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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.
@CarinaCarlaKern
@IHAatUCL
@UCL
@UCLnews
@uclbiosciences
Subduction zones are complex systems of geological, biogeochemical, and societal importance.
Our new collection showcases recent advances in subduction science, under the themes of subduction dynamics, element and volatile cycles, and magmatic systems.
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
Researchers, publishers and press should take a proactive approach to stop the unscientific use of colour in data visualization.
@fcrameri
@ShepGracie
@philipheron
present a simple guide to combat the misuse of colour in science.
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
@wilmeslab
@_a_h_b_
@wampachl
The cryo-EM reconstructions of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) virions reported by the
@zhou_lab
reveal host tRNAs associated with the virion’s capsid-bound tegument protein.
We are extremely pleased to announce that we are now considering Registered Reports for cognitive neuroscience, human behaviour & psychology, and epidemiology.
Each month our editors highlight new
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#stemcells
&
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.
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Our latest editorial reports the context and outcome of our investigation on this paper on mentorship, and explains changes to our editorial processes.
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
Are you a geoscientist looking for a career outside of academia? We are hiring! We are broadly looking for someone with expertise in either cryosphere, hydrology, geomorphology, sedimentology or paleoclimate.
Closing date 24th Aug
We are looking for an optical physicist to join our editorial team. If you have some experience in photonics, nonlinear
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,
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, optical materials etc. and a wider interest in the field, this could be for you. Apply by 27th September.
Real-world networks are often said to be ”scale free”.
@annadbroido
and
@aaronclauset
test this claim on real-world networks, showing that scale-free structure is far from universal.
In our new additive manufacturing and 3D printing collection, we highlight the latest research published in
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on printing methods, devices, modulation of materials properties and processing insights.
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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.
@CGM_MGH
@broadinstitute
@miriam_udler
@dgmacarthur
Each month our editors highlight new
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#therapeutics
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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
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
@PeterJPeters1
@MaastrichtU
Rainbow colour scales in science communications cause visual errors of >7%: “The evidence is clear, there are no more reasons to continue using unscientific colour maps."
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@YangCao_awesome
@chembioBryan
and colleagues present “translation-activating RNAs”, an RNA-based molecular technology that binds to an mRNA of interest and directly upregulates its translation.
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Explore the newly launched Microbial Ecology collection. Highlighting recent work that uses microbial communities to investigate fundamental questions in ecology and evolution. Selected by the
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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
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
@talia_konkle
@grez72
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
...
SnapATAC: a single cell ATAC-seq analysis pipeline to map cell trajectories and reveal candidate regulators across large cell populations.
@RongxinFang
Diamonds from a lost planet - In a paper published today,
#diamonds
discovered in a meteorite indicate that the
#meteorite
was originally from a lost protoplanet in the early solar system
Scientists from
@NgaleHealth
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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We are pleased to share with you the most read
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articles from 2018 in the following fields: life and biological sciences, chemistry and materials science, physics, and Earth and planetary sciences:
A deep learning approach enables prediction of the quantum mechanical wavefunction at force field-like efficiency and other ground-state properties
@reinimau
@TUBerlin
Our new Yeast 2.0 collection highlights the experimental work published in
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on redesigning the S. cerevisiae genome, plus commentary on potential implications for synthetic biology,
#biotechnology
& our understanding of the
#genome
.
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.
@LanderLab
@scrippsresearch
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)
@kochi_JAMSTEC
@JAMSTEC_PR
@IkeharaMinoru
The paper is available here:
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
@DrEvanGowan
@AWI_Media
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
Read the paper:
scRNA-seq profiles heterogeneous cell populations. It is not known which statistical frameworks are performant to detect subpopulation-level responses.
@CSoneson
@markrobinsonca
& Pierre-Luc Germain developed a framework for multi-conditional analysis
Interested in mass spectrometry of metabolites, lipids and nucleic acids? Our updated article collection features recent work in these areas from
@kadzuis
,
@Ahrends15
,
@GarciaLabMS
and others
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
Machine learning algorithms can learn how a person encodes memory and can stimulate the brain to help people remember, shows a new
#neuroscience
study: