine transporter Summary This Nature paper identifies SLC45A4 as a plasma‑membrane polyamine transporter that is genetically linked to human chronic pain and…
Quantitative imaging of lipid transport in mammalian cells Summary This Nature paper describes a combined imaging, mass-spectrometry and kinetic-modelling pipeline to measure species-specific lipid transport and metabolism in mammalian cells…
Atomic dynamics of gas-dependent oxide reducibility Summary This Nature paper reports atom-scale experiments and density-functional theory (DFT) that reveal how the reduction of nickel oxide (NiO) proceeds by qualitatively different…
Cancer-induced nerve injury promotes resistance to anti-PD-1 therapy Summary This Nature study describes a new mechanism of resistance to anti-PD-1 immunotherapy driven by cancer-induced nerve injury (CINI). Across multiple neurotropic…
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…
