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COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02443-2Reactivation of typically harmless anelloviruses, in particular, seems to be linked with developing long COVID, study finds.
First poo transplant to treat food allergy in people has ‘exciting’ results
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02440-5Existing treatments for food allergy are limited.
More muscle, less belly fat: mutations to a gene are linked to …
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02438-zAnalysis of one million diverse genomes yields mutations associated with lower risk of diabetes, heart disease and other ‘cardiometabolic’ …
Maps of chromosomal regions crucial for cell division reveal high diversity
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02327-5Centromeres are regions of chromosomes that are required for cell division. Complete sequence characterization of centromeres from a diverse …
Can empty space interact with light — and even change its properties?
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02289-8Observations of a magnetized stellar core indicate that in an ultra-strong magnetic field, empty space can polarize light.
James Bond, not Bond James: why scientific publishing must respect name order
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01772-6Databases and submission systems are often inflexible. Can’t publishers do more on author names?
<i>FNIP1</i> variants are associated with favourable metabolism in 1 million humans
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10864-2The FNIP1 pathway has a role in human energy metabolism, and its inhibition is a potential therapeutic strategy in …
An ancient mitochondrial program tunes translation to haem availability
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10885-xAn evolutionarily conserved mitochondrial haem-sensing mechanism that predates the emergence of haemoglobin-based oxygen transport could have therapeutic value in …
Vacuum birefringence and the polarized X-ray emission from a radio magnetar
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10859-zPolarization measurements of the magnetar 1E 1547.0−5408 provide strong evidence that vacuum birefringence shapes X-ray propagation, offering an important …
A cholinergic hub in the nucleus accumbens gates opioid-reward learning
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10887-9Cell-type-specific opioid blockade in accumbal cholinergic interneurons abolishes morphine-reward learning without impairing analgesia and decouples morphine-evoked dopamine elevations from …
DCAF11-dependent molecular glue degrader activated by glutathionylation
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10873-1M12 is a metabolically activated molecular glue that recruits diverse proteins to DCAF11 for ubiquitin-mediated degradation, revealing a glutathione-dependent …
A tumour-derived organoid biobank maps cancer gene dependencies
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10830-yA clinically annotated multi-omic organoid resource with matched tumour samples from 256 patients across 5 cancers maps gene dependencies, …
Membranolytic peptide programs immunogenic cell death for cancer therapy
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10899-5The synthetic-acid-responsive membranolytic peptide aMPC16-CA50 induces immunogenic membranolytic cell death in tumour cells, robustly potentiating immune checkpoint blockade therapy.
Pseudogap in a Fermi–Hubbard quantum simulator
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10875-zA cold-atom quantum simulator reveals the pseudogap metallic state in the Hubbard model, mapping its phase diagram and advancing …
Uncovering the mechanism of female restitution in sugarcane hybrids
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10863-3Female restitution in interspecific sugarcane hybrids between Saccharum officinarum and Saccharum spontaneum arises from second division restitution, as haplotype-resolved …
Virus reactivation in acute and long COVID-19
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10740-zChronic reactivation of distinct herpesviruses and anelloviruses occur during acute and long COVID-19, and track with disease severity, inflammation …
The Virtual Tissues foundation model resolves spatial proteomics across scales
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10884-yVirtual Tissues (VirTues), a foundation model for spatial proteomics that captures tissue organization across scales, supports marker reconstruction, cell …
Antigen presentation by CD40<sup>+</sup>MHC-II<sup>+</sup> astrocytes promotes CNS autoimmunity
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10860-6Astrocytes promote central nervous system (CNS) immunity through antigen presentation and activation of CD40 in astrocytes by CD40L expressed …
A compendium of next-generation patient-derived models for diverse cancers
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10806-yThe international collaboration of the Human Cancer Models Initiative presents a comprehensive resource of next-generation cancer models from 2,780 …
Stimulation modulates gene-linked cell assemblies in the human brain
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10879-9Stimulation of human cortex reorganizes neural assemblies and induces cell-type-specific gene regulatory programs, establishing an ex vivo framework that …
Encapsulation epitaxy of air-stable 2D superconductors for quantum circuits
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10865-1An ‘encapsulation epitaxy’ mechanism is used to grow air-stable, two-dimensional superconducting films at the interface of a 2D–3D hybrid …
An entangling gate for dual-rail erasure qubits
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10822-yA fast, low-error entangling gate for dual-rail cavity erasure qubits preserves a strong error hierarchy, advancing scalable quantum error …
Upcycling of polyvinyl chloride into polyalphaolefin lubricants
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10867-zA mild chemical process upcycles polyvinyl chloride waste into polyalphaolefin lubricants with tunable properties, offering an economical route to …
A dependency map enhanced with next-generation 3D cancer models
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10843-7Integration of genome-scale CRISPR screening data from traditional cell lines and next-generation cancer models expands the representation of tumour …
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