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Autism and DDT: What one million pregnancies can — and can’t — reveal
Analysis finds that prenatal exposure to the pesticide is associated with a higher risk of severe autism with intellectual impairment.
- Sara Reardon
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Research Highlight |
Teens stumble on a new class of astronomical object
Students sifting through archived data find an X-ray flare too brief to belong to an ordinary star.
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Research Highlight |
A sensor detects the light touch of a single molecule
Contact with just one antibody molecule regulates current flow through a transistor.
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Correspondence |
Dilemma over AI and drug patenting already under debate
- Ross D. King
- & Patrick Courtney
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Modulating plant growth–metabolism coordination for sustainable agriculture
The balance of DELLA and GRF4 proteins in plants ensures the co-regulation of growth with metabolism and tipping this balance towards GRF4 leads to higher efficiency of nitrogen use.
- Shan Li
- , Yonghang Tian
- , Kun Wu
- , Yafeng Ye
- , Jianping Yu
- , Jianqing Zhang
- , Qian Liu
- , Mengyun Hu
- , Hui Li
- , Yiping Tong
- , Nicholas P. Harberd
- & Xiangdong Fu
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Marine heatwaves under global warming
Satellite observations and Earth system model simulations reveal that marine heatwaves have increased in recent decades and will increase further in terms of frequency, intensity, duration and spatial extent.
- Thomas L. Frölicher
- , Erich M. Fischer
- & Nicolas Gruber
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Nature Podcast |
Podcast: Bumblebees, opioids, and ocean weather
Benjamin Thompson and Adam Levy bring the latest science news to your ears.
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How digital drug users could help to halt the US opioid epidemic
Agent-based modelling offers opportunities to explore the complex social interactions at the heart of the addiction crisis.
- Sara Reardon
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News & Views |
An immune response with a sweet tooth
A previously unknown pathway that enables mammalian cells to recognize infection and trigger an immune response requires a kinase enzyme in the host cell to bind a sugar molecule produced by infecting bacteria.
- John-Demian Sauer
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Letter |
Restoration of vision after de novo genesis of rod photoreceptors in mammalian retinas
Müller glia in mature mouse retina can be stimulated to produce rod cells; this treatment restores visual responses in a model of congenital blindness.
- Kai Yao
- , Suo Qiu
- , Yanbin V. Wang
- , Silvia J. H. Park
- , Ethan J. Mohns
- , Bhupesh Mehta
- , Xinran Liu
- , Bo Chang
- , David Zenisek
- , Michael C. Crair
- , Jonathan B. Demb
- & Bo Chen
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Letter |
Cooperative asymmetric reactions combining photocatalysis and enzymatic catalysis
A cooperative chemoenzymatic reaction combines photocatalytic alkene isomerization with enzymatic reduction to generate enantioenriched products in a stereoconvergent manner.
- Zachary C. Litman
- , Yajie Wang
- , Huimin Zhao
- & John F. Hartwig
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News |
How Unpaywall is transforming open science
Unpaywall has become indispensable to many academics, and tie-ins with established scientific search engines could broaden its reach.
- Holly Else
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Comment |
Biologists ignore ocean weather at their peril
Ecologists must understand how marine life responds to changing local conditions, rather than to overall global temperature rise, say Amanda E. Bates and 16 colleagues.
- Amanda E. Bates
- , Brian Helmuth
- , Michael T. Burrows
- , Murray I. Duncan
- , Joaquim Garrabou
- , Tamar Guy-Haim
- , Fernando Lima
- , Ana M. Queiros
- , Rui Seabra
- , Robert Marsh
- , Jonathan Belmaker
- , Nathaniel Bensoussan
- , Yunwei Dong
- , Antonios D. Mazaris
- , Dan Smale
- , Martin Wahl
- & Gil Rilov
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Article |
Cryo-EM structure of the insect olfactory receptor Orco
A cryo-electron microscopy structure of the insect Orco subunit, which forms ion channels with diverse olfactory receptors, reveals a tetrameric cation channel and sheds light on insect olfaction.
- Joel A. Butterwick
- , Josefina del Mármol
- , Kelly H. Kim
- , Martha A. Kahlson
- , Jackson A. Rogow
- , Thomas Walz
- & Vanessa Ruta
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News & Views |
Improved nutrient use gives cereal crops a boost
Manipulation of the transcription factor OsGRF4 can improve the efficiency with which some high-yielding cereal crops use nitrogen. This discovery has implications for sustainable agriculture.
- Fanmiao Wang
- & Makoto Matsuoka
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Editorial |
Reading between the lines
An in-depth analysis reveals the scale of differences among strains of common cell lines.
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Article |
Autism-like phenotype and risk gene mRNA deadenylation by CPEB4 mis-splicing
CPEB4 binds the mRNA of genes known to be associated with autism and shows an isoform imbalance in individuals with autism, and an equivalent imbalance in mice induces an autism-like phenotype.
- Alberto Parras
- , Héctor Anta
- , María Santos-Galindo
- , Vivek Swarup
- , Ainara Elorza
- , José L. Nieto-González
- , Sara Picó
- , Ivó H. Hernández
- , Juan I. Díaz-Hernández
- , Eulàlia Belloc
- , Annie Rodolosse
- , Neelroop N. Parikshak
- , Olga Peñagarikano
- , Rafael Fernández-Chacón
- , Manuel Irimia
- , Pilar Navarro
- , Daniel H. Geschwind
- , Raúl Méndez
- & José J. Lucas
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News |
Climate change has doubled the frequency of ocean heatwaves
Extreme heat events wreak havoc on marine ecosystems and will only get worse in coming decades.
- Jeff Tollefson
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News & Views |
Enzymes team up with light-activated catalysts
Catalysts working in pairs can promote more-effective reactions than can the same catalysts used sequentially. The coupling of an enzyme with a light-activated catalyst offers great potential for organic synthesis.
- Nicholas J. Turner
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Letter |
Sulfoxaflor exposure reduces bumblebee reproductive success
Chronic exposure to sulfoxaflor (a sulfoximine-based insecticide) has severe sub-lethal effects on bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) colonies; exposed colonies produced fewer workers and fewer reproductive offspring than unexposed control colonies.
- Harry Siviter
- , Mark J. F. Brown
- & Ellouise Leadbeater
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Books & Arts |
The ancient seeds of the opioid crisis, a love letter to physics, and a ticket to the termite circus: Books in brief
Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week’s best science picks.
- Barbara Kiser
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