Nature Communications

Cross-species insights into placental evolution and diseases at the single-cell resolution

Guanghui Tan, Ao Zhang, Xuesha Cao et al. May 09, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-72652-w

Abstract The placenta is essential for fetal development, yet its molecular evolution across mammals remains elusive. Here, we present a comprehensive single-cel...

Immune surveillance on the insect body surface recognizes a pathogen-derived fungal protease to activate defenses

Jun Li, Qi Xiao, Petros Ligoxygakis et al. May 09, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-72836-4

Abstract Immune systems must distinguish between pathogens and commensals to mount effective responses. However, how hosts discriminate among fungi at surface ba...

Developmental origins of exceptional health and survival: a four-generation family cohort study

Matthew Thomas Keys, Søren Netra, Dorthe Almind Pedersen et al. May 09, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-72433-5

Citywide indoor air sampling mirrors wastewater and clinical case surveillance of respiratory viruses

Hannah J. Barbian, Erin P. Newcomer, Sofiya Bobrovska et al. May 09, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-72919-2

Catecholaminergic neurons boost fibroblast osteogenic activity in keloid

Fangzhou LOU, Jihuan LIANG, Yang Sun et al. May 09, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-72823-9

Btg2 inhibits Fmo1 UFMylation thus exacerbating ferroptosis and apoptosis in hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury

Dadi Peng, Yihua Wang, Dengliang Lei et al. May 09, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-72455-z

Supramolecular protection of isocyanates from water by encapsulation within hydrophobic crystalline pillar[n]arene macrocycles

Kiichi Yasuzawa, Kouhei Sutou, Katsuto Onishi et al. May 09, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-72696-y

Abstract The high reactivity of isocyanate groups not only makes them excellent precursors for polyurethanes and polyureas, but it also leads to their degradatio...

MXene membrane with directionally functionalized channel entrances for enhanced ion selectivity and permeability

Hang Yu, Rongming Xu, Jiachun Ren et al. May 09, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-71889-9

CroCoDeEL: accurate control-free detection of cross-sample contamination in metagenomic data

Lindsay Goulet, Florian Plaza Oñate, Alexandre Famechon et al. May 09, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-72637-9

Nanoparticle-enabled tuning of cell density for enhanced adhesion and tissue repair

Hyun Su Park, Gwang-Bum Im, So Yun Jeong et al. May 09, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-72803-z

Using satellite imagery to map rural marketplaces and monitor their activity at high frequency

Tillmann von Carnap, Reza M. Asiyabi, Paul Dingus et al. May 09, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-72865-z

Bridging hydrogen-bond-stabilized polymeric coacervate core micelles for high-efficiency drug encapsulation and delivery

Jiafeng Wang, Jiajia Ying, Jianxiang Huang et al. May 08, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-72978-5

Environment heterogeneity creates fast amplifiers of natural selection in graph-structured populations

Cecilia Fruet, Arthur Alexandre, Alia Abbara et al. May 08, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-72784-z

Abstract Complex spatial structure, with partially isolated subpopulations, and environment heterogeneity, such as gradients in nutrients, oxygen, and drugs, both shape the evolution...

Nanoscale organization in the cell membrane dynamically modulates the biophysics of voltage-gated sodium channels

Mikhail Tarasov, Madison Ammon, Jan Otto Wirth et al. May 08, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-72387-8

Orbital-level stabilization of Fe-N bonds in Prussian blue positive electrodes via alkali metal lattice engineering

Yun Gao, Hao Yao, Xiaoyue Zhang et al. May 08, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-72759-0

Disrupting sympathetic nerve-tumor crosstalk via biomimetic nanovesicles to augment chemotherapy efficacy under chronic stress

Jingjie Liu, Jiaqi Qin, Wenxia Zheng et al. May 08, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-72847-1

Quantification of disease-associated RNA tandem repeats by nanopore sensing

Gerardo Patiño-Guillén, Jovan Pesovic, Marko Panić et al. May 08, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-72819-5

Abstract Short tandem repeat expansions underlie a class of neurological and neuromuscular diseases known as repeat expansion disorders, yet the precise characterisation of these rep...

Biochemical and brain heterogeneity characterizes psychiatric and non-psychiatric illness

Maria A. Di Biase, William R. Reay, Hadis Jameei et al. May 08, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-72604-4

Non-contact laser polishing and reconstruction towards high-efficiency all-perovskite tandem solar cells

Tianjun Ma, Dingfu Luo, Wenjiang Ye et al. May 08, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-71017-7

Author Correction: Chemically-defined and scalable culture system for intestinal stem cells derived from human intestinal organoids

Ohman Kwon, Hana Lee, Jaeeun Jung et al. May 08, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-72959-8

Speckle-based measurement of the fractional azimuthal index of orbital angular momentum beams for refractive index sensing

Christopher Perrella, Aman Anil Punse, Anastasiia Zalogina et al. May 08, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-72281-3

CLASHub is an integrated database and analytical platform for microRNA-target interactions

Lu Li, Peike Sheng, Nicholas M. Hiers et al. May 08, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-72902-x

Abstract MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short RNAs that regulate gene expression, critical for development and disease. Residing in Argonaute (AGO) proteins, miRNAs targ...

Atomic dynamics of solid-gas interfaces unveil dual-layer formation and WS2 nucleation driven by multistep phase-transition

Qinwei An, Xueyang Zhang, Yuanlin Fang et al. May 08, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-72731-y

Phase separation of a heterochiral peptide-drug conjugate amplified by ionic interactions

Yangkai Zhou, Jinmin Ye, Xingru Liu et al. May 08, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-72789-8

Energy-efficient field-free switching by orbital torque and spin-reorientation

Bilal Jamshed, Subhakanta Das, Pinkesh Kumar Mishra et al. May 08, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-72894-8

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