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  • Atlantic ocean currents defied the ice age

    Atlantic ocean currents defied the ice age

    • RESEARCH BRIEFINGS

    The state of the North Atlantic Ocean during the…

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  • Contemporaneous mobile- and stagnant-lid tectonics on the Hadean Earth

    Contemporaneous mobile- and stagnant-lid tectonics on the Hadean Earth

    Sample preparation, imaging and rejection criteria

    The zircons in this study came from JH samples of Jack Hills metaconglomerate from the Discovery Outcrop on Eranondoo Hill1, from outcrops up to 900 m to the east, and from one cross-bedded…

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  • Common genetic variants affect risk of a major cause of pregnancy loss

    Common genetic variants affect risk of a major cause of pregnancy loss

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    Genetic data from 139,416 human embryos were used to…

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  • Immune cells from the gut drive development of Parkinson’s disease in the brain

    Immune cells from the gut drive development of Parkinson’s disease in the brain

    Nature, Published online: 04 February 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00284-7

    In ‘body-first’ Parkinson’s disease, misfolded proteins propagate from the gut’s nervous system to the brain. Immune-cell activity seems to play a key part in this…

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  • Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder

    Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder

    Participants

    In this study, we used 11 independent datasets comprising 863 total participants after quality control. These datasets include (1) PIPD dataset99: 166 patients with PD and 60 HC individuals; (2) DBS-fMRI dataset: 14 patients with PD,…

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  • Efficient near-telomere-to-telomere assembly of nanopore simplex reads

    Efficient near-telomere-to-telomere assembly of nanopore simplex reads

    Overview of hifiasm (ONT)

    The existing hifiasm assembly toolkit consists of three approaches: the original hifiasm6, hifiasm (Hi-C)8 and hifiasm (UL)1, each designed for specific purposes. These methods are proposed, respectively, for trio-binning…

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