Engineered immunosuppressive dendritic cells protect against cardiac remodelling

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By: Xiaoying Li · Jiamin Li · Guohua Li · Lisheng Zhu · Guo Cheng · Huanqiang Li · Hao Lin · Ningqing Jia · Xiaoqian Hong · Ye Liu · Zhiwei Zhong · Yize Chen · Biqing Wang · Jing Zhao · Zhenqi Hua · Lingjun Wang · Qiming Chen · Peijie Zheng · Shuyuan Sheng · Songting Gu · Cheng Ni · Shuchang Ye · Changle Ke · Feimu Zhang · Mo Li · Shaohui Shi · Junhua He · Yan Wu · Yinghui Xu · Minjian Kong · Qi Chen · Huajun Li · Yu Zhang · Jianzhong Sun · Guanhua Hu · Chengchen Zhao · Yiping Dong · Lili Yu · Yang Xu · Xinyang Hu

8 April 2026 at 08:00

Nature, Published online: 08 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10346-5

Lesion-targeted immune modulation is a feasible strategy to control cardiac fibrosis, and engineered dendritic cells are a promising therapeutic platform for treating cardiac remodelling and heart failure.

DNA damage burden causes selective CUX2 neuron loss in neuroinflammation

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By: Laura Morcom · Wenlong Xia · Zhaoyang Xu · Yashika Awasthi · Celine Geywitz · Matthew O. Ellis · Tomas Noli · Amel Zulji · Daniel Yamamoto · Gemma C. Girdler · Li Kai · Keying Zhu · Mingming Wei · Xiao-Yan Tang · Kimberly K. Hoi · Julio Gonzalez-Maya · Greg J. Duncan · Adrien M. Vaquie · Diana Gold Diaz · Riki Kawaguchi · Erdong Liu · Yu Sun · Denny Yang · Gregory D. Jordan · I-Ling Lu · Staffan Holmqvist · Theresa Bartels · Katherine Ridley · Jennifer Ja-Yoon Choi · Santos J. Franco · Eric J. Huang · Ben Emery · Daniel Geschwind · Lucas Schirmer · Gabriel Balmus · Brian Popko · Stephen P. J. Fancy · David H. Rowitch

1 April 2026 at 08:00

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10310-3

DNA damage burden and inadequate repair in CUX2+ cortical layer 2/3 excitatory neurons contributes to selective vulnerability in neuroinflammatory injury.

Expansion of outer cortical CUX2 neurons requires adaptations for DNA repair

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By: Wenlong Xia · Laura Morcom · Zhaoyang Xu · I-Ling Lu · Qing Wang · Kimberly K. Hoi · Mingming Wei · Keying Zhu · Gregory Jordan · Xiao-Yan Tang · Julio Gonzalez-Maya · Vanesa S. Mattera · Sophia M. Panigrahi · Riki Kawaguchi · Ben Emery · Santos J. Franco · Daniel H. Geschwind · Brian Popko · David H. Rowitch · Stephen P. J. Fancy

1 April 2026 at 08:00

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10290-4

The transcription factor ATF4 is shown to regulate double-stranded DNA repair within vulnerable CUX2+ upper-layer 2/3 cortical neurons, enabling their survival during development.

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