ドイツは、犯罪捜査におけるDNA情報の利用範囲の制限を緩めようとしており、法科学者との密接な連携が大切だ。
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The country may lift its ban on the analysis of gene-coding regions in DNA samples.
doi: 10.1038/543589b
The country may lift its ban on the analysis of gene-coding regions in DNA samples.
doi: 10.1038/543589b
The US president’s approval of a controversial oil pipeline offers a disturbing glimpse of the future. But he will struggle to get things all his own way.
doi: 10.1038/543589a
The most vulnerable cancer patients are drawing the attention they deserve.
doi: 10.1038/543590a
Physicists try to rebuild the laws of heat and energy for processes at a quantum scale.
doi: 10.1038/543597a
Emphasis on innovation overshadowed by funding freeze for key research councils.
doi: 10.1038/nature.2017.21699
Global health charity is latest funder to start its own publishing ‘channel’ — and the European Commission is considering its own service.
doi: 10.1038/nature.2017.21700
The months between the Brexit vote and this week's triggering of Article 50 have been a turbulent time for scientists — and things show no sign of calming.
doi: 10.1038/nature.2017.21714
Gut bacteria and altered metabolic pathways are suspects in mysterious disease.
doi: 10.1038/543602a
海に生息した中で最も巨大で最も謎に包まれた捕食者である魚竜の姿や生活が、徐々に明らかになってきた。
doi: 10.1038/543603a
ある若者の命を奪った融合タンパク質から、悪性度の極めて高い小児がんの治療につながる手掛かりが得られるかもしれない。
doi: 10.1038/543608a
幹細胞の分裂は、腫瘍の増殖に不可欠であると考えられている。今回、特定の幹細胞集団を標的にして除去することによって、腫瘍の発生および遠隔部位への細胞の移動によって形成される腫瘍の増殖におけるがん幹細胞の役割が明らかになった。
doi: 10.1038/543626a
励起状態の寿命が長く、電荷移動過程によって室温で発光する鉄錯体が作られた。このブレークスルーによって、安価な太陽電池を作ることができるようになる可能性がある。
doi: 10.1038/543627a
1977年に、線虫の一種Caenorhabditis elegansで、幼虫が変態して成虫になる際の細胞分裂が細胞系統樹で記述された。以来この研究は、発生機構に関する多くの発見の基盤となってきた。
doi: 10.1038/543628a
加速度的な速さで海洋保護区が設けられており、傷ついた生態系が回復すると期待されている。しかし、人員と財源の著しい不足から最善の結果が得られないことが多いことが、今回分かった。
doi: 10.1038/nature21895
ニューロンの亜集団は特定の地理的位置で発火するため、動物の空間的位置の心象地図が得られる。今回、こうした回路が聴覚地図も支えているという知見が得られたことから、認知のニューロン構造に新たな光が当たる。
doi: 10.1038/543631a
人間の消費習慣は、食料の国際貿易の結果として地下水の枯渇に影響を及ぼしているのだろうか。世界規模の分析によって、実際に影響を及ぼしていることが示され、影響が最も大きい食品と国が明らかになった。
doi: 10.1038/543633a
DNAに付加しているメチル基の修飾によって遺伝子発現が変化する。こうしたメチル化を脱調節する変異は白血病の一部でよく見られる。今回、異常なメチル化を標的にする薬剤が、有望な治療法として浮上してきた。
doi: 10.1038/543634a
惑星と大半の小惑星は、太陽の周りを同じ方向に公転している。しかし今回、木星と軌道を共有する小惑星が、約100万年間逆の方向に公転していることが分かった。
doi: 10.1038/543635a
doi: 10.1038/nature21701
doi: 10.1038/nature21425
Energy–structure–function maps that describe the possible structures and properties of molecular crystals are developed, and these maps are used to guide the experimental discovery of porous materials with specific functions.
doi: 10.1038/nature21419
Although 71% of marine protected areas are benefiting fish populations, their effects are highly variable, with staff capacity proving to be the most important explanatory variable.
doi: 10.1038/nature21708
Use of a head-mounted miniature microscope in awake, behaving mice reveals that neural ensembles in the basal and lateral amygdala encode associations between conditioned and unconditioned stimuli in a way that matches models of supervised learning.
doi: 10.1038/nature21682
Ablation of Lgr5+ cancer stem cells does not result in regression of primary colorectal tumours, but prevents the formation and maintenance of metastasis in the liver.
doi: 10.1038/nature21713
LACTB modulates mitochondrial lipid metabolism and changes the differentiation state of breast cancer cells, thereby negatively affecting the growth of various tumorigenic, but not non-tumorigenic, cells both in vitro and in vivo.
doi: 10.1038/nature21408
Asteroid 2015 BZ509 is a retrograde co-orbital asteroid of the planet Jupiter, stably orbiting in a sense opposite to that of Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun for around a million years.
doi: 10.1038/nature22029
A direct synthesis of high-aspect-ratio microporous zeolite nanosheets and the use of such nanosheets in separation membranes are described.
doi: 10.1038/nature21421
An iron complex is described that exhibits photoluminescence at room temperature, opening the way to the use of iron-based materials as low-cost, non-toxic light emitters and photosensitizers.
doi: 10.1038/nature21430
Global food consumption drives irrigation for crops, which depletes aquifers in some regions; here we quantify the volumes of groundwater depletion associated with global food production and international trade.
doi: 10.1038/nature21403
The transboundary health impacts of air pollution associated with the international trade of goods and services are greater than those associated with long-distance atmospheric pollutant transport.
doi: 10.1038/nature21712
A geologically informed model of the relationship between changing island area and species richness for the Hawaiian archipelago reveals the rates of species richness change for 14 endemic groups over their entire evolutionary histories without the need for fossil data or molecular phylogenies.
doi: 10.1038/nature21675
Whole-genome sequencing of normal blood cells sampled from 241 adults is used to infer mosaic point mutations that are likely to have arisen during early embryogenesis, providing insight into how early cellular dynamics may affect adult tissues.
doi: 10.1038/nature21703
Cells in the hippocampal–entorhinal circuit, which fire in response to navigational variables such as location or speed, are shown also to encode continuous, task-relevant but non-spatial variables such as sound frequency.
doi: 10.1038/nature21692
Evidence for the abundant presentation of class II neoantigens by a human B-cell lymphoma.
doi: 10.1038/nature21433
A new chimaeric mouse model of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer to efficiently test combination therapies in an autochthonous setting.
doi: 10.1038/nature21676
The selective allosteric ABL1 inhibitor ABL001 (asciminib) represents a new inhibitory mechanism for BCR–ABL1-driven malignancies, and its efficacy and evolving mechanisms of resistance do not overlap with those of other BCR–ABL1 kinase inhibitors.
doi: 10.1038/nature21702
Double electron–electron resonance and computer simulations are used to describe conformational dynamics in the ATP-binding cassette transporter Pgp, which has an important role in the clearance of xenobiotics and cancer resistance to chemotherapy.
doi: 10.1038/nature21414