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Catalytic properties of trivalent rare-earth oxides with intrinsic surface oxygen vacancy

Oxygen vacancy (O_v) is an anionic defect widely existed in metal oxide lattice, as exemplified by CeO₂, TiO₂, and ZnO. As O_v can modify the band structure of solid, it improves the physicochemical properties such...

Kai Xu, **-Cheng Liu, Wei-Wei Wang, Lu-Lu Zhou, Chao Ma… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Author Correction: ALKBH5-mediated m6A modification of IL-11 drives macrophage-to-myofibroblast transition and pathological cardiac fibrosis in mice

Tao Zhuang, Mei-Hua Chen, Ruo-** Wu, **g Wang, **-De Hu… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Neuropeptide natalisin regulates reproductive behaviors in Spodoptera frugiperda

Natalisin (NTL) is a conserved neuropeptide, only present in insects, that has been reported to regulate their sexual activity. In this study, we investigated the involvement of NTL in the reproductive behavio...

Wei Gong, Jun-Hong Linghu, Hui-Min Xu, Li-Lin Luo, Guy Smagghe… in Scientific Reports (2024)

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PJA1-mediated suppression of pyroptosis as a driver of docetaxel resistance in nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Chemoresistance is a main reason for treatment failure in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, but the exact regulatory mechanism underlying chemoresistance in nasopharyngeal carcinoma remains to be elucida...

Sheng-Yan Huang, Sha Gong, Yin Zhao, Ming-Liang Ye, Jun-Yan Li… in Nature Communications (2024)

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The rise of baobab trees in Madagascar

The baobab trees (genus Adansonia) have attracted tremendous attention because of their striking shape and distinctive relationships with fauna¹. These spectacular trees have also influenced human culture, inspir...

Jun-Nan Wan, Sheng-Wei Wang, Andrew R. Leitch, Ilia J. Leitch, Jian-Bo Jian… in Nature (2024)

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Dynamic multicolor emissions of multimodal phosphors by Mn²⁺ trace do** in self-activated CaGa₄O₇

The manipulation of excitation modes and resultant emission colors in luminescent materials holds pivotal importance for encrypting information in anti-counterfeiting applications. Despite considerable achieve...

Yiqian Tang, Yiyu Cai, Kunpeng Dou, Jianqing Chang, Wei Li… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Structural basis for phage-mediated activation and repression of bacterial DSR2 anti-phage defense system

Silent information regulator 2 (Sir2) proteins typically catalyze NAD⁺-dependent protein deacetylation. The recently identified bacterial Sir2 domain-containing protein, defense-associated sirtuin 2 (DSR2), recog...

Jun-Tao Zhang, **ao-Yu Liu, Zhuolin Li, **n-Yang Wei, **n-Yi Song… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Incidence and risk factors for pulmonary hemorrhage after percutaneous CT-guided pulmonary nodule biopsy: an observational study

To evaluate the current incidence of pulmonary hemorrhage and the potential factors contributing to its increased risk after percutaneous CT-guided pulmonary nodule biopsy and to summarize the technical recomm...

Chuang He, Ling Zhao, Hua-long Yu, Wei Zhao, Dong Li, Guo-dong Li… in Scientific Reports (2024)

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ALKBH5-mediated m6A modification of IL-11 drives macrophage-to-myofibroblast transition and pathological cardiac fibrosis in mice

Cardiac macrophage contributes to the development of cardiac fibrosis, but factors that regulate cardiac macrophages transition and activation during this process remains elusive. Here we show, by single-cell ...

Tao Zhuang, Mei-Hua Chen, Ruo-** Wu, **g Wang, **-De Hu… in Nature Communications (2024)

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In situ copper faceting enables efficient CO₂/CO electrolysis

The copper (Cu)-catalyzed electrochemical CO₂ reduction provides a route for the synthesis of multicarbon (C₂₊) products. However, the thermodynamically favorable Cu surface (i.e. Cu(111)) energetically favors si...

