Newsletter May 2026

Genome pioneer Craig Venter dies: here’s how he transformed science. Nature, 30 April.

Mitochondria can spawn new ‘organelles’ — hinting at how modern cells evolved. Nature, 27April.

We need to talk about failure in science. Nature, 23 April.

How your heartbeat could keep cancer at bay. Nature, 23 April.

New-found brain network is a ‘secret system’ made of helper cells. Nature, 22 April.

The misunderstood sex chromosome: how X affects your health. Nature, 22 April.

Show us the evidence for the value of medical AI. Nature Medicine. 21 April

How an HIV/AIDS Tragedy spurred human evolution. Science, 17 April

Why eldest siblings are brainier. The Economist, 16 April.

Scientists stunned by ‘fundamentally new way’ life produces DNA. Science,16 April

One woman, three autoimmune diseases: CAR-T therapy vanquishes ultra-rare disease trio. Nature, 9 April.

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real. Nature, 8 April

Mini models of the human brain are revealing how this complex organ takes shape. Nature, 8 April.

Up coming conference: Reframing Precision Medicine. Nature, April 2026.

‘It’s a real shock’: quantum-computing breakthroughs pose imminent risks to cybersecurity. Nature, 2 April.

The hidden costs of ‘helpful’ AI. Nature,31 March.

Newsletters

Is a ‘selfish gene’ making a Utah family have twice as many boys as girls?

Nature

2026-02-27

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The age of animal experiments is waning. Where will science go next?

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2026-02-25

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‘An AlphaFold 4’ — scientists marvel at DeepMind drug spin-off’s exclusive new AI.

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2026-02-19

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Can clean -energy revolution save us from climate catastrophe ?

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2026-02-11

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Measles is raging worldwide: are you at risk?

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2026-02-06

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Cheap AI chatbots transform medical diagnoses in places with limited care.

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2026-02-06

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First ‘practical PhDs’ awarded in China — for products rather than papers.

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2026-02-05

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These mysterious ridges could be the secret to younger skin.

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2026-02-05

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How tumours trick the brain into shutting down cancer-fighting cells.

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2026-02-04

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Open-source AI tool beats giant LLMs in literature reviews — and gets citations right

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2026-02-04

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Open AI-backed firm to use ultrasound to read minds. Does the science stand up?

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2026-02-02

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How learning handwriting trains the brain: the science behind the cursive wars

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2026-02-02

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2026-02-02

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2026-01-29

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2026-01-28

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What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won’t end.

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2026-01-27

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Why do women like me get diagnosed with ADHD late?.

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2026-01-26

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ADHD treatments move beyond stimulants.

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2026-01-21

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Sending babies to nursery completely reshapes their microbiomes.

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2026-01-21

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Credit in research goes hand in hand with responsibility.

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2026-01-14

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The infection enigma: why some people die from typically harmless germs.

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2026-01-14

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Cancer might evade immune defences by stealing mitochondria.

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2026-01-14

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How to improve vaccine uptake: a huge study offers clues.

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2026-01-13

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AI can spark creativity — if we ask it how, not what, to think.

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2026-01-13

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2026-01-12

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Can’t get motivated? This brain circuit might explain why — and it can be turned off.

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2026-01-09

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Will mpox go global again? Research shows it’s evolving in curious ways.

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2026-01-08

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‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI.

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2026-01-07

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The future of microbiology.

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2026-01-05

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Blood-cleansing method faces its first test as cancer vaccine.

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2026-01-01

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Influenza vaccination post-COVID-19 expands vaccine-specific effector CD4 T-cells and Tregs under positive influence of host trained innate immunity.

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2025-12-26

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IFN-γ and IL-4 correlate with protection induced by an attenuated malaria vaccine.

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2025-12-24

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Restoring youth to old immune cells: mRNA therapy turns back the clock.

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2025-12-17

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Scientists teach chickens to make human proteins inside their eggs.

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2025-12-14

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China leads research in 90% of crucial technologies — a dramatic shift this century.

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2025-12-12

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Cancer screening must become more precise.

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2025-12-12

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Giant 3D map shows almost every building in the world.

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2025-12-11

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What will be the first AI-designed drug? These disease-fighting antibodies are
top contenders.

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2025-12-09

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‘Giant step forward’ for Huntington’s — the scientist behind the first gene
therapy.

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2025-12-08

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Hepatitis B vaccine guidance set to be rolled back for US babies: what the science says.

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2025-12-05

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AI is saving time and money in research — but at what cost?

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2025-12-05

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The ‘silent’ brain cells that shape our behaviour, memory and health.

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2025-12-03

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AI reviewers are here — we are not ready.

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2025-12-03

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‘Fire amoeba’ survives in hotter conditions than any other complex cell. The single-celled organism can grow at 63 °C, a record for eukaryotic life.

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2025-12-02

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The month’s sharpest science shots.

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2025-12-02

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Sick baby ants sacrifice themselves to save their colony.

