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Unsupervised deep learning shows that the brain disentangles faces into semantically meaningful factors, like age or the presence of a smile, at the single neuron level
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Some bacteria produce cholesterol
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Caenorhabditis elegans is used as a model species to investigate ageing, yet has a high degree of lifespan plasticity. Kern et al. argue that their ageing is driven by suicidal reproductive effort.
Some bacteria produce cholesterol
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Scientists have discovered a new micro-organ hiding in our immune system.
A structure that “remembers” past infections and vaccinations—and is filled with immune cells of many kinds which respond to pathogens that the body has encountered before
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Adoptive transfer of immune cells, including T lymphocytes, has shown promises in cancer treatment
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A mother’s unintentional gift at birth
Specific bacteria from the mother’s gut are passed on to the newborn and strongly stimulate the baby’s immune responses
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SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted via contact and via the air between ferrets
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The cryo-EM reconstructions of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) virions reported by the reveal host tRNAs associated with the virion’s capsid-bound tegument protein.
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Researchers, publishers and press should take a proactive approach to stop the unscientific use of colour in data visualization. present a simple guide to combat the misuse of colour in science.
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Some bacteria can engulf other cells through a phagocytosis-like mechanism!
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Researchers identify a human monoclonal antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection in cell culture
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The ascending arousal system mediates low dimensional neural dynamics and internal shifts in conscious awareness
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Deep serpentinization (40 - 80 km) during subduction can generate significant amounts of hydrogen and abiotic methane, potentially providing energy sources to the overlying subsurface biosphere in the forearc
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Multi-species host range of staphylococcal phages isolated from wastewater
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Fossil fuel emissions were responsible for over 1 million deaths caused by air pollution in 2017
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Real-world networks are often said to be ”scale free”. and test this claim on real-world networks, showing that scale-free structure is far from universal. go.nature.com/2TjMdsQ
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Goodrich et al. use exome sequencing data from 77,184 individuals to generate penetrance estimates and assess the utility of polygenic variation in risk prediction of monogenic variants.
The cryo-EM structure of the Mayaro virus was solved by a team headed by Rafael Elias Marques at in Brazil @BarbosaBarretto
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#Malaria parasites inside red blood cells can engage cytosolic immune cell receptors from a distance, by secreting extracellular vesicles containing parasitic small RNA and genomic DNA
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The volumes of CO2 released during end-Triassic volcanic eruption pulses were likely comparable to the amount of anthropogenic 21st Century CO2 emissions
Raimond Ravelli, Peter Peters & colleagues developed VitroJet, a device that enables cryo-EM structure determination from sub-nl volumes of samples using pin-printing and jet vitrification
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Researchers identify a human monoclonal antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection in cell culture
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virus replication and circadian rhythms
Can viruses exploit circadian pathways to their advantage?
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Giant pandoraviruses create their own genes.
Giant #viruses overlapping in size and genome complexity with unicellular organisms are among the most unexpected discoveries of the last 15 years in #virology ...
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CO2 emissions associated with the India-Asia collision were likely the primary driver of changes in atmospheric CO2 over the past 65 million years.
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Electricity from methane by reversing methanogenesis. go.nature.com/2qQG08W
Human visual brain responses to objects are well-captured by self-supervised deep neural network models trained without labels, supporting a domain-general learning framework hypothesis
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Authors and from and collaborators from report the structure of the soluble membrane attack complex (sMAC), with insights into the regulation of complement activation. #cryoEM #complement
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SnapATAC: a single cell ATAC-seq analysis pipeline to map cell trajectories and reveal candidate regulators across large cell populations.
A deep learning approach enables prediction of the quantum mechanical wavefunction at force field-like efficiency and other ground-state properties go.nature.com/32WXteE
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Morono et al. show that microbial life trapped in ancient, energy-poor sediment under the ocean seafloor may have survived for 100 million years. (Yes, you read that correctly)
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Scientists from report an Atlas of blood biomarkers for metabolism against the whole spectrum of diseases in 100,000 individuals and identify potential metabolic biomarkers.
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Deinococcus is a relatively large spherical bacterium
This video shows the changes that the bacteria undergo throughout the cell cycle.
Cell envelope is shown in red, and nucleoid (DNA & associated macromolecules) in green
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The Lander lab shows that biological specimens amassing <100 kDa can be resolved to better than 3 Å resolution using conventional defocus-based single-particle analysis methods.
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Super-resolved visualization of single DNA-based tension sensors in cell adhesion
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A new ice sheet reconstruction for the past 80,000 years brings far-field sea level proxies and models into agreement, thus solving the missing ice problem of the last glacial
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A new study suggests the increasing frequency of western European heatwaves is linked to increased persistence of Eurasian double jets in the upper troposphere.
Base-pair resolution analysis of the effect of supercoiling on DNA flexibility and major groove recognition by triplex-forming oligonucleotides
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Microbial interactions at the interface between soil aggregates and plant litter control the fate of soil organic carbon@k_witzgall
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A general strategy for C(sp³)–H functionalization with nucleophiles using methyl radical as a hydrogen atom abstractor
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MacMaje construct coarse-grained molecular potentials using artificial neural networks, accelerating protein dynamics simulations while preserving their thermodynamics.
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Multiple ParA/MinD ATPases coordinate the positioning of disparate cargos in a bacterial cell
#microbiology #bacteria
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scRNA-seq profiles heterogeneous cell populations. It is not known which statistical frameworks are performant to detect subpopulation-level responses. & Pierre-Luc Germain developed a framework for multi-conditional analysis
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Using alt text to make science Twitter more accessible for people with visual impairments
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Artificial two-dimensional #polar metal at room temperature go.nature.com/2IyIJMx
Read an article featured in this month's Editors' Highlights in #CondensedMatter Physics
Machine learning algorithms can learn how a person encodes memory and can stimulate the brain to help people remember, shows a new #neuroscience study:
Autologous cytotoxic T lymphocytes generated ex vivo by exposure to antigens induced by #DNA demethylation show promising results in an ongoing phase 1 #clinicaltrial of recurrent #glioblastoma multiforme patients go.nature.com/clinical_trials
Resolving the structure of phage–bacteria interactions in the context of natural diversity
Recombination between phages is common
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Kīlauea erupted on Hawai’i’s Big Island during the summer of 2018. This Perspective dives deep into the underlying mechanisms driving this unexpected event
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A new data set shows how CO2 emissions change in near real-time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Check out the data at carbonmonitor.org.
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Interested in mass spectrometry of metabolites, lipids and nucleic acids? Our updated article collection features recent work in these areas from , , and others
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Stefan Raunser’s team presents the TranSPHIRE software package for fully-automated processing of cryo-EM datasets during data acquisition
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Bacteria-generated gold nanoparticles for cancer immunotherapy.
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