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Nicolas Decat is a PhD student in neuroscience at the Paris Brain Institute. By day, he investigates what goes through people’s minds as they drift off to sleep. When they’re sleeping, he works on ways to turn science into visual stories that inspire.
Dr. Rachael Dangarembizi is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Human Biology and a neuroscientist in the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She has established the first laboratory in Africa that studies the mechanisms of brain injury caused by fungal neuroinfections. Her research bridges basic science with clinical insights, aiming to improve diagnosis, treatment, and patient outcomes by understanding fungal-host interactions, neuroimmune responses, and brain injury. Dr. Dangarembizi has earned multiple awards for her work and leads several organizations dedicated to advancing neuroscience capacity across Africa with the aim of growing local expertise and infrastructure to drive impactful research. In this Q&A, she tells us about the challenges and opportunities of conducting globally competitive research with limited resources.
The Collection “DNA Replication and Replication Stress” brings together original research articles, critical reviews, and perspectives from scientists with diverse viewpoints and areas of expertise in DNA replication, genome integrity, and cancer.
Investigating the complexities of ageing through computational biology, Handan Melike Dönertaş shares her journey from evolutionary genomics research at Middle East Technical University to leading her own lab at the Leibniz Institute on Ageing. Her team is developing and applying computational approaches aiming to advance our understanding of the microbiome and ageing.
‘Candidatus Endonucleobacter’ infects the nuclei of deep-sea mussels but it was unknown how they can prevent apoptosis of the host. A new study by Porras and colleagues, published in Nature Microbiology, suggests that the bacterium upregulates host-derived apoptosis inhibitors and genes for digesting sugars, lipids and amino acids acquired through horizontal gene transfer from the mussels.
This paper is a call to action. By publishing concurrently across journals like an emergency bulletin, we are not merely making a plea for awareness about climate change. Instead, we are demanding immediate, tangible steps that harness the power of microbiology and the expertise of researchers and policymakers to safeguard the planet for future generations.
A study on African lions in Uganda’s Nile Delta shows wildlife tourism rangers, an often-forgotten group in the scientific process, deliver strong density estimates. The study also shows infrared camera traps are weak at detecting lions.
This Comment reviews a recent workshop that aimed at improving funding outcomes for consciousness science researchers. The most essential pieces of advice for early career consciousness scientists are summarized.
Light scattering, resulting from refractive index mismatch, is the primary factor limiting imaging depth in biological tissue. In a study recently published in Science1, Ou et al. took an unconventional approach and employed highly absorbing molecules, such as food dye tartrazine, to increase the refractive index of water in the near-infrared wavelength range, which rendered tissue transparent in live mice.
Dr. Guifen Liu, now an Associate Professor at ZhangLab, Tongji University, began her research in epigenetic regulation using zebrafish as a model, first as a postdoctoral researcher and then as a research scientist. She established the zebrafish culturing system at the Department of Informatics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. Dr. Qi Wang is an Assistant Professor at ZhangLab, Tongji University, and she is in charge of the cell culture part of the lab and has broad expertise in high-throughput experimental research on chromatin structure. They are the only two experimental biologists in a dry lab focusing on different research topics. At present, they are in the transition period from experimental scientists to computational scientists. Current Lab Members-Yong Zhang Lab (tongji.edu.cn).
In this Q&A, Brianna Bibel, also known as the Bumbling Biochemist, talks to the journal about how social media can be harnessed to relay scientific information to other researchers, while making it fun and accessible.
Conducting research at the interface of chemistry, microbiology and marine biology, Constanze Kuhlisch reports on challenges in science due to COVID and the situation in Israel, while preparing grants to start her own research group.
Embracing the underlying principles and processes of informed proxy consent or relational autonomy consent in human ancient DNA research can transform research.
This comment reports on work done at Harvard Medical School to identify areas for improvement in research rigor, reproducibility, and responsibility in pursuit of continued research excellence.
Documentation of women’s inclusion in Indian academia and conferences by BiasWatchIndia reveals the scale of underrepresentation of women across science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
In 2023, we conducted a virtual program to introduce early-career researchers to the fundamentals of academic journal editing. Here, we reflect on the mission of this program and its outcomes.
A comment article summarizing a range of research activities that contribute to understanding evolving Māori perspectives on Gene Editing and how they might contribute to future regulation.
Nanoparticle therapy continues to be an attractive avenue of targeted and personalised therapies. A molecular nano-conjugate developed by Zeng et al. effectively targets cancer cells and aids in their diagnosis, therapy, and also optimises innate immune responses.
