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Serum vitamin D, blood pressure and hypertension risk in the HUNT study using observational and Mendelian randomization approaches

Limited studies have triangulated the relationship between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] levels and systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP) or hypertension risk utilizing both obser...

Lin Jiang, Yi-Qian Sun, Marion Denos, Ben Michael Brumpton, Yue Chen… in Scientific Reports (2024)

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Stabilized ε-Fe₂C catalyst with Mn tuning to suppress C1 byproduct selectivity for high-temperature olefin synthesis

Accurately controlling the product selectivity in syngas conversion, especially increasing the olefin selectivity while minimizing C1 byproducts, remains a significant challenge. Epsilon Fe₂C is deemed a promisin...

Fei Qian, Jiawei Bai, Yi Cai, Hui Yang, Xue-Min Cao, **ngchen Liu… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Altered immune pathways in patients of temporal lobe epilepsy with and without hippocampal sclerosis

Over the past decades, the immune responses have been suspected of participating in the mechanisms for epilepsy. To assess the immune related pathway in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), we explored the altered im...

**ang-Qian Che, Shi-Kun Zhan, Jiao-Jiao Song, Yu-Lei Deng, Wei-Liu… in Scientific Reports (2024)

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Functional and structural dissection of glycosyltransferases underlying the glycodiversity of wolfberry-derived bioactive ingredients lycibarbarspermidines

Lycibarbarspermidines are unusual phenolamide glycosides characterized by a dicaffeoylspermidine core with multiple glycosyl substitutions, and serve as a major class of bioactive ingredients in the wolfberry....

Shao-Yang Li, Gao-Qian Wang, Liang Long, Jia-Ling Gao… in Nature Communications (2024)

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COVID-19 was associated with the complications after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

We aimed to identify the severity and duration of COVID-19 infection on complications after allo-HSCT. Enrolled 179 hospitalized patients with COVID-19 were categorized into long-term infection (> 18 days, n = 90...

Qi Wen, Ze Guo, **ao-Hui Zhang, Lan-** Xu, Yu Wang, Chen-Hua Yan… in Scientific Reports (2024)

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Orbital-dependent electron correlation in double-layer nickelate La₃Ni₂O₇

The latest discovery of high temperature superconductivity near 80 K in La₃Ni₂O₇ under high pressure has attracted much attention. Many proposals are put forth to understand the origin of superconductivity. The d...

Jiangang Yang, Hualei Sun, Xunwu Hu, Yuyang **e, Taimin Miao… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Universal Murray’s law for optimised fluid transport in synthetic structures

Materials following Murray’s law are of significant interest due to their unique porous structure and optimal mass transfer ability. However, it is challenging to construct such biomimetic hierarchical channel...

Binghan Zhou, Qian Cheng, Zhuo Chen, Zesheng Chen, Dongfang Liang… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Visualizing a single wavefront dislocation induced by orbital angular momentum in graphene

Phase singularities are phase-indeterminate points where wave amplitudes are zero, which manifest as phase vertices or wavefront dislocations. In the realm of optical and electron beams, the phase singularity ...

Yi-Wen Liu, Yu-Chen Zhuang, Ya-Ning Ren, Chao Yan, **ao-Feng Zhou… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Targeting pathogenic CD8⁺ tissue-resident T cells with chimeric antigen receptor therapy in murine autoimmune cholangitis

Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is a cholestatic autoimmune liver disease characterized by autoreactive T cell response against intrahepatic small bile ducts. Here, we use Il12b^-/-Il2ra^-/- mice (DKO mice) as a ...

Hao-**an Zhu, Shu-Han Yang, Cai-Yue Gao, Zhen-Hua Bian… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Hidden diversity and potential ecological function of phosphorus acquisition genes in widespread terrestrial bacteriophages

Phosphorus (P) limitation of ecosystem processes is widespread in terrestrial habitats. While a few auxiliary metabolic genes (AMGs) in bacteriophages from aquatic habitats are reported to have the potential t...

Jie-Liang Liang, Shi-wei Feng, **g-li Lu, **ao-nan Wang… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Trimethylamine N-oxide impairs β-cell function and glucose tolerance

β-Cell dysfunction and β-cell loss are hallmarks of type 2 diabetes (T2D). Here, we found that trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) at a similar concentration to that found in diabetes could directly decrease glucose...

Lijuan Kong, Qi** Zhao, **ao**g Jiang, **** Hu, Qian Jiang… in Nature Communications (2024)

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CD4⁺CD25⁺ regulatory T cells ex vivo generated from autologous naïve CD4⁺ T cells suppress EAE progression

CD4⁺CD25⁺ regulatory T cells (Tregs) play an important role in maintaining immune homeostasis in multiple sclerosis (MS). Hence, we aimed to explore the therapeutic efficacy and safety of adoptive cell therapy (A...

Ting-Ting Yang, Pen-Ju Liu, Qing-Yu Sun, Ze-Yi Wang, Guo-Bin Yuan… in Scientific Reports (2024)

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The rat as a novel model for chronic rotator cuff injuries

Chronic rotator cuff injuries (CRCIs) still present a great challenge for orthopaedics surgeons. Many new therapeutic strategies are developed to facilitate repair and improve the healing process. However, the...

Tao Yuan, Cheng-Teng Lai, Shao-Qiang Yang, Jia Meng, Hong Qian… in Scientific Reports (2024)

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Machine learning-based extrachromosomal DNA identification in large-scale cohorts reveals its clinical implications in cancer

The clinical implications of extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) in cancer therapy remain largely elusive. Here, we present a comprehensive analysis of ecDNA amplification spectra and their association with clinical ...

Shixiang Wang, Chen-Yi Wu, Ming-Ming He, Jia-**n Yong… 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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Analysis of age-specified and genotype distribution of HPV multiple infections in the Chinese population

Multiple infections are a key component of HPV pathogenesis and have a direct impact on how an infection turns out. It’s crucial to look at the associations between HPV multiple infections and both age and HPV...

Yu-**a Zhou, **ao-Hui Ma, Ting-Ting Wang, **ao-Li Qu, **ao-Qian Zhang in Scientific Reports (2024)

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Addendum: Cellular differentiation into hyphae and spores in halophilic archaea

Shu-Kun Tang, **ao-Yang Zhi, Yao Zhang, Kira S. Makarova… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Photocatalytic aerobic oxidation of C(sp³)-H bonds

In modern industries, the aerobic oxidation of C(sp³)-H bonds to achieve the value-added conversion of hydrocarbons requires high temperatures and pressures, which significantly increases energy consumption and c...

Lei Zhang, Run-Han Li, **ao-**n Li, Shengyao Wang, Jiang Liu… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Programmable adhesion and morphing of protein hydrogels for underwater robots

Soft robots capable of efficiently implementing tasks in fluid-immersed environments hold great promise for diverse applications. However, it remains challenging to achieve robotization that relies on dynamic ...

Sheng-Chen Huang, Ya-Jiao Zhu, **ao-Ying Huang, **ao-**a **a… in Nature Communications (2024)