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Pig livers for people: US regulator greenlights first safety trial

Nature Updates - Tue, 15/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01209-6

Four people with liver failure will be connected to an external organ from genetically modified pigs.

Scientists must regain trust

Nature Updates - Tue, 15/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01202-z

Scientists must regain trust

Discussions of technologies’ societal impacts are still too limited

Nature Updates - Tue, 15/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01203-y

Discussions of technologies’ societal impacts are still too limited

Africa CDC must become financially independent

Nature Updates - Tue, 15/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01201-0

Africa CDC must become financially independent

Early air-pollution activists fight against city smoke

Nature Updates - Tue, 15/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00918-2

A 250,000-year-old footprint preserved in ash, and the effect of a polluted atmosphere on health and the economy, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive.

Science’s golden oldies: the decades-old research papers still heavily cited today

Nature Updates - Tue, 15/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01126-8

An analysis for Nature reveals the studies that appear most in the reference lists of current publications.

These are the most-cited research papers of all time

Nature Updates - Tue, 15/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01124-w

Some studies have received hundreds of thousands of citations, Nature’s updated analysis shows.

The fight to keep big tech in check: digital researchers are in ‘David and Goliath’ battle

Nature Updates - Tue, 15/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01141-9

Resource constraints hobble analyses of how digital technologies affect mental health, and take a huge toll on the scientists working to make the online world safer.

High time to tackle drug-resistant fungal infections

Nature Updates - Tue, 15/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01177-x

To combat long-overlooked fungal pathogens, researchers and regulators must embrace innovative science and policy.

Exclusive: the most-cited papers of the twenty-first century

Nature Updates - Tue, 15/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01125-9

A Nature analysis reveals the 25 highest-cited papers published this century and explores why they are breaking records.

Richard Fortey obituary: palaeontologist, author and TV presenter who traced continents through fossils

Nature Updates - Tue, 15/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01231-8

The fossil expert found love at first sight with trilobites.

Twenty years of genome-wide association studies

Nature Updates - Tue, 15/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01128-6

A powerful and unbiased way to identify links between genetic variants and biological traits has changed scientists’ understanding of complex diseases and how to treat them.

Should I return to my home country after my PhD abroad?

Nature Updates - Tue, 15/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01147-3

A graduate student from southeast Asia, now based in a European country and missing her homeland, agonizes over her next career move.

Lung signals drive cancer-associated blood clots

Nature Updates - Tue, 15/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01130-y

Fatal blood clots can arise in people who have cancer. The discovery of a cue that underlies these clots offers a therapeutic target and a way to assess clot risk.

Daily briefing: Five lawsuits have been filed in response to NIH cuts — what now?

Nature Updates - Mon, 14/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 14 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01222-9

Scientific bodies, academics and state attorneys have filed five lawsuits against the US National Institutes of Health, with more likely to follow. Plus, physicists have a new estimate for the maximum mass of a neutrino and a planet was spotted falling into its host star.

Five key climate and space projects on Trump’s chopping block

Nature Updates - Mon, 14/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 14 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01217-6

Leaked budget documents indicate which research programmes are at risk of being defunded in 2026.

Prdm16-dependent antigen-presenting cells induce tolerance to gut antigens

Nature Updates - Mon, 14/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 14 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08982-4

Prdm16-dependent antigen-presenting cells induce tolerance to gut antigens

Understanding bones from the remote wilderness of Wyoming

Nature Updates - Mon, 14/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 14 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01148-2

Digging in overlooked regions has opened up a world of discovery for palaeontologist David Lovelace.

Radical approach to shrink particle colliders gains momentum

Nature Updates - Mon, 14/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 14 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01181-1

Plans are taking off to use an unconventional technique to accelerate particles in a future collider.

AI-boosted cameras help blind people to navigate

Nature Updates - Mon, 14/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 14 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01214-9

A prototype wearable system uses machine-learning to guide users around obstacles.