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Wafer bonding has allowed the synthesis of twisted interfaces which support polar discontinuities in ferroelectric lithium niobate. Two-dimensional sheet conductivity arises but is suppressed when twist angles lead to interfacial lattice aperiodicity.

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.

Scanning tunnelling microscopy is used to image pristine electrostatically defined quantum Hall edge states in graphene with high spatial resolution and demonstrate their interaction-driven restructuring.

The authors show that genetic and dietary factors reshape the microbiome and influence gut microbiome–bile acid crosstalk. They also identify potential modulators and offer insights into microbiome–host communication.

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.

Understanding the brain’s diversity requires spatially resolved maps of transcripts and proteins. Here, the authors construct an integrated molecular atlas of the mouse hippocampus revealing local enrichment profiles and compartmental organization.

Filamin C is a key actin-binding protein involved in cardiomyopathies and musculoskeletal disorders. Here, Wang et al reveal that it interacts with the heat shock protein HSPB7 under biomechanical stress, forming a stable hetero-dimer which is regulated by phosphorylation.

Protein/protein interaction (PPI) interfaces have emerged as drug targets to develop medications with less side effects. Here, Dvorak et al. show that small molecule targeting of PPIs in the brain is an approach for psychiatric drug discovery.

The frequency of severe droughts is increasing in many regions around the world as a result of climate change. An analysis of tree growth and mortality data from forests worldwide suggests that large trees fare worse under drought than small trees.

Using multi-ancestry genome-wide association study and fine-mapping, 298 loci and 36 credible genes are identified in the aetiology of bipolar disorder.

Treating myocardial reperfusion injury via nanotherapy is challenging due to clearance by the mononuclear phagocyte system. Here, the authors target the spleen to reduce acute heart injury and improve long-term cardiac function via transient IRF7 inhibition.

A global network of researchers was formed to investigate the role of human genetics in SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 severity; this paper reports 13 genome-wide significant loci and potentially actionable mechanisms in response to infection.

RMC-7977, a multi-selective RAS(ON) inhibitor, exhibits potent tumour-selective activity in multiple pre-clinical models of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma through a combination of pharmacology and oncogene dependence.

Here the authors show, using microglia-specific depletion techniques and single cell transcriptomics, that optimal repair after murine spinal cord injury (SCI) requires microglia.

The relationship of mycorrhizal associations with latitudinal gradients in tree beta-diversity is unexplored. Using a global dataset approach, this study examines how trees with arbuscular mycorrhizal and ectomycorrhizal associations contribute to latitudinal beta-diversity patterns and the environmental controls of these patterns.

Prenatal bisphenol A exposure is associated with an increased risk of ASD in boys through a mechanism involving aromatase suppression. These resulting ASD-related behaviors and brain abnormalities may be reversed through postnatal intervention with 10HDA in mice.

Transancestral GWAS meta-analysis in 160,420 individuals identifies 139 loci associated with refractive error, including myopia. Newly identified genes implicate pathways involved in eye growth and light signaling cascades.

Hegazy and colleagues demonstrate that epithelial oncostatin M receptor expression drives gut inflammation and tumor formation.

Three-dimensional imaging is crucial for biomedical research, yet microscopy faces axial resolution limitations. Here, authors introduce SSAI-3D that adapts training datasets and sparsely finetunes a network to achieve robust results across various biological samples and microscopy systems.

Through leverage of whole-brain screening, in vivo calcium imaging and chemo- and optogenetic manipulations, it is demonstrated that the xiphoid nucleus serves as a key brain region in the promotion of cold-induced food-seeking behaviours.

Blockade of sialic acid-binding protein Siglec-15 expressed in cancer and tumor-infiltrating myeloid cells reverses immunesupression and represents a novel target for cancer immunotherapy independent from the PD-1/PD-L1 axis.

More than half of the world’s cases of liver cancer are due to viral liver infections. Detecting and treating hepatitis B could help to reverse the global increase in fatal liver cancer.

In this work, authors aim to optimize the dosing of TBI-223, a novel oxazolidinone for tuberculosis, using a translational platform which incorporates preclinical and clinical trial data.

A mild electrochemical exfoliation method has been developed to obtain large-size two-dimensional superconductor monolayers with high crystallinity and production yield, which enables the easy fabrication of twisted van der Waals heterostructures and printed films.

The genetic characterisation of mixed phenotype acute leukemia (MPAL) remains limited. Here, single cell multi-omics analysis of 14 adult MPAL patients identifies a stem cell-like transcriptomic signature expressed by MPAL blasts that is indicative of high differentiation potential and gives rise to a gene set score MPAL95 that is predictive of survival.

