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🧬The RNA laboratory in @uni-wuppertal.bsky.social with Prof Martin Simon and colleagues, used phagosomal delivery of heteroduplex #RNA in #Paramecium to shed light into the initial recognition of exogenous RNAs and entry into the #RNAinterference pathway.
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January 12, 2026 at 10:20 AM
🧬The RNA laboratory in @uni-wuppertal.bsky.social with Prof Martin Simon and colleagues, used phagosomal delivery of heteroduplex #RNA in #Paramecium to shed light into the initial recognition of exogenous RNAs and entry into the #RNAinterference pathway.
Full story: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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A neutralizing human antibody induces movement of the HCoV-229E receptor binding domain
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January 9, 2026 at 1:22 PM
A neutralizing human antibody induces movement of the HCoV-229E receptor binding domain
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Our paper “Label-free nonlinear microscopy probes cellular metabolism and myelin dynamics in live tissue” is published in @commsbio.nature.com, thanks to an exciting collaboration between @laboptbio.bsky.social and @institutducerveau.bsky.social
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Label-free nonlinear microscopy probes cellular metabolism and myelin dynamics in live tissue - Communications Biology
Multimodal label-free nonlinear microscopy and advanced image analysis map single-cell metabolism and myelin dynamics in live cerebellar tissue during demyelination, supporting research in neuroinflam...
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January 7, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Our paper “Label-free nonlinear microscopy probes cellular metabolism and myelin dynamics in live tissue” is published in @commsbio.nature.com, thanks to an exciting collaboration between @laboptbio.bsky.social and @institutducerveau.bsky.social
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Anterior-posterior patterning in the chaetognath Spadella cephaloptera informs bilaterian nervous system and tail evolution
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January 8, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Anterior-posterior patterning in the chaetognath Spadella cephaloptera informs bilaterian nervous system and tail evolution
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The temporal gene expression landscape of rhabdomyolysis-induced acute kidney injury reveals the timing of complement activation
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January 8, 2026 at 5:31 PM
The temporal gene expression landscape of rhabdomyolysis-induced acute kidney injury reveals the timing of complement activation
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Our editor Laura Rodríguez Pérez is visiting Instituto Biofisika this week! Do attend Laura's talk if you are around 🎤
Date: 9 January 2026, Friday
Date: 9 January 2026, Friday
January 7, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Our editor Laura Rodríguez Pérez is visiting Instituto Biofisika this week! Do attend Laura's talk if you are around 🎤
Date: 9 January 2026, Friday
Date: 9 January 2026, Friday
Our Cortical-subcortical brain loops cross-journal collection with @natneuro.nature.com, @natcomms.nature.com, & Scientific Reports is open for submissions 🧠
Curated by our board members @talking-bat.bsky.social, @stefanieliebe.bsky.social, & Markus Rothermel.
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Curated by our board members @talking-bat.bsky.social, @stefanieliebe.bsky.social, & Markus Rothermel.
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Cortical-subcortical brain loops
This cross-journal Collection welcomes submissions on novel cortical-subcortical circuit mechanisms regulating sensory processing, perception and cognition.
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January 7, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Our Cortical-subcortical brain loops cross-journal collection with @natneuro.nature.com, @natcomms.nature.com, & Scientific Reports is open for submissions 🧠
Curated by our board members @talking-bat.bsky.social, @stefanieliebe.bsky.social, & Markus Rothermel.
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Curated by our board members @talking-bat.bsky.social, @stefanieliebe.bsky.social, & Markus Rothermel.
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We are now welcoming submissions for our new cross-journal collection on Evolutionary responses to contemporary global change, launched jointly with @natcomms.nature.com, npj Biodiversity, and Scientific Reports 🌐🌡️🧬
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Evolutionary responses to contemporary global change
In this collection, we welcome submissions that further our understanding of species’ evolutionary responses to contemporary global change.
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January 7, 2026 at 10:26 AM
We are now welcoming submissions for our new cross-journal collection on Evolutionary responses to contemporary global change, launched jointly with @natcomms.nature.com, npj Biodiversity, and Scientific Reports 🌐🌡️🧬
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Submissions are now open for our new collection on Nanomedicine Applied in Cancer Treatment Failure, launched jointly with @natcomms.nature.com and @commsmed.nature.com 💉
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Nanomedicine Applied in Cancer Treatment Failure
This cross-journal collection will consider submissions of research articles that highlight advances in nanomedicine aimed at overcoming cancer treatment ...
