Unraveling quantum pathways using optical 3D Fourier-transform spectroscopy.

abstract：:In just 20 years of history, the field of optomechanics has achieved impressive progress, stepping into the quantum regime just 5 years ago. Such remarkable advance relies on the technological revolution of nano-optomechanical systems, whose sensitivity towards thermal decoherence is strongly limited due to their ultr...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Tavernarakis A,Stavrinadis A,Nowak A,Tsioutsios I,Bachtold A,Verlot P

更新日期：2018-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum point contacts exhibit mysterious conductance anomalies in addition to well-known conductance plateaus at multiples of 2e(2)/h. These 0.7 and zero-bias anomalies have been intensively studied, but their microscopic origin in terms of many-body effects is still highly debated. Here we use the charged tip of a s...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Brun B,Martins F,Faniel S,Hackens B,Bachelier G,Cavanna A,Ulysse C,Ouerghi A,Gennser U,Mailly D,Huant S,Bayot V,Sanquer M,Sellier H

更新日期：2014-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern ultrafast metrology relies on the postulate that the pulse to be measured is fully coherent, that is, that it can be completely described by its spectrum and spectral phase. However, synthesizing fully coherent pulses is not always possible in practice, especially in the domain of emerging ultrashort X-ray sour...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bourassin-Bouchet C,Couprie ME

更新日期：2015-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of ethanol from non-petroleum carbon resources via syngas (a mixture of H2 and CO) is an important but challenging research target. The current conversion of syngas to ethanol suffers from low selectivity or multiple processes with high energy consumption. Here, we report a high-selective conversion of synga...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kang J,He S,Zhou W,Shen Z,Li Y,Chen M,Zhang Q,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The NLRP3 inflammasome is the most characterized inflammasome activated by cellular infection or stress, which is responsible for the maturation of proinflammatory cytokines IL-1β and IL-18. The precise molecular mechanism for negative regulation of NLRP3 inflammasome activation needs to be further defined. Here we id...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Jin J,Yu Q,Han C,Hu X,Xu S,Wang Q,Wang J,Li N,Cao X

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A non-classical light source emitting pairs of identical photons represents a versatile resource of interdisciplinary importance with applications in quantum optics and quantum biology. To date, photon twins have mostly been generated using parametric downconversion sources, relying on Poissonian number distributions,...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Heindel T,Thoma A,von Helversen M,Schmidt M,Schlehahn A,Gschrey M,Schnauber P,Schulze JH,Strittmatter A,Beyer J,Rodt S,Carmele A,Knorr A,Reitzenstein S

更新日期：2017-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Oscillatory synchrony among neurons occurs in many species and brain areas, and has been proposed to help neural circuits process information. One hypothesis states that oscillatory input creates cyclic integration windows: specific times in each oscillatory cycle when postsynaptic neurons become especially responsive...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Gupta N,Singh SS,Stopfer M

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Materials hosting magnetic skyrmions at room temperature could enable compact and energetically-efficient storage such as racetrack memories, where information is coded by the presence/absence of skyrmions forming a moving chain through the device. The skyrmion Hall effect leading to their annihilation at the racetrac...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Mandru AO,Yıldırım O,Tomasello R,Heistracher P,Penedo M,Giordano A,Suess D,Finocchio G,Hug HJ

更新日期：2020-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Considering the rapid increase of CO2 emission, especially from power plants, there is a constant need for materials which can effectively eliminate post-combustion CO2 (the main component: CO2/N2 = 15/85). Here, we show the design and synthesis of a Cu(II) metal-organic framework (FJI-H14) with a high density of acti...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liang L,Liu C,Jiang F,Chen Q,Zhang L,Xue H,Jiang HL,Qian J,Yuan D,Hong M

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid and, in many cases, unprecedented Arctic climate changes are having far-reaching impacts on natural and human systems. Despite state-of-the-art climate models capturing the rapid nature of Arctic climate change, termed Arctic amplification, they significantly disagree on its magnitude. Using a regional, process-...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Boeke RC,Taylor PC

