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CRISPR therapy restores some vision to people with blindness

Nature Updates - Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 09 May 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01285-0

People with an inherited condition that causes vision loss in childhood had vision improvements after treatment to replace a mutated gene.

The US Congress is taking on AI —this computer scientist is helping

Nature Updates - Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 09 May 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01354-4

Kiri Wagstaff, who temporarily shelved her academic career to provide advice on federal AI legislation, talks about life inside the halls of power.

Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail

Nature Updates - Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 09 May 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01387-9

Google scientists have modelled a fragment of the human brain at nanoscale resolution, revealing cells with previously undiscovered features.

US TikTok ban: how the looming restriction is affecting scientists on the app

Nature Updates - Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 09 May 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01388-8

Nature talks to researchers about what is at stake if users in the country lose access.

Rhizobia–diatom symbiosis fixes missing nitrogen in the ocean

Nature Updates - Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 09 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07495-w

Rhizobia–diatom symbiosis fixes missing nitrogen in the ocean

How ignorance and gender inequality thwart treatment of a widespread illness

Nature Updates - Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 09 May 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01386-w

Tens of millions of people have female genital schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease that few physicians have even heard of. Efforts are under way to move it out of obscurity and empower women and girls to access sexual and reproductive health care.

Daily briefing: Rejuvenating the immune system could slow ageing

Nature Updates - Wed, 08/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 08 May 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01391-z

Studies in mice raise the tantalising prospect of treating immune ageing to control age-related diseases. Plus, concerns grow over cows becoming a permanent reservoir for the bird flu virus and a major AlphaFold upgrade offers a boost for drug discovery.

Dozens of Brazilian universities hit by strikes over academic wages

Nature Updates - Wed, 08/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 08 May 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01355-3

Some professors and staff members have been on strike for as long as four weeks as they seek better conditions at their institutions.

Structural mechanism of angiogenin activation by the ribosome

Nature Updates - Wed, 08/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 08 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07508-8

Structural mechanism of angiogenin activation by the ribosome

A secondary atmosphere on the rocky Exoplanet 55 Cancri e

Nature Updates - Wed, 08/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 08 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07432-x

A secondary atmosphere on the rocky Exoplanet 55 Cancri e

Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3

Nature Updates - Wed, 08/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 08 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07487-w

Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3

Elastic films of single-crystal two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks

Nature Updates - Wed, 08/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 08 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07505-x

Elastic films of single-crystal two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks

Publisher Correction: High carrier mobility along the [111] orientation in Cu<sub>2</sub>O photoelectrodes

Nature Updates - Wed, 08/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 08 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07489-8

Publisher Correction: High carrier mobility along the [111] orientation in Cu2O photoelectrodes

Alphafold 3.0: the AI protein predictor gets an upgrade

Nature Updates - Wed, 08/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 08 May 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01385-x

Deepmind’s protein-structure predictor adds other molecules to the mix, and a big step towards a ‘nuclear clock’.

Mapping genotypes to chromatin accessibility profiles in single cells

Nature Updates - Wed, 08/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 08 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07388-y

The JAK2V617F mutation leads to epigenetic rewiring in a cell-intrinsic and cell-type-specific manner, influencing inflammation states and differentiation trajectories in patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms.

Observation of Nagaoka polarons in a Fermi–Hubbard quantum simulator

Nature Updates - Wed, 08/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 08 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07272-9

Emergence of Nagaoka polarons and kinetic magnetism is observed in a Hubbard system realized with strongly interacting fermions trapped in a triangular optical lattice.

Full-colour 3D holographic augmented-reality displays with metasurface waveguides

Nature Updates - Wed, 08/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 08 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07386-0

We develop a method for providing high-quality, holographic, three-dimensional augmented-reality images in a small form factor suitable for incorporation in eyeglass-scale wearables, using high-refraction-index glass waveguides with nanoscale metasurfaces, and incorporating artificial intelligence.

The refinery of the future

Nature Updates - Wed, 08/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 08 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07322-2

Efforts to find renewable alternatives to fossil fuels that might enable a carbon-neutral society by 2050 are described, as well as outlining a possible roadmap towards a refinery of the future and evaluating its requirements.

All-optical subcycle microscopy on atomic length scales

Nature Updates - Wed, 08/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 08 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07355-7

All-optical subcycle microscopy is achieved on atomic length scales, with picometric spatial and femtosecond temporal resolution.

The intrinsic substrate specificity of the human tyrosine kinome

Nature Updates - Wed, 08/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 08 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07407-y

An atlas of the substrate specificities for the human tyrosine kinome reveals diversity of motif specificities and enables identification of kinase–substrate relationships and kinase regulation in phosphoproteomics experiments.