Experimental procedures
We did not use statistical methods to predetermine sample size. We also did not randomize experiments. During experiments and outcome assessments, investigators were not blinded to allocation.
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We purchased wild-type…
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Can China’s Great Green Wall shape efforts to keep the world’s deserts at bay?
About 40% of the world’s land surface is classed as drylands1 — deserts and water-scarce grasslands, shrublands and savannahs. Life can be tough for the more than two billion people that live there. In Chinguetti, Mauritania, Saharan dunes…
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Dozens of AI disease-prediction models were trained on dubious data
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Dubious data sets are being used to train artificial-intelligence models that are designed to predict people’s risk of stroke and diabetes, researchers report in a preprint1 on medRxiv. Some of the models seem to…
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Why more fossil fuels won’t fix the Iran energy crisis
Spend any time discussing solar and wind power as a solution to climate change, and you are sure to encounter someone who asks about reliability. The Sun does not shine at night and the wind does not always blow, so fossil fuels will be needed…
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Composable neural emulators accelerate thermoelectric generator design
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Skomedal, G. et al. Design, assembly and…
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Mapping convergent regulators of melanoma drug resistance by PerturbFate
Cell culture
A375, HEK293T, Sk-Mel-3 and Sk-Mel-24 cell lines were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection. A375 and HEK293T cells were maintained in high-glucose Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium supplemented with L-glutamine,…
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Editorial Expression of Concern: Creation of human tumour cells with defined genetic elements
Nature, Published online: 15 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10504-9
Editorial Expression of Concern: Creation of human tumour cells with defined genetic elements
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Retraction Note: The hidden fitness of the male zebra finch courtship song
The authors have retracted this article because, upon further analysis, one of the synthetic song pairs used in the female preference test (data in Fig. 3c,d) was shown to be reliable in its ranking of short versus long path length only 35% of…
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Continuously tunable coherent pulse generation in a semiconductor laser
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The neural mechanisms supporting the rise and fall of maternal aggression
Mice
All procedures were approved by the New York University Langone Medical Center Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee in compliance with the US National Institutes of Health Guidelines for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. Adult…
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