Thursday, March 29, 2018

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Nature Volume 555 Issue 7698
 
This Week  
 
 
Editorials  
 
 
 
On the use and abuse of ancient DNA
Researchers in several disciplines need to tread carefully over shared landscapes of the past.
Cambridge Analytica controversy must spur researchers to update data ethics
A scandal over an academic’s use of Facebook data highlights the need for research scrutiny.
Mushrooms: coming soon to a burger near you
Mushroom–beef blends can tackle expanding waistlines and carbon footprints.
 
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Drug executives should take a Hippocratic oath
The industry must earn patients’ trust that new medicines really are worth the price, says Bob More.
 
Seven Days  
 
 
 
Athlete brain bank, costly weather and science on social media
The week in science: 23–29 March 2018.
Research Highlights  
 
 
 
This issue's Research Highlights
Selections from the scientific literature.
 
 
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News in Focus
 
Pioneering Alzheimer’s study in Colombia zeroes in on enigmatic protein
Researchers tracking a genetic mutation that causes an early-onset form of the disease hope to uncover new drug targets.
Sara Reardon
  Four-in-one 3D printer paves way for custom-made robots and phones
Experimental device is a route to printing smartphones and other electronics.
Mark Zastrow
Ocean scientists work to forecast huge plankton blooms in Arabian Sea
An operational forecast could help countries prepare for booms in these tiny marine creatures.
Jeff Tollefson
  Reduced-calorie diet shows signs of slowing ageing in people
Most comprehensive study yet demonstrates that cutting people’s energy intake turns down their metabolism.
Alison Abbott
First space mission dedicated to exoplanet atmospheres gets green light
Scientists hope to learn what makes a ‘typical’ solar system from the European Space Agency’s €450-million probe.
Elizabeth Gibney
  US science agencies set to win big in budget deal
Lawmakers are set to vote this week on legislation that includes significant funding increases for many science agencies.
Lauren Morello, Giorgia Guglielmi
Features  
 
 
 
Divided by DNA: The uneasy relationship between archaeology and ancient genomics
Two fields in the midst of a technological revolution are struggling to reconcile their views of the past.
Ewen Callaway
Multimedia  
 
 
Nature Podcast: 29 March 2018
This week, AI in chemistry, and liquid droplets in living cells.
 
 
Congratulations 2018 Laureates
 
Canada Gairdner International Award
D. Solter & A. Surani
Discovery of mammalian genomic imprinting causing parent-of-origin
specific gene expression and its consequences for development and disease
P. Hegemann, K. Deisseroth & E. Boyden
Discovery of light-gated ion channel mechanisms and the discovery of optogenetics

John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award
A. Lopez & C. Murray
Ground-breaking work in conceptualizing/quantifying the Global Burden of Disease

Canada Gairdner Wightman Award
F. Shepherd
Global leadership in oncology which has contributed significantly to improving survival outcomes of lung cancer patients worldwide
 
 
Comment
 
Cybersecurity needs women
Safeguarding our lives online requires skills and experiences that lie beyond masculine stereotypes of the hacker and soldier, says Winifred R. Poster.
Winifred R. Poster
Books and Arts  
 
 
 
Freeman Dyson’s life of scientific delight
Ann Finkbeiner is charmed by the originality and acuity in the physicist’s letters.
Ann Finkbeiner
How the world goes to work, revelations about microbes and the many faces of motherhood: Books in brief
Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week’s best science picks.
Barbara Kiser
Einstein, Bohr and the war over quantum theory
Ramin Skibba explores a history of unresolved questions beyond the Copenhagen interpretation.
Ramin Skibba
The ageless appeal of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Fifty years on, Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece looks more prophetic than ever, reflects Piers Bizony.
Piers Bizony
Correspondence  
 
 
 
Details matter for contaminants in genetic-engineering kits
Nina Koehler, Armin Baiker, Ulrich Busch
  Critique of conflict and climate analysis is oversimplified
Peter H. Gleick, Stephan Lewandowsky, Colin Kelley
Boost children’s digital intelligence to protect against online threats
Yuhyun Park
  Climate change as a contributor to human conflict
Colin D. Butler, Ben J. Kefford
Conclusion of conflict and climate analysis questioned
Solomon Hsiang, Marshall Burke
   
Obituary  
 
 
 
John Sulston (1942–2018)
Nobel-prizewinning champion of the Human Genome Project and open data.
Georgina Ferry
 
 
Specials
 
SPOTLIGHT  
 
 
 
