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The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and vice-president JD Vance, gave a sense of whatâ€™s driving US health policy.

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Neurotechnology company Paradromics will test its device in a trial aimed at safely restoring speech for people with severe motor impairments.

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A skin-permeable polymer for non-invasive transdermal insulin delivery

The fast skin-permeable polyzwitterion poly[2-(N-oxide-N,N-dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate] may enable non-invasive transdermal delivery of insulin, and potentially facilitate the use of other protein- and peptide-based therapeutics through transdermal delivery.

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Daily briefing: What happens to science if the â€˜AI bubbleâ€™ bursts?

An artificial-intelligence market crash could drive AI researchers back into academia, experts say. Plus, the ethics of brain implants that detect â€˜preconsciousâ€™ thoughts and a gene-editing tool that could tackle multiple diseases.

Jacob Smith
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The Asymmetric Synthesis of an Acyclic N-Stereogenic Amine

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Connectivity underlying motor cortex activity during goal-directed behaviour

All-optical mapping of neural connectivity in motor cortex links network topology to network dynamics and computation underlying naturalistic goal-directed behaviour.

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Prime editing-installed suppressor tRNAs for disease-agnostic genome editing

A new strategy that uses prime editing to convert an endogenous tRNA into a suppressor tRNA shows therapeutic potential for multiple genetic diseases that are caused by premature stop codons.

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ZAK activation at the collided ribosome

The kinase ZAK is activated at collided ribosomes to mediate the ribotoxic stress response.

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Semantic design of functional de novo genes from a genomic language model

By learning a semantics of gene function based on genomic context, the genomic language model Evo autocompletes DNA prompts to generate novel genes encoding protein and RNA molecules with defined activities, whose sequences generalize beyond those found in nature.

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Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance

Cyberattacks' harm to universities is growing â€” and so are their effects on research

A brain implant that could rival Neuralink's enters clinical trials

A skin-permeable polymer for non-invasive transdermal insulin delivery

Daily briefing: What happens to science if the â€˜AI bubbleâ€™ bursts?

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Of masks and Mayans: Books in brief

Synthetic tongue rates chilliesâ€™ heat â€” and spares human tasters

Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance

Cyberattacks' harm to universities is growing â€” and so are their effects on research

Waste not: how researchers harness pee and poo for science

Has birdsâ€™ mysterious â€˜compassâ€™ organ been found at last?

A brain implant that could rival Neuralink's enters clinical trials

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How do genetic association studies rank genes?

Tuning into a massive stellar storm on the radio

Lanthanides go electric: promising light emitters used in LEDs

Circular DNA has a ticket to ride chromosomes

Stop the nonsense: genome editing creates potentially therapeutic transfer RNAs

Honouring visionary scientist and Natureâ€™s founder, Norman Lockyer

Fall-prevention clinical trial in rural China shows promising results

Extreme rainfall poses the biggest risk to Mumbaiâ€™s most vulnerable people

Mathematicians put AI model AlphaProof to the test

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The Asymmetric Synthesis of an Acyclic N-Stereogenic Amine

Connectivity underlying motor cortex activity during goal-directed behaviour

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