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2025-12-02

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Personalized gene editing helped one baby: can it be rolled out widely?

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2025-10-31

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This ‘minor’ bird flu strain has potential to spark human pandemic

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2025-10-27

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2025’s Top Employers: Innovation, AI, and policy in biotech & pharma

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2025-10-23

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People with some cancers live longer after a COVID vaccine

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2025-10-22

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Arctic Ocean methane 'switch' that helped drive rapid global warming discovered

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2025-10-18

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How the Brain Moves From Waking Life to Sleep (and Back Again)

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2025-10-17

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This gene causes obesity — and shields against heart disease

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2025-10-16

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How emotional memories are engraved on the brain, with surprising helper
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2025-10-15

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Faulty mitochondria cause deadly diseases: fixing them is about to get a lot
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2025-10-14

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Scientists 'reawaken' ancient microbes from permafrost — and discover they start churning out CO2 soon after

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2025-10-13

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More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prize winners immigrated: see
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2025-10-09

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‘Google for DNA’ brings order to biology’s big data

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2025-10-08

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Chemistry Nobel for scientists who developed massively porous ‘super
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2025-10-08

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These immune cells won Nobel fame — can they solve autoimmune disease?

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2025-10-07

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Groundbreaking quantum-tunnelling experiments win physics Nobel

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2025-10-07

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Autism Is Not a Single Condition and Has No Single Cause, Scientists Conclude

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2025-10-06

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Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who revealed secrets of immune system
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2025-10-06

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Will AI ever win its own Nobel? Some predict a prize-worthy science discovery
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2025-10-06

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Microplastics Could Be Weakening Your Bones, Research Suggests

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2025-09-29

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Universities are — and must continue to be — a force for good

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2025-09-24

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2025-09-22

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Can AI chatbots trigger psychosis? What the science says

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2025-09-18

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Time for the exposome to shape policy

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2025-09-17

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2025-09-17

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2025-09-17

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Why 1 in 6 U.S. parents are rejecting vaccine recommendations

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2025-09-16

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2025-09-12

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Synthetic data can benefit medical research — but risks must be recognized

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2025-09-10

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2025-09-10

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AI chatbots are already biasing research — we must establish guidelines for
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2025-09-09

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‘Amazing feat’: US man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant

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2025-09-08

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My blue is your blue: different people’s brains process colours in the same
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2025-09-08

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Caught in trade war, Andhra’s aquaculture faces collapse

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2025-09-06

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Hope for diabetes: CRISPR-edited cells pump out insulin in a person — and
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2025-09-05

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First CRISPR horses spark controversy: what’s next for gene-edited animals?

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2025-09-05

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Newfound immune cell in mice hints at why inflammation spikes with old age

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2025-09-04

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Cancer genetics in a tube of blood. Nature Medicine

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2025-09-04

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2025-09-02

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2025-08-31

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2025-08-28

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2025-08-27

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Pig lung transplanted into a person in world first

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2025-08-26

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2025-08-25

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Your household gadgets could soon be battery-free — scientists create tiny solar cells that can be powered by indoor light

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2025-08-20

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Plastic treaty talks in limbo: Who will finance the next round of negotiations?

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2025-08-19

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Scientists Take First Step to Creating Human Eggs and Sperm in Lab

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2025-08-18

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A mind-reading brain implant that comes with password protection

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2025-08-14

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Trump order gives political appointees vast powers over research grants

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2025-08-08

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2025-08-07

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Monoclonal antibodies revolutionized biomedical science and health care

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2025-08-07

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2025-08-07

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2025-08-06

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Flower-Shaped Nanoparticles Restore Mitochondrial Health.

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Newsletter May 2026

Genome pioneer Craig Venter dies: here’s how he transformed science. Nature, 30 April.

Mitochondria can spawn new ‘organelles’ — hinting at how modern cells evolved. Nature, 27April.

We need to talk about failure in science. Nature, 23 April.

How your heartbeat could keep cancer at bay. Nature, 23 April.

New-found brain network is a ‘secret system’ made of helper cells. Nature, 22 April.

The misunderstood sex chromosome: how X affects your health. Nature, 22 April.

Show us the evidence for the value of medical AI. Nature Medicine. 21 April

How an HIV/AIDS Tragedy spurred human evolution. Science, 17 April

Why eldest siblings are brainier. The Economist, 16 April.

Scientists stunned by ‘fundamentally new way’ life produces DNA. Science,16 April

One woman, three autoimmune diseases: CAR-T therapy vanquishes ultra-rare disease trio. Nature, 9 April.

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real. Nature, 8 April

Mini models of the human brain are revealing how this complex organ takes shape. Nature, 8 April.

Up coming conference: Reframing Precision Medicine. Nature, April 2026.

‘It’s a real shock’: quantum-computing breakthroughs pose imminent risks to cybersecurity. Nature, 2 April.

The hidden costs of ‘helpful’ AI. Nature,31 March.

