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Combining theoretical derivation and numerical simulations, this study predicts an ecological mechanism for maintaining microbial coexistence via dynamic neutrality enabled by horizontal gene transfer. This mechanism allows the emergence of microbial diversity beyond the limit predicted by previous theories.

T-cell enrichment has attracted great interest but currently fails to fully replicate the complex natural immune interactions. Here, the authors report on magnetic polymerised antigen-presenting cells that mimic natural interactions to isolate rare tumour-reactive T cells, offering a platform for enhancing cancer immunotherapy and neoantigen discovery.

In this work, authors demonstrate a self-sufficient fog harvester system that simultaneously produces nitrogen-based nutrients for fertilizer via spark-driven nitrogen fixation. The device has the potential to enhance crop growth sustainably without additional energy input or pollutant emissions.

Here, the authors introduce a constant light-induced magneto-transport method which seamlessly integrates light, current, and a magnetic field to characterize electron and hole properties across an expansive array of materials.

A preinfusion circulatory inflammation biomarker-based signature predicts the likelihood of treatment failure in patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma who were treated with CAR-T cell therapy, with an inflammatory cluster assignment being prognostic of clinical response and survival outcomes.

Conjugative plasmids mediate the spread and maintenance of diverse traits in microbial communities, but the conditions underlying plasmid persistence are poorly understood. Here, Wang and You present a modeling framework for analysis of gene flow and prediction of plasmid persistence and abundance in complex communities.

The electrochemical NH₃ synthesis from NO reduction faces challenges, including weak NO adsorption and sluggish proton supply. Here, the authors report a ternary Co/Co₃O₄/CoB heterostructure promotes NO adsorption while boosting H₂O dissociation and subsequent hydrogenation to produce NH3.

FeGe is an antiferromagnetic kagome metal with a rich magnetic and electronic phase diagram. Recently it was found that post-growth annealing of FeGe can suppress or induce charge density wave order depending on the annealing temperature. Here, Klemm, Siddique et al show the critical role that annealing induced Ge-vacancies and stacking faults play in the formation of charge density wave order in FeGe.

Pearl inductance in thin films of YBCO enables terahertz superinductance and achieves impedance surpassing the quantum resistance limit, promising advancements in quantum and photonic technologies.

Materials for the selective transport of K⁺ have application in a variety of fields including water desalination and separation processes. Here the authors report charged porous subnanometer cages that are inspired in biological KcsA channels; high K⁺ transport rates and high K⁺/Li⁺ and K⁺/Na⁺ selectivity ratios are obtained, showing great potential in advanced sieving processes and efficient water treatments.

Dynamic redundancy by horizontal gene transfer stabilizes gene abundances amidst compositional fluctuations in microbial communities, which suggests a means to program gene stability of complex microbiota.

Analysing the transposition dynamics of synthetic and natural transposons that encode resistance to different antibiotics, the authors show that stronger antibiotic selection leads to a higher fraction of cells carrying the resistance on plasmids.

Small RNAs act to regulate gene or transposon activity during plant development. Here, the authors show that maize Dicer-like 5 is required for 24-nt phased, secondary small interfering RNA production in anthers and that dicer-like 5 mutants show abnormal tapetal development and temperature-sensitive sterility.

We present a DNA self-assembly based molecular data writing strategy to enable parallel movable-type printing for scalable DNA storage.

Machine learning has been used to reveal the relationship between protein sequences and biocatalytic enantioselectivity, but the establishment of substrate fitness space is challenging. Herein, the authors build random forest classification models for predicting the enantioselectivity of amidase toward different substrates, adopting chemistry and geometry descriptors.

Investigating the inner structure of baryons is important to further our understanding of the strong interaction. Here, the BESIII Collaboration extracts the absolute value of the ratio of the electric to magnetic form factors and its relative phase for e + e − → J/ψ → ΛΣ decays, enhancing the signal thanks to the vacuum polarisation effect at the J/ψ peak.

The alignment of three 2D nanosheets leads to the formation of super-moiré atomic lattices, which can influence the electronic properties of van der Waals structures. Here, the authors report evidence of possible correlated insulating states in doubly-aligned hBN/graphene/hBN heterostructures, in a weak-interaction regime.

It is known that exercise influences many human traits, but not which tissues and genes are most important. This study connects transcriptome data collected across 15 tissues during exercise training in rats as part of the Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium with human data to identify traits with similar tissue specific gene expression signatures to exercise.

Erythropoietin circulates in the blood and is essential for erythropoiesis but its role in metabolic homeostasis has not been examined. Tenget al. show that when the erythropoietin receptor is only expressed in erthyroid cells, mice develop obesity and insulin resistance, suggesting that the receptor has a key role in fat mass accumulation.

