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A SAUR gene enhances maize drought resilience by promoting silk elongation

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By: Chaohui Zhu · Zhirui Yang · Shiping Yang · Xueyan Zhou · Boxin Liu · Tian Tian · Bochen Zhao · Yingying Xie · Yujun Liu · Jinkui Cheng · Huaijun Tang · Yanjun Zhang · Xiaoqing Xie · Lei Zhang · Cheng Liu · Xingrong Wang · Shengxue Liu · Feng Qin

Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10566-9

The Small Auxin Up RNA (SAUR) protein ZmSAUR72 in maize (Zea mays) promotes silk growth via regulation of H+-ATPase activity, and is a key determinant of the anthesis-silking interval and thus resilience to drought.
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Insulin resistance prediction from wearables and routine blood biomarkers

✇Nature - Issue - nature.com science feeds
By: Ahmed A. Metwally · A. Ali Heydari · Daniel McDuff · Alexandru Solot · Zeinab Esmaeilpour · Anthony Z. Faranesh · Menglian Zhou · Girish Narayanswamy · Maxwell A. Xu · Xin Liu · Yuzhe Yang · David B. Savage · Mark Malhotra · Conor Heneghan · Shwetak Patel · Cathy Speed · Javier L. Prieto

Nature, Published online: 16 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10179-2

A machine-learning model that integrates data from wearable devices (such as smartwatches) with blood biomarkers and demographic data can predict whether someone has insulin resistance, enabling timely lifestyle interventions to prevent progression to type 2 diabetes.
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