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 replaces bulky free-space laser optics with a…
Axonal injury is a targetable driver of glioblastoma progression Summary This Nature paper shows that early glioblastoma (GBM) development preferentially occurs in white matter (WM) and that tumour-associated axonal injury…
A missing enzyme-rescue metabolite as cause of a rare skeletal dysplasia Summary This Nature paper identifies the biochemical role of TGDS and explains how its deficiency causes Catel–Manzke syndrome. The…
Quantitative imaging of lipid transport in mammalian cells Summary This paper presents a quantitative pipeline to track species-specific lipid transport and metabolism in mammalian cells. The authors combined minimally modified…
A novel bacterial protein family that catalyses nitrous oxide reduction Summary This Nature paper describes the discovery and characterisation of a previously unrecognised nitrous oxide reductase family, termed clade III…
SLC45A4 is a pain gene encoding a neuronal polyamine transporter Key points • Genome-wide association studies (UK Biobank, MVP, FinnGen) link common variants in SLC45A4 to chronic pain intensity and…
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 specific sterols honeybees need…
Atomic dynamics of gas-dependent oxide reducibility Summary This Nature paper combines in‑situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM), spectroscopy, thermogravimetric/XRD/RGA experiments and density functional theory (DFT) to reveal how the reducing gas…
A fluorescent-protein spin qubit Summary This Nature paper demonstrates that a commonly used fluorescent protein (enhanced yellow fluorescent protein, EYFP) can act as an optically addressable spin qubit. The team…
Electrochemical loading enhances deuterium fusion rates in a metal target Summary The authors built a benchtop particle accelerator called the Thunderbird Reactor to test whether electrochemical loading of deuterium into…
