The past, present and future of de novo protein design

Pan, X. & Kortemme, T. Recent advances in de novo protein design: principles, methods, and applications. J. Biol. Chem. 296, 100558 (2021). Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  Woolfson, D. N. A brief history of de novo protein design: minimal, rational, and computational. J. Mol. Biol. 433, 167160 (2021). Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar …

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Higher racial diversity in US business and law schools is linked to higher graduate salaries

You have full access to this article via your institution. Source research: Mitra, D., Golder, P. N. & Topchy, M. Racial diversity in higher education is associated with higher student salaries. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10425-7 (2026). Messages for policy • Graduates’ salary data indicate that having more racial diversity in higher-education institutions is associated with learning and…

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GLP-1R–GIPR–PPARα/γ/δ quintuple agonism corrects obesity and diabetes in mice

Animals and housing conditions Experiments were performed in accordance with the Animal Protection Law of the European Union after permission by the Governments of Upper Bavaria, Germany, or Copenhagen, Denmark, or by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees of the Universities of Texas Southwestern, Michigan, Duke or Yale, USA. Mice were double- or single-housed…

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Competition between separated parental genomes in fertilized eggs aids development

Nature, Published online: 29 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01270-9 In fertilized egg cells, the maternal and paternal genomes are enclosed in separate compartments called pronuclei. Experiments in mice reveal that this spatial separation enables parental competition for cytoplasmic factors, which helps to prevent the dysregulation of chemical modifications to DNA-packing proteins and contributes to healthy embryonic development….

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Spatial atlas of diabetic kidney disease reveals a B cell-rich subgroup

Sample acquisition and ethics approval The University of Pennsylvania institutional review board (IRB) approved the collection of human kidney tissue for this study. Left-over kidney samples were irreversibly de-identified, and no personal identifiers were gathered. Therefore, they were exempt from IRB review (category 4). We engaged an external, honest broker who was responsible for clinical…

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Training language models to be warm can reduce accuracy and increase sycophancy

Dataset construction We selected conversations from ShareGPT Vicuna Unfiltered (https://huggingface.co/datasets/anon8231489123/ShareGPT_Vicuna_unfiltered), one of the only large-scale and publicly available datasets with real-world human–LLM chat logs. This dataset contains approximately 100,000 user conversations with ChatGPT donated by users (https://sharegpt.com/). We filtered it to remove ‘not safe for work’ content using an existing open-source classifier called Detoxify (https://docs.unitary.ai/api-references/detoxify)….

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Cytoplasmic competition between separate parental pronuclei in zygotes

Animals All animal experiments conformed to the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and were approved by the Institutional Committee of Laboratory Animal Experimentation of the RIKEN Centre for Biosystems Dynamics Research. C57BL/6 (B6), JF1/Ms (JF1), BDF1 (C57BL/6 × DBA/2) and R26R-H2B-EGFP+/− (C57BL/6 × DBA/2 background)43 mice, aged 8–10 weeks, were used to produce oocytes and sperm….

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Engineering tough blood clots for rapid haemostasis and enhanced regeneration

Guo, B., Dong, R., Liang, Y. & Li, M. Haemostatic materials for wound healing applications. Nat. Rev. Chem. 5, 773–791 (2021). Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar  Weisel, J. W. Enigmas of blood clot elasticity. Science 320, 456–457 (2008). Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar  Jiang, S., Liu, S., Lau, S. & Li, J. Hemostatic biomaterials to…

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