{"title":"Immune-evasive DNA integration with INSTALL","authors":"Connor J. Tou","doi":"10.1038/s41576-026-00971-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41576-026-00971-1","url":null,"abstract":"In this Tools of the Trade article, Connor Tou presents INSTALL, a recombinase-driven, kilobase-scale DNA integration method that employs partially duplexed circular single-stranded DNA to evade the cellular immune system.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":"27 8","pages":"580-580"},"PeriodicalIF":51.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147931738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The unbearable presence of senescent cells in ageing","authors":"Chanhee Kang \u0000 (, )","doi":"10.1038/s41576-026-00975-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41576-026-00975-x","url":null,"abstract":"Chanhee Kang highlights two papers by Baker et al. and Acosta et al. that established a role for senescent cells in age-related pathologies and revealed how the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) can influence neighbouring cells.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":"27 9","pages":"666-666"},"PeriodicalIF":51.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147931724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resolving structural variants in pangenome graphs with Swave","authors":"Songbo Wang","doi":"10.1038/s41576-026-00972-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41576-026-00972-0","url":null,"abstract":"In this Tools of the Trade article, Songbo Wang introduces Swave, an AI-enhanced sequence-to-image method capable of detecting complex SVs from pangenome graphs.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":"27 10","pages":"739-739"},"PeriodicalIF":51.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147875093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evolutionary genetics of ageing","authors":"Handan Melike Dönertaş, Linda Partridge","doi":"10.1038/s41576-026-00959-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41576-026-00959-x","url":null,"abstract":"Modern humans now routinely survive to advanced ages, in far greater proportions than ancestral populations, and thus experience the consequences of molecular pathways optimized for youth yet still active in old age. Natural selection weakens over the course of adulthood, creating a selection ‘shadow’ in which deleterious late-acting mutations accumulate and alleles with early-life benefits persist despite late-life costs. An evolutionary lens helps us to understand puzzling patterns — from conserved longevity pathways spanning the tree of life to a 100-fold variation in maximum lifespan across vertebrates — and explains why age-related diseases share genetic architectures. Advances in comparative genomics, large-scale human genetic studies and multi-omics ageing biomarkers now enable rigorous testing of evolutionary predictions. This Review integrates evolutionary genetics with molecular mechanisms to clarify why ageing evolves, how it varies across species and individuals, and how these insights can guide healthspan extension. Modern humans increasingly live long enough to experience late-life consequences of genetic and molecular systems shaped by natural selection. In this Review, the authors integrate evolutionary genetics and genetic evidence to explain why ageing evolves, why longevity varies across species and individuals, and how these insights inform healthspan extension.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":"27 9","pages":"708-723"},"PeriodicalIF":51.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147875131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RNA design across eras: from covariance models to modern generative AI","authors":"Annalisa Marsico","doi":"10.1038/s41576-026-00967-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41576-026-00967-x","url":null,"abstract":"In this Journal Club, Annalisa Marsico describes a 1994 paper by Eddy and Durbin that formalized RNA sequence analysis with covariance models, which are powerful tools more recently applied to generative machine learning models for RNA design.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":"27 9","pages":"665-665"},"PeriodicalIF":51.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147856907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prime editing: redefining precision genome editing","authors":"Qiupeng Lin","doi":"10.1038/s41576-026-00965-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41576-026-00965-z","url":null,"abstract":"In this Journal Club article, Qiupeng Lin recalls the 2019 paper by Anzalone et al. that introduced prime editing, and reflects on the impact of this technology on genome biology and beyond.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":"27 8","pages":"583-583"},"PeriodicalIF":51.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147840253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nutrition signals the brain to reactivate quiescent neural stem cells","authors":"Hongyan Wang","doi":"10.1038/s41576-026-00963-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41576-026-00963-1","url":null,"abstract":"In this Journal Club article, Hongyan Wang highlights two papers that elucidated the signalling mechanisms and inter-organ communication involved in neural stem cell reactivation in Drosophila melanogaster.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":"27 8","pages":"581-581"},"PeriodicalIF":51.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147817967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The epigenetic nature of X chromosome inactivation","authors":"Claudia Isabelle Keller Valsecchi","doi":"10.1038/s41576-026-00964-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41576-026-00964-0","url":null,"abstract":"In this Journal Club, Claudia Keller Valsecchi recalls two seminal studies by Csankovszki et al. and by Wutz and Jaenisch that defined X-chromosome inactivation as an epigenetic process by revealing when Xist is required and when silencing becomes Xist-independent.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":"27 8","pages":"582-582"},"PeriodicalIF":51.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147777094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mechanisms of DNA specificity in chromatin remodelling","authors":"Lu Bai","doi":"10.1038/s41576-026-00961-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41576-026-00961-3","url":null,"abstract":"In this Journal Club, Lu Bai highlights a 2021 paper by Donovan et al. that brought mechanistic clarity to the question of how chromatin remodellers achieve DNA specificity, which had been difficult to address beyond correlated localization patterns between chromatin remodellers and transcription factors.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":"27 6","pages":"428-428"},"PeriodicalIF":52.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147777151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When the genome learned its own vocabulary","authors":"Maria Brbić","doi":"10.1038/s41576-026-00966-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41576-026-00966-y","url":null,"abstract":"In this Journal Club article, Maria Brbić discusses DeepSEA, a pioneering deep convolutional neural network to predict functional effects of non-coding variants, and its influence on computational genomics.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":"27 8","pages":"584-584"},"PeriodicalIF":51.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147753064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}