NaturePub Date : 2024-11-21DOI: 10.1038/d41586-024-03707-5
{"title":"New schizophrenia drug could treat Alzheimer’s disease","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/d41586-024-03707-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03707-5","url":null,"abstract":"Half a dozen drugs are in trials for conditions of the brain, but success is not guaranteed.","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142678292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NaturePub Date : 2024-11-21DOI: 10.1038/d41586-024-03823-2
{"title":"I had three children during my PhD: here’s what I learnt","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/d41586-024-03823-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03823-2","url":null,"abstract":"Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg worried that choosing to have children during her graduate studies might signal a lack of career dedication.","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142678293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NaturePub Date : 2024-11-20DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08134-0
Eric Anderson, Jiaqi Cai, Aidan P. Reddy, Heonjoon Park, William Holtzmann, Kai Davis, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Tomasz Smolenski, Ataç Imamoğlu, Ting Cao, Di Xiao, Liang Fu, Wang Yao, Xiaodong Xu
{"title":"Trion sensing of a zero-field composite Fermi liquid","authors":"Eric Anderson, Jiaqi Cai, Aidan P. Reddy, Heonjoon Park, William Holtzmann, Kai Davis, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Tomasz Smolenski, Ataç Imamoğlu, Ting Cao, Di Xiao, Liang Fu, Wang Yao, Xiaodong Xu","doi":"10.1038/s41586-024-08134-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41586-024-08134-0","url":null,"abstract":"The half-filled lowest Landau level is a fascinating platform for researching interacting topological phases. A celebrated example is the composite Fermi liquid, a non-Fermi liquid formed by composite fermions in strong magnetic fields1–10. Its zero-field counterpart is predicted in a twisted MoTe2 bilayer (tMoTe2)11,12—a recently discovered fractional Chern insulator exhibiting the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect13–16. Although transport measurements at ν = −1/2 show signatures consistent with a zero-field composite Fermi liquid14, new probes are crucial to investigate the state and its elementary excitations. Here, by using the unique valley properties of tMoTe2, we report optical signatures of a zero-field composite Fermi liquid. We measured the degree of circular polarization (ρ) of trion photoluminescence versus hole doping and electric field. We found that, within the phase space showing robust ferromagnetism, ρ is near unity for Fermi liquid states. However, ρ is quenched at both integer and fractional Chern insulators, and in a hole doping range near ν = −1/2. Temperature, optical excitation power and electric-field-dependence measurements demonstrate that the quenching of ρ is a direct consequence of an energy gap (pseudogap) for electronic excitations of the Chern insulators (composite Fermi liquid): because the local spin-polarized excitations necessary to form trions are strongly suppressed, trion formation at the corresponding filling factors relies on optically generated unpolarized itinerant holes. Our work highlights a new excitonic probe of zero-field fractional Chern insulator physics, unique to tMoTe2. Using the unique valley properties of a twisted MoTe2 bilayer, measurements of the degree of circular polarization of trion photoluminescence reveal optical signatures of a zero-field composite Fermi liquid.","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":"635 8039","pages":"590-595"},"PeriodicalIF":50.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142678308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NaturePub Date : 2024-11-20DOI: 10.1038/d41586-024-03762-y
Amber Dance
{"title":"Computational technologies of the Human Cell Atlas","authors":"Amber Dance","doi":"10.1038/d41586-024-03762-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/d41586-024-03762-y","url":null,"abstract":"As the international effort reaches a ‘critical mass’ of achievements, Nature highlights seven tools that are poised to enable the next set of discoveries. As the international effort reaches a ‘critical mass’ of achievements, Nature highlights seven tools that are poised to enable the next set of discoveries.","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":"635 8039","pages":"773-775"},"PeriodicalIF":50.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com//media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-024-03762-y/d41586-024-03762-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142673867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NaturePub Date : 2024-11-20DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08204-3
Joseph Swift, Leonie H. Luginbuehl, Lei Hua, Tina B. Schreier, Ruth M. Donald, Susan Stanley, Na Wang, Travis A. Lee, Joseph R. Nery, Joseph R. Ecker, Julian M. Hibberd