Beige-fat-innervating sensory neurons modulate adipocyte function by acting as a brake on the sympathetic system.

Whole-genome sequencing, transcriptome-wide association and fine-mapping analyses in over 7,000 individuals with critical COVID-19 are used to identify 16 independent variants that are associated with severe illness in COVID-19.

The mechanisms underlying gut microbial metabolite (GMM) contribution towards alcohol-mediated cardiovascular disease (CVD) are unknown. Herein, the authors reveal that alcohol-induced microbial reorganization and resultant elevation in GMM phenylacetylglutamine, directly contributes to CVD.

Hundreds of genetic loci associated with age at menopause, combined with experimental evidence in mice, highlight mechanisms of reproductive ageing across the lifespan.

In anoxic environments, soluble hexavalent uranium is reduced and immobilized, however, the underlying molecular-scale reduction mechanism remains unknown. Here, the authors find that U reduction can occur on the surface of magnetite via transient U nanowire structures which collapse into ordered UO₂ nanoclusters, which may have implications for understanding nuclear waste evolution and remediation of uranium contamination.

3D liver organoids hold great promise for regenerative medicine but the use of ill-defined matrices limits their potential. Here, the authors generate human and mouse liver organoids using a chemically defined matrix, and reveal a link between matrix stiffness and organoid growth that does not require acto-myosin contraction.

Tisza et al. carry out a sequencing-based analysis of wastewater samples from major cities, to detect and quantify hundreds of distinct pathogenic viruses, finding striking correlations between virus abundance and local clinical cases.

Ribosomes, assembled in the nucleus and perinuclear region, are thought to remain invariant throughout their lifetime. Here the authors document the dynamic association or exchange of ribosomal proteins within mature ribosomes of neuronal cells.

This study highlights the role of YTHDF2, a protein that recognizes m6A-modified RNA, in determining muscle size. The authors show a post-transcriptional mechanism regulating muscle catabolism and growth, prompting interest to address muscle wasting.

Here, single nucleotide variants within the LMO1 locus are shown to be associated with inherited susceptibility to neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer of the sympathetic nervous system. Acquired structural variation in the same locus was also frequently found in neuroblastoma patients, leading to the suggestion that loci identified through genome-wide association studies might be also prone to somatic alterations and therefore identify potential therapy targets and/or biomarkers of tumour aggressiveness.

Interactions between plexin B2 on hepatocytes and sempahorins on disseminated tumour cells regulate metastatic seeding in the liver.

Single-particle tracking (SPT) has revolutionised studies of protein interactions but is often limited by photobleaching. Here, the authors evolve DNA-PAINT-SPT to enable simultaneous dual-colour detection for the quantification of protein dimerization and live cell membrane protein tracking.

Co-evolution of enzymes for metabolic diversification is not well understood, especially at the biochemical level. Here, the biosynthetic pathways responsible for the synthesis of two natural products, curacin and jamaicamide, are examined; several domains are characterized to help determine how, although the two pathways have a high sequence identity, they are responsible for the production of two such dramatically different chemical motifs.

Genome-wide association analyses of 41,917 bipolar disorder cases and 371,549 controls of European ancestry provide new insights into the etiology of this disorder and identify novel therapeutic leads and potential opportunities for drug repurposing.

Resistance to first line treatment is a major hurdle in cancer treatment, that can be overcome with drug combinations. Here, the authors provide a large drug combination screen across cancer cell lines to benchmark crowdsourced methods and to computationally predict drug synergies.

Here the authors present a framework for estimating disease risk using PGS accounting for country, age and sex. They find that PGSs have a significant sex-specific effect on common diseases, and their effect is typically larger in young individuals.

PHATE, a new data visualization tool, better preserves patterns in high-dimensional data after dimensionality reduction.

A CRISPR–Cas9 genetic screen shows that the adenine nucleotide translocator is required for mitophagy and that this role is independent of its nucleotide translocase activity.

The components of the glioma immune microenvironment and their roles in promoting tumourigenesis remain poorly understood. Here, the use of single-cell RNA sequencing and multiplexed tissue-imaging in adult and pediatric high-grade gliomas reveals the activity and spatial organization of the immunomodulatory purinergic signaling pathway.

Reliable detection of mutations below 0.5% variant allele frequency remains a key challenge for circulating tumor DNA sequencing assays.

Tree spatial data, spatial statistics and dynamical theory reveal the relationship between spatial patterns and population-level interaction coefficients and their consequences for multispecies dynamics and coexistence.