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Novel ketone-based IPDA phase change absorbents for highly efficient wide-concentration-range CO2 capture and low-energy regeneration Engineering (IF 10.1) Pub Date : 2025-05-22 Qingrui Zeng, Ziang Jia, Yingyang Song, Yiwen Fan, Xu Liu, Jinping Cheng
Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) is an important technological path for realizing “carbon neutrality,” where carbon capture is one of the three key CCS technologies. At present, mature carbon capture technologies still have technical shortcomings and difficulties, such as low capture efficiency and high energy consumption, which limit their large-scale popularization and application. In this
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A walk down memory lane and other stirring stories: Books in brief Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-23
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
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I apply my aquatic-science training to empower Tanzania’s seaweed farmers Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-23
Amenipa Kyando supports coastal communities to enhance their livelihoods while protecting their environment.
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I didn’t find AI useful. Then I let it teach me to code Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-23
Artificial intelligence is perfect for teaching novices, but less good for experts. Use it with that in mind, says Hannah Hackney.
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How to delight your future boss at a science job interview Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-23
Two lab leaders discuss what they look for in candidates, and how their own values and cultural backgrounds influence their approach.
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How artificial intelligence is transforming pathology Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-23
Some researchers say that deep-learning ‘foundation’ models will revolutionize the field — but others are not so sure.
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Signatures of chiral superconductivity in rhombohedral graphene Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-22 Tonghang Han, Zhengguang Lu, Zach Hadjri, Lihan Shi, Zhenghan Wu, Wei Xu, Yuxuan Yao, Armel A. Cotten, Omid Sharifi Sedeh, Henok Weldeyesus, Jixiang Yang, Junseok Seo, Shenyong Ye, Muyang Zhou, Haoyang Liu, Gang Shi, Zhenqi Hua, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Peng Xiong, Dominik M. Zumbühl, Liang Fu, Long Ju
Chiral superconductors are unconventional superconducting states that break time reversal symmetry spontaneously and typically feature Cooper pairing at non-zero angular momentum. Such states may host Majorana fermions and provide an important platform for topological physics research and fault-tolerant quantum computing1–7. Despite intensive search and prolonged studies of several candidate systems8–26
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Rare ‘spider star’ spotted consuming its companion Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-22
A spinning neutron star orbits the remnants of a once-massive companion it has stripped to its core.
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These contact lenses give people infrared vision — even with their eyes shut Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-22
Sci-fi-style technology uses nanoparticles to convert infrared light into visible light that humans can see.
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‘Landmark’ evolution study shows how rice inherits tolerance to cold without DNA changes Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-22
The study adds to evidence challenging the dominance of ‘natural selection’ as the sole adaptive force in evolution.
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Publisher Correction: Imaging surface structure and premelting of ice Ih with atomic resolution Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-22 Jiani Hong, Ye Tian, Tiancheng Liang, Xinmeng Liu, Yizhi Song, Dong Guan, Zixiang Yan, Jiadong Guo, Binze Tang, Duanyun Cao, Jing Guo, Ji Chen, Ding Pan, Li-Mei Xu, En-Ge Wang, Ying Jiang
Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07427-8 Published online 22 May 2024
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Daily briefing: Earth’s core could be leaking Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-22
Hot magma might’ve pushed material from Earth’s dense metallic core all the way to the surface. Plus, the absence of just one amino acid helps mice shed weight and groundbreaking scientific discoveries might be getting harder to come by.
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This ancient pathogen became deadlier when humans started wearing wool Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-22
Ancient genomes reveal that a bacterial fever jumped from human-borne ticks to lice around the time wool textiles became common.
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Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-22
Some meetings have been put on hold in response to foreign researchers’ travel concerns.
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Dying stars give a second wind to exoplanet formation Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Kendall Sullivan
The binary star system ν Octantis has long been considered hostile to planet formation. The discovery of a white dwarf in the system offers an alternative view.
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In This Issue Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2025-05-20
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 20, May 2025.
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Author Correction: Global methane emissions from rivers and streams Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-22 Gerard Rocher-Ros, Emily H. Stanley, Luke C. Loken, Nora J. Casson, Peter A. Raymond, Shaoda Liu, Giuseppe Amatulli, Ryan A. Sponseller
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Don’t feel the pain — these brain cells help with managing opioid withdrawal Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-22
Neurons in a brain region linked with substance-use disorders can affect how much pain is felt when stopping chronic opioid use.
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How and when North America’s deepest river gorge formed Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-22 Andrew Mitchinson
An analysis of landscape features and of river deposits preserved in caves point to an event 2.1 million years ago that triggered the formation of Hells Canyon.
