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Revealing Higher-Order Interactions in High-Dimensional Complex Systems: A Data-Driven Approach Phys. Rev. X (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 M. Reza Rahimi Tabar, Farnik Nikakhtar, Laya Parkavousi, Amin Akhshi, Ulrike Feudel, Klaus Lehnertz
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Electrical Control of Spin and Valley in Spin-Orbit Coupled Graphene Multilayers Phys. Rev. Lett. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Taige Wang, Marc Vila, Michael P. Zaletel, Shubhayu Chatterjee
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Verbose robots, and why some people love Bach: Books in Brief Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-15
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
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A year in the life: what I learnt from using a time-tracking spreadsheet Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-15
A low-tech solution helped Megan Rogers to increase her productivity and maintain a good work–life balance.
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Building a heart atlas: researchers map organ in stunning detail Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13
Cutting edge imaging techniques reveal how cells organise as the heart develops.
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Mobile delivery of COVID-19 vaccines improved uptake in rural Sierra Leone Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Alison Buttenheim, Harsha Thirumurthy
Vaccination rates in rural areas improve when vaccines are delivered.
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Unlock the potential of a physics education Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14
This month in Nature Physics, we publish a Focus issue that highlights the importance of physics education research.
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Towards meaningful diversity, equity and inclusion in physics learning environments Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Alexandru Maries, Chandralekha Singh
Physics is one of the least diverse of all science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines with damaging stereotypes about who belongs and who can excel in it. Physics learning environments are generally not inclusive or equitable, with students from historically marginalized groups often reporting an unwelcoming climate. In general, the culture of physics is competitive with a dearth
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Bird-flu threat disrupts Antarctic penguin studies Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-15
Projects have been cancelled in an effort to curb the virus’s spread.
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Inside China’s giant underground neutrino lab Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-15
Due to come online this year, the JUNO facility will help to determine which type of neutrino has the highest mass — one of the biggest mysteries in physics.
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People, passion, publishable: an early-career researcher’s checklist for prioritizing projects Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-15
Stuck between several lines of research? Here’s how we decide which ones to pursue, say Elizabeth Tenney, Jacqueline Chen and McKenzie Preston.
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First US drug approved for a liver disease surging around the world Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-15
A therapy called resmetirom improves hallmarks of an obesity-linked condition that can lead to liver failure.
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A fundamental constant in physics gets an update Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-14
Scientists controlled a hydrogen atom with electric fields to derive a highly precise estimate of the Rydberg constant.
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Ditching ‘Anthropocene’: why ecologists say the term still matters Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-14
Beyond stratigraphic definitions, the name has broader significance for understanding humans’ place on Earth.
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Neural and behavioural state switching during hippocampal dentate spikes Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jordan S. Farrell, Ernie Hwaun, Barna Dudok, Ivan Soltesz
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AIRE relies on Z-DNA to flag gene targets for thymic T cell tolerization Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Yuan Fang, Kushagra Bansal, Sara Mostafavi, Christophe Benoist, Diane Mathis
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Blueprinting extendable nanomaterials with standardized protein blocks Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Timothy F. Huddy, Yang Hsia, Ryan D. Kibler, Jinwei Xu, Neville Bethel, Deepesh Nagarajan, Rachel Redler, Philip J. Y. Leung, Connor Weidle, Alexis Courbet, Erin C. Yang, Asim K. Bera, Nicolas Coudray, S. John Calise, Fatima A. Davila-Hernandez, Hannah L. Han, Kenneth D. Carr, Zhe Li, Ryan McHugh, Gabriella Reggiano, Alex Kang, Banumathi Sankaran, Miles S. Dickinson, Brian Coventry, T. J. Brunette
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Drought triggers and sustains overnight fires in North America Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Kaiwei Luo, Xianli Wang, Mark de Jong, Mike Flannigan
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Fork coupling directs DNA replication elongation and termination Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Yang Liu, Zhengrong Zhangding, Xuhao Liu, Tingting Gan, Chen Ai, Jinchun Wu, Haoxin Liang, Mohan Chen, Yuefeng Guo, Rusen Lu, Yongpeng Jiang, Xiong Ji, Ning Gao, Daochun Kong, Qing Li, Jiazhi Hu
DNA replication is initiated at multiple loci to ensure timely duplication of eukaryotic genomes. Sister replication forks progress bidirectionally, and replication terminates when two convergent forks encounter one another. To investigate the coordination of replication forks, we developed a replication-associated in situ HiC method to capture chromatin interactions involving nascent DNA. We identify
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Penning micro-trap for quantum computing Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Shreyans Jain, Tobias Sägesser, Pavel Hrmo, Celeste Torkzaban, Martin Stadler, Robin Oswald, Chris Axline, Amado Bautista-Salvador, Christian Ospelkaus, Daniel Kienzler, Jonathan Home
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Chatbot AI makes racist judgements on the basis of dialect Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13
Some large language models harbour hidden biases that cannot be removed using standard methods.
