Atomic dynamics of gas-dependent oxide reducibility Content summary This Nature paper (Chen et al., 2025) combines in situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM), ambient-pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, in situ XRD/RGA, ex…
Cancer-induced nerve injury promotes resistance to anti-PD-1 therapy Summary This Nature study describes a new, tumour-driven mechanism of resistance to anti-PD-1 immune checkpoint therapy. The authors show that tumour-associated nerves…
A novel bacterial protein family that catalyses nitrous oxide reduction Summary This Nature paper reports the discovery of a previously unrecognised family of nitrous oxide reductases (termed clade III or…
SLC45A4 is a pain gene encoding a neuronal polyamine transporter Summary This Nature study identifies SLC45A4 as a plasma-membrane polyamine transporter genetically linked to human chronic pain. A UK Biobank…
Electrochemical loading enhances deuterium fusion rates in a metal target Summary This Nature paper describes a benchtop particle accelerator — the “Thunderbird Reactor” — built to test whether electrochemical loading…
Thymic epithelial cells amplify epigenetic noise to promote immune tolerance Summary This study uses single-cell Multiome (scRNA + scATAC) profiling, genetic mouse models and orthogonal epigenomic assays to show that…
Engineered yeast provides rare but essential pollen sterols for honeybees Key Points • Honeybees require specific pollen sterols (notably 24-methylenecholesterol and cholesterol) that are missing from many commercial pollen substitutes.…
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 an array of individually controlled…
A fluorescent-protein spin qubit Summary This paper demonstrates that a common fluorescent protein (EYFP) can act as an optically addressable spin-1 qubit. The team uses an optically activated delayed-fluorescence (OADF)…
Experimental determination of partial charges with electron diffraction Summary This Nature paper introduces iSFAC modelling, an experimental procedure to determine absolute partial charges for every atom in a crystal using…
