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A meta-analysis on global change drivers and the risk of infectious disease
Nature, Published online: 08 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07380-6
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions, managing ecosystem health, and preventing biological invasions and biodiversity loss could help to reduce the burden of plant, animal and human diseases, especially when coupled with improvements to social and economic determinants of health.3D genomic mapping reveals multifocality of human pancreatic precancers
Nature, Published online: 01 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07359-3
Quantitative multimodal 3D reconstruction of human pancreatic tissue at single-cell resolution reveals a high burden of multifocal, genetically heterogeneous pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasias in the normal adult pancreas.How to supercharge cancer-fighting cells: give them stem-cell skills
Nature, Published online: 10 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01043-2
The bioengineered immune players called CAR T cells last longer and work better if pumped up with a large dose of a protein that makes them resemble stem cells.Epigenetic scores of blood-based proteins as biomarkers of general cognitive function and brain health
First cell therapy for solid tumours heads to the clinic: what it means for cancer treatment
Nature, Published online: 11 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00673-w
Therapy built on tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes is now being prepared for at least 20 people in the United States with advanced melanoma.Pan-cancer proteogenomics characterization of tumor immunity
Author Correction: A genomic mutational constraint map using variation in 76,156 human genomes
Nature, Published online: 15 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07050-7
Author Correction: A genomic mutational constraint map using variation in 76,156 human genomesThe extracellular matrix dictates regional competence for tumour initiation
Nature, Published online: 15 November 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06740-y
Experiments in mice show that expression of the oncogene SmoM2 induces basal cell carcinoma in the ear epidermis but not in the back skin, and that this difference in susceptibility is regulated by the extracellular matrix.Metabolomic biomarkers of habitual B vitamin intakes unveil novel differentially methylated positions in the human epigenome
SDG 14.5: at last, a breakthrough for the 2030 agenda
Nature, Published online: 12 September 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02861-6
SDG 14.5: at last, a breakthrough for the 2030 agendaPublisher Correction: Large language models encode clinical knowledge
Nature, Published online: 27 July 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06455-0
Publisher Correction: Large language models encode clinical knowledgeLarge language models encode clinical knowledge
Nature, Published online: 12 July 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06291-2
Med-PaLM, a state-of-the-art large language model for medicine, is introduced and evaluated across several medical question answering tasks, demonstrating the promise of these models in this domain.How one man’s rare Alzheimer’s mutation delayed the onset of disease
Nature, Published online: 15 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01610-z
Genetic resilience found in a person predisposed to early-onset dementia could potentially lead to new treatments.Single-cell spatial landscapes of the lung tumour immune microenvironment
Nature, Published online: 01 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05672-3
Using imaging mass cytometry, the tumour and immunological spatial landscapes of 416 lung adenocarcinomas are characterized, which, when combined with deep learning, can predict clinical outcomes with high accuracy.Spatial genomics maps the structure, nature and evolution of cancer clones
Nature, Published online: 09 November 2022; doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05425-2
A workflow centred around base-specific in situ sequencing generates detailed maps of, and can phenotypically characterize, the unique set of subclones of cancers.Src: coordinating metabolism in cancer
Oncogene, Published online: 10 October 2022; doi:10.1038/s41388-022-02487-4
Collagenolysis-dependent DDR1 signalling dictates pancreatic cancer outcome
Nature, Published online: 05 October 2022; doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05169-z
Cleaved and intact type I collagen have different effects on pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), and remodelling of type I collagen—mediated through DDR1 signalling—is a prognostic indicator for the survival of patients with PDAC.Deep whole-genome ctDNA chronology of treatment-resistant prostate cancer
Nature, Published online: 20 July 2022; doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04975-9
Deep whole-genome sequencing of serial blood samples and matched metastatic tissue reveals that circulating tumour DNA profiling enables detailed study of treatment-driven subclone dynamics, epigenomics and genome-wide somatic evolution in metastatic human cancers.