Nature

2 days ago | nature.com | Benjamin Thompson |Shamini Bundell

Download the Nature Podcast 25 June 2025We’d like to learn more about our listeners, please help us out by filling in this short survey. In this episode:00:45 Is AI-research being co-opted to keep track of people? A significant amount of research in the AI field of computer vision is being used to analyse humans in ways that support the development of surveillance technologies, according to new research.

3 days ago | nature.com | Chongzhao You |Shimeng Guo |Tianwei Zhang |Xinheng He |Youwei Xu |Yi Jiang | +1 more

AbstractMaintaining pH homeostasis is critical for cellular function across all living organisms. Proton-sensing G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), particularly GPR4, play a pivotal role in cellular responses to pH changes. Yet, the molecular mechanisms underlying their proton sensing and activation remain incompletely understood. Here we present high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy structures of GPR4 in complex with G proteins under physiological and acidic pH conditions.

3 days ago | nature.com | Delphine Lebon |Nicolas Duployez |Christophe Willekens |Thomas Cluzeau |Christian Récher |Mathilde Hunault-Berger | +1 more

AbstractFront-line treatment with all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) and arsenic trioxide (ATO) is superior to standard ATRA and chemotherapy (CHT) in patients with low-/intermediate-risk acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). However, for high-risk (HR) patients (defined as those with a white blood cell count ≥ 10×10⁹/L), the role of ATRA-ATO is subject to debate, and study data are scarce.

1 week ago | nature.com | Zhenzhen Wang |Joshua Gardner |Xiaoli Meng

AbstractSevere cutaneous adverse drug reactions (SCARs) are life-threatening diseases, which are associated with human leukocyte antigen (HLA) risk variants. However, the low positive predictive values of HLA variants suggest additional factors influence disease susceptibility. Using dapsone hypersensitivity syndrome (DHS) as a paradigm for SCARs, we show that the DHS patients harbor a sex-related global reduction in blood NK cells, contributing to the higher incidence of reactions in females.

1 week ago | nature.com | Holly Else

Perseverance is key when it comes to securing science funding, found an analysis of more than 100,000 grant applicants that looked at how early success affects future prospects. The research shows how the Matthew effect — a phenomenon describing how those with an early advantage or success tend to accumulate more over time — could be driving inequity in academia. Previous work has suggested that those who win funding early in their career are more successful later down the line.