Who needs sex? Kelp reproduce asexually when no mate is nearby
Both male and female kelp were shown to be capable of reproduction without fertilization.Credit: Madelein_Wolf/Getty When potential mates…
RSV vaccines slash infections: data show jabs’ staggering success against dangerous virus
Protection against the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) must expand to lower-income countries, which are harder hit.Credit: Hailshadow/Getty “Something’s…
Hideki Shirakawa obituary: chemist who showed that plastics can conduct electricity
Credit: Newscom/Alamy Hideki Shirakawa pioneered the field of conductive polymers, overturning the common view that plastics do not…
Evolutionary dynamics in the years preceding acute myeloid leukaemia
Longitudinal peripheral blood DNA samples Longitudinal peripheral blood DNA samples were obtained from blood serum samples biobanked as…
Transient nuclear softening for zygotic gene activation in mice
Animals Mice (ICR and B6C3F1/Jc1 or slc (BCF1)) aged 5–15 weeks53 were purchased from CLEA Japan, Japan SLC or…
Domain-alteration chimeras rewire oncogenic complexes in prostate cancer
Cell lines VCaP, LNCaP, 22Rv1, DU145, PC-3, MCF-7, HepG2, A549, K562, HL-60, U937, HEK293, WPMY-1, U-87 MG, BJAB,…
Glycosylation and importins liquefy the FG barrier in live nuclear pores
Cell culture, transfection and labellingCell culture COS-7 cells (Sigma, 87021302) and HEK293T cells (Beyotime, C6008) were cultured in…
Suppression of epithelial proliferation and tumorigenesis by IgA
Fagarasan, S. Evolution, development, mechanism and function of IgA in the gut. Curr. Opin. Immunol. 20, 170–177 (2008).…
Scale-rich network-based metamaterials | Nature
We begin by determining the mechanical characteristics of SR microstructures, comparing them against three single-scale microstructures frequently used…
Validation of clinical and preclinical obesity across global cohorts
To our knowledge, this is the first large-scale, multinational study to comprehensively evaluate the Lancet Commission diagnostic framework1…
Iconic first image of black hole holds up to scrutiny
Physicists used an algorithm to combine telescope measurements of a black hole in a different way to the…
Independent interferometric observable confirms black hole shadow in M87*
EHT datasets on M87* This work uses the publicly available network-calibrated datasets of M87* (https://eventhorizontelescope.org/for-astronomers/data), reduced through the…