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Why space exploration must not be left to a few powerful nations Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-22 Timiebi Aganaba, Adam Fish, Duane Hamacher, Alvin Harvey, Daniel Joinbee, Anthony Milligan, Chakad Ojani, Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Peter Swanton, Hilding Neilson, Brad Tucker
Indigenous people and others need a say in space-industry decisions. Here’s how that can happen.
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AI listens for health conditions Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-22
Voice recordings, examined by artificial intelligence, might provide new biomarkers for conditions such as heart disease and Alzheimer’s.
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‘Powerful and horrifying’ — David Attenborough’s latest film is a cry to protect our oceans Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-22
The seas could save us from climate change, but only if we save them first, legendary naturalist and broadcaster argues in a vivid film.
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Nations urged to ‘pick up the ball’ after DEI research cuts Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-22
Researchers say a lack of funding for studies that focus on sex and gender might also hasten a US brain drain.
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These malaria drugs treat the mosquitoes — not the people Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 21 May 2025
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Unravelling cysteine-deficiency-associated rapid weight loss Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Alan Varghese, Ivan Gusarov, Begoña Gamallo-Lana, Daria Dolgonos, Yatin Mankan, Ilya Shamovsky, Mydia Phan, Rebecca Jones, Maria Gomez-Jenkins, Eileen White, Rui Wang, Drew R. Jones, Thales Papagiannakopoulos, Michael E. Pacold, Adam C. Mar, Dan R. Littman, Evgeny Nudler
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A retrograde planet in a tight binary star system with a white dwarf Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Ho Wan Cheng, Trifon Trifonov, Man Hoi Lee, Faustine Cantalloube, Sabine Reffert, David Ramm, Andreas Quirrenbach
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Clonal tracing with somatic epimutations reveals dynamics of blood ageing Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Michael Scherer, Indranil Singh, Martina Maria Braun, Chelsea Szu-Tu, Pedro Sanchez Sanchez, Dominik Lindenhofer, Niels Asger Jakobsen, Verena Körber, Michael Kardorff, Lena Nitsch, Pauline Kautz, Julia Rühle, Agostina Bianchi, Luca Cozzuto, Robert Frömel, Sergi Beneyto-Calabuig, Caleb Lareau, Ansuman T. Satpathy, Renée Beekman, Lars M. Steinmetz, Simon Raffel, Leif S. Ludwig, Paresh Vyas, Alejo Rodriguez-Fraticelli
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Programmable control of spatial transcriptome in live cells and neurons Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Mengting Han, Maylin L. Fu, Yanyu Zhu, Alexander A. Choi, Emmy Li, Jon Bezney, Sa Cai, Leann Miles, Yitong Ma, Lei S. Qi
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Large gas inflow driven by a matured galactic bar in the early Universe Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Shuo Huang, Ryohei Kawabe, Hideki Umehata, Kotaro Kohno, Yoichi Tamura, Toshiki Saito
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Quasar radiation transforms the gas in a merging companion galaxy Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Sergei Balashev, Pasquier Noterdaeme, Neeraj Gupta, Jens-Kristian Krogager, Françoise Combes, Sebastián López, Patrick Petitjean, Alain Omont, Raghunathan Srianand, Rodrigo Cuellar
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Closed-loop vagus nerve stimulation aids recovery from spinal cord injury Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Michael P. Kilgard, Joseph D. Epperson, Emmanuel A. Adehunoluwa, Chad Swank, Amy L. Porter, David T. Pruitt, Holle L. Gallaway, Christi Stevens, Jaime Gillespie, Dannae Arnold, Mark B. Powers, Rita G. Hamilton, Richard C. Naftalis, Michael L. Foreman, Jane G. Wigginton, Seth A. Hays, Robert L. Rennaker
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The structure of liquid carbon elucidated by in situ X-ray diffraction Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 D. Kraus, J. Rips, M. Schörner, M. G. Stevenson, J. Vorberger, D. Ranjan, J. Lütgert, B. Heuser, J. H. Eggert, H.-P. Liermann, I. I. Oleynik, S. Pandolfi, R. Redmer, A. Sollier, C. Strohm, T. J. Volz, B. Albertazzi, S. J. Ali, L. Antonelli, C. Bähtz, O. B. Ball, S. Banerjee, A. B. Belonoshko, C. A. Bolme, V. Bouffetier, R. Briggs, K. Buakor, T. Butcher, V. Cerantola, J. Chantel, A. L. Coleman, J. Collier
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Glioblastoma-instructed astrocytes suppress tumour-specific T cell immunity Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Camilo Faust Akl, Brian M. Andersen, Zhaorong Li, Federico Giovannoni, Martin Diebold, Liliana M. Sanmarco, Michael Kilian, Luca Fehrenbacher, Florian Pernin, Joseph M. Rone, Hong-Gyun Lee, Gavin Piester, Jessica E. Kenison, Joon-Hyuk Lee, Tomer Illouz, Carolina M. Polonio, Léna Srun, Jazmin Martinez, Elizabeth N. Chung, Anton Schüle, Agustin Plasencia, Lucinda Li, Kylynne Ferrara, Mercedes Lewandrowski
