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Victoria Aranda
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Deputy Editor at Nature, Cancer, Biomedicine, Genetics and Biotechnology. All views my own.
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · Apr 8
154 million lives and counting: 5 charts reveal the power of vaccines - a timely news explainer/reminder by @heidiledford.bsky.social

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · Mar 27
Meet the MitoBrainMap!

The first map of mitochondrial phenotypes provides a foundation for exploring the molecular energetic landscape of a normal brain.
It turns out that the human brain contains diverse mitochondrial phenotypes driven by topology & cell types
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A human brain map of mitochondrial respiratory capacity and diversity - Nature
The ability to physically partition the human brain at a spatial resolution comparable to neuroimaging methods enabled the development of a brain-wide atlas of mitochondrial content, specialization an...
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · Mar 16
Our #Scientistsatwork photo competition is open for submissions.

This is a competition for scientists themselves.

Winners will receive £500, a subscription to Nature & have their photo featured alongside an interview in Nature.

Deadline - March 28th

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#ScientistAtWork photo competition
A celebration of the striking and colourful work that scientists do around the world.
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · Mar 10
How the NIH dominates the world’s health research — in charts (and what we stand to lose)
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Barbara Marte @barbmarte.bsky.social · Mar 6
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Clonal dynamics and somatic evolution of haematopoiesis in mouse - Nature
Isolating and studying haematopoietic stem cells in young and aged mice demonstrates evolutionary processes related to blood production and provides a framework for interpreting future work using labo...
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Victoria Aranda @vicaranda.bsky.social · Feb 27
Today in Nature, integrating AI in smart watches for loss of pulse detection: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪
Automated loss of pulse detection on a consumer smartwatch - Nature
Nature - Automated loss of pulse detection on a consumer smartwatch
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Victoria Aranda @vicaranda.bsky.social · Feb 25
We at Nature denounce this assault on science 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · Feb 24
Breast cancer is on the rise: data reveal drastic gap in survival rates

Lack of screening and limited treatment options mean that low- and middle-income countries face higher death rates despite having fewer cases than wealthier nations

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Breast cancer is on the rise: data reveal drastic gap in survival rates
Lack of screening and limited treatment options mean that low- and middle-income countries face higher death rates despite having fewer cases than wealthier nations.
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Victoria Aranda @vicaranda.bsky.social · Feb 21
And renal cancer, too! Cancer vaccines this month in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪
A neoantigen vaccine generates antitumour immunity in renal cell carcinoma - Nature
A phase I trial of a neoantigen-targeting personalized cancer vaccine led to durable and polyfunctional T cell responses and antitumour recognition, and was associated with no recurrence in patie...
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Victoria Aranda @vicaranda.bsky.social · Feb 21
And more clinical exploration of cancer vaccines this week in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪
Clonal driver neoantigen loss under EGFR TKI and immune selection pressures - Nature
We show the evolution of a case of EGFR mutant lung cancer treated with a combination of erlotinib, osimertinib, radiotherapy and a personalized neopeptide vaccine targeting somatic mutations, includi...
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Victoria Aranda @vicaranda.bsky.social · Feb 21
This week in Nature, important (in more than one sense ) results about mRNA vaccines long term effects in pancreatic cancer: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪
RNA neoantigen vaccines prime long-lived CD8+ T cells in pancreatic cancer - Nature
In a phase 1 trial, patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma who were treated with surgery and bespoke neoantigen mRNA vaccines combined with anti-PD-L1 and chemotherapy exhibited marked lo...
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · Feb 9
Simply inexplicable!
Trump administration to cut billions in medical research funding
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Trump administration to cut billions in medical research funding
National Institutes of Health said the $4bn loss will affect ‘indirect’ funding of buildings, equipment and staff
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Mary Elizabeth Sutherland @meharpist.bsky.social · Feb 7
Do you ever wonder whether teaching children math in a classroom translates to applied skills? or if those kids that can do applied math would perform well in a classroom setting? A new @nature.com paper shows that these skills do not translate 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Children’s arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic mathematics - Nature
Children who learn maths working in markets and children who learn maths only from school were both unable to transfer their skills to new contexts, highlighting a need to reconsider how maths is...
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · Feb 5
Nearly half the world’s population speaks at least one of the roughly 400 Indo–European languages. Now ancient genomes tell us how it came to pass
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How one language family took over the world: ancient DNA traces its spread
Millennia-old genomes suggest Indo–European tongues originated from the Caucasus mountain region.
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Francesca Cesari @francesari.bsky.social · Feb 5
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Out of Africa: celebrating 100 years of human-origins research
A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the centre of the story of humanity.
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Christina (Chris) Tobin Kahrstrom @microchris.bsky.social · Jan 30
Out now in @nature.com: Gut microbiome diversity across African populations - a valuable resource for further research and foundational for global health equity. 🧪

