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Alpine plants exhibit phenological adaptations to germinate and complete their reproductive cycles during the most favorable growing seasons. Here, the authors show that allelic variation in the GA20ox3 gene is crucial for the adaptability of fruit length and seed germination timing in high-altitude ecotypes of A. thaliana.

The authors present a multiomics study of type 2 diabetes and quantitative blood lipid and lipoprotein traits in Hispanic/Latino populations. They demonstrate how integrating GWAS with omics characterization can advance precision medicine.

Integrating multiple contradictory properties into a single material is crucial for dynamic soft tissue defect repair but difficult. Here, the authors report a super-structured porous hydrogel that integrates contradictory properties including mechanical properties of high strength, stiffness, toughness and fatigue resistance, alongside biological properties of anti-adhesion and pro-healing.

Illness signals from the gut reactivate and strengthen flavour representations in the amygdala to support learning from delayed postingestive feedback.

Genotype and exome sequencing of 150,000 participants and whole-genome sequencing of 9,950 selected individuals recruited into the Mexico City Prospective Study constitute a valuable, publicly available resource of non-European sequencing data.

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.

A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of type 2 diabetes (T2D) identifies more than 600 T2D-associated loci; integrating physiological trait and single-cell chromatin accessibility data at these loci sheds light on heterogeneity within the T2D phenotype.

Genome-wide association and fine-mapping analyses in ancestrally diverse populations implicate candidate causal genes and mechanisms underlying type 2 diabetes. Trans-ancestry genetic risk scores enhance transferability across populations.

A large genome-wide association study of more than 5 million individuals reveals that 12,111 single-nucleotide polymorphisms account for nearly all the heritability of height attributable to common genetic variants.

Inbreeding depression has been observed in many different species, but in humans a systematic analysis has been difficult so far. Here, analysing more than 1.3 million individuals, the authors show that a genomic inbreeding coefficient (FROH) is associated with disadvantageous outcomes in 32 out of 100 traits tested.

Gs heterotrimers are considered to be poor providers of free Gβγ subunits. Here, the authors show that—despite this—Gs-derived Gβγ dimers are active transducers of GPCR-initiated Ca2+ signals involving phosphoinositide-based signaling routes.

Kdm1a is a histone demethylase implicated in intellectual disability. Here, the authors show that removing Kdm1a in neurons of the adult mouse forebrain disrupts silencing of nonneuronal genes and chromatin organization, emphasizing its role in preserving neuronal genome integrity.

Phylogenomic analysis of 7,923 angiosperm species using a standardized set of 353 nuclear genes produced an angiosperm tree of life dated with 200 fossil calibrations, providing key insights into evolutionary relationships and diversification.

The CMS Collaboration reports evidence for off-shell Higgs boson contributions in the production of Z boson pairs, and measures the width of the Higgs boson, which is inversely related to its lifetime.

The CMS Collaboration reports the study of three simultaneous hard interactions between quarks and gluons in proton–proton collisions. This manifests through the concurrent production of three J/ψ mesons, which consist of a charm-quark–antiquark pair.

The most up-to-date combination of results on the properties of the Higgs boson is reported, which indicate that its properties are consistent with the standard model predictions, within the precision achieved to date.

Multimetal oxyhydroxides are among the most active catalysts for alkaline water oxidation, but tuning their properties remains a challenge. Now, the performance of NiFe- and FeCo-based catalysts is optimized with the incorporation of high-valence modulator metals, which shifts the active metals towards lower valence states and enables lower overpotentials.

Using data from a single time point, passenger-approximated clonal expansion rate (PACER) estimates the fitness of common driver mutations that lead to clonal haematopoiesis and identifies TCL1A activation as a mediator of clonal expansion.

Water oxidation is key to the production of chemical fuels from electricity. Now, guided by theory, NiCoFeP oxyhydroxide catalysts have been developed that require an overpotential lower than that required by IrO₂. In situ soft X-ray absorption studies of neutral-pH NiCoFeP catalysts indicate formation of Ni⁴⁺, which is favourable for water oxidation.

Confining plasma and managing disruptions in tokamak devices is a challenge. Here the authors demonstrate a method predicting and possibly preventing disruptions and macroscopic instabilities in tokamak plasma using data from JET.

Drug discovery has recently profited greatly from the use of deep learning models. However, these models can be notoriously hard to interpret. In this Review, Jiménez-Luna and colleagues summarize recent approaches to use explainable artificial intelligence techniques in drug discovery.

Penetrance of variants in monogenic disease and clinical utility of common polygenic variation has not been well explored on a large-scale. Here, the authors use exome sequencing data from 77,184 individuals to generate penetrance estimates and assess the utility of polygenic variation in risk prediction of monogenic variants.

A new technique called immunoGAM, which combines genome architecture mapping (GAM) with immunoselection, enabled the discovery of specialized chromatin conformations linked to gene expression in specific cell populations from mouse brain tissues.

The onset of seafloor spreading in the northern South China Sea was marked by the rapid onset of magmatism and mantle upwelling, suggests an analysis of International Ocean Discovery Program core material.

