国際海運に対する二酸化炭素排出規制が早急に必要だ。
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Global regulations to limit carbon dioxide from the shipping industry are overdue.
doi: 10.1038/551005b
Global regulations to limit carbon dioxide from the shipping industry are overdue.
doi: 10.1038/551005b
Scientists have written another chapter in the curious case of the composer’s heart. But it is unlikely to be the end of the story.
doi: 10.1038/551005a
A look at what we have published highlights the variety of editorial judgements in selecting and assessing papers.
doi: 10.1038/551006a
Scientists scramble to avert disruption to data set that has tracked polar ice since the late 1970s.
doi: 10.1038/nature.2017.22907
Critics say selection process for high-stakes funding programme is flawed.
doi: 10.1038/551015a
Hints emerge that past environments could have influenced psychiatric disorders.
doi: 10.1038/nature.2017.22914
A group of volunteers claims that the organization that spearheaded global protests in April has been unduly secretive about its management practices.
doi: 10.1038/nature.2017.22909
Feathered carnivore was dark on top and light underneath, with a raccoon-like face.
doi: 10.1038/nature.2017.22891
Pilot projects aim to pinpoint how benign tumours turn into lung, breast, prostate and pancreatic cancers.
doi: 10.1038/nature.2017.22911
量子世界では熱力学が独特の挙動をする可能性があるが、それを検証する実験が次々と行われており、「量子熱力学」という分野が確立しつつある。
doi: 10.1038/551020a
中性子星の合体で生じた重力波の発見と、そのイベントの電磁スペクトル全域での検出によって、重力と天体物理学の多くの側面に関する知見が得られた。
doi: 10.1038/nature24153
酸素を生成する光合成と、酸素によって生じる損傷から細胞を守る化合物では、どちらが先にできたのだろうか。今回、そうした化合物の1つが、地球が酸素化する前の微生物で生成されていた可能性が明らかになった。
doi: 10.1038/551037a
タンパク質複合体のコヒーシンを染色体から除去すると、ゲノムの3D構造の1層が破壊されるが、残りの層は無傷なままであることが、今回分かった。従って、ゲノム構造は、別々の過程が協力して働いて作られる。
doi: 10.1038/nature24145
核融合では、陽子と中性子の再配置によってエネルギーが生成される。この過程に類似した、クォークと呼ばれる粒子が関与した過程の発見は、核物理学と素粒子物理学の両方に影響を及ぼす。
doi: 10.1038/551040a
シュワン細胞は、神経の信号伝達を支えている。神経損傷後にこれらの細胞が劇的に再プログラム化されて、修復を促進するような遊走性が生じることが今回見いだされ、成熟した細胞タイプの可塑性を浮き彫りにしている。
doi: 10.1038/551041a
細胞集団を6万世代にわたって培養した実験的研究において、生態学的相互作用が自発的に生じ、自然選択による急速な進化を維持していることが、今回分かった。
doi: 10.1038/nature24152
Using data from sixty thousand generations of the E. coli long-term evolution experiment, the authors shed new light on the processes that govern molecular evolution.
doi: 10.1038/nature24287
Depletion of chromosome-associated cohesin leads to loss of topologically associating domains in interphase chromosomes, without affecting segregation into compartments, and instead, it unmasks a finer compartment structure that reflects local chromatin and transcriptional activity.
doi: 10.1038/nature24281
Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy is used to resolve the structure of the phycobilisome, a 16.8-megadalton light-harvesting megacomplex, from the red alga Griffithsia pacifica at a resolution of 3.5 Å.
doi: 10.1038/nature24278
Optical to near-infrared observations of a transient coincident with the detection of the gravitational-wave signature of a binary neutron-star merger and a low-luminosity short-duration γ-ray burst are presented and modelled.
doi: 10.1038/nature24291
Observations of the transient associated with the gravitational-wave event GW170817 and γ-ray burst GRB 170817A reveal a bright kilonova with fast-moving ejecta, including lanthanides synthesized by rapid neutron capture.
doi: 10.1038/nature24298
Detection of X-ray emission at a location coincident with the kilonova transient of the gravitational-wave event GW170817 provides the missing observational link between short γ-ray bursts and gravitational waves from neutron-star mergers.
doi: 10.1038/nature24290
Observations and modelling of an optical transient counterpart to a gravitational-wave event and γ-ray burst reveal that neutron-star mergers produce gravitational waves and radioactively powered kilonovae, and are a source of heavy elements.
doi: 10.1038/nature24303
Modelling the electromagnetic emission of kilonovae enables the mass, velocity and composition (with some heavy elements) of the ejecta from a neutron-star merger to be derived from the observations.
doi: 10.1038/nature24453
The astronomical event GW170817, detected in gravitational and electromagnetic waves, is used to determine the expansion rate of the Universe, which is consistent with and independent of existing measurements.
doi: 10.1038/nature24471
Two singly charmed baryons can fuse into the recently discovered doubly charmed baryon and a neutron through an exothermic reaction analogous to the nuclear fusion between deuterium and tritium.
doi: 10.1038/nature24289
Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci, predicts target genes for known risk loci and demonstrates a strong overlap with somatic driver genes in breast tumours.
doi: 10.1038/nature24284
Highly parallel single-cell transcriptome profiling of Plasmodium falciparum blood stages provides insight into the role AP2-G plays in early sexual development of this eukaryotic pathogen.
doi: 10.1038/nature24280
Single-cell transcriptomics analyses of cell intermediates during the reprogramming from fibroblast to cardiomyocyte were used to reconstruct the reprogramming trajectory and to uncover intermediate cell populations, gene pathways and regulators involved in this process.
doi: 10.1038/nature24454
TGFβ signalling regulates T helper 17 (TH17) cell differentiation by reversing SKI–SMAD4-mediated suppression of RORγt, revealing a potential therapeutic target for treating TH17-related diseases.
doi: 10.1038/nature24283
Interleukin-1 receptor 8 (IL-1R8), a negative regulator of the IL-1 family of cytokines, restrains the activity of natural killer (NK) cells, suggesting that IL-1R8 acts as a checkpoint regulator of NK cell activation and that its blockade may be of use in cancer therapy.
doi: 10.1038/nature24293
Metabolic flux analysis in mice reveals that lactate often acts as the primary carbon source for the tricarboxylic acid cycle both in normal tissues and in tumour microenvironments.
doi: 10.1038/nature24057
A new approach to modelling bacterial growth removes the need to know kinetic parameters for metabolic and regulatory processes and can be used to model adaptive processes such as antibiotic responses and ecological dynamics.
doi: 10.1038/nature24299
The seed-specific transcription factor LEC1 promotes an active chromatin state at the floral repressor FLC and activates its expression in the Arabidopsis pro-embryo, thus reversing the winter cold-induced silenced state that is inherited from gametes.
doi: 10.1038/nature24300
