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  • Tumour–brain crosstalk restrains cancer immunity via a sensory–sympathetic axis

    Tumour–brain crosstalk restrains cancer immunity via a sensory–sympathetic axis

    Mice and in vivo procedures

    KrasLSLG12D/+; p53fl/fl (KP) mice have been described previously55. KP mice were crossed with Rosa26LSLtdTomato mice to generate KP; LSL-tdTomato mice. Wild-type C57BL/6 J, Trpv1-cre, Rosa26LSLDTR (LSL-DTR),…

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  • Biodiversity conservation has an evidence problem — it’s time to fix it

    Biodiversity conservation has an evidence problem — it’s time to fix it

    Studies from Himachal Pradesh in northern India (pictured) have found that tree-planting schemes have not increased forest canopy cover.Credit: Pallava Bagla/Getty

    Biodiversity loss is continuing at an…

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  • Atlas-guided discovery of transcription factors for T cell programming

    Atlas-guided discovery of transcription factors for T cell programming

    Dataset acquisition for mouse CD8+ T cell state multi-omics atlas

    CD8+ T cell samples were collected from ten datasets, including those generated in this study (Extended Data Fig. 1e). In total, we analysed 121 experiments, comprising 52…

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  • Bacterial immune activation via supramolecular assembly with phage triggers

    Bacterial immune activation via supramolecular assembly with phage triggers

    Strains and growth conditions

    All bacterial and phage strains used in this study are listed in Supplementary Table 2. E. coli strains were routinely grown at 37 °C in Luria–Bertani (LB) medium for cloning and maintenance. Phages were…

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  • Cleavage of mRNAs by a minority of pachytene piRNAs improves sperm fitness

    Cleavage of mRNAs by a minority of pachytene piRNAs improves sperm fitness

    Mouse strains and mutants

    Mice (wild-type C57BL/6J, IMSR, JAX: 000664, RRID: IMSR_JAX:000664; Miwi−/− mutation, MGI: 2182488; and pachytene piRNA mutations listed in Supplementary Table 1) were housed and euthanized according to the guidelines of the…

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  • Evolutionary insights into a skin fold

    Evolutionary insights into a skin fold

    Nature, Published online: 04 February 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00171-1

    The formation of a skin fold named a rete ridge reveals how simple architectural changes reshape tissue mechanics and signalling routes to make a different type of skin…

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  • PtdIns(3,5)P2 is an endogenous ligand of STING in innate immune signalling

    PtdIns(3,5)P2 is an endogenous ligand of STING in innate immune signalling

  • Hopfner, K.-P. & Hornung, V. Molecular mechanisms and cellular functions of cGAS–STING signalling. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 21, 501–521 (2020).

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