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January 6, 2026 at 6:47 AM
Submissions are now open for our new collection on Nanomedicine Applied in Cancer Treatment Failure, launched jointly with @natcomms.nature.com and @commsmed.nature.com 💉
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As we continue to expand our editorial board, we welcome new applications to join our current team of 216 board members from 33 countries! Please complete the form below or reach out if interested! 👇 go.sn.pub/4ebm www.nature.com/commsbio/edi...
December 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
As we continue to expand our editorial board, we welcome new applications to join our current team of 216 board members from 33 countries! Please complete the form below or reach out if interested! 👇 go.sn.pub/4ebm www.nature.com/commsbio/edi...
🎉Wishing our community a biologically exciting and scientifically groundbreaking year ahead in 2026, with a big thank you to our editorial board members for their valuable contributions in 2025!
December 31, 2025 at 7:18 PM
🎉Wishing our community a biologically exciting and scientifically groundbreaking year ahead in 2026, with a big thank you to our editorial board members for their valuable contributions in 2025!
Thumbs and brains coevolved in primates. Across living and extinct species, longer thumbs predict bigger brains, highlighting the neural cost of dexterity. 🖐️ 🧠 doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08686-5
Human dexterity and brains evolved hand in hand - Communications Biology
Thumbs and brains coevolved in primates. Across living and extinct species, longer thumbs predict bigger brains, highlighting the neural cost of dexterity.
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December 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Thumbs and brains coevolved in primates. Across living and extinct species, longer thumbs predict bigger brains, highlighting the neural cost of dexterity. 🖐️ 🧠 doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08686-5
Transcriptomic analysis of brain samples collected from #dolphins found beached in the Indian River Lagoon (Florida) during harmful algal blooms shows Alzheimer’s disease related molecular signatures. 🧠 🌊 doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08796-0
December 31, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Transcriptomic analysis of brain samples collected from #dolphins found beached in the Indian River Lagoon (Florida) during harmful algal blooms shows Alzheimer’s disease related molecular signatures. 🧠 🌊 doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08796-0
Working memory performance improves after short-term physical activity. Ripple activity increased with memory load, and ripple to awake-spindle coupling strengthened, suggesting
physical activity boosts working memory via hippocampal-thalamocortical dynamics. 🏃♂️🧠 doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08618-3
physical activity boosts working memory via hippocampal-thalamocortical dynamics. 🏃♂️🧠 doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08618-3
Physical activity simultaneously improves working memory and ripple-spindle coupling - Communications Biology
After short-term Physical activity (PA), working memory (WM) performance improved. Ripple activity increased with memory load, and ripple to awake-spindle coupling strengthened, suggesting PA boosts W...
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December 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Working memory performance improves after short-term physical activity. Ripple activity increased with memory load, and ripple to awake-spindle coupling strengthened, suggesting
physical activity boosts working memory via hippocampal-thalamocortical dynamics. 🏃♂️🧠 doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08618-3
physical activity boosts working memory via hippocampal-thalamocortical dynamics. 🏃♂️🧠 doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08618-3
Caffeine ingestion shifts sleep EEG towards higher complexity and criticality, flattening the 1/f slope and reducing long-range temporal correlations, reflecting enhanced excitation, especially in younger adults and particularly during NREM sleep. ☕ 🧠 doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08090-z
Caffeine induces age-dependent increases in brain complexity and criticality during sleep - Communications Biology
Caffeine ingestion shifts sleep EEG towards higher complexity and criticality, flattening the 1/f slope and reducing long-range temporal correlations, reflecting enhanced excitation, especially in you...
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December 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Caffeine ingestion shifts sleep EEG towards higher complexity and criticality, flattening the 1/f slope and reducing long-range temporal correlations, reflecting enhanced excitation, especially in younger adults and particularly during NREM sleep. ☕ 🧠 doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08090-z
Longitudinal rs-fMRI charts rapid spatial maturation of infant #brain networks over the first 6 months: greater spatial similarity, tighter voxel engagement, and network-specific gains in strength, size, and centroids. 👶 🧠 doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Spatial development of brain networks during the first six postnatal months - Communications Biology
Longitudinal rs-fMRI (n = 74) charts rapid spatial maturation of infant brain networks over the first 6 months: greater spatial similarity, tighter voxel engagement, and network-specific gains in stre...
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December 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Longitudinal rs-fMRI charts rapid spatial maturation of infant #brain networks over the first 6 months: greater spatial similarity, tighter voxel engagement, and network-specific gains in strength, size, and centroids. 👶 🧠 doi.org/10.1038/s420...
