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Global, regional, and national burden of chronic respiratory diseases and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, 1990–2023: a Global Burden of Disease study

Estimates from the Global Burden of Disease study reveal declines in chronic respiratory disease mortality between 1990 and 2023—especially during the COVID-19 pandemic—but the burdens on people affected remain substantial.

Jiyeon Oh
Soeun Kim
Dong Keon Yon
Research06 Jan 2026
Nature Medicine

Volume: 32, P: 197-223
Global burden of amphetamine, cannabis, cocaine and opioid use in 204 countries, 1990–2023: a Global Burden of Disease Study

Global Burden of Disease estimates show that between 1990 and 2023, the prevalence and burden of drug use disorders, inclusive of amphetamine, cannabis, cocaine and opioid use, have been increasing in high-income countries, particularly in the USA.

Jiseung Kang
Hyeon Jin Kim
Dong Keon Yon
Research16 Jan 2026
Nature Medicine

P: 1-18
Characterising acute and chronic care needs: insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Chronic care manages long-term, progressive conditions, while acute care handles short-term ones. Here, authors show chronic conditions account for most of the global health burden, with 68% of DALYs and 93% of YLDs attributed to chronic care needs.

Cecilia Anza-Ramirez
J. Jaime Miranda
Yves Miel H. Zuniga
ResearchOpen Access07 May 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-36
Learned use of an innate sound-meaning association in birds

Over 20 species of geographically and phylogenetically diverse bird species produce convergent whining vocalizations towards their respective brood parasites. Model presentation and playback experiments across multiple continents suggest that these learned calls provoke an innate response even among allopatric species.

William E. Feeney
James A. Kennerley
Damián E. Blasi
Research03 Oct 2025
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 9, P: 2103-2115
Effect of Sodium Nitrilotriacetate on Toxicity, Teratogenicity, and Tissue Distribution of Cadmium

LEWIS G. SCHARPF JUN.
IRA D HILL
JOSEPH C. CALANDRA
Research22 Sept 1972
Nature

Volume: 239, P: 231-234
Some Computational Aspects of Essential Properties of Evolution and Life

Hector Zenil
James Marshall
ResearchOpen Access03 Feb 2012
Nature Precedings

P: 1
Species-specific metabolomic profiles of coral reef coralline algae and their influence on the larval settlement of corals and crown-of-thorns starfish

Guillermo Diaz-Pulido
Steven D. Melvin
Muhammad A. Abdul Wahab
ResearchOpen Access02 Dec 2025
Scientific Reports

Volume: 16, P: 1-18
Inside polyomavirus at 25-Å resolution

James P. Griffith
Diana L. Griffith
Donald L. D. Caspar
Research13 Feb 1992
Nature

Volume: 355, P: 652-654
Fracture in sheets draped on curved surfaces

Curvature in elastic sheets can be used to control material failure and guide the paths of cracks.

Noah P. Mitchell
Vinzenz Koning
William T. M. Irvine
Research22 Aug 2016
Nature Materials

Volume: 16, P: 89-93
Identity of the proliferating cell nuclear antigen and cyclin

Michael B. Mathews
Robert M. Bernstein
James I. Garrels
Research24 May 1984
Nature

Volume: 309, P: 374-376
Hypoxia induces histone clipping and H3K4me3 loss in neutrophil progenitors resulting in long-term impairment of neutrophil immunity

Walmsley and colleagues report that systemic hypoxia induces persistent loss of histone H3K4me3 marks and epigenetic reprogramming in neutrophil progenitors, resulting in long-term impairment of subsequent neutrophil effector functions.

Manuel A. Sanchez-Garcia
Pranvera Sadiku
Sarah R. Walmsley
ResearchOpen Access28 Oct 2025
Nature Immunology

Volume: 26, P: 1903-1915
High-performance living plant collections require a globally integrated data ecosystem to meet twenty-first-century challenges

Living plant collections hold an immense wealth of plant diversity and have critical educational, scientific and conservation roles. This Perspective examines current data management practices of living collections and advocates for higher data standards and a robust and inclusive global data ecosystem.

