年齢をより正確に特定できる分子テストの需要が、難民保護やスポーツなどで高まっているが、及ぼし得る影響は甚大なため慎重かつ幅広い議論が求められる。
Molecular test of age highlights difficult questions p.5
From forensics to sporting events, disputed age is a source of tension.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06165-y
From forensics to sporting events, disputed age is a source of tension.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06165-y
Malcolm Turnbull is merely the latest leader to discover that action on emissions remains a difficult step to take.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06164-z
Influence of his book ‘What is Life?’ celebrated and discussed 75 years on.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06166-x
Scientists say a boom in development in the Western Ghats mountains contributed to the disaster that has killed almost 500 people.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06145-2
Researchers are devising a clinical-trial protocol to test three medicines in Africa’s latest outbreak.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06132-7
They say that a more accurate test could help to implement laws that protect minors seeking asylum.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06121-w
Huge grassroots initiative has founded dozens of research centres across the continent — but the hubs face an uncertain future.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06094-w
Blazes in North America are becoming larger and more powerful.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06090-0
Eleven research funders in Europe announce ‘Plan S’ to make all scientific works free to read as soon as they are published.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06178-7
米国の一部の都市では非行集団の若者による発砲事件がまん延しているが、ツイートをAIを使って解析することで、こうした悲劇を未然に防ごうと取り組む研究者たちがいる。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06169-8
使われなくなった衛星、切り離されたロケットの部品、衝突で生じた破片など約2万個もの宇宙ゴミが地球の衛星軌道で障害物となっており、これらを減らすべく研究が続けられている。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06170-1
今回、木星の磁場が、他の既知の惑星磁場とは異なっていることが分かった。この結果は、巨大惑星の内部の解明に大きな影響を及ぼす可能性がある。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06095-9
今回、哺乳類細胞に感染を認識させ免疫応答を引き起こす経路が新たに明らかになり、この経路には、感染細菌が産生する糖分子に結合する、宿主細胞のキナーゼが必要であることが分かった。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05854-y
タンパク質に付いた糖(糖鎖構造)は細胞内でのタンパク質の動きと局在性に影響を及ぼすため、こうした構造を画像化する方法は興味深い。今回、分子の識別タグとしてDNAを用いる汎用的な方法が報告された。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06092-y
スルホキシイミン系の農薬への曝露がマルハナバチのコロニーに著しい悪影響を及ぼすことが、今回明らかになった。この知見は、ハチを殺虫剤にさらすことに対する懸念はネオニコチノイド類に限定すべきでないことを示唆している。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05917-0
マラリアの原因となる寄生虫が赤血球内で生き残ることができるのは、多タンパク質複合体PTEXのおかげである。今回、PTEXが集合する仕組みが明らかになり、この複合体のタンパク質の1つであるEXP2の機能が特定された。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05977-2
要求に合わせた原子の3Dアレイの作製は、量子ビットとして中性原子を用いる量子コンピューターの開発における重要なステップである。今回、レーザーを用いた2つの方法によって原子アレイが作製された。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06107-8
Longer human lives have led to a global burden of late-life disease, and so interventions, including changes to lifestyle and medical innovations, are needed to prevent disease and increase late-life health.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0457-8
Temporal information that is useful for episodic memory is encoded across a wide range of timescales in the lateral entorhinal cortex, arising inherently from its representation of ongoing experience.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0459-6
The enzyme glutamine synthetase is active in endothelial cell migration during angiogenesis, through autopalmitoylation and the regulation of RHOJ signalling.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0466-7
Cryo-electron microscopy analysis of the purified
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0469-4
Maps of Jupiter’s internal magnetic field at a range of depths reveal an unusual morphology, suggesting that Jupiter’s dynamo, unlike Earth’s, does not operate in a thick, homogeneous shell.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0468-5
Arbitrarily shaped, defect-free three-dimensional synthetic structures with up to 72 individually controlled atoms are assembled using holographic methods and moving tweezers.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0450-2
An experiment inspired by Maxwell’s ‘demon’ thought experiment uses a series of reversible operations to fully fill a three-dimensional optical lattice with ultracold atoms and realize a low-entropy state.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0458-7
All-inorganic perovskite nanocrystals containing caesium and lead provide low-cost, flexible and solution-processable scintillators that are highly sensitive to X-ray irradiation and emit radioluminescence that is colour-tunable across the visible spectrum.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0451-1
A lithographic patterning and release method is used to create a dense, fluctuating, Brownian system of mobile colloidal kite- and dart-shaped Penrose tiles over large areas that retains quasi-crystalline order.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0464-9
Soil macroporosity responds rapidly to climate variations and may induce wide-ranging changes in soil hydraulic conductivity by the end of the century.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0463-x
A well-preserved clutch of Kayentatherium wellesi perinates sheds light on the timing of the evolution of mammalian traits, including reduced clutch sizes and the allometric lengthening of the face during ontogeny.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0441-3
Chronic exposure to sulfoxaflor (a sulfoximine-based insecticide) has severe sub-lethal effects on bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) colonies; exposed colonies produced fewer workers and fewer reproductive offspring than unexposed control colonies.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0430-6
Genomic evidence of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father suggests that mixing among different hominin groups may have more been frequent than previously appreciated.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0455-x
In Caenorhabditis elegans, starvation early in life suppresses later sex-specific pruning of synapses through lasting changes in monoaminergic signalling.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0452-0
The bacterial metabolite ADP-heptose activates NF-κB in host cells via alpha-kinase 1 and the TIFA–TRAF signalling pathway.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0433-3
The inactivation of tumour suppressor genes at the level of mRNA occurs by the generation of truncated proteins in leukaemia.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0465-8
The long non-coding RNA NORAD interacts with proteins involved in DNA replication and repair, and controls the ability of RBMX to form a ribonucleoprotein complex that helps to maintain genomic stability.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0453-z
The structures of tau filaments from patients with the neurodegenerative disorder Pick’s disease show that the filament fold is different from that of the tau filaments found in Alzheimer’s disease.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0454-y