🕦 This has been only a small glimpse of the exciting research published with us in 2025. You can dive deeper into many more discoveries by visiting our homepage. Here’s to another inspirational year of biology ahead in 2026! 🥂🎆 www.nature.com/commsbio/
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Communications Biology
Communications Biology is an open access journal from Nature Portfolio publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary in all areas of the biological ...
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December 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🕦 This has been only a small glimpse of the exciting research published with us in 2025. You can dive deeper into many more discoveries by visiting our homepage. Here’s to another inspirational year of biology ahead in 2026! 🥂🎆 www.nature.com/commsbio/
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Nutritional supplementation of lipid nanoparticles in Acropora #corals enhances larval swimming, settlement, and juvenile resilience >> coral "baby food"! 🍼🪸 doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08965-1
December 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Nutritional supplementation of lipid nanoparticles in Acropora #corals enhances larval swimming, settlement, and juvenile resilience >> coral "baby food"! 🍼🪸 doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08965-1
In a global #grassland dataset, large mammalian herbivores rescued forb cover and diversity from the negative effects of eutrophication. 🌿🦌 doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Forb diversity globally is harmed by nutrient enrichment but can be rescued by large mammalian herbivory - Communications Biology
In a global grassland dataset, large mammalian herbivores rescued forb cover and diversity from the negative effects of eutrophication.
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December 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
In a global #grassland dataset, large mammalian herbivores rescued forb cover and diversity from the negative effects of eutrophication. 🌿🦌 doi.org/10.1038/s420...
A new #fossil of the triassic marine reptile, Lijiangosaurus yongshengensis, reveals that an exceptionally long neck developing more than 40 cervical vertebrae evolved in nothosaurs before the rise of plesiosaurs. doi.org/10.1038/s420...
December 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A new #fossil of the triassic marine reptile, Lijiangosaurus yongshengensis, reveals that an exceptionally long neck developing more than 40 cervical vertebrae evolved in nothosaurs before the rise of plesiosaurs. doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Revised #crocodilian phylogeny sheds light on the evolutionary relationships of the “terror crocodile” Deinosuchus, offering new insights into climate resilience in the group. 🐊 doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Expanded phylogeny elucidates Deinosuchus relationships, crocodylian osmoregulation and body-size evolution - Communications Biology
An expanded phylogeny elucidates the evolutionary relationships of the “terror crocodile” Deinosuchus, shedding light on osmoregulation in crocodyliforms and body-size evolution patterns in the group.
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December 31, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Revised #crocodilian phylogeny sheds light on the evolutionary relationships of the “terror crocodile” Deinosuchus, offering new insights into climate resilience in the group. 🐊 doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Metabolic profiling of Iron Age residues reveals the earliest material evidence for the fumigation of the drug plant Peganum harmala (Syrian rue), used in domestic contexts for medicinal and hygienic purposes. 🌱
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Metabolic profiling reveals first evidence of fumigating drug plant Peganum harmala in Iron Age Arabia - Communications Biology
Metabolic profiling of Iron Age residues from the oasis of Qurayyah, Northwest Arabia, reveals the earliest material evidence for the fumigation of the drug plant Peganum harmala, used in domestic con...
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December 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Metabolic profiling of Iron Age residues reveals the earliest material evidence for the fumigation of the drug plant Peganum harmala (Syrian rue), used in domestic contexts for medicinal and hygienic purposes. 🌱
doi.org/10.1038/s420...
doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Using a deep learning approach, the presence of yawn contagion is confirmed in zebrafish. Fish can "catch" yawns too! 🥱 🐟 doi.org/10.1038/s420...
December 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Using a deep learning approach, the presence of yawn contagion is confirmed in zebrafish. Fish can "catch" yawns too! 🥱 🐟 doi.org/10.1038/s420...
In wild bonobo groups, female coalition
formation best explains the observed variation in
female power. 💪♀️ doi.org/10.1038/s420...
formation best explains the observed variation in
female power. 💪♀️ doi.org/10.1038/s420...
December 31, 2025 at 3:45 PM
In wild bonobo groups, female coalition
formation best explains the observed variation in
female power. 💪♀️ doi.org/10.1038/s420...
formation best explains the observed variation in
female power. 💪♀️ doi.org/10.1038/s420...
🔔We’re thrilled to continue sharing editors' picks of exceptional studies that made for such an inspiring year at CommsBio! 🦠🦕🪸🌱 www.nature.com/commsbio/
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Communications Biology
Communications Biology is an open access journal from Nature Portfolio publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary in all areas of the biological ...
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December 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
🔔We’re thrilled to continue sharing editors' picks of exceptional studies that made for such an inspiring year at CommsBio! 🦠🦕🪸🌱 www.nature.com/commsbio/
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