The authors introduce the independent manipulation of high-order diffraction with a high-order diffractive lens for sub-diffraction limit focusing in confocal microscopy and laser ablation lithography.

Overspray and instability at high resolution has limited the widespread application of aerosol jet printing. Here, authors introduce an annular acoustic field coupled with a modified nozzle geometry, resulting in fine traces (line width <6 μm, overspray < 0.1 μm) with excellent printing stability.

The impact of diet on gut microbiota and metabolites in context of cancer immunotherapy remains elusive. Here the authors reveal ginger-derived exosome-like nanoparticle (GELN) aly-miR159a-3p enhances anti-PD-L1 therapy by increasing microbiota-dependent docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) level thus limiting tumor cell PD-L1 expression.

Comprenhensive analysis of human antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 variants and animal sarbecoviruses finds that Omicron escapes neutralization more readily than distantly related animal sarbecoviruses.

Acidic electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction is a promising way for CO₂ utilization, of which the selectivity and activity need improvement. Here, the authors report polymeric ionic liquid can boost the acidic electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction into multicarbon products on Cu at ampere level current density.

Phase-matching quantum key distribution is implemented with a 502 km ultralow-loss optical fibre. The fluctuations of the laser initial phases and frequencies are suppressed by the laser injection technique and the phase post-compensation method.

The optimized and disordered structures of planar diffractive lenses enable sub-diffraction limit focusing but destroy wide-field imaging. Here, the authors introduce the information entropy to evaluate the disorder of PDL and achieve good balance between super-focusing and imaging.

Here, the authors develop a plasmon-free SERS platform based on two-dimensional MnPS₃ with sub-attomolar detection limit. Their strategy is based on a mechanochemical approach that combines wrinkling and chemical functionalization to boost SERS performance, making it relevant for biosensing.

Kynurenine, a tryptophan metabolite, is increased in the circulating plasma of obese individuals, but the source has been unclear. Here, the authors show in mice that mature adipocytes produce kynurenine, with vitamin B6 administration preventing accumulation and protecting against high-fat diet.

The authors report observations of a dense and inhomogeneous ring at a surprisingly large distance from the trans-Neptunian body Quaoar.

Numbat integrates expression, allele and haplotype information to detect copy number variations in scRNA-seq.

Using spin-entangled baryon–antibaryon pairs, the BESIII Collaboration reports on high-precision measurements of potential charge conjugation and parity (CP)-symmetry-violating effects in hadrons.

A versatile methodology to detect topological quasiparticles by transport measurements remains an open problem. Here, the authors propose and experimentally observe the temperature dependence of the quantum oscillation frequency as a signature of non-trivial band topology.

Self-assembled perovskite nanoplatelets emit linearly polarized light, enabling the realization of red perovskite light-emitting diodes with a 74.4% degree of linear polarization.

Seder and colleagues show that mucosal adenoviral-vectored vaccine boosting durably prevents infection in nonhuman primates of the highly transmissible, heterologous XBB.1.16 strain of SARS-CoV-2.

Heavy pnictogen-based compounds are promising nontoxic and stable alternatives to lead-halide perovskites, but are limited by carrier localization. Here, by investigating CuSbSe₂, the authors identify how this limitation could be avoided.

Here the authors develop a dispersive Fourier transform (DFT) based LIDAR method utilizing phase-locked Vernier dual soliton laser combs and demonstrate improved precision in the measurements.

Increased relative abundance of oral bacteria in faecal samples can be explained by the marker hypothesis—their relative increase reflects the depletion of other microbiota members—which has implications for patient outcomes and microbiota-directed therapies.

Recently, signatures of quantum spin liquid have been reported in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides. Here the authors report evidence of such state in 1T-NbSe₂ via the measurements of the Kondo effect in a 1T-1H heterostructure, further supported by measurements for magnetic molecules on 1T-NbSe₂.

High-fat diet plays a role in development of insulin resistance. Here, the authors report a mechanism that underlies the development of diet induced insulin resistance through the activation of an aryl hydrocarbon receptor mediated signalling pathway in the liver by faecal exosomes derived from intestinal cells.

Electric cooking and air-to-air heat pump adoption in China advances carbon neutrality and the rural energy transition, with the transformation costs offset by monetized health benefits in most provinces.

Ternary chalcogenides are gaining interest as nontoxic, stable solar absorbers. Here, the authors investigate NaBiS₂, finding cation disorder to be a critical parameter that enables its high absorption strength and unusual charge-carrier kinetics.