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    Tumor cell proliferation and migration, key drivers of metastasis, can be mechanistically coupled in matrix embedded human sarcoma and carcinoma cells through cell density via a synergistic, paracrine signaling mechanism between Interleukins 6/8. Inhibition of this mechanism significantly decreases metastasis in mouse xenograft models.

    • Hasini Jayatilaka
    • , Pranay Tyle
    • , Jonathan J. Chen
    • , Minsuk Kwak
    • , Julia Ju
    • , Hyun Ji Kim
    • , Jerry S. H. Lee
    • , Pei-Hsun Wu
    • , Daniele M. Gilkes
    • , Rong Fan
    •  & Denis Wirtz

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    Device-independent self-testing is an approach that allows a complete certification of an unknown quantum state, simply by inspecting outcomes of measurements. Here, the authors demonstrate that any pure bipartite entangled state can be self-tested.

    • Andrea Coladangelo
    • , Koon Tong Goh
    •  & Valerio Scarani

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    Both electronic and ionic transport must be optimized in Li4Ti5O12 for its use in Li-ion batteries, most promisingly against high voltage cathodes. Here authors synthesize hierarchical porous micrometre-scale structures composed of primary nanoparticles to demonstrate an attractive combination of rate performance, capacity and cycling stability.

    • Mateusz Odziomek
    • , Frédéric Chaput
    • , Anna Rutkowska
    • , Konrad Świerczek
    • , Danuta Olszewska
    • , Maciej Sitarz
    • , Frédéric Lerouge
    •  & Stephane Parola

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    MxA (myxovirus resistance protein A) is a viral restriction factor whose activity depends on self-assembly into polymeric rings and helical filaments. Here the authors reveal the conformational movements involved in generating torque within polymeric MxA molecules and the dynamic conformational changes that occur upon GTP loading and hydrolysis.

    • Yang Chen
    • , Lei Zhang
    • , Laura Graf
    • , Bing Yu
    • , Yue Liu
    • , Georg Kochs
    • , Yongfang Zhao
    •  & Song Gao

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    Targeted homologous recombination between parental chromosomes could facilitate precision breeding of crop plants. Here, Filler Hayut et al. show that CRISPR-Cas9 can be used to induce DNA double strand breaks in somatic tissue and achieve targeted recombination between homologs at an endogenous locus in tomato.

    • Shdema Filler Hayut
    • , Cathy Melamed Bessudo
    •  & Avraham A. Levy

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    DNA-templated silver nanoclusters possess desirable optical properties, but their excited state dynamics remain poorly understood. Here the authors show that intracluster relaxations in such clusters are strongly coupled to a vibrational mode, resulting in ultrafast concerted transfer of population and coherence between excited states.

    • Erling Thyrhaug
    • , Sidsel Ammitzbøll Bogh
    • , Miguel R Carro-Temboury
    • , Charlotte Stahl Madsen
    • , Tom Vosch
    •  & Donatas Zigmantas
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