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How high-fat diets feed breast cancer

Nature Updates - Thu, 16/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 16 May 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01443-4

Obesity-associated Desulfovibrio gut bacteria suppress the immune system in mice, speeding breast-cancer tumour growth.

Found at last: long-lost branch of the Nile that ran by the pyramids

Nature Updates - Thu, 16/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 16 May 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01449-y

Geological survey reveals the remains of a major waterway that ancient Egyptian builders could have used to transport materials.

Daily briefing: How AI could help mathematicians achieve ‘moments of divine inspiration’

Nature Updates - Wed, 15/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 May 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01458-x

Mathematical conjectures could be the ideal testing ground for AI-assisted discovery. Plus, why humans are so good at running and how to kill ‘zombie’ cells that make us age.

GLP-1-directed NMDA receptor antagonism for obesity treatment

Nature Updates - Wed, 15/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07419-8

Unimolecular integration of NMDA receptor antagonism with GLP-1 receptor agonism effectively reverses obesity, hyperglycaemia and dyslipidaemia in rodent models of metabolic disease.

Imprinting of serum neutralizing antibodies by Wuhan-1 mRNA vaccines

Nature Updates - Wed, 15/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07539-1

Imprinting of serum neutralizing antibodies by Wuhan-1 mRNA vaccines

Publisher Correction: Ghost roads and the destruction of Asia-Pacific tropical forests

Nature Updates - Wed, 15/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07535-5

Publisher Correction: Ghost roads and the destruction of Asia-Pacific tropical forests

Organoids merge to model the blood–brain barrier

Nature Updates - Wed, 15/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 May 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01397-7

Combining a brain organoid with a blood-vessel organoid yields a system similar to a protective mesh in the brain.

Controlled failure: The building designed to limit catastrophe

Nature Updates - Wed, 15/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 May 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01384-y

New design - inspired by lizard tails - could save lives by isolating collapsing sections of damaged buildings

Evolution of a novel adrenal cell type that promotes parental care

Nature Updates - Wed, 15/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07423-y

The adrenal gland of the oldfield mouse (Peromyscus polionotus) has a recently evolved cell type that promotes monogamous-typical parenting behaviour and is not present in closely related species.

Suppressed thermal transport in silicon nanoribbons by inhomogeneous strain

Nature Updates - Wed, 15/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07390-4

We report on a method for inducing uncontaminated and precise inhomogeneous strain in nanoscale silicon ribbons and its use for determining physical effects in these strained materials, in particular, an increase in the range and control of thermal conductivity.

The rise of baobab trees in Madagascar

Nature Updates - Wed, 15/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07447-4

We carried out genomic and ecological analyses of all eight extant baobab species, providing insights into their evolutionary history and recommendations for conservation efforts.

Arresting failure propagation in buildings through collapse isolation

Nature Updates - Wed, 15/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07268-5

A design approach arrests collapse propagation in buildings after major initial failures by ensuring that specific elements fail before the failure of the most important components for global stability.

Dispersion-assisted high-dimensional photodetector

Nature Updates - Wed, 15/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07398-w

By combining spatial and frequency dispersive thin-film interfaces with deep residual learning, a miniature photodetector allowing the acquisition of high-dimensional information on light in a single-shot fashion is described.

Photocatalytic doping of organic semiconductors

Nature Updates - Wed, 15/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07400-5

A previously undescribed photocatalytic approach enables the effective p-type and n-type doping of organic semiconductors at room temperature using only widely available weak dopants such as oxygen and triethylamine.

The temperature sensor TWA1 is required for thermotolerance in <i>Arabidopsis</i>

Nature Updates - Wed, 15/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07424-x

TWA1 is a temperature-sensing transcriptional co-regulator that is needed for basal and acquired thermotolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Temporal multiplexing of perception and memory codes in IT cortex

Nature Updates - Wed, 15/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07349-5

We examined how familiar faces are encoded in inferotemporal, perirhinal and temporal pole face patches, and found that relative response magnitude to familiar versus unfamiliar faces was not a stable indicator of familiarity in any patch.

Superconducting diode effect and interference patterns in kagome CsV<sub>3</sub>Sb<sub>5</sub>

Nature Updates - Wed, 15/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07431-y

We observe the superconducting diode effect and interference patterns in CsV3Sb5, implying a time-reversal symmetry-breaking superconducting order in kagome superconductors.

Physiological temperature drives TRPM4 ligand recognition and gating

Nature Updates - Wed, 15/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07436-7

A temperature-dependent Ca2+-binding site in the intracellular domain of TRPM4 is essential for TRPM4 function in physiological contexts.

Entanglement of nanophotonic quantum memory nodes in a telecom network

Nature Updates - Wed, 15/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07252-z

Entanglement of two nanophotonic quantum network nodes is demonstrated through 40  km spools of low-loss fibre and a 35-km long fibre loop deployed in the Boston area urban environment.

Engineered CD47 protects T cells for enhanced antitumour immunity

Nature Updates - Wed, 15/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07443-8

Combination of TCR or CAR T cells expressing the engineered CD47 variant 47E with anti-CD47 antibody therapy results in synergistic antitumour efficacy due to T cell resistance to clearance by macrophages, while maintaining macrophage recruitment into the tumour microenvironment.