Pub Date : 2026-08-11DOI: 10.1038/s41587-026-03252-8
Michel Nofal, Raquel Ferrer-Espada, Payel Ganguly, Mayank Chugh
Survey data document US visa types and burdens of time, cost and mental health among international postdocs.
调查数据记录了美国签证的种类、时间负担、成本和国际博士后的心理健康状况。
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Pub Date : 2026-08-11DOI: 10.1038/s41587-026-03268-0
{"title":"Biotech news from around the world","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41587-026-03268-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41587-026-03268-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":"44 8","pages":"1250-1250"},"PeriodicalIF":44.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148704576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-08-11DOI: 10.1038/s41587-026-03255-5
Michael Francisco
This multidisciplinary biomedical engineer hopes to bridge data-driven discovery and mechanistic understanding, advancing precision oncology through interpretable, biologically grounded machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Pub Date : 2026-08-11DOI: 10.1038/s41587-026-03250-w
Recent patents relating to microbiome-associated identification, modulation and treatment of diseases.
最近的专利涉及与微生物组相关的疾病鉴定、调节和治疗。
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Pub Date : 2026-08-11DOI: 10.1038/s41587-026-03274-2
Dario Ummarino
{"title":"Magnetic microrobots for gastrointestinal drug delivery","authors":"Dario Ummarino","doi":"10.1038/s41587-026-03274-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41587-026-03274-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":"44 8","pages":"1281-1281"},"PeriodicalIF":44.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148704539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-08-11DOI: 10.1038/s41587-026-03270-6
Claire Turrell
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Pub Date : 2026-08-11DOI: 10.1038/s41587-026-03262-6
Bora Jang, Ryan Zenhausern, Liming Lian, Kara Gentry, Abdulraouf M Abbas, Sebastian Rudden, Yoon-Joo Shin, Jessie Doan, David Loughrey, Elizabeth H Curran, Jennifer S Wood, Rachelle L Stammen, R Paul Johnson, Hyejin Kim, James E Dahlman
The clinical relevance of a lipid nanoparticle (LNP)-mRNA drug candidate is often dictated by its behavior in nonhuman primates. Yet, evaluating how chemically distinct LNPs behave in nonhuman primates remains difficult, in part because nanoparticle barcoding assays require euthanasia and difficult downstream tissue processing. Here we report non-invasive nanoparticle barcoding, which quantifies functional mRNA delivery mediated by several LNPs in a single nonhuman primate using 30 µl of serum. This method is enabled by snapCodes, benzylguanine-modified DNA barcodes that covalently bind an mRNA-encoded nanoluciferase-SNAP-tag fusion protein in vivo. The resulting DNA-fusion protein complexes are exported from cells, isolated from serum and sequenced. After validating snapCode and fusion protein activity, we intravenously administer six snapCoded LNPs to mice and nonhuman primates, thereby comparing LNP delivery across species. Measuring mRNA delivery from multiple LNPs using a low-volume blood draw reduces animal use and may help identify promising nanoparticle formulations.
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