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In situ methods for water quality monitoring is crucial for global water use and management, though many conventional sensors have slow response time and are non-recyclable. Here, the authors report a recyclable amphiphobic dielectric material for fast monitoring of water pollutants.

Using human data and mice models, it was revealed that assimilation of ammonia by a gut microbe prevents its harmful accumulation that can impair kidney function.

There is a critical gap in understanding the full spectrum of health effects associated with NO_x exposure. Here, the authors find using UK Biobank data that mortality from all-cause, non-accidental and other 20 specific diseases was significantly associated with NO_x.

Here, the authors leverage whole-genome sequencing from >88,000 diverse individuals to uncover 18 BMI-related genetic signals, including novel variants in participants of African genetic ancestry, highlighting the value of diversity in genetic discovery.

Caesium cations promote the coagulation of 2D and 3D perovskite colloids, synchronizing their nucleation kinetics and enabling the formation of homogeneous 2D/3D heterostructured lead-free photovoltaics with a certified power conversion efficiency of 16.65%.

Using field-effect transistors made from carbon nanotube films, five-stage ring oscillators can be fabricated that exhibit an oscillation frequency of up to 5.54 GHz.

Shi et al. reveal a spatiotemporal coordination of cytosolic NAD+ and NAD + -dependent Sir2A in regulating GCβ deacetylation during Plasmodium ookinete development. Sir2Adeficient ookinete lost GCβ localization at ookinete extrados site (OES) and fail gliding for mosquito infection.

UDA-seq incorporates a post-indexing step to enhance the throughput of droplet-based single-cell multimodal sequencing, enabling efficient large-scale single-cell analysis.

This study reveals gut microbial and metabolomic features associated with the severity of frailty, demonstrating that these microbial features outperform traditional assessment tools in identifying individuals at high risk of frailty and mortality.

A biochemical and structural analysis demonstrates that alterations at the substrate-binding pocket of the main protease of SARS-CoV-2 can allow the virus to develop resistance to nirmatrelvir in two distinct ways.

Polymer monolayer field-effect transistors hold promise for faster circuits, but their performance is currently limited by the polymer packing disorder. Li et al. pre-aggregate polymers in a solution to achieve high carrier mobility of 3 cm² V⁻¹s⁻¹ in monolayers and utilize them in integrated circuits.

A diffusion-mediated synthesis strategy for organic–inorganic hybrid perovskite nanocrystals is reported, which can substantially slow down the reaction kinetics, improving size uniformity and achieving near-unity photoluminescence quantum yield.

In vivo manipulation of the dynamics of nanoparticles’ is essential for disease-specific imaging and therapy, but tends to involve complex design processes. Here, the authors report a strategy for manipulating the assembly of nanoparticles in vivo through a self-catalysis-instructed dimerization of tyrosine, offering convenient fabrication, high reaction specificity and biocompatibility.

A dual-additive crystallization method using PyNI and 5AVA as additives results in highly efficient 3D perovskite films with enhanced photoluminescence quantum efficiencies and external quantum efficiencies, and hence increased LED performance.

The intestinal mucosal barrier can be reinforced via the oral administration of commensal bacteria coated with poly(ethylene glycol) to facilitate their penetration into mucus.

A ketogenic diet can reduce calorie absorption and protect against obesity by inducing changes to the gut microbiota and the bile acid pool.

C14-functionalized steroids are pharmaceutically valuable, but their synthesis is challenging. Now a chemoenzymatic route is reported featuring a key biocatalytic C14α-hydroxylation, enabled by protein engineering of a C14α-hydroxylase (CYP14A) from Cochliobolus lunatus. Dehydration and olefin functionalization of the biocatalytic reaction products provides C14-functionalized steroids.

Multi-region sequencing of small cell lung cancers (SCLC) can improve our understanding of the disease. Here the authors analyse 120 multi-region samples from 40 SCLC patients with whole exome sequencing and characterise their mutational burden, evolution, heterogeneity, and potential prognostic biomarkers.

The assembly of the Photosystem II proximal antenna CP47 remains a challenging question. Here the authors show that FPB1 and PAM68 act coordinately with Alb3 and the SecY/E translocon to facilitate the co-translational integration of specific regions of CP47 into thylakoids.

