植物は、これまで考えられていた以上にさまざまな気候の下で生存できるらしい。
Grows well in sun and warmth — and shade and cold p.5
Trees and shrubs could be less fussy about the climate than scientists thought. That might be good news as the planet warms.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-017-07841-1
Trees and shrubs could be less fussy about the climate than scientists thought. That might be good news as the planet warms.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-017-07841-1
The Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science show that it is crucial to support researchers in leading their groups well.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-017-07840-2
Scientists must continue to play their part in pointing out the potential environmental dangers.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-017-08214-4
Thousands of ancient Native American sites to lose protections.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-017-07794-5
Embryos found in some fossil eggs suggest that hatchlings struggled to fly.
doi: 10.1038/nature.2017.23049
Chinese scientists find all the genetic building blocks of SARS in a single population of horseshoe bats.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-017-07766-9
Space agencies are planning a Deep Space Gateway to orbit the Moon.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-017-07869-3
Negotiations to reduce journal prices and promote open access are progressing slowly.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-017-07817-1
実験地質学者たちが協力して、居住可能な惑星の形成に必要なものは何なのかという謎の解明に取り組んでいる。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-017-07844-y
自己集合して目標形状になるようDNAを設計できるが、作製できる物体のサイズと量は限定されていた。今回、こうした問題を克服する方法が見いだされた。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-017-07690-y
進化的変化を駆動する生物学的要因と環境要因の相対的な役割は、よく分かっていない。今回、化石分析によって、それらの影響は動物群が進化の道筋のどこに位置するかに依存することが示された。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-017-07440-0
火星の粘土は難問で、その形成の説明に提案されたモデルは、コンピューターによる気候シミュレーションでは予測されない条件を必要とする。今回、実験によって別のシナリオが示された。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-017-07661-3
PINK1タンパク質の特異な酵素領域の構造から、ミトコンドリアと呼ばれる細胞小器官の機能をこのタンパク質が調節する仕組みと、PINK1の変異がパーキンソン病の一因となる仕組みに関する知見が得られた。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-017-07691-x
一層ないし数層の原子のみでできた物質には、さまざまな有用な用途があると思われる。今回、コンピューターシミュレーションによって、テルル元素が3種のそうした相を形成し、潜在的に有用な特性を示す可能性があることが示された。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-017-07159-y
PD-1タンパク質の抑制は、T細胞を活性化して腫瘍細胞に対する免疫応答を誘発できる。しかし、マウスでは、この免疫療法はT細胞自体を含むがんを悪化させることが、今回分かった。
doi: 10.1038/nature24759
1997年に、ある場所から遠く離れた場所へ量子状態をテレポートできることが実証された。この発見は、量子通信や量子計算の進歩に大きな影響を与えたのである。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-017-07689-5
Models show that several aspects of Earth’s top-of-atmosphere energy budget and the magnitude of projected global warming are correlated, enabling us to infer that future warming has been underestimated.
doi: 10.1038/nature24672
Stabilization of a transient protein kinase–substrate complex using a nanobody provides molecular details about how the Parkinson’s disease-linked protein kinase PINK1 phosphorylates ubiquitin, and suggests new pharmacological strategies.
doi: 10.1038/nature24645
A 22-nucleotide fragment of a transfer RNA regulates translation by binding to the mRNA of a ribosomal protein and increasing its expression, and downregulation of the fragment in patient-derived liver tumour cells reduces tumour growth in mice.
doi: 10.1038/nature25005
A direct measurement of cosmic-ray electrons and positrons with unprecedentedly high energy resolution reveals a spectral break at about 0.9 teraelectronvolts, confirming the evidence found by previous indirect measurements.
doi: 10.1038/nature24475
Simple assembly rules applied recursively in a multistage assembly process enable the creation of DNA origami arrays with sizes of up to 0.5 square micrometres and with arbitrary patterns.
doi: 10.1038/nature24655
DNA bricks with binding domains of 13 nucleotides instead of the typical 8 make it possible to self-assemble gigadalton-scale, three-dimensional nanostructures consisting of tens of thousands of unique components.
doi: 10.1038/nature24648
By using DNA sequence information to encode the shapes of DNA origami building blocks, shape-programmable assemblies can be created, with sizes and complexities similar to those of viruses.
doi: 10.1038/nature24651
All necessary strands for DNA origami can be created in a single scalable process by using bacteriophages to generate single-stranded precursor DNA containing the target sequences interleaved with self-excising DNA enzymes.
doi: 10.1038/nature24650
Many Martian clays formed when Mars’ primary crust reacted with a water/carbon dioxide steam or supercritical atmosphere and subsequent impacts and volcanism caused the distribution of clay exposures seen today.
doi: 10.1038/nature24657
Focusing attention on the expansion of taxa, rather than their survival, resolves the apparent contradiction between seemingly deterministic patterns of waxing and waning of taxa over time and the randomness of extinction implied by the Red Queen’s hypothesis.
doi: 10.1038/nature24656
Genome sequencing analyses from 765 specimens of Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles coluzzii from 15 locations across Africa characterize patterns of gene flow and variations in population size, and provide a resource for studying the evolution of natural malaria vector populations.
doi: 10.1038/nature24995
Proteins expressed on the surfaces of erythrocytes infected with Plasmodium falciparum help the parasite to evade the host immune system by acting as ligands for immune inhibitory receptors and thereby downregulating the immune response.
doi: 10.1038/nature24994
Maternal age is found to be a major source of phenotypic variation in isogenic C. elegans populations living in a controlled environment, with the progeny of young mothers impaired for multiple fitness traits.
doi: 10.1038/nature25012
Fibroblast-specific IL-11 expression causes heart and kidney fibrosis and organ failure, whereas IL-11 inhibition prevents fibroblast activation and organ fibrosis, indicating that IL-11 inhibition is a potential therapeutic strategy to treat fibrotic diseases.
doi: 10.1038/nature24676
The inactivation of DNA mismatch repair in cancer cells produces dynamic mutational profiles and generates neoantigens, which result in improved immune surveillance against these cells.
doi: 10.1038/nature24673
Loss of the PD-1 receptor promotes the development of T cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas by modulating oncogenic signalling pathways, and blocking these pathways reduces tumourigenesis.
doi: 10.1038/nature24649
The methyltransferase METTL3 promotes the leukaemic state in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) by catalysing the m6A RNA modification through its recruitment on the transcription start sites of AML-associated genes.
doi: 10.1038/nature24678
A genetically encoded platform can produce chiral organoboranes in bacteria with high turnover, enantioselectivity and chemoselectivity, and can be tuned and configured through DNA manipulation.
doi: 10.1038/nature24996
