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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People with food allergies are advised to avoid the allergen because treatments are limited.Credit: BSIP/UIG Via Getty Six people who were highly allergic to peanuts can tolerate the nut after receiving a faecal transplant, reports a study published on 5 August in Science Translational Medicine. The small trial1 of 15 people is the first evidence
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Shor, P. W. Scheme for reducing decoherence in quantum computer memory. Phys. Rev. A 52, R2493(R)–R2496(R) (1995). Article ADS Google Scholar Steane, A. M. Overhead and noise threshold of fault-tolerant quantum error correction. Phys. Rev. A 68, 042322 (2003). Article ADS Google Scholar Google Quantum AI and Collaborators. Quantum error correction below the surface code
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The ratio of fat tissue (fat droplets in yellow; artificially coloured) to muscle mass is reduced in people with newly identified variants of a gene that affects cellular metabolism. Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library A massive genomic study has linked mutations in a specific gene to an increased proportion of muscle, decreased levels of belly
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