{"title":"Exaptation of ancestral cell-identity networks enables C4 photosynthesis","authors":"Joseph Swift, Leonie H. Luginbuehl, Lei Hua, Tina B. Schreier, Ruth M. Donald, Susan Stanley, Na Wang, Travis A. Lee, Joseph R. Nery, Joseph R. Ecker, Julian M. Hibberd","doi":"10.1038/s41586-024-08204-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08204-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>C<sub>4</sub> photosynthesis is used by the most productive plants on the planet, and compared with the ancestral C<sub>3</sub> pathway, it confers a 50% increase in efficiency<sup>1</sup>. In more than 60 C<sub>4</sub> lineages, CO<sub>2</sub> fixation is compartmentalized between tissues, and bundle-sheath cells become photosynthetically activated<sup>2</sup>. How the bundle sheath acquires this alternate identity that allows efficient photosynthesis is unclear. Here we show that changes to bundle-sheath gene expression in C<sub>4</sub> leaves are associated with the gain of a pre-existing <i>cis</i>-code found in the C<sub>3</sub> leaf. From single-nucleus gene-expression and chromatin-accessibility atlases, we uncover DNA binding with one finger (DOF) motifs that define bundle-sheath identity in the major crops C<sub>3</sub> rice and C<sub>4</sub> sorghum. Photosynthesis genes that are rewired to be strongly expressed in the bundle-sheath cells of C<sub>4</sub> sorghum acquire <i>cis</i>-elements that are recognized by DOFs. Our findings are consistent with a simple model in which C<sub>4</sub> photosynthesis is based on the recruitment of an ancestral <i>cis</i>-code associated with bundle-sheath identity. Gain of such elements harnessed a stable patterning of transcription factors between cell types that are found in both C<sub>3</sub> and C<sub>4</sub> leaves to activate photosynthesis in the bundle sheath. Our findings provide molecular insights into the evolution of the complex C<sub>4</sub> pathway, and might also guide the rational engineering of C<sub>4</sub> photosynthesis in C<sub>3</sub> crops to improve crop productivity and resilience<sup>3,4</sup>.</p>","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142678307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NaturePub Date : 2024-11-20DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08255-6
Catherine E. Schretter, Tom Hindmarsh Sten, Nathan Klapoetke, Mei Shao, Aljoscha Nern, Marisa Dreher, Daniel Bushey, Alice A. Robie, Adam L. Taylor, Kristin Branson, Adriane Otopalik, Vanessa Ruta, Gerald M. Rubin
{"title":"Social state alters vision using three circuit mechanisms in Drosophila","authors":"Catherine E. Schretter, Tom Hindmarsh Sten, Nathan Klapoetke, Mei Shao, Aljoscha Nern, Marisa Dreher, Daniel Bushey, Alice A. Robie, Adam L. Taylor, Kristin Branson, Adriane Otopalik, Vanessa Ruta, Gerald M. Rubin","doi":"10.1038/s41586-024-08255-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08255-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Animals are often bombarded with visual information and must prioritize specific visual features based on their current needs. The neuronal circuits that detect and relay visual features have been well studied<sup>1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8</sup>. Much less is known about how an animal adjusts its visual attention as its goals or environmental conditions change. During social behaviours, flies need to focus on nearby flies<sup>9,10,11</sup>. Here we study how the flow of visual information is altered when female <i>Drosophila</i> enter an aggressive state. From the connectome, we identify three state-dependent circuit motifs poised to modify the response of an aggressive female to fly-sized visual objects: convergence of excitatory inputs from neurons conveying select visual features and internal state; dendritic disinhibition of select visual feature detectors; and a switch that toggles between two visual feature detectors. Using cell-type-specific genetic tools, together with behavioural and neurophysiological analyses, we show that each of these circuit motifs is used during female aggression. We reveal that features of this same switch operate in male <i>Drosophila</i> during courtship pursuit, suggesting that disparate social behaviours may share circuit mechanisms. Our study provides a compelling example of using the connectome to infer circuit mechanisms that underlie dynamic processing of sensory signals.</p>","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":"170 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142673856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NaturePub Date : 2024-11-20DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08208-z
Marc Robin, Elodie Mouloungui, Gabriel Castillo Dali, Yan Wang, Jean-Louis Saffar, Graciela Pavon-Djavid, Thibaut Divoux, Sébastien Manneville, Luc Behr, Delphine Cardi, Laurence Choudat, Marie-Madeleine Giraud-Guille, Anne Meddahi-Pellé, Fannie Baudimont, Marie-Laure Colombier, Nadine Nassif
