The steady and careful development that has guided treatments using embryonic stem cells should be applied to therapies derived from adult stem cells, too.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05160-7
Universities should take responsibility to ensure professional science is performed in an environment that is supportive, productive and rigorous.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05159-0
Industrial partnership and new anode technology could provide a greener way to make the metal — but cleaner electricity sources are also needed.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05158-1
International research collaborations could end in wake of US president Donald Trump's decision.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05123-y
Yoshinori Watanabe hopes to revive his career by attending a year-long retraining programme.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05139-4
Scientists welcome relative windfall after years of stagnating funds.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05119-8
The growing trend of dam removals calls for monitoring of environmental effects — both good and bad.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05182-1
Gene collections and astronomy studies dominate the list of the most-cited publications with DOIs on the popular online encyclopaedia.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05161-6
建設的で厳密な研究を、楽しく行うことのできる研究グループを育てるにはどうするかを考える。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05142-9
3200人の研究者を対象に行ったアンケート調査から、世界中の研究グループに、表面化していない問題の芽があることが明らかになった。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05143-8
最初期の銀河の星形成活動についてはほとんど分かっていない。今回、非常に遠い銀河の観測から、宇宙が現在の年齢のたった2％だった頃のそうした活動を示す証拠が得られた。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05114-z
今回、深層学習と呼ばれる人工知能技術を用いて、空間ナビゲーションがモデル化された。するとこのシステムは、哺乳類の脳に見られるグリッド細胞に似た空間表現を発達させた。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-04992-7
コンピューターシミュレーションによって、溶存酸素濃度の低い海洋の面積は、地球温暖化に応答して今後拡大するが、その後縮小することが示された。今回の結果は、こうした挙動に関与する過程は精密にバランスがとれたものであるとする新たな描像を裏付けるものである。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05034-y
今回、76対の転写因子によって、マウスの結合組織細胞を、ニューロンに似たアイデンティティーを持つようにすることができた。この発見によって、ニューロンの発生のみならず細胞の再プログラム化についての知見も得られた。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-04978-5
クロロフルオロカーボンは、成層圏のオゾン層を破壊する主要な化学物質である。今回、こうした化合物を制限する国際ルールにもかかわらず、排出量が再び増加していることが明らかになった。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05110-3
今回、コンピューターによる研究と生化学的研究によって、Gタンパク質共役受容体によってアレスチンタンパク質が活性化される機構が明らかになり、創薬へ広い道が開かれる可能性が出てきた。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-04977-6
Sequences of 137 ancient and 502 modern human genomes illuminate the population history of the Eurasian steppes after the Bronze Age and document the replacement of Indo-European speakers of West Eurasian ancestry by Turkic-speaking groups of East Asian ancestry.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0094-2
A screen in which combinatorial pairs of transcription factors are exogenously expressed in fibroblasts identifies different combinations that reprogram these cells into induced neuronal cells with diverse functional properties.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0103-5
Transient engagement of the G protein-coupled receptor core can act as a catalyst to activate cellular β-arrestin function after dissociation from the receptor.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0079-1
Reconstitution of a functional intraflagellar transport complex in Caenorhabditis elegans provides insight into the recruitment and activation of the kinesin-2 motor protein.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0105-3
Observation of the emission line of doubly ionized oxygen at a redshift of 9.1096 reveals that star formation began at a redshift of about 15, around 250 million years after the Big Bang.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0117-z
Measurements of the quark pressure distribution in the proton reveal a strong repulsive pressure near the proton’s centre (stronger than the pressure in neutron stars) and a binding pressure at greater distances.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0060-z
Twin optical fields enable a form of quantum key distribution that can exceed the secret-key capacity without using quantum repeaters and that has security independent of the measuring devices.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0066-6
For appropriately aligned layers of different two-dimensional materials, the separation between layers—and hence the interlayer coupling—is very sensitive to pressure, leading to pressure-induced changes in the electronic properties of the heterostructures.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0107-1
Electrode films prepared from a liquid-crystal phase of vertically aligned two-dimensional titanium carbide show electrochemical energy storage that is nearly independent of film thickness.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0109-z
Atmospheric CFC-11 concentrations have been declining less rapidly since 2012; evidence suggests that this finding is explained by an increase in the emission of CFC-11during these years.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0106-2
Phylogenies reconstructed using 12 hepatitis B virus genomes, which were recovered from ancient human genome data, reveal a complex history of hepatitis B evolution that is not evident when using only modern samples.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0097-z
The genome sequence of Triticum urartu, the progenitor of the A subgenome of hexaploid wheat, provides insight into genome duplication during grass evolution.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0108-0
Grid-like representations emerge spontaneously within a neural network trained to self-localize, enabling the agent to take shortcuts to destinations using vector-based navigation.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0102-6
Finely tuned control of strain engraftment and abundance in the mouse gut microbiota was achieved using the marine polysaccharide porphyran, which could exclusively be used by an introduced subset of wild-type or genetically modified Bacteroides strains.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0092-4
A new model of cardiac trabeculation in mice is presented in which NOTCH1 and NRG1 have opposing roles in extracellular matrix degradation and synthesis that are essential for defining trabecular architecture.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0110-6
The Cdc48 adaptor Vms1 is a peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase that cooperates with the ribosome quality control complex to catalyse the removal of nascent polypeptides from stalled ribosomes.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0022-5
Molecular dynamics simulations and site-directed fluorescence spectroscopy show that the transmembrane core and cytoplasmic tail of G-protein-coupled receptors independently and cooperatively activate arrestin.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0077-3
