154 million lives and counting: 5 charts reveal the power of vaccines - a timely news explainer/reminder by @heidiledford.bsky.social @nature.com 🧪 #MedSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Meet the MitoBrainMap! The first map of mitochondrial phenotypes provides a foundation for exploring the molecular energetic landscape of a normal brain. It turns out that the human brain contains diverse mitochondrial phenotypes driven by topology & cell types 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our #Scientistsatwork photo competition is open for submissions. This is a competition for scientists themselves. Winners will receive £500, a subscription to Nature & have their photo featured alongside an interview in Nature. Deadline - March 28th @nature.com www.nature.com/immersive/sc...

How the NIH dominates the world’s health research — in charts (and what we stand to lose) @nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

new out in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today in Nature, integrating AI in smart watches for loss of pulse detection: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

We at Nature denounce this assault on science 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Breast cancer is on the rise: data reveal drastic gap in survival rates Lack of screening and limited treatment options mean that low- and middle-income countries face higher death rates despite having fewer cases than wealthier nations 🧪 #MedSky @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

And renal cancer, too! Cancer vaccines this month in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

And more clinical exploration of cancer vaccines this week in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

This week in Nature, important (in more than one sense ) results about mRNA vaccines long term effects in pancreatic cancer: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

Simply inexplicable! Trump administration to cut billions in medical research funding 🧪 #AcademicSky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Do you ever wonder whether teaching children math in a classroom translates to applied skills? or if those kids that can do applied math would perform well in a classroom setting? A new @nature.com paper shows that these skills do not translate 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nearly half the world’s population speaks at least one of the roughly 400 Indo–European languages. Now ancient genomes tell us how it came to pass @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Out now in @nature.com: Gut microbiome diversity across African populations - a valuable resource for further research and foundational for global health equity. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Out now in @nature.com: Elegant work demonstrating CARD-dependent activation of bacterial gasdermins. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How can we stop genetic diversity loss? A meta-analysis in @nature.com finds the conservation strategies designed to improve environmental conditions, increase growth rates, and introduce new individuals can maintain or increase genetic diversity🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08458-x

This week in Nature, translational and clinical cardiac stem cell engineering: “Engineered heart muscle allografts for heart repair in primates and humans” www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

Crops face a variety of challenging conditions, including alkaline soil and global warming. @nature, scientists gain molecular insights and apply them to not only make rice both alkali- and temperature-tolerant, but also to further increase its yield. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Analyses of 45,000-year-old bones from Europe allow scientists to pin down when modern humans interbred with Neanderthals, shedding light on the histories of populations with no present-day descendants https://go.nature.com/4h7FCbA

To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Nature Medicine launches a new series to spotlight key challenges & opportunities over the next 30 years of biomedical innovation 🎉 🧪 @natureportfolio.bsky.social www.nature.com/collections/...

A study in Nature confirms that the phenomenon of mitochondrial transfer can occur bidirectionally between cytotoxic T cells and cancer cells within the tumour microenvironment. This leads to senescence of the T cells and impaired antitumour immunity. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

A study in Nature used deep learning methods to design proteins that can neutralize the effects of three-finger toxins found in snake venom, which could lead to the development of safer and more accessible antivenom treatments. https://go.nature.com/4aDxmxK 🧪

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

This week in Nature, how a platform of cardiac organoids can accelerate ASO therapeutic development in DMD: “Rapid and scalable personalized ASO screening in patient-derived organoids” 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

More disease modeling technology this week in Nature, through optimization of mitochondrial base editing: “Precise modelling of mitochondrial diseases using optimized mitoBEs” 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Promising results from a phase I clinical trial of GD2-CAR T cells (immune cells engineered to target the molecule GD2) in children & young adults with diffuse midline gliomas — incurable cancers of the CNS 🧪 A clinical briefing on a new @nature.com paper www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Remember Bable Fish from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? A single model that supports speech-to-speech translation, speech-to-text translation, text-to-speech translation, text-to-text translation & automatic speech recognition is here! 🧪 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join our news team as a science reporter based in Berlin or Sydney! Applications close January 20th👇🏻 Please help spread the word @nature.com @natureportfolio.bsky.social

And lots of cool cancer genomics/genetics this week in Nature too, www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

Lots of cool AI in Nature this week, including VLM for precision oncology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Nature Briefing is back for 2025, and already I'm learning that the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture built giant egalitarian cities in Europe with no temples or palaces and everyone got lots of nice pottery? Then they all disappeared? 🤯 us17.campaign-archive.com?u=2c6057c528...

Join us for a webinar in which leaders of the Human Tumor Atlas Network will discuss their latest research that was published across Nature Portfolio journals and the work ahead. Register here: https://go.nature.com/406Dud5 Browse the collection: https://go.nature.com/41DXk1y #AcademicSky 🧪

Fascinating - why do we run as well as we do 3D digital model of the ‘Lucy’ skeleton – a near-complete 3.2-million-year-old A. afarensis - suggests that adaptations in the Achilles tendon & surrounding muscles enable modern humans to run for extended periods 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Today in Nature: “Neutralizing GDF-15 can overcome anti-PD-1 and anti-PD-L1 resistance in solid tumours”. A Phase 1/2a trial testing combination of visugromab and nivumab in advanced cancer patients www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

It’s this time of year again - Nature’s 10 - Ten people who helped shape science in 2024… @natureportfolio.bsky.social www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

ICYMI: To celebrate 100+ years of the #WarburgEffect, editors from across Springer Nature put together a collection of clinical, translational and preclinical studies as well as commentaries of #CancerMetabolism research. www.nature.com/collections/... @natureportfolio.bsky.social

How do we keep global consumption within what our planet is capable of sustaining? A recent @natureportfolio.bsky.social paper finds that focusing on reductions to the food and service sectors could be feasible🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...?

Is COP29 climate deal a historic breakthrough or let-down? A last-minute deal that rescued the COP29 climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, is a “fragile consensus”, researchers who study climate finance have told Nature. 🧪 @natureportfolio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Do reach out if you have any questions about being a Nature editor!

Sleeping is one of my fav activities. Very excited that we got to share this study by @mcalpinelab.bsky.social showing that cardiac inflammation after a heart attack dictates sleep patterns and promotes healing/recovery. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Blueskying (?) my first paper! This week in Nature, an interesting take on hijacking the developmental pathways of breast involution to target weak links in Triple Negative Breast Cancer: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This month's issue of @naturehumbehav.bsky.social covers such an important - and under-discussed and researched - topic. For more, see the collection here: www.nature.com/collections/...

It’s great to be back to following cool science on social media with my lovely Nature colleagues. Thank you @endofthepier.bsky.social for shepherding us to the Nice Place!

A collection published across Nature Portfolio journals presents early draft maps of cells in the human body from the Human Cell Atlas initiative. The research leverages new data and analytical tools to aid our understanding of human health and disease at a cellular level. 🧪