{"title":"Chronic silencing is a critical barrier to breaking the cycle of bullying in academia and industry","authors":"Alison E. Vogelaar, Morteza Mahmoudi","doi":"10.1038/s41587-025-02803-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41587-025-02803-9","url":null,"abstract":"Breaking the cycle of institutional betrayal and the culture of silence requires decisive actions to promote transparency, accountability and supportive environments in both academia and industry.","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":"43 9","pages":"1577-1579"},"PeriodicalIF":41.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145068016","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":"Intellectual property rights in the cultivated meat industry: opportunities and challenges","authors":"Garam Baek, Sukhyun Chung, Peter Yu, Yooheon Park","doi":"10.1038/s41587-025-02798-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41587-025-02798-3","url":null,"abstract":"Cultivated meat faces escalating intellectual property (IP) issues as the industry expands, including conventional patent rights, the private IP rights of animal breeders and the Convention on Biological Diversity.","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":"43 9","pages":"1419-1423"},"PeriodicalIF":41.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145068020","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":"Biotech news from around the world","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41587-025-02817-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41587-025-02817-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":"43 9","pages":"1406-1406"},"PeriodicalIF":41.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145068008","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":"MicroRNAs","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41587-025-02800-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41587-025-02800-y","url":null,"abstract":"Recent patents relating to pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment involving microRNAs.","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":"43 9","pages":"1424-1424"},"PeriodicalIF":41.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145068010","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":"Forum: Bao and Rogers","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41587-025-02784-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41587-025-02784-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":"43 9","pages":"1427-1427"},"PeriodicalIF":41.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145068012","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}
Ján Burian, Robert E. Boer, Yozen Hernandez, Adrian Morales-Amador, Linhai Jiang, Abir Bhattacharjee, Cecilia Panfil, Melinda A. Ternei, Sean F. Brady
{"title":"Bioactive molecules unearthed by terabase-scale long-read sequencing of a soil metagenome","authors":"Ján Burian, Robert E. Boer, Yozen Hernandez, Adrian Morales-Amador, Linhai Jiang, Abir Bhattacharjee, Cecilia Panfil, Melinda A. Ternei, Sean F. Brady","doi":"10.1038/s41587-025-02810-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-025-02810-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Metagenomics provides access to the genetic diversity of uncultured bacteria through analysis of DNA extracted from whole microbial communities. Long-read sequencing is advancing metagenomic discovery by generating larger DNA assemblies than previously possible. However, harnessing the potential of long-read sequencing to access the vast diversity within soil microbiomes is hampered by the challenge of isolating high-quality DNA. Here we introduce a method that can liberate large, high-quality metagenomic DNA fragments from soil bacteria and pair them with optimized nanopore long-read sequencing to generate megabase-sized assemblies. Using this method, we uncover hundreds of complete circular metagenomic genomes from a single soil sample. Through a combination of bioinformatic prediction and chemical synthesis, we convert nonribosomal peptide biosynthetic gene clusters directly into bioactive molecules, identifying antibiotics with rare modes of action and activity against multidrug-resistant pathogens. Our approach advances metagenomic access to the vast genetic diversity of the uncultured bacterial majority and provides a means to convert it to bioactive molecules.</p>","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":46.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145035676","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":"Efficient sequence alignment against millions of prokaryotic genomes with LexicMap","authors":"Wei Shen, John A. Lees, Zamin Iqbal","doi":"10.1038/s41587-025-02812-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-025-02812-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The size of microbial sequence databases continues to grow beyond the abilities of existing alignment tools. We introduce LexicMap, a nucleotide sequence alignment tool for efficiently querying moderate-length sequences (>250 bp) such as a gene, plasmid or long read against up to millions of prokaryotic genomes. We construct a small set of probe <i>k</i>-mers, which are selected to efficiently sample the entire database to be indexed such that every 250-bp window of each database genome contains multiple seed <i>k</i>-mers, each with a shared prefix with one of the probes. Storing these seeds in a hierarchical index enables fast and low-memory alignment. We benchmark both accuracy and potential to scale to databases of millions of bacterial genomes, showing that LexicMap achieves comparable accuracy to state-of-the-art methods but with greater speed and lower memory use. Our method supports querying at scale and within minutes, which will be useful for many biological applications across epidemiology, ecology and evolution.</p>","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":46.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145025285","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":"A phenotypic screen enables high-throughput target-first discovery of molecular glue degraders","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41587-025-02794-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-025-02794-7","url":null,"abstract":"A new screen platform named DEFUSE (DEath FUSion Escape) enables high-throughput discovery of small molecule protein degraders. DEFUSE identified SKPer1, a molecule that works by inducing proximity between an oncogenic driver and an E3 ligase, opening new avenues for targeted protein degradation.","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":"308 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":46.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145025284","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":"A rapid imaging-based screen for induced-proximity degraders identifies a potent degrader of oncoprotein SKP2","authors":"Yankai Chu, Shishuang Chen, Mingyang Yang, Yin Chen, Huiling Fang, Pinyu Huang, Yueru Xie, Chi Sun, Yun Chen, Baoding Zhang, Li Li, Hongchen Mu, Ding Song, Wentao Cheng, Chao Wang, Wei Jiang, Xiaolan Xu, Zhengjin He, Shuo Chen, Mingxian Liu, Jingchuan Ma, Man Yang, Jiaqi Cao, Jing Gao, Jiali Shen, Lulu Zhang, Yu Bai, Zheyi Liu, Jingyao Chen, Siqi Dai, Yi Arial Zeng, Yun Zhao, Hu Zhou, Chong Chen, Huanwei Ru, Li Tan, Ximin Chi, Fangjun Wang, Daming Gao, Moubin Lin, Xianming Deng, Hai Jiang","doi":"10.1038/s41587-025-02793-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-025-02793-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Targeted protein degraders hold potential as therapeutic agents to target conventionally ‘undruggable’ proteins. Here, we develop a high-throughput screen, DEath FUSion Escaper (DEFUSE), to identify small-molecule protein degraders. By conjugating the protein of interest to a fast-acting triggerable death protein, this approach translates target protein degradation into a cell survival phenotype to illustrate the presence of degraders. Using this method, we discovered a small molecule (SKPer1) that triggers degradation of the oncoprotein SKP2 and specifically kills SKP2-expressing cancer cells. Mechanistically, SKPer1 acts as an induced-proximity degrader by inducing interaction between SKP2 and an E3 ligase, STUB1, resulting in SKP2 ubiquitination and degradation. SKPer1 exhibits substantial tumour suppression with good safety profiles in vivo. We further show that a sequence of ten amino acids from SKP2 can serve as a versatile degradation tag.</p>","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":46.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145025283","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}