Numbers highlight US dominance in clinical research
As the leading country in health-sciences output in the Nature Index, the United States’ Share is almost 8,500, higher than
Spatially organized cellular communities form the developing human heart
Experimental procedures Tissue samples Heart samples were collected in strict observance of the legal and institutional ethical regulations. The heart
Blueprinting extendable nanomaterials with standardized protein blocks
Natural and previously designed proteins exhibit a wide range of helical geometries with local irregularities, kinks and deviations from linearity16
researchers map organ in stunning detail
The heart is the first organ to develop, but despite its importance, scientists know surprisingly little about exactly how its
A fundamental constant in physics gets an update
An analysis of the jumps of a hydrogen atom’s electron has yielded a new, precise value for the Rydberg constant,
More than 4,000 plastic chemicals are hazardous, report finds
Plastic wrappers are known to leach some chemicals into food.Credit: Carl Court/Getty After a year of trawling through scientific reports
AIRE relies on Z-DNA to flag gene targets for thymic T cell tolerization
Anderson, M. S. et al. Projection of an immunological self shadow within the thymus by the aire protein. Science 298,
Neural signatures of natural behaviour in socializing macaques
Krakauer, J. W., Ghazanfar, A. A., Gomez-Marin, A., MacIver, M. A. & Poeppel, D. Neuroscience needs behavior: correcting a reductionist
Pooling babies’ saliva helps catch grave infection in newborns
Nature, Published online: 13 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00733-1 Cost-saving strategy increases early detection of congenital cytomegalovirus, which can cause developmental problems
why ecologists say the term still matters
After 15 years of discussion, geologists last week decided that the Anthropocene — generally understood to be the age of