Swedish science bounces back
The country’s science sector took drug-firm shutdowns hard, but has diversified and is on the up.
Nic Fleming
Q&A: Elina Berglund on moving from physics to fertility
How one researcher put together an algorithm that can track fertility — and built a company on it.
Nic Fleming
How a bridge brought science closer together
A spirit of collaboration — and an engineering icon — have together supported the emergence of a major scientific hub.
Nic Fleming
 
 
Research
 
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Architecture of the human GATOR1 and GATOR1–Rag GTPases complexes
Cryo-electron microscopy and biochemical analyses of the GATOR1 protein complex reveal that two binding modes underpin its ability to regulate Rag GTPases as a GTPase-activating protein for RAGA.
The logic of single-cell projections from visual cortex
Tracing of projection neuron axons from the primary visual cortex to their targets shows that these neurons often project to multiple cortical areas of the mouse brain.
Room-temperature nine-µm-wavelength photodetectors and GHz-frequency heterodyne receivers
Quantum-well photodetectors fabricated from photonic metamaterials show enhanced room-temperature sensitivity to long-wavelength infrared radiation and produce gigahertz-frequency heterodyne signals when pumped with quantum cascade lasers.
Whole-organism clone tracing using single-cell sequencing
A single-cell sequencing method is developed that uses transcriptomics and CRISPR–Cas9 technology to investigate clonal relationships in cells present in different zebrafish tissues.
Structure of the peptidoglycan polymerase RodA resolved by evolutionary coupling analysis
Evolutionary coupling-enabled molecular replacement determination of the structure of Thermus thermophilus RodA reveals a highly conserved cavity in its transmembrane domain, and mutagenesis experiments in Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli show that perturbation of this cavity abolishes RodA function.
Itaconate is an anti-inflammatory metabolite that activates Nrf2 via alkylation of KEAP1
Treatment of lipopolysaccharide-activated macrophages with the cell-permeable itaconate derivative 4-octyl itaconate activates the anti-inflammatory transcription factor Nrf2 by alkylating key cysteine residues on the KEAP1 protein.
Quantized Majorana conductance
In a step towards topological quantum computation, a quantized Majorana conductance has been demonstrated for a semiconducting nanowire coupled to a superconductor.
A new class of synthetic retinoid antibiotics effective against bacterial persisters
Synthetic retinoid compounds can kill both growing and persister MRSA cells by disrupting the membrane lipid bilayer, and are effective in a mouse model of chronic MRSA infection.
Brief Communications Arising  
 
 
 
Is plasticity caused by single genes?
J. van Gestel, F. J. Weissing
Contesting the evidence for non-adaptive plasticity
François Mallard, Ana Marija Jakšić, Christian Schlötterer
Ghalambor et al. reply
Cameron K. Ghalambor, Kim L. Hoke, Emily W. Ruell et al.
Articles  
 
 
 
A coherent spin–photon interface in silicon
A single spin in silicon is strongly coupled to a microwave-frequency photon and coherent single-spin dynamics are observed using circuit quantum electrodynamics.
X. Mi, M. Benito, S. Putz et al.
Planning chemical syntheses with deep neural networks and symbolic AI
Deep neural networks and Monte Carlo tree search can plan chemical syntheses by training models on a huge database of published reactions; their predicted synthetic routes cannot be distinguished from those a human chemist would design.
Marwin H. S. Segler, Mike Preuss, Mark P. Waller
De novo mutations in regulatory elements in neurodevelopmental disorders
Analysis of rare de novo mutations in gene regulatory elements suggests that 1–3% of patients with neurodevelopmental disorders carry such mutations in elements that are active in the fetal brain.
Patrick J. Short, Jeremy F. McRae, Giuseppe Gallone et al.
Encoding of danger by parabrachial CGRP neurons
Single-cell recordings show that CGRP-expressing neurons in the parabrachial nucleus in mice respond to both noxious stimuli and signals of feeding satiety.
Carlos A. Campos, Anna J. Bowen, Carolyn W. Roman et al.
Extensive impact of non-antibiotic drugs on human gut bacteria
A screen of more than 1,000 drugs shows that about a quarter of the non-antibiotic drugs inhibit the growth of at least one commensal bacterial strain in vitro.
Lisa Maier, Mihaela Pruteanu, Michael Kuhn et al.
Letters  
 
 
 
