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A skin-permeable polymer for non-invasive transdermal insulin delivery
Cell lines and animals The HaCat, mouse hepatoma (AML-12), mouse embryonic fibroblast (3T3-L1) and mouse skeletal muscle (MSMC)…
Widely tunable and narrow-linewidth violet lasers enabled by UV-transparent materials
Ludlow, A. D., Boyd, M. M., Ye, J., Peik, E. & Schmidt, P. O. Optical atomic clocks. Rev.…
how researchers harness pee and poo for science
As Mathilde Poyet ushers me through the Global Microbiome Conservancy’s laboratory in Kiel, Germany, I’m met with all…
Electric field-tunable ferromagnetism in a van der Waals semiconductor up to room temperature
Our density-functional theory (DFT) suggests that BP intercalated with a few percent of Co (See schematics in Fig. 1a)…
Fermi polarons under strain-induced pseudomagnetic fields
Pseudospin in strained TMDs The spatial symmetry of TMDs dictates that a linearly polarized photon in a state…
versatile gene-editing tool could tackle a host of diseases
A cell’s protein-making machinery (artist’s illustration) can be instructed to ignore mutations that would otherwise result in shortened…
Women seem to retract fewer papers than men — but why?
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How do genetic association studies rank genes?
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 19 November 2025 Genome-wide association studies and rare-variant burden tests are the two main tools for…
Observation of hyperbolic intersubband polaritons in native-dielectric-doped van der Waals semiconductor quantum wells
Intersubband transition and native-dielectric-doping The intersubband transition energies in the WSe2 QWs can be approximated with an infinite…
If the AI bubble bursts, what will it mean for research?
The surging value of firms such as NVIDIA has fuelled concerns about an AI stock market bubble.Credit: Kent…
Topological nodal i-wave superconductivity in PtBi2
DFT calculations and BdG model We performed DFT calculations using the full-potential local orbital code FPLO38 within the…