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Nanomaterials with chiral photoluminescence are promising candidates for advanced optical technologies. Here, the authors use mechsanochemical processing to tune the emission of circularly polarized light and enhance the nonlinear optical response in indium-based halides.

This study discovers that tRNA directly binds and regulates the membrane protein FKS1, a β-1,3-glucan synthase essential for fungal cell wall formation. Cryo-EM and biochemical analyses show how tRNA and GSR1 control FKS1 activity and fungal growth.

Base editors (BEs) enable precise base substitutions but are limited by their large size. Here, the authors engineer a split BE system utilizing coiled-coil heterodimers (CC-BE) and demonstrate that CC-BEs maintain or even enhance efficiency, enabling gene therapy applications via dual AAV.

Cryo-EM structures of apo-FKS1 and the FKS1-Rho1 complex reveal how Rho1 activates FKS1, driving conformational changes of FKS1 in β−1,3- glucan synthesis.

Authors present a bispecific antiviral design targeting the virus and the host that simultaneously offers broad-spectrum protection against multiple existing transmissible human-pathogenic coronaviruses, including the Paxlovid-resistant SARS-CoV-2 mutants.

Here, using cryo-electron microscopy and functional assays in mouse oocytes and embryos, the authors delineate the composition of the subcortical maternal complex, showing that clinical variants associated with female reproductive diseases disrupt complex formation.

IP6 is a critical host cofactor for HIV-1 assembly and infectivity. In this study, the authors uncover the structural basis by which HIV-1 adapts to a deficiency in IP6 packaging through a G225R mutation at the C-terminus of the capsid protein.

This study delineates the full sequence of SARS-CoV-2 spike-mediated membrane fusion and shows how S2-targeting antibodies inhibit this process, using a near-native functional fusion system and cryo-electron tomography.

On the basis of the assembly mechanism and structures of the human subcortical maternal complex, the authors provide a strategy for the diagnosis of reproductive disorders and the discovery of new infertility-associated SCMC variants.

Xu et al. reveal that a bottom-up neural circuit from the medial septum to the subfornical organ prevents overhydration in mice by integrating oral and gastrointestinal signals before osmolality changes, demonstrating precise drinking control mechanisms.

Cryo-EM structures reveal how the first-in-class antifungal drug manogepix inhibits fungal GWT1, a key enzyme for GPI-anchored protein synthesis. The study uncovers manogepix’s competitive binding mechanism and explains drug resistance, offering insights for more effective antifungal therapies.

Coronaviruses exploit the host caspase-6 to cleave coronavirus nucleocapsid protein into fragments with interferon-antagonizing activity to facilitate virus replication.

A wearable epidermal sweat sensing platform that contains a printed low-power electrochromic display and a stretchable Ag₂O–Zn battery can collect, analyse and present electrochemical data in real time without the need to connect to external devices.

Developing low-temperature solution epitaxy and elucidating its underlying mechanisms is highly desired for low-cost fabrication of single-crystal ferroelectric films. Here, the authors show that a polarization screening between ferroelectrics and substrates can tailor the interface energy and drive the solution epitaxy of polarization-gradient ferroelectric oxide films, demonstrating a remarkable photovoltaic effect.

The accumulation of alpha-synuclein fibrils within neurons is the defining feature of Lewy body dementia (LBD). Here the authors report a method to produce large quantities of alpha-synuclein fibrils that reproduce the complex structure of the fibrils that accumulate in LBD brain tissue.

By developing a functional nuclear import system and correlative imaging workflow, this study reveals that HIV-1 nuclear entry relies on the elasticity of both the viral capsid and the nuclear pore to enable the selective passage of small HIV-1 cores.

γδ T cell-based immunotherapies are limited by the reduced expansion and activation of the T cells ex vivo. Here the authors show that garlic nanoparticles can activate IFNγ-producing γδ T cells directly in the intestine, before they translocate to extraintestinal tumours, where they can synergize with anti-PD-L1 therapy, inducing robust antitumour immunity.

We observe the superconducting diode effect and interference patterns in CsV₃Sb₅, implying a time-reversal symmetry-breaking superconducting order in kagome superconductors.

Though energy-harvesting wearable systems have been reported in the literature, their system design imposes limitations that hinder their overall performance. Here, the authors report a system-level wearable e-textile microgrid system that relies solely on human activity for energy harvesting.

Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) have been implicated in lung cancer chemo-resistance. Here the authors show that a zinc-transporter positive CAF subset is enriched in lung cancer models after chemotherapy and actively transfers zinc to cancer cells, promoting ABCB1-mediated chemo-resistance.

Components of the yeast cell wall, including but not limited to β-glucan, have been reported to act as danger signals and promote immune responses. Here the authors report the design and anti-tumor immune responses elicited by yeast cell wall-based nanoparticles in preclinical cancer models.

Three-dimensional (3D) hydrogel printing enables production of volumetric architectures but achieving good resolutions for miniaturized features remains challenging. Here the authors demonstrate shrinking of a printed structure by immersing a 3D-printed patterned hydrogel consisting of a hydrophilic polyionic polymer network in a solution of polyions of the opposite net charge.

Solar-driven CO2 reduction by abundant water to alcohols is hindered by the sluggish water oxidation reaction. Here, the authors demonstrate that the microwave-synthesized carbon-dots possess unique hole-accepting nature, allowing stoichiometric oxygen and methanol production from water and CO2 with nearly 100% selectivity to methanol.

Current recycling methods suffer from harsh reaction conditions and long reaction times. Here the authors show a non-thermal plasma-assisted method for rapid hydrogenolysis of polystyrene at ambient temperature and atmospheric pressure, generating high yield (>40 wt%) of C1–C3 hydrocarbons.

Yang Bai and colleagues propose a hypersonic levitation and spinning technique for rapid tissue dissociation. The method enables fast acquisition of high-quality single cells, preserves rare cell types, and supports single-cell sequencing.

Functional and structural studies of two potent antibodies isolated from individuals exposed only to ancestral SARS-CoV-2, demonstrating broad neutralization against the latest SARS-CoV-2 variants and related sarbecoviruses.

In this Review, Ludvigsson and colleagues describe the epidemiological associations between coeliac disease and a variety of complications and comorbidities, and discuss the pathophysiology underlying these complications as well as implications for follow-up and treatment.

Low-energy ions implantation is used for spatially selective p-type doping to construct lateral p-n homojunction. The as-fabricated lateral WS₂ p-n homojunction is applied in self-powered photodetector.