A galaxy lacking dark matter
Galaxies normally have far more dark matter than normal matter, but the dynamics of objects within the ultra-diffuse galaxy NGC1052–DF2 suggest that it has a very little dark matter component.
Pieter van Dokkum, Shany Danieli, Yotam Cohen et al.
A programmable two-qubit quantum processor in silicon
A two-qubit quantum processor in a silicon device is demonstrated, which can perform the Deutsch–Josza algorithm and the Grover search algorithm.
T. F. Watson, S. G. J. Philips, E. Kawakami et al.
Massive Dirac fermions in a ferromagnetic kagome metal
Fe3Sn2 hosts massive Dirac fermions, owing to the underlying symmetry properties of the bilayer kagome lattice in the ferromagnetic state and the atomic spin–orbit coupling.
Linda Ye, Mingu Kang, Junwei Liu et al.
Timing of oceans on Mars from shoreline deformation
Ancient shorelines on Mars must have formed before and during the emplacement of the Tharsis volcanic province, instead of afterwards as previously assumed, suggesting that oceans on Mars formed early.
Robert I. Citron, Michael Manga, Douglas J. Hemingway
Insulin resistance in cavefish as an adaptation to a nutrient-limited environment
Cavefish populations of the Mexican tetra, Astyanax mexicanus, carry a mutation in the insulin receptor gene that renders them insulin- and starvation-resistant relative to surface populations of the same species.
Misty R. Riddle, Ariel C. Aspiras, Karin Gaudenz et al.
Reconstructing the genetic history of late Neanderthals
Genetic similarity among late Neanderthals is predicted well by their geographical location, and although some of these Neanderthals were contemporaneous with early modern humans, their genomes show no evidence of recent gene flow from modern humans.
Mateja Hajdinjak, Qiaomei Fu, Alexander Hübner et al.
Moving magnetoencephalography towards real-world applications with a wearable system
A new magnetoencephalography system allows high-spatiotemporal-resolution imaging of human brain function in moving subjects.
Elena Boto, Niall Holmes, James Leggett et al.
A TRP channel trio mediates acute noxious heat sensing
Three transient receptor potential channels (TRPA1, TRPV1 and TRPM3) mediate sensitivity to acute noxious heat in mice in a redundant system; mice lacking all three show severe deficits in heat sensing, whereas double-knockout mice do not.
Ine Vandewauw, Katrien De Clercq, Marie Mulier et al.
Electromechanical vortex filaments during cardiac fibrillation
Using optical mapping and 3D ultrasound, the dynamics and interactions between electrical and mechanical phase singularities were analysed by simultaneously measuring the membrane potential, intracellular calcium concentration and mechanical contractions of the heart during normal rhythm and fibrillation.
J. Christoph, M. Chebbok, C. Richter et al.
Hepatocyte-secreted DPP4 in obesity promotes adipose inflammation and insulin resistance
Hepatocytes secrete DPP4, which promotes adipose tissue inflammation and insulin resistance in obese mice, suggesting a new specific target for treatment of metabolic disorders.
Devram S. Ghorpade, Lale Ozcan, Ze Zheng et al.
The protein histidine phosphatase LHPP is a tumour suppressor
Decreased expression of histidine phosphatase LHPP, a novel tumour suppressor, results in increased global histidine phosphorylation and hepatocellular carcinoma.
Sravanth K. Hindupur, Marco Colombi, Stephen R. Fuhs et al.
Optogenetic regulation of engineered cellular metabolism for microbial chemical production
Finely tuned optogenetic control of engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae enhances the biosynthesis of valuable products such as isobutanol in laboratory-scale fermenters.
Evan M. Zhao, Yanfei Zhang, Justin Mehl et al.
Errata  
 
 
 
Erratum: Non-adaptive plasticity potentiates rapid adaptive evolution of gene expression in nature
Cameron K. Ghalambor, Kim L. Hoke, Emily W. Ruell et al.
News and Views  
 
 
 
Oceans on Mars formed early
Maria T. Zuber
A trio of ion channels takes the heat
Rose Z. Hill, Diana M. Bautista
AI designs organic syntheses
Derek Lowe
 
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Wing origami
Ryan Wilkinson
 
Killer T cells show their kinder side
Paul Klenerman, Graham Ogg
The healthy diabetic cavefish conundrum
Sylvie Rétaux
 
50 & 100 years ago
The tornadoes of sudden cardiac arrest
José Jalife
   
 
 
 
 
 
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Careers & Jobs
 
Feature  
 
 
 
Why laughter in the lab can help your science
Amber Dance
Career Briefs  
 
 
 
Women feature only rarely as first or last authors in leading journals
More than one-third of graduate students report being depressed
Futures  
 
 
Starless night
Cold comfort.
Andrew Johnston
 
 
 
 
 

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