Volume 583 Issue 7815

Editorials

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doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-02000-5

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doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-02001-4

News

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A recent fire at a natural history museum in Minas Gerais is forcing some researchers to relive the pain of losing priceless specimens and artefacts.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01990-6

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The ‘quasiparticles’ defy the categories of ordinary particles and herald a potential way to build quantum computers.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01988-0

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From immunity to the role of genetics, Nature looks at five pressing questions about COVID-19 that researchers are tackling.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01989-z

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Jayaprakash Muliyil says coronavirus infections are rising rapidly in the country, and the surprisingly low death rate could be misleading.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01865-w

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A research institute that appointed Pier Paolo Pandolfi as its scientific director has reversed its decision after internal protests.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01987-1

News Features

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doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01861-0

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doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01862-z

News & Views

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Efforts are intensifying to try to harness antibodies as a therapy for COVID-19. A study reveals the insights that can be gained from antibodies made by a person who had a coronavirus infection that caused the disease SARS.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01816-5

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doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01965-7

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Fibroblast, epithelial and endothelial cells are more than just the scaffold of an organ — it emerges that they communicate with immune cells and are primed to launch organ-specific gene-expression programs for antiviral defence.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01916-2

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DNA damage can cause mutations due to failure of DNA repair and errors during DNA replication. Tracking the strand of the DNA double helix on which damage occurs has shed light on processes that affect tumour evolution.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01815-6

Articles