Volume 565 Issue 7741

Editorials

p.535

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-00281-z

p.535

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-00332-5

p.536

The growing capabilities of prenatal diagnostics are expanding the need for counselling.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-00331-6

News

p.543

Tiny copters deliver poisoned bait to islands where rodents threaten native birds and plants.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-00176-z

p.544

Chief among their worries is insufficient evidence that the therapy works.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-00178-x

p.545

Federal researchers head back to work after politicians approve deal to reopen government for three weeks.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-00304-9

p.546

Proposed land exchanges between Kosovo and Serbia could undermine efforts to rebuild multi-ethnic education and research.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-00293-9

p.547

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-00339-y

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Ecologists are working with the nation’s Tewahedo churches to preserve these pockets of lush, wild habitat.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-00275-x

News Features

p.551

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-00284-w

p.552

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-00285-9

News & Views

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When Mendeleev proposed his periodic table in 1869, element 43 was unknown. In 1937, it became the first element to be discovered by synthesis in a laboratory — paving the way to the atomic age.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-00236-4

p.571

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-00264-0

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Microorganisms in the human gut can affect immune-system cells. Gut bacterial strains have been discovered that boost immune cells that have cell-killing capacity and that can target cancer and protect against infection.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-00133-w

p.574

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-00263-1

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Fungal infection can affect crop yield. A plant protein found to counter fungal-induced interference with host metabolism illuminates antifungal defences and mechanisms that inhibit metabolic enzymes.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-00092-2

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doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-00261-3

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Intron sequences are removed from newly synthesized RNA and usually rapidly degraded. However, it now seems that introns have a surprising role — helping yeast cells survive when nutrients are scarce.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-00088-y

Articles

Letters