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C-to-N atom swapping and skeletal editing in indoles and benzofurans Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Zhe Wang, Pengwei Xu, Shu-Min Guo, Constantin G. Daniliuc, Armido Studer
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Stepwise ATP translocation into the endoplasmic reticulum by human SLC35B1 Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Ashutosh Gulati, Do-Hwan Ahn, Albert Suades, Yurie Hult, Gernot Wolf, So Iwata, Giulio Superti-Furga, Norimichi Nomura, David Drew
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A foundation model for the Earth system Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Cristian Bodnar, Wessel P. Bruinsma, Ana Lucic, Megan Stanley, Anna Allen, Johannes Brandstetter, Patrick Garvan, Maik Riechert, Jonathan A. Weyn, Haiyu Dong, Jayesh K. Gupta, Kit Thambiratnam, Alexander T. Archibald, Chun-Chieh Wu, Elizabeth Heider, Max Welling, Richard E. Turner, Paris Perdikaris
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Multigenerational cell tracking of DNA replication and heritable DNA damage Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Andreas Panagopoulos, Merula Stout, Sinan Kilic, Peter Leary, Julia Vornberger, Virginia Pasti, Antonio Galarreta, Aleksandra Lezaja, Kyra Kirschenbühler, Ralph Imhof, Hubert Rehrauer, Urs Ziegler, Matthias Altmeyer
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Ru and W isotope systematics in ocean island basalts reveals core leakage Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Nils Messling, Matthias Willbold, Leander Kallas, Tim Elliott, J. Godfrey Fitton, Thomas Müller, Dennis Geist
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Sequence diversity lost in early pregnancy Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Gudny A. Arnadottir, Hakon Jonsson, Tanja Schlaikjær Hartwig, Jennifer R. Gruhn, Peter Loof Møller, Arnaldur Gylfason, David Westergaard, Andrew Chi-Ho Chan, Asmundur Oddsson, Lilja Stefansdottir, Louise le Roux, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, Kristjan H. Swerford Moore, Sigurgeir Olafsson, Pall I. Olason, Hannes P. Eggertsson, Gísli H. Halldórsson, G. Bragi Walters, Hreinn Stefansson, Sigurjon A. Gudjonsson
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PCSK9 drives sterol-dependent metastatic organ choice in pancreatic cancer Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Gilles Rademaker, Grace A. Hernandez, Yurim Seo, Sumena Dahal, Lisa Miller-Phillips, Alexander L. Li, Xianlu Laura Peng, Changfei Luan, Longhui Qiu, Maude A. Liegeois, Bruce Wang, Kwun W. Wen, Grace E. Kim, Eric A. Collisson, Stephan F. Kruger, Stefan Boeck, Steffen Ormanns, Michael Guenther, Volker Heinemann, Michael Haas, Mark R. Looney, Jen Jen Yeh, Roberto Zoncu, Rushika M. Perera
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Molecular basis of positional memory in limb regeneration Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 L. Otsuki, S. A. Plattner, Y. Taniguchi-Sugiura, F. Falcon, E. M. Tanaka
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Effect of phosphorylation barcodes on arrestin binding to a chemokine receptor Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Qiuyan Chen, Christopher T. Schafer, Somnath Mukherjee, Kai Wang, Martin Gustavsson, James R. Fuller, Katelyn Tepper, Thomas D. Lamme, Yasmin Aydin, Parth Agrawal, Genki Terashi, Xin-Qiu Yao, Daisuke Kihara, Anthony A. Kossiakoff, Tracy M. Handel, John J. G. Tesmer
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In vivo screen of Plasmodium targets for mosquito-based malaria control Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Alexandra S. Probst, Douglas G. Paton, Federico Appetecchia, Selina Bopp, Kelsey L. Adams, Tasneem A. Rinvee, Sovitj Pou, Rolf Winter, Esrah W. Du, Sabrina Yahiya, Charles Vidoudez, Naresh Singh, Janneth Rodrigues, Pablo Castañeda-Casado, Chiara Tammaro, Daisy Chen, Karla P. Godinez-Macias, Jasmine L. Jaramillo, Giovanna Poce, Michael J. Rubal, Aaron Nilsen, Elizabeth A. Winzeler, Jake Baum, Jeremy
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Unexpected clustering pattern in dwarf galaxies challenges formation models Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Ziwen Zhang, Yangyao Chen, Yu Rong, Huiyuan Wang, Houjun Mo, Xiong Luo, Hao Li
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The origin of vertebrate teeth and evolution of sensory exoskeletons Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Yara Haridy, Sam C. P. Norris, Matteo Fabbri, Karma Nanglu, Neelima Sharma, James F. Miller, Mark Rivers, Patrick La Riviere, Phillip Vargas, Javier Ortega-Hernández, Neil H. Shubin
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Antimalarial-treated bed nets could stop parasites developing in mosquitoes Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21
Mosquitoes exposed to the newly developed compounds show reduced malarial parasite growth even when infected four days later.