Samuel F. Brockington
Patricia Malcolm
Paul Smith
Reviews09 Jan 2026
Nature Plants

Volume: 12, P: 18-25
The kinetic folding pathway of the Tetrahymena ribozyme reveals possible similarities between RNA and protein folding

Patrick P. Zarrinkar
James R. Williamson
Research01 May 1996
Nature Structural Biology

Volume: 3, P: 432-438
MRI scoring systems in neonatal encephalopathy and neurodevelopmental outcomes: a systematic review

Emma Finnegan
Alexandre Assi
Eleanor J. Molloy
Reviews17 Nov 2025
Journal of Perinatology

P: 1-11
Cloning of a human nucleoside transporter implicated in the Cellular uptake of adenosine and chemotherapeutic drugs

Mark Griffiths
Nick Beaumont
Stephen A. Baldwin
Research01 Jan 1997
Nature Medicine

Volume: 3, P: 89-93
Erratum: A protein catalytic framework with an N-terminal nucleophile is capable of self-activation

James A. Brannigan
Guy Dodson
Alexey G. Murzin
Amendments and Corrections07 Dec 1995
Nature

Volume: 378, P: 644
Author Correction: Hypoxia induces histone clipping and H3K4me3 loss in neutrophil progenitors resulting in long-term impairment of neutrophil immunity

Manuel A. Sanchez-Garcia
Pranvera Sadiku
Sarah R. Walmsley
Amendments and CorrectionsOpen Access01 Dec 2025
Nature Immunology

Volume: 27, P: 377
Structure of a human common cold virus and functional relationship to other picornaviruses

Michael G. Rossmann
Edward Arnold
Gerrit Vriend
Research12 Sept 1985
Nature

Volume: 317, P: 145-153
Obligate Parasitism

JAMES MONROE GARNER
DAVID GOTTLIEB
Research23 Mar 1946
Nature

Volume: 157, P: 374
Global, regional and national burden of dietary iron deficiency from 1990 to 2021: a Global Burden of Disease study

Systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease study reported that, despite global improvements from 1990 to 2021, dietary iron deficiency-associated disease burden remains high in women, children and residents in low socio-demographic index countries.

Sooji Lee
Yejun Son
Nicholas. J. Kassebaum
Research22 Apr 2025
Nature Medicine

Volume: 31, P: 1809-1829
Structure and mechanism of interleukin-lβ converting enzyme

Keith P. Wilson
Jo-Anne F. Black
David J. Livingston
Research28 Jul 1994
Nature

Volume: 370, P: 270-275
Modulation of GABA_A receptor desensitization uncouples sleep onset and maintenance in Drosophila

Jose Agosto
James C Choi
Leslie C Griffith
Research27 Jan 2008
Nature Neuroscience

Volume: 11, P: 354-359
Neoantigen-targeted CD8⁺ T cell responses with PD-1 blockade therapy

Effective anti-PD-1 immunotherapy is associated with the presence of polyclonal CD8⁺ T cells in the tumour and blood specific for a limited number of immunodominant mutations, which are recurrently recognized over time.

Cristina Puig-Saus
Barbara Sennino
Antoni Ribas
Research08 Mar 2023
Nature

Volume: 615, P: 697-704
Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages

In this Stage 2 Registered Report, Buchanan et al. show evidence confirming the phenomenon of semantic priming across speakers of 19 diverse languages.

Erin M. Buchanan
Kelly Cuccolo
Savannah C. Lewis
Research24 Sept 2025
Nature Human Behaviour

Volume: 10, P: 182-201
Nucleotide sequence of a region of human mitochondrial DNA containing the precisely identified origin of replication

Stephen Crews
Deanna Ojala
Giuseppe Attardi
Research18 Jan 1979
Nature

Volume: 277, P: 192-198
Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years

A climatic record from desert speleothems shows that the central Arabian interior experienced recurrent humid intervals over the past 8 million years, which likely facilitated mammalian dispersals between Africa and Eurasia.

Monika Markowska
Hubert B. Vonhof
Gerald H. Haug
ResearchOpen Access09 Apr 2025
Nature

Volume: 640, P: 954-961
Is α MSH a trophic hormone to adrenal function in the foetus?

