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Recapitulating the complexity of human organs in…
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The unfortunate embossing of Subsector XZ-74
The Stellar Drift, flagship of the Galactic Cartographic Consortium, drifted like a polished jewel through the ink-black void. Every blink of a star, every hint of cosmic dust, was catalogued, colour-coded and reviewed by someone who thought…
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Preserving the respiratory system
Nature, Published online: 28 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00103-z
Better air quality, disease diagnostics and treatment will improve lung health.
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Accurate determination of the 3D atomic structure of amorphous materials
Nomura, K. et al. Room-temperature fabrication of transparent flexible thin-film transistors using amorphous oxide semiconductors. Nature 432, 488–492 (2004).
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Structures of Ostα/β reveal a unique fold and bile acid transport mechanism
Deng, F. Y. & Bae, Y. H. Bile acid transporter-mediated oral drug delivery. J. Control. Release 327, 100–116 (2020).
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The surprisingly big health benefits of just a little exercise
January is peak gym time — the month when fitness seekers commit to New Year’s resolutions. By February, however, those goals are often forgotten. That busting of best intentions begs the question: how much exercise do people really need,…
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Could the regenerative power of the lungs help to reverse disease?
When surgeons removed a 33-year-old woman’s right lung as part of her cancer treatment in 1995, they expected a dramatic and permanent reduction in her breathing power. But that’s not what…
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Vagal blood volume receptors compensate for haemorrhage and posture change
Animals
All animal procedures followed ethical guidelines outlined in the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, and all procedures were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at Harvard Medical School. Mice…
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Pre-assembly of biomolecular condensate seeds drives RSV replication
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Cell lines
A549 (CCL-185, American Type Culture Collection (ATCC)), BSR T7/5 (ref. 55) (BHK-21 cells that constitutively express the T7 RNA polymerase, RRID:CVCL_RW96) and HEK293T cells (CRL-3216, ATCC) were cultured in DMEM (31966021,…
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Observation of a superfluid-to-insulator transition of bilayer excitons
Anderson, M. H., Ensher, J. R., Matthews, M. R., Wieman, C. E. & Cornell, E. A. Observation of Bose-Einstein condensation in a dilute atomic vapor. Science 269, 198–201 (1995).
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