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The brain-reading devices helping paralysed people to move, talk and touch

Implants are becoming more sophisticated — and are attracting commercial interest.

Next stop, Uranus? Icy planet tops priority list for next big NASA mission

Influential panel’s recommendation makes the ice giant a likely destination for a flagship space mission.

Alexandra Witze
News 19 Apr 2022
Biotech firm announces results from first US trial of genetically modified mosquitoes

Oxitec reports that its insects behaved as planned — but a larger trial is needed to learn whether they can reduce wild mosquito populations.

Emily Waltz
News 18 Apr 2022
A dusty compact object bridging galaxies and quasars at cosmic dawn

An unusual ultraviolet compact object associated with a dusty starburst has been observed at a redshift of about 7.2, with a luminosity that falls between that of quasars and galaxies, possibly in transition between the two.

S. Fujimoto
G. B. Brammer
P. A. Oesch
Article 13 Apr 2022
Daily briefing: The big promise of brain-reading implants

Interest is surging in brain–computer interfaces that can help paralysed people to move, talk and touch. Plus, why longer-lived animals don’t get more cancer and why NASA should spearhead a mission to Uranus.

Flora Graham
Nature Briefing 20 Apr 2022
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AI can burn or brighten, and intangible economics: Books in brief

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the week’s best science picks.

Andrew Robinson

Book Review 22 Apr 2022
How a Brazilian dinosaur sparked a movement to decolonize fossil science
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News 22 Apr 2022
Act now before Ukraine war plunges millions into malnutrition
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Gerda Verburg
Marie T. Ruel
Comment 21 Apr 2022
Trove of tumour genomes offers clues to cancer origins
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News 21 Apr 2022
An AI earthquake, cancer risks — the week in infographics

News 20 Apr 2022
The brain-reading devices helping paralysed people to move, talk and touch
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News Feature 20 Apr 2022
Analysis: the biodiversity footprint of the University of Oxford
Joseph William Bull
Isobel Taylor
E. J. Milner-Gulland
Comment 20 Apr 2022

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Increased Memory B Cell Potency and Breadth After a SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Boost

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Article 21 Apr 2022
Chemotaxis shapes the microscale organization of the ocean’s microbiome

In situ experiments have demonstrated chemotaxis of marine bacteria and archaea towards specific phytoplankton-derived dissolved organic matter, which leads to microscale partitioning of biogeochemical transformation in the ocean.

Jean-Baptiste Raina
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Intron-mediated induction of phenotypic heterogeneity

Experiments in yeast show that introns have a role in inducing phenotypic heterogeneity and that intron-mediated regulation of ribosomal proteins confers a fitness advantage by enabling yeast populations to diversify under nutrient-scarce conditions.

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Adriana Espinosa-Cantú
Tobias Bollenbach
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Somatic mosaicism reveals clonal distributions of neocortical development

A comprehensive analysis of brain somatic mosaicism across the neocortex demonstrates the origins and distribution patterns of cells within the human brain.

Martin W. Breuss
Xiaoxu Yang
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Somatic genomic changes in single Alzheimer’s disease neurons

Analyses of single-cell whole-genome sequencing data show that somatic mutations are increased in the brain of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease compared to neurotypical individuals, with a pattern of genomic damage distinct from that of normal ageing.

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