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  • Whether a person develops stomach cancer depends partly on their genes, new research suggests. As John Whitfield reports, this discovery could help prevent the disease.

    • John Whitfield
    News
    Nature

  • It's important to have the right number of holes in your head. Now, reports John Whitfield, some of the genes that control this have been uncovered.

    • John Whitfield
    News
    Nature

  • Above ground, plants compete for life-giving sunlight, but below the surface a more complex picture emerges. John Whitfield explores the role of mycorrhizae in plant ecology.

    • John Whitfield
    News
    Nature
    Volume: 449, P: 136-138

  • The sight of a clump of parasitic beetle larvae gets a male bee all hot and bothered. John Whitfield uncovers a torrid tale of seduction and betrayal.

    • John Whitfield
    News
    Nature

  • As they get older, nerve cells involved in vision become less choosy about what turns them on. John Whitfield explains how this hinders the brain's attempts to make sense of the world.

    • John Whitfield
    News
    Nature

  • John Whitfield explores two studies that take us from infant ethics to moral choices faced by adults in society.

    • John Whitfield
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 502, P: 622-623

  • The genomic landscape of diffuse gliomas remains to be characterised. Here, the authors perform whole genome sequencing of 403 tumours and identify recurrent coding and non-coding genetic mutations, their associations with clinical outcomes and potential therapeutic targets.

    • Ben Kinnersley
    • Josephine Jung
    • Keyoumars Ashkan
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 16, P: 1-18

  • Only 7% of the 2245 estuaries, globally, that connect to the ocean only intermittently have been studied in past decades, with ecosystem services, climatic and human disturbances and management particularly neglected, according to a global meta-analysis of 271 published articles.

    • Danial Khojasteh
    • Shivanesh Rao
    • David Hanslow
    ResearchOpen Access
    Communications Earth & Environment
    Volume: 6, P: 1-14

  • Reduced glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is a hallmark of chronic kidney disease. Here, Pattaro et al. conduct a meta-analysis to discover several new loci associated with variation in eGFR and find that genes associated with eGFR loci often encode proteins potentially related to kidney development.

    • Cristian Pattaro
    • Alexander Teumer
    • Caroline S. Fox
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 7, P: 1-19

  • The speedy evolution of human sperm could be an attempt to stay one step ahead in the mating game, explains John Whitfield.

    • John Whitfield
    News
    Nature

  • A fungus prevents cherry trees from growing too close to home. As John Whitfield reports, this could help explain why different tree species can live together.

    • John Whitfield
    News
    Nature

  • Microscopic leftovers reveal that the first farmers in the Panamanian tropical forest grew a sophisticated mix of root and grain crops, reports John Whitfield.

    • John Whitfield
    News
    Nature

  • Wasps find that the benefits of a good insurance policy make communal life more attractive than going it alone, says John Whitfield.

    • John Whitfield
    News
    Nature

  • The number of small rodents can go down as well as up. This, says John Whitfield, is because a hungry lemming gathers no moss.

    • John Whitfield
    News
    Nature

  • The mixture of local and long-range links in a 'small world' network means that it can be crossed in a few hops. But, reports John Whitfield, it's not necessarily easy to find the best route.

    • John Whitfield
    News
    Nature

  • Swarms teach us that leaders should create conditions for collective decisions, learns John Whitfield.

    • John Whitfield
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 467, P: 658-659

  • John Whitfield gauges a study that tackles the evolutionary conflicts behind workplace inequity.

    • John Whitfield
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 484, P: 317

  • John Whitfield reflects on Evelyn Hutchinson, who transformed natural history into an explanatory science.

    • John Whitfield
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 469, P: 470-471

  • Forest mammals are food for people across Asia, Africa and South America. But with many species disappearing fast, can hunting be made sustainable? John Whitfield talks to the ecologists trying to balance supply and demand.

    • John Whitfield
    News
    Nature
    Volume: 421, P: 8-9

  • Rival zoologists are sparring over some twisted horns from an Asian cow-like creature. Are the specimens the reality behind a Cambodian myth, or clever fakes by local artisans? John Whitfield sifts the evidence.

    • John Whitfield
    News
    Nature
    Volume: 415, P: 956

  • Global warming and food shortages are renewing interest in urban agriculture, finds John Whitfield.

    • John Whitfield
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 459, P: 914-915

  • How do you feed a large population living on a savanna? An ancient, and surprising, answer to this question could have lessons for development today, John Whitfield finds. .

    • John Whitfield
    News
    Nature

  • Cells headed for the developing retina know what job they have to do. And once they get there, John Whitfield reports, they know how to assume the correct position.

    • John Whitfield
    News
    Nature

  • Birds rely on their legs, not their wings, to take flight. Could this also be how their distant ancestors got off the ground? John Whitfield investigates. start in life, explains David Adam.

    • John Whitfield
    News
    Nature

  • Robots can design and build each other, and co-operate like ants. John Whitfield doesn't know whether to applaud or worry.

    • John Whitfield
    News
    Nature

  • Barn owl chicks avoid fights by working out who most deserves the next meal while mum and dad are away catching it. Very wise, says John Whitfield.

    • John Whitfield
    News
    Nature

  • A genome-wide association meta-analysis study of blood lipid levels in roughly 1.6 million individuals demonstrates the gain of power attained when diverse ancestries are included to improve fine-mapping and polygenic score generation, with gains in locus discovery related to sample size.

    • Sarah E. Graham
    • Shoa L. Clarke
    • Cristen J. Willer
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 600, P: 675-679

    • Innes C. Cuthill
    • John P. Swaddle
    • Mark S. Witter
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 363, P: 217-218

  • What makes a successful team? John Whitfield looks at research that uses massive online databases and network analysis to come up with some rules of thumb for productive collaborations.

    • John Whitfield
    News
    Nature
    Volume: 455, P: 720-723

  • DNA is both bricks and blueprint - an engineer's dream. John Whitfield speaks to the scientists turning biology into technology.

    • John Whitfield
    News
    Nature

  • John Whitfield finds resonance with today's behavioural sciences in Niccolò Machiavelli's great Renaissance political treatise, begun five centuries ago this month.

    • John Whitfield
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 499, P: 280-281