📣🧬 Our Human Admixture and Migration collection with @natgenet.nature.com @natcomms.nature.com and Scientific Reports invite submissions that leverage ancient or modern genetic data to understand human population shifts or health. More details 👇 www.nature.com/collections/...

🧬🧠 Dr. Kimberly Siletti is joining our editorial board in the Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience section! Dr. Siletti brings expertise in single-cell genomics, molecular neuroscience and developmental neuroscience. Welcome aboard!

👋 Big welcome to Dr. Jinliang Nan, who has joined our Cell & Molecular Biology section as an editorial board member! Dr. Nan brings deep expertise in cardiovascular research, cardiac physiology, mitochondrial dynamics, and more. We're thrilled to have you join us! 🫀🔬

🧠 Thrilled to announce Dr. Jiaxiang Zhang has joined our editorial board in the Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience section! Dr. Zhang specializes in brain imaging, computational modelling, cognitive neuroscience, human decision-making and health informatics. We’re excited to have them on board!

📣Announcing the newest addition to our editorial board in the Ecology & Evolution section: Dr. Brock Harpur! We're thrilled to have Dr. Harpur's expertise in social behavior, evolution, genetics, genomics, insects and population genetics. 🐝🧬

🌊 Say hello to Dr. Verena Schoepf, our newest editorial board member in the Ecology & Evolution section! Dr. Schoepf's expertise in coral reefs, climate change, ocean acidification, ecophysiology and much more will be invaluable. Welcome aboard! 🪸 @verenaschoepf.bsky.social

🧬 Dr. Coen van Solingen is joining our editorial board in the Cell & Molecular Biology section! Dr. van Solingen brings expertise in non-coding RNA, inflammation, lipid metabolism, vascular biology, lncRNA, microRNA, endothelial cell and macrophages. We’re excited to have them on board! 🔬

😊 We are also thrilled to welcome Dr. Takahiko Koike to our editorial board in the Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience section! Dr. Koike brings invaluable expertise in hyperscanning and social neuroscience. We look forward to working with Dr. Koike! 🧠

👋 Introducing a new member to our Cancer section of the editorial board - Dr Emma Scott! With expertise in prostate cancer, cancer immunology, glycobiology and glyco-immunology, they’ll be a fantastic addition. Welcome aboard!

🫀Genetic factors, especially cilia-related genes, influence #cardiac #fibrosis in congenital heart disease. To learn more, have a read through this new Review Article: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🔖Intercellular bridges are vital links between developing sperm cells, enabling intercellular communication and cytoplasmic sharing. This review explores how they form, function, and evolve, highlighting their key role in male fertility: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🌟 A big thank you to our May Reviewer of the Month, Nguyen Ky Phat, for his contributions to our scientific community! Nguyen is a biomedical data scientist at Taipei Medical University, where his research focuses on AI-driven biomedical informatics and medical imaging analysis.

🔊 Call for Papers in our Collection "Stem Cells in Regeneration and Repair", which aims to showcase studies spanning fundamental mechanisms to innovative experimental platforms that demonstrate how stem cells orchestrate tissue repair. www.nature.com/collections/...

🦠Featured on our homepage this week: MEDUSSA is a high-throughput method to measure bacterial cell size using deep-learning analysis of fluorescent membranes, revealing major size variation and genetic drivers of cell width. @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

📖Behind the Paper: Kate Jeffery and colleagues explain how the brain adapts its 2D compass for a 3D world: communities.springernature.com/posts/how-th... Original Article ⬇️ doi.org/10.1038/s420...

💡In a Research Highlight, our EBM Chris LaRock shines a light on a curious case of Strep A discovered in the remains of a mummy: www.nature.com/articles/s42... Original research Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🦇A new study indicates that neurons in the bat auditory cortex encode upcoming vocalizations before they occur, distinguishing echolocation from social calls and capturing timing and syllable structure: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🌷We are pleased to announce the opening of a new cross-journal Collection "Advances in Women’s Reproductive Biology", welcoming fundamental and translational research on female reproduction. Guest edited by our EBMs Rupinder Kaur and Haiyang Wang www.nature.com/collections/...

Our Collections reflect the breadth of biology we publish—spanning genetics, neuroscience, immunity, ecology, and beyond. Check out our collections page to see our current calls for papers, and see below for a round-up of collections that will be closing soon! ⌛👇 www.nature.com/commsbio/col...

In this mini-review authors explore how the NLRP3 #inflammasome is activated by diverse cellular stresses, and why understanding these triggers is critical for developing targeted therapies. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Last day of our editor Johannes Stortz at the @keystoneSymposia.bsky.social Tumor Microenvironment: Identifying Drivers of Progression and Resistance in Whistler! Fantastic science and a great meeting so far! keysym.us/KSTumorMicro26 #KSTumorMicro26 hubs.la/Q045r5pl0

Sleeping too little or too much may speed up aging, according to analysis of biological clocks using the UK Biobank. The sweet spot? 6-8 hours per night 💤⏰

How do #bats detect prey in a noisy world?🦇 Horseshoe bats fine‑tune their #echolocation to create a “silent” frequency window—filtering out background noise so echoes from fluttering insects stand out. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

How the cave nectar bat heart sustains the extreme demands of powered flight. Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Very excited to be attending this London Stem Cell Network (@lscn.bsky.social) meeting today on behalf of @commsbio.nature.com ! A great list of speakers on all things #StemCells 🧫 Fancy speaking to an #Editor about your work? Come say hi! 👋

📢 We are now inviting articles for our new collection on Metabolism in solid tumours on research encompassing mechanisms, functional consequences, and therapeutic tractability of #cancer‑metabolism pathways. For more information, visit our collection webpage 👇 www.nature.com/collections/...