R-loops are three-stranded nucleic acid structures that contribute to genome instability and accumulate in neurological diseases. Here the authors identify R-loop proximal factors, which are enriched for zinc finger and homeodomain proteins, including activity-dependent neuroprotective protein (ADNP). ADNP plays a role in R-loop resolution and loss-of-function leads to R-loop accumulation.

N6-methyladenosine (m6A) maintains maternal RNA stability in oocytes. Here, the authors identify demethylase ALKBH5 as a key determinant of oocyte quality and unveil the facilitating role of ALKBH5-mediated m6A removal in maternal RNA decay.

Immunoproteasome selective inhibitors might lead to less toxic drugs for treatment of multiple myeloma and graft rejection. Here, the authors develop immunoproteasome specific asparagine-ethylenediamine (AsnEDA)-based inhibitory compounds, demonstrate their efficacy and present the AsnEDA bound immunoproteasome cryo-EM structure.

Experiments at the Joint European Torus tokamak show improved thermal ion confinement in the presence of highly energetic ions and Alfvénic instabilities in the plasma.

Guide Swap challenges the hypothesis that Cas9–sgRNA binding is irreversible. The authors find that instead, nontargeting sgRNAs are swapped for targeting sgRNAs in the Cas9 complex. The method allows genome-scale functional screens in primary cells

The tumour microenvironment (TME) has a major role in chemoresistance in multiple myeloma. The authors show that a nanoparticle targeted to TME and loaded with bortezomib (BTZ) and Y27632 is more effective than free drugs, non-targeted and single-agent controls and reduces BTZ-related side effects.

Upstream open reading frames (uORFs), located in 5’ untranslated regions, are regulators of downstream protein translation. Here, Whiffin et al. use the genomes of 15,708 individuals in the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) to systematically assess the deleteriousness of variants creating or disrupting uORFs.

Triggering and sustaining fusion reactions — with the goal of overall energy production — in a tokamak plasma requires efficient heating. Radio-frequency heating of a three-ion plasma is now experimentally shown to be a potentially viable technique.

The conversion of carbon dioxide into multi-carbon alcohols would enable the synthesis of sustainable liquid fuels with high energy densities. Now, vacancy-engineered core–shell copper-based catalysts are able to shift the selectivity of electrochemical CO₂ reduction into alcohols instead of alkenes, as obtained with bare-copper catalysts.

Integrating electrocatalytic H₂ production with biological H₂-fed systems for CO₂ upgrading requires H₂ generation to occur in biocompatible media—typically with neutral pH. Here, the authors design multi-site H₂ evolution catalysts that minimize the water dissociation barrier and promote hydride coupling in neutral media.

A mouse model that combines nitrosamide exposure with inducible, tissue-specific TP53 alterations is used to generate premalignant gastric organoids and provides insights into the development of gastric premalignancy.

Here, Imamuraet al. conduct meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies to identify novel susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes (T2D) in the Japanese population. By doing so, this study shows that both ethnicity-specific and ethnically-shared genetic loci can contribute to T2D risk.

The homeobox NKX2 family of transcriptional factors has been shown to regulate fundamental developmental processes. Here, the authors show that NKX2-3 is a bona fideoncogenic driver in marginal-zone B-cell lymphoma and that it promotes lymphomagenesis by shaping lymphocyte dynamics and promoting BCR signalling.

The next step after sequencing a genome is to figure out how the cell actually uses it as an instruction manual. A large international consortium has examined 1% of the genome for what part is transcribed, where proteins are bound, what the chromatin structure looks like, and how the sequence compares to that of other organisms.

Iceberg-trajectory models along with multi-proxy evidence from sediment cores from the Indian Ocean show that northward shifts in Antarctic iceberg melt redistributed freshwater in the Southern Ocean during the Pleistocene.

β-Aminobutyric acid (BABA) is a small-molecule activator of plant disease resistance. Binding of (R)-BABA to IBI1—an aspartyl-tRNA synthetase (AspRS)—primes noncanonical defense pathways, resulting in broad-spectrum disease resistance. Ligand binding also blocks AspRS activity, leading to accumulation of aspartic acid and uncharged tRNA, which activate a second plant stress response.

On copper catalysts, Cu^δ+ sites play a key role in the electrochemical reduction of CO₂ to C₂ hydrocarbons, however, they are prone to being reduced (to Cu⁰) themselves. Now, a Cu^δ+-based catalyst is reported that is stable for in excess of ~40 hours while electrochemically reducing CO₂ to multi-carbon hydrocarbons and that exhibits a Faradaic efficiency for C₂ of ~80%.

Gold and palladium nanoneedle electrocatalysts benefit from field-induced reagent concentration to improve the efficiency of carbon dioxide reduction in the synthesis of carbon-based fuels using renewable electricity.

In the first-ever Undiagnosed Hackathon, nearly 100 experts from 28 countries combined advanced phenotyping and genomic techniques for 48 hours, ultimately providing diagnoses to 40% of the previously undiagnosed families. This inspiring model demonstrates the power of multidisciplinary collaboration and patient partnership in precision diagnostics.