Nature communications
May 12, 2025
The vastness of chemical space presents a long-standing challenge for the exploration of new compounds with pre-determined properties. In materials science, crystal structure prediction has become a mature tool for mapping from composition to structu...
Nature communications
May 11, 2025
Pain remains poorly understood in task-free contexts, limiting our understanding of its neurobehavioral basis in naturalistic settings. Here, we use a multimodal, data-driven approach with intracranial electroencephalography, pain self-reports, and f...
Nature communications
May 10, 2025
Protein synthesis in natural cells involves intricate interactions between chemical environments, protein-protein interactions, and protein machinery. Replicating such interactions in artificial and cell-free environments can control the precision of...
Nature communications
May 10, 2025
Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have become a workhorse of modern atomistic simulations, and recently published universal MLIPs, pre-trained on large datasets, have demonstrated remarkable accuracy and generalizability. However, the c...
Nature communications
May 8, 2025
Human-machine voice interaction based on speech recognition offers an intuitive, efficient, and user-friendly interface, attracting wide attention in applications such as health monitoring, post-disaster rescue, and intelligent control. However, conv...
Nature communications
May 8, 2025
The growth of non-polar GaN on Si substrates is a grand challenge in developing light-emitting diodes, where AlN layers serve as buffers to mitigate the lattice mismatch between GaN and Si in practice. Even though, the primary difficulty aries from t...
Nature communications
May 7, 2025
The DNA binding of most Escherichia coli Transcription Factors (TFs) has not been comprehensively mapped, and few have models that can quantitatively predict binding affinity. We report the global mapping of in vivo DNA binding for 139 E. coli TFs us...
Nature communications
May 7, 2025
There is strong interest in using the gut microbiome for Parkinson's disease (PD) diagnosis and treatment. However, a consensus on PD-associated microbiome features and a multi-study assessment of their diagnostic value is lacking. Here, we present a...
Nature communications
May 7, 2025
Centimeter-scale aquatic robots could be used in environmental monitoring, exploration, and intervention in aquatic environments. However, existing robots rely on artificial polymers and commercial electronic components, which can pollute and disrupt...
Nature communications
May 5, 2025
Gel electrophoresis is a ubiquitous laboratory method for the separation and semi-quantitative analysis of biomolecules. However, gel image analysis principles have barely advanced for decades, in stark contrast to other fields where AI has revolutio...