🐒 Primates' economic decision-making reveals fluctuating #risk attitudes tied to social hierarchy: low- and high-ranked individuals are more risk-averse for gains, while mid-ranked ones are more risk-seeking. Find out more at 👇 doi.org/10.1038/s420...

🐀⏳ This new study on single cell and spatial transcriptomics sheds light on murine #ovarian aging, characterized by pro-inflammatory immune cell populations communicating with granulosa cells to drive inflammaging. @stowersinstitute.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s420...

🦠🧬🔋💊Our new collection on Microbial #Biotechnology is now open for submissions on diverse topics, including #sustainable bioproduction, synthetic biology, environmental and industrial biotechnology, engineered #microbial consortia, and microbe based therapeutics. www.nature.com/collections/...

😴⏰🧠Sleep inertia (SI), waking from #sleep, impairs tonic alertness temporarily. Dynamic thalamic activity recovery during SI mediates PVT performance & thalamo-FPN coupling supports alertness restoration, framing SI cognitive recovery when awakened @changweiwu.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s420...

🐀 Tumor-associated macrophage function depends on developmental origin. This new Communications Biology study shows that M-CSF- and GM-CSF–derived macrophages respond divergently to cytokines, defining an ontogeny–cytokine code that predicts function. Find more at ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🐄🌍In this new study, a genome-wide analysis reveals distinct signals of local adaptation and ancestral retention in African and European indigenous #cattle, highlighting how demographic history and selection have jointly shaped cattle genomes across diverse environments. doi.org/10.1038/s420...

🐭🧠A primary #neurodevelopmental disorder controls liver IGF-1 secretion to boost organismal #growth, which is GH pathway-independent. Hepatic sympathetic misinnervation causes liver #steatosis and fibrosis, leading to impaired GHR-JAK2-STAT5 pathway and IGF1 biosynthesis. doi.org/10.1038/s420...

🧬A new genomic approach predicts an exception to the inverse relationship between protein synthesis and autophagy unlinked from mTOR, which is validated both in vitro and in vivo. More details in this new Communications Biology article 💡 doi.org/10.1038/s420...

🔬Multimodal spatial imaging of Leishmania donovani-induced hepatic granulomas reveals LPCAT2-mediated lipid membrane remodelling in myeloid cells as a key immunometabolic feature of granuloma formation and macrophage activation. Research from @hyms.ac.uk @york.ac.uk doi.org/10.1038/s420...

🧫DNAM-1, an NK-cell receptor, binds fungal hyphae and interacts with #Candida albicans Sap10. This interaction enhances NK-cell activation suggesting a role for DNAM-1 in #immune activation during fungal infection. Find more in this new Communications Biology article ⬇️ doi.org/10.1038/s420...

🫁🐀This 'behind the paper' post from Gergely Fodor describes how their work on reference equations for lung functions in rats can be used for translational respiratory research - communities.springernature.com/posts/standa...

How cilia-driven surface currents tell the evolutinary story of Cnidaria? Curious? See more bellow: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🦴 We invite submissions for a Collection focused on bone biology, which encompasses the structure, function, and cellular processes of bone tissue, including osteoblast differentiation and osteoclastogenesis. www.nature.com/collections/...

🧠🤸 With @natneuro.nature.com, @natcomms.nature.com, and Scientific Reports, we welcome original research, Reviews and Perspective articles presenting novel insights into how brain and body physiology across animal species is impacted by or resilient to recent environmental changes. go.sn.pub/854gci

🌡️🪰🌵 With @natcomms.nature.com, npj Biodiversity, and Scientific Reports, we welcome submissions that further our understanding of species’ evolutionary responses to contemporary global change. www.nature.com/collections/...

🌽🧬🐛 Together with @natcomms.nature.com and Scientific Reports, we invite articles in all areas of research investigating the roles of RNA in plant biotic interactions (including plant-microbe, plant-insect, and plant-plant interactions). www.nature.com/collections/...

Single-cell RNA-seq of bovine embryos reveals that transcriptional asymmetry arises as early as the 4-cell stage and becomes pronounced by the 8-cell stage, reflecting lineage bias before compaction. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

BiSpectral EEG Component Analysis reveals that resting-state cortical oscillations exhibit nonlinear resonance through quadratic phase coupling, distinct from aperiodic background activity which remains linear and Gaussian. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Using small differences across 1146 crystal structures collected for the SARS-CoV-2 main protease, a study maps correlated atomic fluctuations to predict and experimentally confirm a functional allosteric network. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Goal-directed behavior requires selecting and committing to goals, strategies, and actions. A review explores how three hierarchical prefronto-striatal loops can achieve this: striatal matrix ensembles maintain engagement, prefrontal inputs bias selection. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Dendrobium section Dendrobium has dispersed from the Asia tropics into the Asian subtropics since the early Pliocene and constantly diversified in the subtropics with smaller stem and leaf sizes as key morphological adaptations. Picture credit: Xiao-Guo Xiang www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🪲To mark Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday, we have compiled a retrospective collection of articles. Today we celebrate the enduring legacy of a naturalist and scientific communicator of unmatched talent who has inspired generations of scientists. www.nature.com/collections/...

A mini review introduces phage bioaugmentation, a strategy to enhance soil bioremediation by using lysogenic bacteriophages to transfer pollutant-degrading genes to bacteria. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

A perspective suggests that transcription initiation at certain human promoters does not require the translocase activity of the XPB subunit of TFIIH, as their intrinsic thermodynamic instability enables DNA opening without active unwinding. www.nature.com/articles/s42...