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Avoiding cancer through collective behaviour
In many ways, cancer is the story of what went wrong. However, to understand it, identifying the mechanisms that maintain normal physiology is just as crucial as identifying what disrupts them. In the era of genomic data, most cancer research has…
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A trapped polymerase hastens avian influenza virus evolution
Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses emerge from H5 and H7 low-pathogenic variants following the acquisition of a multibasic cleavage site (MBCS) in the haemagglutinin protein, which enables cleavage by host proteases, leading to systemic…
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Mitorubin, berberrubine-based compounds that improve mitochondrial function, exhibit cardioprotective effects against age-related cardiac dysfunction
Mishra, P. & Chan, D. C. Metabolic regulation of mitochondrial dynamics. J. Cell Biol. 212, 379–387 (2016).
Youle, R. J. & van der Bliek, A. M. Mitochondrial fission, fusion, and stress….
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Effects of short-term application of organic manure on the growth of forage maize (Zea mays L. cv. Kwangpyeongok) and soil bacterial communities
Lu, C. & Tian, H. Global nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer use for agriculture production in the past half century: Shifted hot spots and nutrient imbalance. Earth Syst. Sci. Data 9, 181–192 (2017).
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An escort to the ER
An escort to the ER
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Uncaged by ROS | Nature Chemical Biology
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are both byproducts of cellular metabolism and essential signaling molecules, but they need to be carefully regulated as high ROS levels can cause oxidative damage to biomolecules. Bioorthogonal probes activated by…
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Mitochondria defend the nuclear envelope
The nuclear envelope (NE) is a double-layer membrane structure that surrounds the nucleus in eukaryotic cells. A previous screening study showed that knocking down genes related to mitochondrial function can lead to abnormal nuclear morphology….
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Adipogenic transdifferentiation reprograms EMT-high PDAC cells into a post-mitotic adipocyte-like state and limits metastasis
Siegel RL, Kratzer TB, Giaquinto AN, Sung H, Jemal A. Cancer statistics, 2025. CA Cancer J Clin. 2025;75:10–45.
Dreyer SB, Beer P, Hingorani SR, Biankin AV. Improving outcomes of patients with…
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Network model for alignment, stitching and slice-to-volume 3D reconstruction of large-scale spatially resolved slices
Marx, V. Method of the year: spatially resolved transcriptomics. Nat. Methods 18, 9–14 (2021).
Ståhl, P. L. et al. Visualization and analysis of gene expression in tissue sections by spatial…
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