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How Denisovans thrived on top of the world: mysterious ancient humans’ survival secrets revealed
Nature· 2 days agoThe cave-dwelling group hunted animals such as hyenas and hares to sustain themselves in harsh...
Neuroscientists must not be afraid to study religion
Nature· 3 days agoScientists interested in the brain have tended to avoid studying religion or spirituality for fear of being seen as unscientific. That needs to change.
Asymptomatic herpes simplex virus brain infection elicits cellular senescence phenotypes in the...
Nature· 11 hours agoIdentification of senescence-related markers in the brain and spinal cord of mice with asymptomatic HSV-1 brain infection and animals undergoing experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis which parallels multiple sclerosis in humans.
Creative connections: the neural correlates of semantic relatedness are associated with creativity -...
Nature· 11 hours agoCombining HD-EEG with connectome modeling predicts individual creative behavior from resting-state functional connectivity, highlighting the importance of optimal activation interplay across networks in creative cognition.
The ACE1 secondary metabolite gene cluster is a pathogenicity factor of wheat blast fungus -...
Nature· 11 hours agoMolecular analyses suggest that a blast resistance gene already defeated in rice may be revived as a durable resistance gene in wheat by targeting ACE1, a pathogenicity factor of the wheat blast fungus.
Small extracellular vesicles derived from microRNA-22-3p-overexpressing mesenchymal stem cells...
Nature· 1 day agoMicroRNA-22-3p enhances the protective effect of mesenchymal stem cells derived small extracellular vesicles on N-methyl-D-aspartic acid-induced retinal ganglion cell damage by regulating MAPK pathway mediated apoptosis.
Mammalian cell display with automated oligo design and library assembly allows for rapid residue...
Nature· 1 day agoUsing a new method for rapid, residue-level epitope determination combining flow cytometry and surface displayed alanine substitution variants the authors determined the epitopes of three new antibodies binding the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein.
‘Chemical recycling’: 15-minute reaction turns old clothes into useful molecules
Nature· 18 hours agoFast fashion creates millions of tonnes of waste each year — could clever chemistry help to tackle the problem?
A CRISPR/Cas9 screen in embryonic stem cells reveals that Mdm2 regulates totipotency exit -...
Nature· 1 day agoA CRISPR/Cas9 screen identities regulators about the transition of pluripotency to totipotency and revealed Mdm2 as a significant negative regulator of totipotency.
Ventrointermediate thalamic stimulation improves motor learning in humans - Communications Biology
Nature· 2 days agoThe authors show that ventrointermediate thalamic stimulation facilitates production of repeated sequential finger movements and modulates oscillatory cortical activity in the motor learning ...