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Did ‘alien’ debris hit Earth? Startling claim sparks row at scientific meeting Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13
Astrophysicist Avi Loeb says that an interstellar meteor showered Earth with particles. At a planetary-science conference this week, researchers begged to differ.
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Daily briefing: In most mammal species, males and females are the same size — or females are bigger Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13
Charles Darwin’s claim about male mammals usually being bigger than females is proved wrong. Plus, OpenAI’s Sora can create amazing video from text prompts, and what’s wrong with how we treat the menopause.
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Continuous evolution of compact protein degradation tags regulated by selective molecular glues Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Jaron A. M. Mercer, Stephan J. DeCarlo, Shourya S. Roy Burman, Vedagopuram Sreekanth, Andrew T. Nelson, Moritz Hunkeler, Peter J. Chen, Katherine A. Donovan, Praveen Kokkonda, Praveen K. Tiwari, Veronika M. Shoba, Arghya Deb, Amit Choudhary, Eric S. Fischer, David R. Liu
Conditional protein degradation tags (degrons) are usually >100 amino acids long or are triggered by small molecules with substantial off-target effects, thwarting their use as specific modulators of endogenous protein levels. We developed a phage-assisted continuous evolution platform for molecular glue complexes (MG-PACE) and evolved a 36–amino acid zinc finger (ZF) degron (SD40) that binds the ubiquitin
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Generalized fear after acute stress is caused by change in neuronal cotransmitter identity Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Hui-quan Li, Wuji Jiang, Li Ling, Marta Pratelli, Cong Chen, Vaidehi Gupta, Swetha K. Godavarthi, Nicholas C. Spitzer
Overgeneralization of fear to harmless situations is a core feature of anxiety disorders resulting from acute stress, yet the mechanisms by which fear becomes generalized are poorly understood. In this study, we show that generalized fear in mice results from a transmitter switch from glutamate to γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in serotonergic neurons of the lateral wings of the dorsal raphe. Similar change
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Squeezing Oscillations in a Multimode Bosonic Josephson Junction Phys. Rev. X (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Tiantian Zhang, Mira Maiwöger, Filippo Borselli, Yevhenii Kuriatnikov, Jörg Schmiedmayer, Maximilian Prüfer
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Evidence for an Excitonic Insulator State inTa2Pd3Te5 Phys. Rev. X (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jierui Huanget al.
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Tensor Network Message Passing Phys. Rev. Lett. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Yijia Wang, Yuwen Ebony Zhang, Feng Pan, Pan Zhang
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Minimum-Consumption Discrimination of Quantum States via Globally Optimal Adaptive Measurements Phys. Rev. Lett. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Boxuan Tian, Wen-Zhe Yan, Zhibo Hou, Guo-Yong Xiang, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo
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Emergent Inductance from Spin Fluctuations in Strongly Correlated Magnets Phys. Rev. Lett. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Taekoo Oh, Naoto Nagaosa
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Spin-Orbit Excitons in a Correlated Metal: Raman Scattering Study ofSr2RhO4 Phys. Rev. Lett. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Lichen Wang, Huimei Liu, Valentin Zimmermann, Arvind Kumar Yogi, Masahiko Isobe, Matteo Minola, Matthias Hepting, Giniyat Khaliullin, Bernhard Keimer
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Fruity blues Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Bart Verberck
So-called plant epicuticular waxes are well known for their self-ordering, self-repairing and self-cleaning properties, their hydrophobicity, and for resisting insect and microbial pathogens. But the optical characteristics of these surface coatings have not been studied in great detail. This, and the observation that blueberry juice is dark red rather than blue, led Middleton and colleagues to speculate
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Batter quality Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Karen Mudryk
The team developed a multiphase transport framework to investigate how the main ingredients of a cupcake — water, sugar and fat — influence performance metrics such as oven rise, moisture content and colour. They modelled the batter as a porous medium subjected to heat transfer, viscoelastic deformation, water evaporation and carbon dioxide generation from the baking powder. During baking, conduction
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The air temperature conundrum Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Andrea Merlone, Graziano Coppa, Chiara Musacchio
Measuring air temperature is far from a trivial task, as Andrea Merlone, Graziano Coppa and Chiara Musacchio explain.
