‘Giant step forward’ for Huntington’s — the scientist behind the first gene therapy
On a video call in early September, Sarah Tabrizi first saw the data that she and other researchers…
will it find new treatments?
Global estimates indicate that 6 in 100 people who get COVID-19 develop post-COVID-19 condition, also known as long…
Using generative AI for the objective assessment of language in healthcare
Participant demographics We obtained recordings from 53 autistic participants and 18 neurotypical controls (NTCs), including children (5–12 years), adolescents…
Aluminium is crucial to vaccines — and safe. Why are US advisers debating it?
Many childhood vaccines contain small amounts of aluminium to boost the immune response. Credit: Getty When US vaccine…
Ultrathin Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Surface Wave Absorbers for Terahertz Dielectric Waveguides
Lioubtchenko, D., Tretyakov, S. & Dudorov, S. Millimeter-wave waveguides Vol. 114 (Springer Science & Business Media, 2003). Carpintero,…
Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes
Donoghue, P. C. J. et al. Defining eukaryotes to dissect eukaryogenesis. Curr. Biol. 33, R919–R929 (2023). Article PubMed …
Search for light sterile neutrinos with two neutrino beams at MicroBooNE
A broad experimental programme has shown that the three quantum-mechanical eigenstates of neutrino flavour, νe, νμ and ντ,…
The ‘silent’ brain cells that shape our behaviour, memory and health
For decades, neuroscientists focused almost exclusively on only half of the cells in the brain. Neurons were the…
Soliton dynamics and stability in resonant nonlinear Schrödinger systems with cubic quintic effects via enhanced modified extended tanh function method
Our goal in this part is to get the next form of solutions for Eq. (1): $$\begin{aligned} R(x,y,z,t)=R(\xi…
Will blockbuster obesity drugs revolutionize addiction treatment?
Last April, neuroscientist Sue Grigson received an e-mail from a man detailing his years-long struggle to kick addiction…
‘Fire amoeba’ survives in hotter conditions than any other complex cell
Hot springs at at Lassen Volcanic National Park in California, where the heat-tolerant amoeba was discovered.Credit: Kelly Vandellen/iStock…
Experimentally achieving minimal dissipation via thermodynamically optimal transport
We begin by implementing a translation and compression protocol—a simple yet highly controllable process — to experimentally characterize…