Spatially selective actuation and large output force enables versatile task performance in soft robotics. Here, the authors report a method for actuating untethered soft robots using focused ultrasound waves to perform liquid cargo delivery and biopsy.

A high-quality reference genome assembly of cauliflower C-8 (V2) and genomic analyses of 971 diverse accessions and their relatives reveal the stepwise domestication and the genetic mechanism of curd biogenesis.

Genome and transcriptome analyses of 376 Gossypium hirsutum accessions uncover the regulation of gene expression during fiber development in allotetraploid cotton and highlight the potential for fiber quality improvement.

Urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UCAR) is associated with various clinical outcomes such as kidney disease and cardiovascular disease. Here, the authors report genome-wide meta-analysis in over 500,000 individuals and find 68 UACR loci, followed by statistical fine-mapping, gene prioritization and experimental validation in flies.

Mutations in the RNA component TERC can cause telomerase dysfunction but the underlying mechanisms are largely unknown. Here, the authors show that RNA-binding protein HuR regulates telomerase function by enhancing the methylation of TERC, which is impaired by several disease-relevant TERC mutations.

Exome-wide analysis identifies rare and low-frequency coding variants associated with body mass index. Gene-based meta-analysis and functional studies implicate 13 genes, eight of which are novel, and neuronal pathways as factors in human obesity.

Data from over 700,000 individuals reveal the identity of 83 sequence variants that affect human height, implicating new candidate genes and pathways as being involved in growth.

Analysis of whole-genome sequences of 25,465 individuals of European ancestry shows that rare variants contribute substantially to the heritability of height and body mass index.

Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived macrophages (iMACs) are being used to make chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) macrophages for immunotherapy. Here the authors design a second-generation macrophage-specific CAR by integrating CD3ζ and toll/IL-1R (TIR) domains resulting in an M1-polarized CAR-iMAC with increased antitumor functions.

Resolving the structures of MOFs is significant for understanding their structure-property relation. Here, authors apply a low-dose imaging technique to resolve the atomic structures of building units in MOF MIL-125. A low-symmetry structure of MIL-125 is discovered by directly imaging the rotated Ti-O nodes, different from the unrotated one predicted in previous works.

Rhomboid proteins are involved in human cancer progression. Here, the authors show that RHBDD1, a rhomboid intramembrane serine protease, promotes tumor growth in colorectal cancer via cleavage and secretion of TGFα, and activation of the EGFR/Raf/MEK/ERK signalling pathway.

Designing tactile sensors with high spatial resolution are crucial to manufacture large scale flexible electronics. Here, the authors develop a micro-cage structure by exploiting photo-reticulated strain localization films (prslPDMS), which shows the strain local confinement effect and could be used to prepare ultralow crosstalk sensor arrays.

BiFeO₃ has a wide application but the impact of rare-earth substitution for the evolution of the coupling mechanism is unknown. Here, the authors reveal the correlation between ferroelectricity, antiferromagnetism, a weak ferromagnetic moment, and their switching pathways in La-substituted BiFeO₃.

To fully exploit the potential of multiferroic materials the control of their intrinsic degrees of freedom is a prerequisite. Here, the control of spin orientation in strained BiFeO₃ films is demonstrated elucidating the microscopic mechanism of the complex interplay of polar and magnetic order.

Autophagy is essential for cellular homeostasis which decreases with age. Here, the authors identify aging-induced reduction of DHHC5-mediated beclin 1 palmitoylation as an underlying mechanism by which aging induces autophagy decline in the brain.

Single-cell RNA sequencing is used to generate a dataset covering all major human organs in both adult and fetal stages, enabling comparison with similar datasets for mouse tissues.

Structural and biochemical characterization of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease in complex with inhibitor ensitrelvir or nirmatrelvir reveals the mechanisms of inhibition.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rapidly progressing neurodegenerative disease. Here, Wray and colleagues identify association of the GPX3-TNIP1 locus with ALS using cross-ethnic meta-analyses.

Chen et al. provide an m⁵C landscape in bladder cancer and show m⁵C enrichment at oncogene mRNAs that promotes tumour progression. They identify YBX1 as the m⁵C ‘reader’ that recruits ELAVL1 to stabilize mRNAs.