The surprising cause of fasting’s regenerative powers
Some of the health benefits of fasting kick in when food consumption resumes, animal experiments show.Credit: Getty Breaking a fast
Loss of plasticity in deep continual learning
Specifics of continual backpropagation Continual backpropagation selectively reinitializes low-utility units in the network. Our utility measure, called the contribution utility,
South Korean science on the global stage
Research output South Korea’s Share in natural-science journals in the Nature Index is shown alongside its closest competitors in the
Stem cells tightly regulate dead cell clearance to maintain tissue fitness
The following previously generated mouse lines were used in this study: Rxrafl (ref. 41; Jax stock 013086), Sox9-creER (ref. 42),
Neoarchaean oxygen-based nitrogen cycle en route to the Great Oxidation Event
Ader, M. et al. Interpretation of the nitrogen isotopic composition of Precambrian sedimentary rocks: assumptions and perspectives. Chem. Geol. 429,
The periosteum provides a stromal defence against cancer invasion into the bone
Duhamel, H. L. Sur une racine qui a la faculte de triendre en rouge les os des animaux vivants. Mem.
Largest genomic tree of life of flowering plants to date includes almost 8,000 genera
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 21 August 2024 A tree of life based on genes from across the nuclear genome and containing nearly
Thermal infrared directs host-seeking behaviour in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
Mosquito stocks The Ae. aegypti Liverpool strain (LVP) was provided by O. Akbari (UCSD) and was used as the wild-type
Planet Earth turns slowly
Eddie turns on the mic. “It’s your favourite unlicensed radio host, Gideon Blue, floating above you at an undisclosed location
Visualizing chaperonin function in situ by cryo-electron tomography
Plasmids and strains Escherichia coli BL21(DE3) Gold cells (Stratagene) were used for growth analysis, electron tomography and protein expression. For