Cuproptosis causes meiotic metaphase I arrest by disrupting mitochondrial functions in oocytes

Cell Death Discovery nature.com science feeds

By: You-Hui Lu · Can Wang · Lei-Ning Chen · Li-Tao Yi · Ke Xu · Xu-Feng Li · Shu-Chen Liu · Xiao-Yi Chen · Yi-Xiao Li · Qing-Yuan Sun · Qiong Wang · Tie-Gang Meng

23 May 2026 at 08:00

Cell Death Discovery, Published online: 23 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41420-026-03168-x

Cuproptosis causes meiotic metaphase I arrest by disrupting mitochondrial functions in oocytes

Editing strigolactone hormone receptor for robust antiviral silencing in rice

Cell

By: Guoyi Yang · Ming Wu · Shuai Zhang · Yucen Huang · Yixiao Liu · Xiyuan Yu · Jiayang Hu · Le Mi · Peng Gan · Yuansheng Wu · Jing Zou · Baogang Zhang · Qun Hu · Jie Hu · Ruifeng Yao · Bojian Zhong · Xianbo Huang · Huiting Xie · Yinghua Ji · Yi Li · Jie Zhang · Liming Yan · Shou-wei Ding · Shanshan Zhao · Jianguo Wu

24 February 2026 at 08:00

Precise genome editing of the rice strigolactone receptor DWARF14 confers robust, transgene-free antiviral resistance by blocking viral suppression of endogenous RNA silencing, offering a promising strategy for durable disease protection without a yield penalty.