{"title":"Mineralized collagen plywood contributes to bone autograft performance","authors":"Marc Robin, Elodie Mouloungui, Gabriel Castillo Dali, Yan Wang, Jean-Louis Saffar, Graciela Pavon-Djavid, Thibaut Divoux, Sébastien Manneville, Luc Behr, Delphine Cardi, Laurence Choudat, Marie-Madeleine Giraud-Guille, Anne Meddahi-Pellé, Fannie Baudimont, Marie-Laure Colombier, Nadine Nassif","doi":"10.1038/s41586-024-08208-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08208-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Autologous bone (AB) is the gold standard for bone-replacement surgeries<sup>1</sup>, despite its limited availability and the need for an extra surgical site. Traditionally, competitive biomaterials for bone repair have focused on mimicking the mineral aspect of bone, as evidenced by the widespread clinical use of bioactive ceramics<sup>2</sup>. However, AB also exhibits hierarchical organic structures that might substantially affect bone regeneration. Here, using a range of cell-free biomimetic-collagen-based materials in murine and ovine bone-defect models, we demonstrate that a hierarchical hybrid microstructure—specifically, the twisted plywood pattern of collagen and its association with poorly crystallized bioapatite—favourably influences bone regeneration. Our study shows that the most structurally biomimetic material has the potential to stimulate bone growth, highlighting the pivotal role of physicochemical properties in supporting bone formation and offering promising prospects as a competitive bone-graft material.</p>","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142673857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NaturePub Date : 2024-11-20DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08178-2
Almudena Carrera Vazquez, Caroline Tornow, Diego Ristè, Stefan Woerner, Maika Takita, Daniel J. Egger
{"title":"Combining quantum processors with real-time classical communication","authors":"Almudena Carrera Vazquez, Caroline Tornow, Diego Ristè, Stefan Woerner, Maika Takita, Daniel J. Egger","doi":"10.1038/s41586-024-08178-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08178-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Quantum computers process information with the laws of quantum mechanics. Current quantum hardware is noisy, can only store information for a short time and is limited to a few quantum bits, that is, qubits, typically arranged in a planar connectivity<sup>1</sup>. However, many applications of quantum computing require more connectivity than the planar lattice offered by the hardware on more qubits than is available on a single quantum processing unit (QPU). The community hopes to tackle these limitations by connecting QPUs using classical communication, which has not yet been proven experimentally. Here we experimentally realize error-mitigated dynamic circuits and circuit cutting to create quantum states requiring periodic connectivity using up to 142 qubits spanning two QPUs with 127 qubits each connected in real time with a classical link. In a dynamic circuit, quantum gates can be classically controlled by the outcomes of mid-circuit measurements within run-time, that is, within a fraction of the coherence time of the qubits. Our real-time classical link enables us to apply a quantum gate on one QPU conditioned on the outcome of a measurement on another QPU. Furthermore, the error-mitigated control flow enhances qubit connectivity and the instruction set of the hardware thus increasing the versatility of our quantum computers. Our work demonstrates that we can use several quantum processors as one with error-mitigated dynamic circuits enabled by a real-time classical link.</p>","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":"99 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142673858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NaturePub Date : 2024-11-20DOI: 10.1038/d41586-024-03521-z
{"title":"Half of the top 20 science cities are now in China — and regional city growth is the key","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/d41586-024-03521-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03521-z","url":null,"abstract":"The country’s research progress means its cities might lead in all Nature Index subjects within a decade.","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":"251 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142673677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NaturePub Date : 2024-11-20DOI: 10.1038/d41586-024-03783-7
{"title":"Ferocity of Atlantic hurricanes surges as the ocean warms","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/d41586-024-03783-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03783-7","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change has driven hurricane wind speeds up by an average of nearly 30 kilometres per hour, an analysis of Atlantic storms shows.","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142673808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}