Nature Communications

Endothelial RAB5IF is required for pathological and developmental retinal angiogenesis

Wen Bai, De-pei Yin, Gang Chen et al. Dec 13, 2025 10.1038/s41467-025-66212-x

Engineering HLA-G-targeted extracellular vesicles nanoplatform for enhanced cancer therapy through precise cancer drug delivery

Ming-You Shie, Shi-Wei Huang, Yeh Chen et al. Dec 13, 2025 10.1038/s41467-025-66451-y

Symbiosome functionality in Medicago truncatula nodules requires continuous clearing of pectins from the symbiosome space

Yongkang Gao, Lei Chen, Wei Yang et al. Dec 13, 2025 10.1038/s41467-025-67404-1

Leveraging network motifs to improve artificial neural networks

Haoling Zhang, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Hector Zenil et al. Dec 13, 2025 10.1038/s41467-025-66533-x

A tactile gripper on an optical fiber for perception and actuation

Chang-Xu Li, Yu-Qing Liu, Dong-Dong Han et al. Dec 13, 2025 10.1038/s41467-025-66575-1

Cryo-correlative light and electron tomography of dopaminergic axonal varicosities reveals non-synaptic modulation of cortico-striatal synapses

Paul Lapios, Robin Anger, Vincent Paget-Blanc et al. Dec 13, 2025 10.1038/s41467-025-66355-x

Abstract Dopamine is an essential neuromodulator in the brain, involved in reward and motor control. Dopaminergic (DA) neurons project to most brain areas, with particularly dense in...

Homophily within and across groups

Abbas K. Rizi, Riccardo Michielan, Clara Stegehuis et al. Dec 13, 2025 10.1038/s41467-025-66415-2

Decoupled Antarctic and Subarctic export productivity under intensified Southern Hemisphere westerlies during the last interglacial

Lijuan Lu, Qinghua Yang, Marcus Gutjahr et al. Dec 13, 2025 10.1038/s41467-025-66289-4

On-surface synthesis of cyclo[20]carbon and cyclo[30]carbon from cyclo[10]carbon

Yuan Guo, Yuzhe Yun, Wenzhi Xiang et al. Dec 13, 2025 10.1038/s41467-025-66650-7

Hierarchically structuralized hydrogels with ligament-like mechanical performance

Diwei Shi, Donghwan Ji, Jinhye Bae Dec 13, 2025 10.1038/s41467-025-66536-8

Abstract Mechanical properties of synthetic hydrogels remain inferior to those of load-bearing tissues such as ligaments, one of the strongest and stiffest natur...

Enhanced production of active species and NH3 using non-equilibrium ferroelectric barrier discharge

Yijie Xu, Ziqiao Chang, Zhiyu Shi et al. Dec 13, 2025 10.1038/s41467-025-66403-6

Off-fault damage controls near-surface rupture behaviour in soft sediments

Nicola De Paola, Rachael J. Bullock, Robert E. Holdsworth et al. Dec 13, 2025 10.1038/s41467-025-66467-4

Abstract Surface-rupturing faults represent some of the most devastating examples of earthquake-related hazards. Near surface rupture behaviour is poorly underst...

Nano-functionalized probiotic treats atherosclerosis via inhibiting intestinal microbiota-TMA-TMAO axis

Zhezhe Chen, Qiongjun Zhu, Hong Xu et al. Dec 13, 2025 10.1038/s41467-025-66448-7

A novel long-galanin peptide from non-mammalian vertebrates mitigates the inflammatory response in IBD models via the biased GALR2/β-arrestin2 pathway

Shanshan Lai, Xianglin Kong, Jingwen Xue et al. Dec 13, 2025 10.1038/s41467-025-66335-1

SARS-CoV-2 within-host population expansion, diversification and adaptation in zoo tigers, lions and hyenas

Laura Bashor, Emily N. Gallichotte, Michelle Galvan et al. Dec 13, 2025 10.1038/s41467-025-66402-7

Abstract SARS-CoV-2 rapidly adapts to new hosts following cross-species transmission; this is highly relevant as unique within-host variants have emerged followi...

FastCCC: a permutation-free framework for scalable, robust, and reference-based cell-cell communication analysis in single cell transcriptomics studies

Siyu Hou, Wenjing Ma, Xiang Zhou Dec 13, 2025 10.1038/s41467-025-66272-z

Sequential Organic Ligand Modifications to Dedicatedly Restructure Grain Boundary and Surface of Perovskites

Sajjad Ahmad, Wajid Ali, Jiayun Sun et al. Dec 13, 2025 10.1038/s41467-025-66478-1

Semi-inductive dataset construction and framework optimization for practical drug target interaction prediction with ScopeDTI

Yigang Chen, Xiang Ji, Ziyue Zhang et al. Dec 13, 2025 10.1038/s41467-025-66311-9

Automation and machine learning drive rapid optimization of isoprenol production in Pseudomonas putida

David N. Carruthers, Patrick C. Kinnunen, Yuerong Li et al. Dec 13, 2025 10.1038/s41467-025-66304-8

Noise-induced tipping of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation under climate mitigation scenarios

Ji-Hoon Oh, Jong-Seong Kug, Yechul Shin et al. Dec 13, 2025 10.1038/s41467-025-66494-1

Biradical-mediated synergistic electrocatalysis using metal-free redox molecular catalysts

Danjun Fu, Jun Zhu, Lulu Wang et al. Dec 13, 2025 10.1038/s41467-025-66495-0

Two- and many-body physics of ultracold molecules dressed by dual microwave fields

Fulin Deng, Xinyuan Hu, Wei-Jian Jin et al. Dec 13, 2025 10.1038/s41467-025-66067-2

Inhibiting translation elongation by reducing eIF5A activity induces feedback inhibition of initiation, limiting tumour cell proliferation

Aristeidis P. Sfakianos, Rebecca M. Raven, Tom Smith et al. Dec 13, 2025 10.1038/s41467-025-66531-z

Abstract Cancer development is associated with dysregulation of the translatome, and targeting canonical eukaryotic initiation and elongation factors can offer treatment avenues for...

Deep-subwavelength ultra-low and ultra-broadband acoustic-black-hole metamaterials

Yanni Zhang, Wenjie Che, Haolun Qin et al. Dec 13, 2025 10.1038/s41467-025-66172-2

High-speed 3D DNA PAINT and unsupervised clustering for unlocking 3D DNA origami cryptography

Gde Bimananda Mahardika Wisna, Daria Sukhareva, Jonathan Zhao et al. Dec 13, 2025 10.1038/s41467-025-66338-y

Abstract DNA origami information storage is a promising alternative to silicon-based data storage, offering a molecular cryptography technique concealing information within DNA origa...

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