JOHN R. G. CHALLIS
JAMES D. TOROSIS
Research27 Oct 1977
Nature

Volume: 269, P: 818-819
Coated vesicle assembly in the Golgi requires only coatomer and ARF proteins from the cytosol

Lelio Orci
David J. Palmer
James E. Rothman
Research19 Aug 1993
Nature

Volume: 364, P: 732-734
Absorption of ant-provided carbon dioxide and nitrogen by a tropical epiphyte

Kathleen K. Treseder
Diane W. Davidson
James R. Ehleringer
Research11 May 1995
Nature

Volume: 375, P: 137-139
Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years

Dated palaeolake sequences show that there were at least five Pleistocene hominin expansions into the Arabian interior, coinciding with windows of reduced aridity between 400 and 55 thousand years ago.

Huw S. Groucutt
Tom S. White
Michael D. Petraglia
ResearchOpen Access01 Sept 2021
Nature

Volume: 597, P: 376-380
Compilation of riverine water quality data from the Great Barrier Reef catchment area, northeastern Australia

Cassandra James
Zoe Bainbridge
Andrew Moss
ResearchOpen Access18 Feb 2025
Scientific Data

Volume: 12, P: 1-15
Habitable moons around extrasolar giant planets

Darren M. Williams
James F. Kasting
Richard A. Wade
Research16 Jan 1997
Nature

Volume: 385, P: 234-236
Kinetics of sickle haemoglobin polymerization in single red cells

Massimo Coletta
James Hofrichter
William A. Eaton
Research11 Nov 1982
Nature

Volume: 300, P: 194-197
Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries

A global dataset of the satellite-tracked movements of pelagic sharks and fishing fleets show that sharks—and, in particular, commercially important species—have limited spatial refuge from fishing effort.

Nuno Queiroz
Nicolas E. Humphries
David W. Sims
Research24 Jul 2019
Nature

Volume: 572, P: 461-466
Characterization of a multicomponent receptor for GDNF

James J. S. Treanor
Laurie Goodman
Arnon Rosenthal
Research04 Jul 1996
Nature

Volume: 382, P: 80-83
Association between self-reported multimorbidity and longitudinal brain Aβ deposition in Alzheimer’s disease

Whether multimorbidity accelerates brain Aβ deposition in humans remains largely unknown. Here, the authors demonstrate that higher self-reported multimorbidity burden predicts increased brain Aβ accumulation rates in the ADNI cohort.

Xian-Le Bu
Wei Zhu
Kristin Fargher
ResearchOpen Access01 Jul 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-12
LMO7 deficiency reveals the significance of the cuticular plate for hearing function

In contrast to the extensively studied mechanosensory hair bundle, the cuticular plate is not as well understood. In this study, authors describe the discovery of a hair cell protein called LIM only protein 7, which is localized in the cuticular plate and the cell junction and may play a role in age-related deafness.

Ting-Ting Du
James B. Dewey
Jung-Bum Shin
ResearchOpen Access08 Mar 2019
Nature Communications

Volume: 10, P: 1-15
Dating the skull from Broken Hill, Zambia, and its position in human evolution

Analyses of the hominin skull from Broken Hill, Zambia, place it at an earlier date than previously thought, confirming that later Middle Pleistocene Africa was home to at least three lineages of hominin.

Rainer Grün
Alistair Pike
Chris Stringer
Research01 Apr 2020
Nature

Volume: 580, P: 372-375
Nitric oxide directly activates calcium-dependent potassium channels in vascular smooth muscle

Victoria M. Bolotina
Soheil Najibi
Richard A. Cohen
Research28 Apr 1994
Nature

Volume: 368, P: 850-853
Dynamic earthquake rupture preserved in a creeping serpentinite shear zone

Creeping serpentinite shear zones may host large earthquakes, but direct evidence of frictional heating and rupture have been missing. Here, the authors demonstrate via laboratory experiments that earthquake ruptures can propagate through serpentinite shear zones shown by high-temperature reaction products.

