Humans have long been thwarted by ‘the fever’. References to malaria’s infamous febricity are found across antiquity, from writings by the four thousand-year-old Vedic sages of ancient India to the Greek physician Hippocrates. But the disease, caused by a group of parasites belonging to the Plasmodium genus, has troubled our ancestors and close relatives for much longer. A range of malaria…
Nature Cell Biology – Wang, Wilfahrt and colleagues show that phosphoethanolamine, a phospholipid intermediate, is enriched in tumour interstitial fluid and induces T cell dysfunction,…
Nature Human Behaviour – Worldwide, the number of only-child families is increasing. This research examines how growing up without siblings affects adult brain structure, function…
Nature Immunology – Stunnenberg et al. use a model of lipopolysaccharide injection in humans to characterize the transcriptomic landscape of bone marrow and blood immune…
Nature Human Behaviour – How does the brain encode complex movement sequences? Qi et al. reveal that the brain decomposes sequences into temporal states, each…
Hexosamine synthesis pathway and SCAP/SREBP-1 reciprocally enhance each other to drive malignant brain tumor growth.
A global study by experts at the University of Sydney has shown that countries that consume more plant-based proteins—such as chickpeas, tofu and peas—have longer…
Translational Psychiatry – Healthy sleep patterns and risk of hospitalization for infection: a large community-based cohort study
Nature Communications – Here, the authors characterize the epigenetic status of hybrid ecDNA in HPVOPC, identifying HPV oncogenes E6/E7 in hybrid ecDNA are flanked by…
This cross-sectional study analyzes the use of 10 no-cost preventive services by individuals with employer-sponsored health insurance, which may be threatened by the upcoming Kennedy…
Annals of Biomedical Engineering – High-frequency irreversible electroporation (H-FIRE) is a minimally invasive local ablation therapy known to activate the adaptive immune system and reprogram…
