Two main gene discovery methods reveal complementary aspects of biology

The two main approaches for discovering disease genes reveal distinct aspects of biology, a new study shows. While both ...

Foundation model reveals how cells are organized in tissues

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed Nicheformer, the first ...

More than a structural bystander: Vinculin's unexpected role in cellular mechanical memory

A team of researchers at the University of Liverpool, working in collaboration with the Mechanobiology Institute at the ...
eLife

Microbial consortia in salt marsh sediments are sequentially buried over millennia and genomic complementarity analysis indicates an important role in complex carbon decomposition

This study provides a valuable genome-centric characterization of microbial communities across deep sediment cores from a Spartina patens salt marsh. The study provides claims on the metabolic ...

Protein plays unexpected dual role in protecting brain from oxidative stress damage

New research from Johns Hopkins Medicine shows that the enzyme biliverdin reductase A (BVRA) plays a direct protective role ...
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NatureOpinion

Safeguards for virology must be designed in partnership with the public

There will be no hope of restoring political support for pandemic preparedness research, nor public acceptance of it, if virologists seek to continue under a business-as-usual model. Public inclusion ...