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Honesty is being put through the mill Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Mark Buchanan
Of course, some papers do little more than criticize, picking holes in previous arguments, or showing flaws in data analysis or a lack of full consideration of all possible interpretations. Such criticisms can sometimes be a little brutal, but these works are also ultimately positive — science depends on errors being challenged and ultimately corrected, even if this often takes some time and bruises
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Computing in physics education Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Marcos D. Caballero, Tor Ole B. Odden
Computing is central to the enterprise of physics but few undergraduate physics courses include it in their curricula. Here we discuss why and how to integrate computing into physics education.
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Racial equity in physics education research Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Geraldine L. Cochran, Simone Hyater-Adams, Miguel Rodriguez, Ximena C. Cid, Diana Sachmpazidi, Katemari Rosa, Ramón S. Barthelemy
Injustices and oppression are pervasive in society, including education. An intersectional, equity-oriented approach can help remove systemic obstacles and improve the experience of marginalized people in physics education through decolonial and critical race lenses.
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Epistemic agency as a critical mediator of physics learning Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Nam-Hwa Kang
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Extreme focusing of hard X-ray free-electron laser pulses enables 7 nm focus width and 1022 W cm−2 intensity Nat. Photon. (IF 35.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Jumpei Yamada, Satoshi Matsuyama, Ichiro Inoue, Taito Osaka, Takato Inoue, Nami Nakamura, Yuto Tanaka, Yuichi Inubushi, Toshinori Yabuuchi, Kensuke Tono, Kenji Tamasaku, Hirokatsu Yumoto, Takahisa Koyama, Haruhiko Ohashi, Makina Yabashi, Kazuto Yamauchi
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The DTC microbiome testing industry needs more regulation Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Diane E. Hoffmann, Erik C. von Rosenvinge, Mary-Claire Roghmann, Francis B. Palumbo, Daniel McDonald, Jacques Ravel
A growing body of research has suggested the potential for improving human health by better understanding the human microbiome. This research has led to the emergence of a global industry selling direct-to-consumer (DTC) microbiome testing services. Regulation of this industry has been generally ignored despite its having made a mark on the lifestyle health and wellness market. Yet companies’ claims
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Divas, captains, ghosts, ants and bumble-bees: collaborator attitudes explained Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-15
Olga Lehmann made sense of challenges she faced in teamwork by analysing how she and her colleagues behaved and what she could have done differently.
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A Black mathematical history Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-14
Documentary reveals how Black US scholars shaped today’s mathematics community and provides hope for the future.
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More than 4,000 plastic chemicals are hazardous, report finds Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-14
Year-long effort compiles comprehensive database of chemicals in plastics.
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The neuroscientist formerly known as Prince’s audio engineer Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-14
Susan Rogers worked with the legendary singer-songwriter before earning a PhD in her 50s on auditory memory and how we listen to music throughout life.
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Do black holes explode? The 50-year-old puzzle that challenges quantum physics Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-14
Stephen Hawking’s paradoxical finding that black holes don’t live forever has profound, unresolved implications for the quest for unifying theories of reality.
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Fungal diseases are spreading undetected Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-14
Low- and middle-income countries are grappling with widespread shortages of diagnostic tests for infections that kill millions.
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Daily briefing: How Hawking’s paradox still puzzles physicists Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-14
On the sixth anniversary of Stephen Hawking’s death, we revisit his landmark paper. Plus, a stunning 3D atlas of the heart and the mysterious rise of cancer in young people.
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These cyborg jellyfish could monitor the changing seas Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13
A hat-like prosthesis helps the invertebrates to swim more efficiently and can be used to carry ocean sensors.