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Early barred galaxy raises questions about cosmic evolution Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Deanne Fisher
Observations of a galaxy from an early period of the Universe’s history reveal a bar-shaped structure and gas dynamics thought not to have been possible at that time.
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Daily briefing: ‘I used AI to design an awful protein’ Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21
This is what happened when a Nature reporter designed his own protein using AI. Plus, the ‘Gollum effect’ that makes researchers hoard data and hopeful results for the first mRNA bird-flu vaccine for cattle.
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The path for AI in poor nations does not need to be paved with billions Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21
Researchers in low- and middle-income countries show that home-grown artificial-intelligence technologies can be developed, even without large external investments.
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How axolotl cells ‘remember’ development to rebuild a lost limb Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 S. Y. Celeste Wu, Jessica L. Whited
The molecular feedback loops that program positional identity as salamander limbs develop and regrow could be harnessed for regenerative medicine.
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The evolutionary origin of sensitive dental structures Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Guillaume Houée, Philippe Janvier
Fossil data shed light on a debate about when vertebrate dental tissues arose by assigning an early sensory structure to arthropods rather than to vertebrates.
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Is Earth’s core leaking? Volcanic rocks provide strongest evidence yet Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21
Samples from Hawaii seem to contain material that passed across the boundary between the planet’s core and its mantle, nearly 3,000 kilometres below the surface.
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Projections of Earth’s health under different environmental policies Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21
Without targeted interventions, the world is likely to cross nearly all safe limits for environmental pressure in 2050.
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NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21
Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.
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Patterns of DNA modifications provide a ‘barcode’ for cell-lineage tracing Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21
An innovative method enables analysis of the clonal lineage of individual cells, without genetic engineering.
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Under the microscope: DNA damage tracked through cell generations Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Emma L. Reilly, Sarah J. Aitken
An ingenious technique reveals how stressed cells divide to produce progeny that have different traits — a phenomenon that can initiate cancer.
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Mice lacking this amino acid lost 30% of their body weight Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-21
But eliminating cysteine, which is found in high-protein foods, from human diets would be challenging.
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Publisher Correction: Multi-zonal liver organoids from human pluripotent stem cells Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-22 Hasan Al Reza, Connie Santangelo, Kentaro Iwasawa, Abid Al Reza, Sachiko Sekiya, Kathryn Glaser, Alexander Bondoc, Jonathan Merola, Takanori Takebe
Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08850-1 Published online 16 April 2025
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Author Correction: A human brain map of mitochondrial respiratory capacity and diversity Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-22 Eugene V. Mosharov, Ayelet M. Rosenberg, Anna S. Monzel, Corey A. Osto, Linsey Stiles, Gorazd B. Rosoklija, Andrew J. Dwork, Snehal Bindra, Alex Junker, Ya Zhang, Masashi Fujita, Madeline B. Mariani, Mihran Bakalian, David Sulzer, Philip L. De Jager, Vilas Menon, Orian S. Shirihai, J. John Mann, Mark D. Underwood, Maura Boldrini, Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, Martin Picard
Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08740-6 Published online 26 March 2025
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Publisher Correction: Ageing limits stemness and tumorigenesis by reprogramming iron homeostasis Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-22 Xueqian Zhuang, Qing Wang, Simon Joost, Alexander Ferrena, David T. Humphreys, Zhuxuan Li, Melissa Blum, Klavdija Krause, Selena Ding, Yuna Landais, Yingqian Zhan, Yang Zhao, Ronan Chaligne, Joo-Hyeon Lee, Sebastian E. Carrasco, Umeshkumar K. Bhanot, Richard P. Koche, Matthew J. Bott, Pekka Katajisto, Yadira M. Soto-Feliciano, Thomas Pisanic, Tiffany Thomas, Deyou Zheng, Emily S. Wong, Tuomas Tammela
Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08285-0 Published online 4 December 2024