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrocardiographic PR interval reflects atrioventricular conduction, and is associated with conduction abnormalities, pacemaker implantation, atrial fibrillation (AF), and cardiovascular mortality. Here we report a multi-ancestry (N = 293,051) genome-wide association meta-analysis for the PR interval, discoverin...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ntalla I,Weng LC,Cartwright JH,Hall AW,Sveinbjornsson G,Tucker NR,Choi SH,Chaffin MD,Roselli C,Barnes MR,Mifsud B,Warren HR,Hayward C,Marten J,Cranley JJ,Concas MP,Gasparini P,Boutin T,Kolcic I,Polasek O,Rudan I,

更新日期：2020-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Contextual influences on choice are ubiquitous in ecological settings. Current evidence suggests that subjective values are normalized with respect to the distribution of potentially available rewards. However, how this context-sensitivity is realised in the brain remains unknown. To address this, here we examine func...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Rigoli F,Friston KJ,Dolan RJ

更新日期：2016-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The CRISPR/Cas9 system is a powerful tool for studying gene function. Here, we describe a method that allows temporal control of CRISPR/Cas9 activity based on conditional Cas9 destabilization. We demonstrate that fusing an FKBP12-derived destabilizing domain to Cas9 (DD-Cas9) enables conditional Cas9 expression and te...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Senturk S,Shirole NH,Nowak DG,Corbo V,Pal D,Vaughan A,Tuveson DA,Trotman LC,Kinney JB,Sordella R

更新日期：2017-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Synapse formation is triggered through trans-synaptic interaction between pairs of pre- and postsynaptic adhesion molecules, the specificity of which depends on splice inserts known as 'splice-insert signaling codes'. Receptor protein tyrosine phosphatase δ (PTPδ) can bidirectionally induce pre- and postsynaptic diffe...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yamagata A,Yoshida T,Sato Y,Goto-Ito S,Uemura T,Maeda A,Shiroshima T,Iwasawa-Okamoto S,Mori H,Mishina M,Fukai S

更新日期：2015-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Supported gold (Au) nanocatalysts have attracted extensive interests in the past decades because of their unique catalytic properties for a number of key chemical reactions, especially in (selective) oxidations. The activation of O2 on Au nanocatalysts is crucial and remains a challenge because only small Au nanoparti...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang Y,Zhang J,Zhang B,Si R,Han B,Hong F,Niu Y,Sun L,Li L,Qiao B,Sun K,Huang J,Haruta M

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical modifications on DNA molecules, such as 5-methylcytosine and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine, play important roles in the mammalian brain. A novel DNA adenine modification, N(6)-methyladenine (6mA), has recently been found in mammalian cells. However, the presence and function(s) of 6mA in the mammalian brain remain ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yao B,Cheng Y,Wang Z,Li Y,Chen L,Huang L,Zhang W,Chen D,Wu H,Tang B,Jin P

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Electronic structure heterogeneities are ubiquitous in two-dimensional graphene and profoundly impact the transport properties of this material. Here we show the mapping of discrete electronic domains within a single graphene sheet using scanning transmission X-ray microscopy in conjunction with ab initio density func...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Schultz BJ,Patridge CJ,Lee V,Jaye C,Lysaght PS,Smith C,Barnett J,Fischer DA,Prendergast D,Banerjee S

更新日期：2011-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The Lyme disease agent, Borrelia burgdorferi, colonizes the gut of the tick Ixodes scapularis, which transmits the pathogen to vertebrate hosts including humans. Here we show that B. burgdorferi colonization increases the expression of several tick gut genes including pixr, encoding a secreted gut protein with a Reele...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Narasimhan S,Schuijt TJ,Abraham NM,Rajeevan N,Coumou J,Graham M,Robson A,Wu MJ,Daffre S,Hovius JW,Fikrig E

更新日期：2017-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Though the concept of Berry force was proposed thirty years ago, little is known about the practical consequences of this force as far as chemical dynamics are concerned. Here, we report that when molecular dynamics pass near a conical intersection, a massive Berry force can appear as a result of even a small amount o...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wu Y,Subotnik JE