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Expanding the human gut microbiome atlas of Africa - Nature
A cross-sectional study from four African countries shows the importance of investigating the gut microbiome in previously under-represented populations and provides a framework for equitable microbio...
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Christina (Chris) Tobin Kahrstrom @microchris.bsky.social · Jan 30
Out now in @nature.com: Elegant work demonstrating CARD-dependent activation of bacterial gasdermins. 🧪

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CARD domains mediate anti-phage defence in bacterial gasdermin systems - Nature
Caspase recruitment domains (CARDs) are present in defence systems that protect bacteria against phage, where the bacterial CARD domain is essential for protease-mediated activation of bacte...
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Mary Elizabeth Sutherland @meharpist.bsky.social · Jan 30
How can we stop genetic diversity loss? A meta-analysis in @nature.com finds the conservation strategies designed to improve environmental conditions, increase growth rates, and introduce new individuals can maintain or increase genetic diversity🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08458-x
Global meta-analysis shows action is needed to halt genetic diversity loss - Nature
A comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity covering more than three decades of research demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation i...
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Victoria Aranda @vicaranda.bsky.social · Jan 29
This week in Nature, translational and clinical cardiac stem cell engineering: “Engineered heart muscle allografts for heart repair in primates and humans” www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪
Engineered heart muscle allografts for heart repair in primates and humans - Nature
Epicardial engineered heart muscle allografts from induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes can safely and effectively remuscularize chronically failing hearts in rhesus macaques, leading ...
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Sadaf Shadan @sshadan.bsky.social · Jan 29
Crops face a variety of challenging conditions, including alkaline soil and global warming. @nature, scientists gain molecular insights and apply them to not only make rice both alkali- and temperature-tolerant, but also to further increase its yield. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fine-tuning gibberellin improves rice alkali–thermal tolerance and yield - Nature
Precise regulation of the phytohormone gibberellin to optimal levels may not only confer alkali–thermal tolerance to Green Revolution rice varieties but may also further enhance their yield, and ...
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Nature @nature.com · Jan 28
Analyses of 45,000-year-old bones from Europe allow scientists to pin down when modern humans interbred with Neanderthals, shedding light on the histories of populations with no present-day descendants

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Ancient human genomes offer clues about the earliest migrations out of Africa
Oldest Homo sapiens genomes point to dates of mixture with Neanderthals.
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · Jan 27
To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Nature Medicine launches a new series to spotlight key challenges & opportunities over the next 30 years of biomedical innovation 🎉
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30th Anniversary Series on the Future of Medicine
As Nature Medicine celebrates the 30th anniversary of it’s launch, we reflect on what the future holds for medicine and for our journal.
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Francesca Cesari @francesari.bsky.social · Jan 27
A study in Nature confirms that the phenomenon of mitochondrial transfer can occur bidirectionally between cytotoxic T cells and cancer cells within the tumour microenvironment. This leads to senescence of the T cells and impaired antitumour immunity.
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Immune evasion through mitochondrial transfer in the tumour microenvironment - Nature
Mitochondria with mutations in their DNA from cancer cells can be transferred to T cells in the tumour microenvironment, which leads to T cell dysfunction and impaired antitumour immunity.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Jan 27
A study in Nature used deep learning methods to design proteins that can neutralize the effects of three-finger toxins found in snake venom, which could lead to the development of safer and more accessible antivenom treatments. https://go.nature.com/4aDxmxK 🧪
This is figure 3, which shows the crystal structures of 3FTx-binding proteins closely matched those of the design models.
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Nature @nature.com · Jan 24
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X

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Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.
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