Kaili Yao, Jun Li, Adnan Ozden, Haibin Wang, Ning Sun, Pengyu Liu… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Ocular microvascular alteration in patients with myocardial infarction—a new OCTA study

Myocardial infarction is defined as a sudden decrease or interruption in blood flow to the coronary arteries, causing ischemic necrosis of the corresponding cardiomyocytes. It is unclear whether systemic macro...

Jun-Yi Wu, **-Yu Hu, Qian-Min Ge, San-Hua Xu, Jie Zou, Min Kang… in Scientific Reports (2024)

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Dipterocarpoidae genomics reveal their demography and adaptations to Asian rainforests

Dipterocarpoideae species form the emergent layer of Asian rainforests. They are the indicator species for Asian rainforest distribution, but they are severely threatened. Here, to understand their adaptation ...

Rong Wang, Chao-Nan Liu, Simon T. Segar, Yu-Ting Jiang… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Dysfunction of duplicated pair rice histone acetyltransferases causes segregation distortion and an interspecific reproductive barrier

Postzygotic reproductive isolation, which results in the irreversible divergence of species, is commonly accompanied by hybrid sterility, necrosis/weakness, or lethality in the F₁ or other offspring generations. ...

Ben Liao, You-Huang **ang, Yan Li, Kai-Yang Yang, Jun-**ang Shan… in Nature Communications (2024)

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HBV promotes its replication by up-regulating RAD51C gene expression

Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), pegylated-interferon-α(PEG-IFNα) and long-term nucleos(t)ide analogs (NUCs) are mainly drugs used to treat HBV infe...

Ting-wei Peng, Qing-feng Ma, Jie Li, Xue Wang, Cong-hui Zhang… in Scientific Reports (2024)

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Direct bandgap emission from strain-doped germanium

Germanium (Ge) is an attractive material for Silicon (Si) compatible optoelectronics, but the nature of its indirect bandgap renders it an inefficient light emitter. Drawing inspiration from the significant ex...

Lin-Ding Yuan, Shu-Shen Li, Jun-Wei Luo in Nature Communications (2024)

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Development and validation of web-based nomograms for predicting survival status in patients with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma depending on the surgical status: a SEER database analysis

This study aimed to develop and validate prognostic nomograms that can estimate the probability of 1-, 3- and 5-year overall survival (OS) as well as cancer-specific survival (CSS) for Intrahepatic cholangioca...

Yao-Ge Liu, Shi-Tao Jiang, Jun-Wei Zhang, Lei Zhang, Hai-Tao Zhao… in Scientific Reports (2024)

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Gut microbial structural variation associates with immune checkpoint inhibitor response

The gut microbiota may have an effect on the therapeutic resistance and toxicity of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). However, the associations between the highly variable genomes of gut bacteria and the ef...

Rong Liu, You Zou, Wei-Quan Wang, Jun-Hong Chen, Lei Zhang… in Nature Communications (2023)

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PAX4 loss of function increases diabetes risk by altering human pancreatic endocrine cell development

The coding variant (p.Arg192His) in the transcription factor PAX4 is associated with an altered risk for type 2 diabetes (T2D) in East Asian populations. In mice, Pax4 is essential for beta cell formation but its...

Hwee Hui Lau, Nicole A. J. Krentz, Fernando Abaitua… in Nature Communications (2023)

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Natural product P57 induces hypothermia through targeting pyridoxal kinase

Induction of hypothermia during hibernation/torpor enables certain mammals to survive under extreme environmental conditions. However, pharmacological induction of hypothermia in most mammals remains a huge ch...

Ruina Wang, Lei **ao, Jianbo Pan, Guangsen Bao, Yunmei Zhu, Di Zhu… in Nature Communications (2023)

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Janus particle-engineered structural lipiodol droplets for arterial embolization

Embolization (utilizing embolic materials to block blood vessels) has been considered one of the most promising strategies for clinical disease treatments. However, the existing embolic materials have poor emb...

Sijian Tao, Bingquan Lin, Houwang Zhou, Suinan Sha, … in Nature Communications (2023)