Nature Communications

Vol. 17, Issue 1 Issue 1 2026
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Divergent aging of nulliparous and parous mammary glands reveals IL33+ hybrid epithelial cells

Andrew Olander, Paloma Medina, Veronica Haro Acosta et al. Jan 21, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-68611-0

Abstract Aging increases breast cancer risk while an early first pregnancy reduces a woman’s life-long risk. Several studies have explored the effect of either a...

Sugar rationing during the first 1000 days of life and lifelong risk of heart failure

Haoxian Tang, Xuan Zhang, Jingtao Huang et al. Jan 21, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-68713-9

An alternative EGFR activation by patient-derived R252C mutation promotes cancer progression

Yajuan Zhang, Qizhen Fei, Yan Li et al. Jan 21, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-68699-4

Abstract Mutations in the extracellular or intracellular domains of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) are implicated in the development of various cancers. While the intracellu...

Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy plus sintilimab in proficient mismatch repair locally advanced rectal cancer with intermediate/high-immunoscore (SILAR): a single-arm phase II trial

Xiaobin Zheng, Huashan Liu, Lishuo Shi et al. Jan 21, 2026 10.1038/s41467-025-65162-8

A stochastic mechanism drives fast substrate translocation in the AAA+ machine ClpB

Remi Casier, Dorit Levy, Inbal Riven et al. Jan 21, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-68478-1

Abstract How biological machines harness ATP to drive mechanical work remains a crucial question. Structural studies of protein-translocating AAA+ machines proposed a coupled and seq...

In situ self-assembled cell reservoir hydrogel for maneuvering multistage radioimmunotherapy

Yue Chen, Qinyi Chen, Yuanyuan Ma et al. Jan 21, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-68490-5

Efficient implementation of a quantum algorithm with a trapped ion qudit

Xiaoyang Shi, Jasmine Sinanan-Singh, Timothy J. Burke et al. Jan 21, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-68746-0

Regulating Pb off-centering distortion for white-light emission in 2D halide perovskites

Yutong Zhang, Yuanyuan Guo, Minjun Feng et al. Jan 21, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-68545-7

Retraction Note: SUMOylation of VEGFR2 regulates its intracellular trafficking and pathological angiogenesis

Huanjiao Jenny Zhou, Zhe Xu, Zongren Wang et al. Jan 21, 2026 10.1038/s41467-025-68233-y

Homogenization of Northern Belgian landscapes through centuries of reclamation, agricultural transition, and urbanization

Luc De Keersmaeker, Pieter Roggemans, Lien Poelmans et al. Jan 21, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-68594-y

Serine inhibits granulosa cell ferroptosis to maintain ovarian function

Hao-Cheng Gu, You-Qiong Zhuo, Ling-Fang Wang et al. Jan 21, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-68440-1

Global alluvial channel patterns

Qiuqi Luo, Edward Park, Edgardo M. Latrubesse et al. Jan 21, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-68569-z

Iterative discovery of potent polymeric antibiotics via multi-stage and multi-task learning against antimicrobial resistance

Yuhui Wu, Cong Wang, Xintian Shen et al. Jan 21, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-68682-z

Structures of nucleotide-bound human telomerase at several steps of its telomeric DNA repeat addition cycle

Sebastian Balch, Elsa Franco-Echevarría, George E. Ghanim et al. Jan 21, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-68560-8

Abstract In most eukaryotes, the reverse transcriptase telomerase counteracts telomere shortening by processively adding telomeric DNA repeat sequences to chromosome ends. Telomerase...

SNORA49 negatively regulates self-renewal of liver cancer stem cells and hepatocarcinogenesis via suppressing SOX9 transcription

Zhibin Yi, Ziheng Zhou, Yang Gu et al. Jan 21, 2026 10.1038/s41467-025-66486-1

Impact and cost-effectiveness of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis in Australian men who have sex with men

Hao Lai, Jason J. Ong, Michael W. Traeger et al. Jan 21, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-68561-7

DNA methylation and lncRNA control asynchronous DNA replication at specific imprinted gene domains

Yui Imaizumi, François Charon, Caroline Surcis et al. Jan 21, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-68558-2

Abstract Besides genome-wide patterns of replication timing (RT), some genes display allelic replication asynchrony in stem cells, brought about by stochastic ev...

Interfacial engineering via dipolar fullerene derivative for efficient tin halide perovskite indoor photovoltaics

Hongbin Xiao, Enhao Cui, Junfang Wang et al. Jan 21, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-68719-3

Decidualization-empowered ECM hydrogel integrating sustained Tβ4 release drives endometrial regeneration in intrauterine adhesions

Yuxiang Liang, Zhaowei Yu, Shaobo Du et al. Jan 21, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-68677-w

Abstract Intrauterine adhesions (IUA), a leading cause of female infertility, result from a pathological switch in the uterine injury response from regeneration to fibrotic scarring....

Preventing premature deaths through polygenic risk scores

Melisa Chuong, Deborah Thompson, Michael E. Weale et al. Jan 21, 2026 10.1038/s41467-025-68129-x

Women with polycystic ovary syndrome exhibit impaired endometrial receptivity with excessive ERα and histone lactylation

Hongying Shan, Yue Wang, Baoying Liao et al. Jan 21, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-68441-0

Abstract Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common reproductive disorders in women and severely impairs fertility. Extant clinical studies can only provide indirect...

Multimodal analysis disentangles the genetic and microbial associations between inflammatory bowel disease and other immune-mediated diseases across a harmonized population framework

Marie Vibeke Vestergaard, Alonzo Alfaro-Núñez, Aleksejs Sazonovs et al. Jan 21, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-68564-4

Community benchmarking and evaluation of human unannotated microprotein detection by mass spectrometry based proteomics

Aaron Wacholder, Eric W. Deutsch, Leron W. Kok et al. Jan 21, 2026 10.1038/s41467-025-68002-x

Efficient multicolor X-ray excited persistent luminescence enabled by Gd-mediated trap clusters

Bin Yang, Deyang Li, Renren Deng et al. Jan 21, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-68799-1

An ultra-long-acting dimeric bictegravir prodrug defined by a short pharmacokinetic tail

Mohammad Ullah Nayan, Brady Sillman, Srijanee Das et al. Jan 21, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-68501-5

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