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Aqueous zinc batteries are currently being explored as potential alternatives to non-aqueous lithium-ion batteries. In this comment, the authors highlight zinc’s global supply chain resilience and lower material costs yet caution about its higher mass requirement for comparable charge storage.
The direct alkenylation with simple alkenes stands out as the most ideal yet challenging strategy for obtaining high-valued desaturated alkanes. Herein, the authors present a direct asymmetric dehydrogenative α-C(sp3)-H alkenylation of carbonyls based on synergistic photoredox-cobalt-chiral primary amine catalysis under visible light.
While gene expression analysis is commonly performed, 3′UTR length analysis is limited due to technical challenges. Here the authors provide an open-access analysis pipeline for scRNA-seq data to simultaneously quantify gene expression and 3′UTR length.
Benchmarking GRN inference methods remains a challenge. Here, authors present GRouNdGAN, a causal generative model that imposes a user-defined GRN in its architecture to simulate realistic single-cell data, bridging the gap between synthetic and biological data benchmarks of GRN inference methods.
Antiferromagnetic spintronics offer high speed operations, and reduced issues with stray fields compared to ferromagnetic systems, however, antiferromagnets are typically more challenging to manipulate electrically. Here, Yang, Kim, and coauthors demonstrate electrical control of magnon dispersion and frequency in an α-Fe2O3/Pt heterostructure.
Direct recycling of critical battery materials bring promise but a challenge for the mixed cathode chemistries. Here, the authors report a sustainable upcycling approach, transforming degraded LiFePO4 and Mn-rich cathodes into a high-voltage polyanionic material with an increased energy density and economic value.
Cellular senescence and the process of transcription are intimately linked, yet the mechanisms involved remain unclear. Here the authors show that a defect in TFIIS leads to telomere dysfunction, genome instability and the release of vesicles that induce senescence to neighboring cells.
Vesicle transport ensures cargo delivery to cellular targets. Here, Soltani et al. show that Drosophila Evi5, a multiple sclerosis risk gene in humans, controls vesicular transport of iron-bound transferrins and physically interacts with ferritin.
Extending magnetic nanostructures into three dimensions offers a vast increase in potential functionalities, but this typically comes at the expense of ease of fabrication and measurement. Here, Dion et al. demonstrate an approach to creating three dimensional magnetic nanostructures while retaining easy fabrication and readout of established two dimensional approaches.
A global digital atlas of persistent fronts in Large Marine Ecosystems reveals a rapid increase in subtropical and polar regions, and stable conditions or a slight decrease in tropical regions, a pattern not captured by climate projections and ocean models.
Here, Dzanibe et al show that in utero HIV/ARV exposure sequentially disrupts infant immunologic trajectories, beginning with NK cells that predict vaccine antibody responses and followed by delayed T cell memory maturation linked to skewed TCR clonality.
Dynamins are required at nascent endosomes to promote membrane fission. Here, the authors use super-resolution microscopy to show that dynamin-1 recruitment relies on pre-existing nanoclusters and trapping of molecules laterally diffusing on the plasma membrane.
The expansion of the genetic code with synthetic nucleotides has broadened our ability to evolve DNA as a functional material, but we lack analytical tools for the expanded alphabet. Here the authors demonstrate an enzyme-assisted method for the sequencing of six-letter DNA.
Severe pediatric malaria remains a concern in many countries. Here, the authors use an individual-based modeling approach to evaluate the relationship between malaria prevalence and incidence of malaria pediatric hospitalizations, and show how unsteady transmission patterns affect hospitalization rates.
Alcohol use is commonplace and ischemic heart disease (IHD) the leading cause of death globally, yet their relationship is unclear. Here we show that study type determines whether research finds alcohol reduces IHD risk or is unrelated, arguing for new approaches to settle this critical debate.
Intestinal homeostasis is maintained by interactions between the gut-associated lymphoid tissue and the resident flora. Here Montorsi et al use multiplexed single cell omics to describe double negative type 2 B cells and DNASE1L3-expressing dendritic cells that interact and associate with microbiota on the human gut antigenic front line.
Here, Qi et al. assembled ~3000 archaeal genomes from hot springs, capturing temporal dynamics and environmental diversity, and systematically explored functional niches and metabolic handoffs, shedding light on Archaea’s role in biogeochemical cycling.
Deep mutational scanning experiments on an S2 region spanning the fusion peptide of authentic SARS-CoV-2 with different cell lines revealed that mutations at residue 813 of the spike protein reduced TMPRSS2-mediated entry with decreased virulence.
Photoluminescence and photocurrent measurements indicate that MoSe2/WS2 hetero-bilayers can be switched from type-I to type-II band alignment by applying a vertical electric field.
The authors analyze the frequency, duration and intensity of stratospheric intrusions to the surface in China over 2015-2022 and find that such intrusions enhance surface ozone pollution, especially in spring and autumn, followed by summer.