Newsletters

Is a ‘selfish gene’ making a Utah family have twice as many boys as girls?

The age of animal experiments is waning. Where will science go next?

‘An AlphaFold 4’ — scientists marvel at DeepMind drug spin-off’s exclusive new AI.

Can clean -energy revolution save us from climate catastrophe ?

Measles is raging worldwide: are you at risk?

Cheap AI chatbots transform medical diagnoses in places with limited care.

First ‘practical PhDs’ awarded in China — for products rather than papers.

These mysterious ridges could be the secret to younger skin.

How tumours trick the brain into shutting down cancer-fighting cells.

Open-source AI tool beats giant LLMs in literature reviews — and gets citations right

Open AI-backed firm to use ultrasound to read minds. Does the science stand up?

How learning handwriting trains the brain: the science behind the cursive wars

Natures best picture

This AI has chemical expertise — and helps synthesize 35 new compounds.

Damage from a heart attack comes from brain signals, mouse study suggests.

What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won’t end.

Why do women like me get diagnosed with ADHD late?.

ADHD treatments move beyond stimulants.

Sending babies to nursery completely reshapes their microbiomes.

Credit in research goes hand in hand with responsibility.

The infection enigma: why some people die from typically harmless germs.

Cancer might evade immune defences by stealing mitochondria.

How to improve vaccine uptake: a huge study offers clues.

AI can spark creativity — if we ask it how, not what, to think.

AIs are biased toward some Indian castes — how can researchers fix this? -Benchmarks reveal how artificial-intelligence systems reinforce discriminatory social hierarchies.

Can’t get motivated? This brain circuit might explain why — and it can be turned off.

Will mpox go global again? Research shows it’s evolving in curious ways.

‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI.

The future of microbiology.

Blood-cleansing method faces its first test as cancer vaccine.

Influenza vaccination post-COVID-19 expands vaccine-specific effector CD4 T-cells and Tregs under positive influence of host trained innate immunity.

IFN-γ and IL-4 correlate with protection induced by an attenuated malaria vaccine.

Restoring youth to old immune cells: mRNA therapy turns back the clock.

Scientists teach chickens to make human proteins inside their eggs.

China leads research in 90% of crucial technologies — a dramatic shift this century.

Cancer screening must become more precise.

Giant 3D map shows almost every building in the world.

What will be the first AI-designed drug? These disease-fighting antibodies aretop contenders.

‘Giant step forward’ for Huntington’s — the scientist behind the first genetherapy.

Hepatitis B vaccine guidance set to be rolled back for US babies: what the science says.

AI is saving time and money in research — but at what cost?

The ‘silent’ brain cells that shape our behaviour, memory and health.

AI reviewers are here — we are not ready.

‘Fire amoeba’ survives in hotter conditions than any other complex cell. The single-celled organism can grow at 63 °C, a record for eukaryotic life.

The month’s sharpest science shots.

Sick baby ants sacrifice themselves to save their colony.

Personalized gene editing helped one baby: can it be rolled out widely?

This ‘minor’ bird flu strain has potential to spark human pandemic

2025’s Top Employers: Innovation, AI, and policy in biotech & pharma

People with some cancers live longer after a COVID vaccine

Arctic Ocean methane 'switch' that helped drive rapid global warming discovered

How the Brain Moves From Waking Life to Sleep (and Back Again)

This gene causes obesity — and shields against heart disease

How emotional memories are engraved on the brain, with surprising helpercells

Faulty mitochondria cause deadly diseases: fixing them is about to get a loteasier.

Scientists 'reawaken' ancient microbes from permafrost — and discover they start churning out CO2 soon after

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prize winners immigrated: seetheir journeys

‘Google for DNA’ brings order to biology’s big data

Chemistry Nobel for scientists who developed massively porous ‘supersponge’ materials

These immune cells won Nobel fame — can they solve autoimmune disease?

Groundbreaking quantum-tunnelling experiments win physics Nobel

Autism Is Not a Single Condition and Has No Single Cause, Scientists Conclude

What will be the first AI-designed drug? These disease-fighting antibodies are
top contenders.

‘Giant step forward’ for Huntington’s — the scientist behind the first gene
therapy.

How emotional memories are engraved on the brain, with surprising helper
cells

Faulty mitochondria cause deadly diseases: fixing them is about to get a lot
easier.

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prize winners immigrated: see
their journeys

Chemistry Nobel for scientists who developed massively porous ‘super
sponge’ materials

Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who revealed secrets of immune system
‘regulation’

Will AI ever win its own Nobel? Some predict a prize-worthy science discovery
soon

Which diseases will you have in 20 years? This AI accurately predicts your
risks

Your risk of dying from chronic disease has dropped — if you live in these
countries

AI chatbots are already biasing research — we must establish guidelines for
their use now

My blue is your blue: different people’s brains process colours in the same
way

Hope for diabetes: CRISPR-edited cells pump out insulin in a person — and
evade immune detection

Rewire
Steps towards a new life. Copy