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Couple-close construction of polycyclic rings from diradicals Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Alice Long, Christian J. Oswood, Christopher B. Kelly, Marian C. Bryan, David W. C. MacMillan
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US oil and gas system emissions from nearly one million aerial site measurements Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Evan D. Sherwin, Jeffrey S. Rutherford, Zhan Zhang, Yuanlei Chen, Erin B. Wetherley, Petr V. Yakovlev, Elena S. F. Berman, Brian B. Jones, Daniel H. Cusworth, Andrew K. Thorpe, Alana K. Ayasse, Riley M. Duren, Adam R. Brandt
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Spatially organized cellular communities form the developing human heart Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Elie N. Farah, Robert K. Hu, Colin Kern, Qingquan Zhang, Ting-Yu Lu, Qixuan Ma, Shaina Tran, Bo Zhang, Daniel Carlin, Alexander Monell, Andrew P. Blair, Zilu Wang, Jacqueline Eschbach, Bin Li, Eugin Destici, Bing Ren, Sylvia M. Evans, Shaochen Chen, Quan Zhu, Neil C. Chi
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High-speed and large-scale intrinsically stretchable integrated circuits Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Donglai Zhong, Can Wu, Yuanwen Jiang, Yujia Yuan, Min-gu Kim, Yuya Nishio, Chien-Chung Shih, Weichen Wang, Jian-Cheng Lai, Xiaozhou Ji, Theodore Z. Gao, Yi-Xuan Wang, Chengyi Xu, Yu Zheng, Zhiao Yu, Huaxin Gong, Naoji Matsuhisa, Chuanzhen Zhao, Yusheng Lei, Deyu Liu, Song Zhang, Yuto Ochiai, Shuhan Liu, Shiyuan Wei, Jeffrey B.-H. Tok, Zhenan Bao
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Substrate-induced condensation activates plant TIR domain proteins Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Wen Song, Li Liu, Dongli Yu, Hanna Bernardy, Jan Jirschitzka, Shijia Huang, Aolin Jia, Wictoria Jemielniak, Julia Acker, Henriette Laessle, Junli Wang, Qiaochu Shen, Weijie Chen, Pilong Li, Jane E. Parker, Zhifu Han, Paul Schulze-Lefert, Jijie Chai
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Dopamine receptor D2 confers colonization resistance via microbial metabolites Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Samantha A. Scott, Jingjing Fu, Pamela V. Chang
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Time-resolved cryo-EM of G-protein activation by a GPCR Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Makaía M. Papasergi-Scott, Guillermo Pérez-Hernández, Hossein Batebi, Yang Gao, Gözde Eskici, Alpay B. Seven, Ouliana Panova, Daniel Hilger, Marina Casiraghi, Feng He, Luis Maul, Peter Gmeiner, Brian K. Kobilka, Peter W. Hildebrand, Georgios Skiniotis
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Mitochondrial complex I activity in microglia sustains neuroinflammation Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 L. Peruzzotti-Jametti, C. M. Willis, G. Krzak, R. Hamel, L. Pirvan, R.-B. Ionescu, J. A. Reisz, H. A. Prag, M. E. Garcia-Segura, V. Wu, Y. Xiang, B. Barlas, A. M. Casey, A. M. R. van den Bosch, A. M. Nicaise, L. Roth, G. R. Bates, H. Huang, P. Prasad, A. E. Vincent, C. Frezza, C. Viscomi, G. Balmus, Z. Takats, J. C. Marioni, A. D’Alessandro, M. P. Murphy, I. Mohorianu, S. Pluchino
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Last-mile delivery increases vaccine uptake in Sierra Leone Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Niccolò F. Meriggi, Maarten Voors, Madison Levine, Vasudha Ramakrishna, Desmond Maada Kangbai, Michael Rozelle, Ella Tyler, Sellu Kallon, Junisa Nabieu, Sarah Cundy, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
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Roll-to-roll, high-resolution 3D printing of shape-specific particles Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jason M. Kronenfeld, Lukas Rother, Max A. Saccone, Maria T. Dulay, Joseph M. DeSimone
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Rapid unleashing of macrophage efferocytic capacity via transcriptional pause release Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Turan Tufan, Gamze Comertpay, Ambra Villani, Geoffrey M. Nelson, Marina Terekhova, Shannon Kelley, Pavel Zakharov, Rochelle M. Ellison, Oleg Shpynov, Michael Raymond, Jerry Sun, Yitan Chen, Enno Bockelmann, Marta Stremska, Lance W. Peterson, Laura Boeckaerts, Seth R. Goldman, J. Iker Etchegaray, Maxim N. Artyomov, Francesca Peri, Kodi S. Ravichandran