Researcher Laura Carter’s children look out at the tarmac at Heathrow Airport, before the family boards a flight for a research trip to Australia. A trip in November 2025 brought home just how complex my family life has become. For a moment, my husband and I were in the air at the same time, crossing
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Private firms will host US doctoral students in a scheme announced by the US National Science Foundation.Credit: Getty The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has kicked off a sweeping effort to deepen the ties between PhD students and industry. The pilot programme will provide participants with hands-on industry research experience and funding from universities, companies
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Biospecimen processing and quality control Before extracting nucleic acids, pathology quality control (QC) was performed on all frozen and FFPE tumours and normal specimens. From frozen tissue, a 30 mg or smaller piece was prepared, or an equivalent amount of scrolls were cut from a FFPE block, with sections stained with haematoxylin and eosin taken from
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Neanderthals are known to have had physiological differences from Homo sapiens, including thicker bones and defined brow ridges, as in this model.Credit: Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Two genetic changes in the genomes of Neanderthals contributed to the extinct hominin’s characteristic robust physique — and the differences persist in modern humans. The variants make carriers
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Kucewicz, M. T., Worrell, G. A. & Axmacher, N. Direct electrical brain stimulation of human memory: lessons learnt and future perspectives. Brain 146, 2214–2226 (2023). Article PubMed Google Scholar Ezzyat, Y. et al. Closed-loop stimulation of temporal cortex rescues functional networks and improves memory. Nat. Commun. 9, 365 (2018). Article ADS PubMed PubMed Central Google
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RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 05 August 2026 A study of more than one million people shows that rare genetic variants that disrupt the FNIP1 gene are associated with a favourable metabolic profile and a roughly 60% lower risk of cardiometabolic disease than the general population. Silencing genes in the FNIP1 pathway in mice induces fat breakdown and
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