Matthew S. Tarling
Steven A. F. Smith
James M. Scott
ResearchOpen Access03 Sept 2018
Nature Communications

Volume: 9, P: 1-8
The Role of Glucocorticoids in the Postnatal Development of Ileal Active Bile Salt Transport

James E Heubi
Terrald D Gunn
Research01 Nov 1985
Pediatric Research

Volume: 19, P: 1147-1151
Different recombination site specificity of two developmentally regulated genome rearrangements

James W. Golden
Martin E. Mulligan
Robert Haselkorn
Research11 Jun 1987
Nature

Volume: 327, P: 526-529
Mapping inequalities in exclusive breastfeeding in low- and middle-income countries, 2000–2018

Bhattacharjee and Schaeffer et al. map exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) in 94 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), finding increased EBF practice and reduced subnational variation across the majority of LMICs from 2000 to 2018. However, only six LMICs will meet WHO’s target of ≥70% EBF by 2030 nationally, and only three will achieve this in all districts.

Natalia V. Bhattacharjee
Lauren E. Schaeffer
Simon I. Hay
ResearchOpen Access03 Jun 2021
Nature Human Behaviour

Volume: 5, P: 1027-1045
Anemia prevalence in women of reproductive age in low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2018

Geospatial estimates of the prevalence of anemia in women of reproductive age across 82 low-income and middle-income countries reveals considerable heterogeneity and inequality at national and subnational levels, with few countries on track to meet the WHO Global Nutrition Targets by 2030.

Damaris Kinyoki
Aaron E. Osgood-Zimmerman
Simon I. Hay
ResearchOpen Access12 Oct 2021
Nature Medicine

Volume: 27, P: 1761-1782
Archaeological evidence of an ethnographically documented Australian Aboriginal ritual dated to the last ice age

Australian archaeological finds of 12,000-year-old fireplaces and artefacts match nineteenth-century GunaiKurnai ritual practices. They represent approximately 500 generations of cultural transmission of this ritual.

Bruno David
Russell Mullett
Carney D. Matheson
ResearchOpen Access01 Jul 2024
Nature Human Behaviour

Volume: 8, P: 1481-1492
Protein-coding variants implicate novel genes related to lipid homeostasis contributing to body-fat distribution

A transancestral exome-wide association study for body-fat distribution identifies protein-coding variants that are significantly associated with waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for body mass index.

Anne E. Justice
Tugce Karaderi
Cecilia M. Lindgren
Research18 Feb 2019
Nature Genetics

Volume: 51, P: 452-469
Chlamydia pneumoniae can infect the central nervous system via the olfactory and trigeminal nerves and contributes to Alzheimer’s disease risk

Anu Chacko
Ali Delbaz
Jenny A. K. Ekberg
ResearchOpen Access17 Feb 2022
Scientific Reports

Volume: 12, P: 1-17
Accelerated functional brain aging in pre-clinical familial Alzheimer’s disease

Alzheimer’s disease has been associated with increased structural brain aging. Here the authors describe a model that predicts brain aging from resting state functional connectivity data, and demonstrate this is accelerated in individuals with pre-clinical familial Alzheimer’s disease.

Julie Gonneaud
Alex T. Baria
Etienne Vachon-Presseau
ResearchOpen Access09 Sept 2021
Nature Communications

Volume: 12, P: 1-17
Dissociation of tau pathology and neuronal hypometabolism within the ATN framework of Alzheimer’s disease

In Alzheimer’s disease (AD) tau and neurodegeneration have complex regional relationships. Here, the authors show neuronal hypometabolism discordant with tau burden defines functional resilience or susceptibility to Alzheimer’s pathology via limbic/cortical axes. Susceptible groups have faster cognitive decline and evidence of non-Alzheimer’s pathologies.

Michael Tran Duong
Sandhitsu R. Das
Ilya M. Nasrallah
ResearchOpen Access21 Mar 2022
Nature Communications

Volume: 13, P: 1-15
Drivers of global tourism carbon emissions

The tourism carbon footprint grew 2.3 times faster than the rest of the economy, reaching nearly 9% of global emissions by 2019. Rapid tourism demand growth (3.8% per year) has outpaced energy efficiency gains among businesses (0.3% per year).

Ya-Yen Sun
Futu Faturay
James Higham
ResearchOpen Access10 Dec 2024
Nature Communications

Volume: 15, P: 1-10

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