更新日期：2021-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Generation of coherent light with desirable amplitude and phase profiles throughout the optical spectrum is a key issue in optical technologies. Nonlinear wavefront shaping offers an exceptional way to achieve this goal by converting an incident light beam into the beam (or beams) of different frequency with spatially...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu S,Switkowski K,Xu C,Tian J,Wang B,Lu P,Krolikowski W,Sheng Y

更新日期：2019-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Although environmental selection and spatial separation have been shown to shape the distribution and abundance of marine microorganisms, the effects of advection (physical transport) have not been directly tested. Here we examine 25 samples covering all major water masses of the Southern Ocean to determine the effect...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wilkins D,van Sebille E,Rintoul SR,Lauro FM,Cavicchioli R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) remains a major obstacle for the wider usage of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT), which is an effective therapy for hematopoietic malignancy. Here we show that caspase-11, the cytosolic receptor for bacterial endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide: LPS), enha...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lu Y,Meng R,Wang X,Xu Y,Tang Y,Wu J,Xue Q,Yu S,Duan M,Shan D,Wang Q,Wang H,Billiar TR,Xiao X,Chen F,Lu B

更新日期：2019-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:All-inorganic perovskites have a special place in halide perovskite family because of their potential for better stability. However, the representative cesium lead iodide (CsPbI3) is metastable and spontaneously converts to the non-perovskite structure at room temperature. Here, we demonstrate that what appears to be ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ke W,Spanopoulos I,Stoumpos CC,Kanatzidis MG

更新日期：2018-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Potassium ion channels utilize a highly selective filter to rapidly transport K+ ions across cellular membranes. This selectivity filter is composed of four binding sites which display almost equal electron density in crystal structures with high potassium ion concentrations. This electron density can be interpreted t...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Langan PS,Vandavasi VG,Weiss KL,Afonine PV,El Omari K,Duman R,Wagner A,Coates L

更新日期：2018-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We show how the kinetics of a fast and irreversible chemical reaction in a nanocrystalline material at high temperature can be studied using nanosecond electron pulses in an electron microscope. Infrared laser pulses first heat a nanocrystalline oxide layer on a carbon film, then single nanosecond electron pulses allo...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sinha SK,Khammari A,Picher M,Roulland F,Viart N,LaGrange T,Banhart F

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication and transcription of genomic DNA requires partial disassembly of nucleosomes to allow progression of polymerases. This presents both an opportunity to remodel the underlying chromatin and a danger of losing epigenetic information. Centromeric transcription is required for stable incorporation of the centro...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bobkov GOM,Huang A,van den Berg SJW,Mitra S,Anselm E,Lazou V,Schunter S,Feederle R,Imhof A,Lusser A,Jansen LET,Heun P

更新日期：2020-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex tissue-specific and cell-specific signaling by the estrogen receptor (ER) frequently leads to the development of resistance to endocrine therapy for breast cancer. Pure ER antagonists, which completely lack tissue-specific agonist activity, hold promise for preventing and treating endocrine resistance, however...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Fanning SW,Hodges-Gallagher L,Myles DC,Sun R,Fowler CE,Plant IN,Green BD,Harmon CL,Greene GL,Kushner PJ

更新日期：2018-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Health care workers (HCW) are a high-risk population to acquire SARS-CoV-2 infection from patients or other fellow HCW. This study aims at estimating the seroprevalence against SARS-CoV-2 in a random sample of HCW from a large hospital in Spain. Of the 578 participants recruited from 28 March to 9 April 2020, 54 (9.3%...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Garcia-Basteiro AL,Moncunill G,Tortajada M,Vidal M,Guinovart C,Jiménez A,Santano R,Sanz S,Méndez S,Llupià A,Aguilar R,Alonso S,Barrios D,Carolis C,Cisteró P,Chóliz E,Cruz A,Fochs S,Jairoce C,Hecht J,Lamoglia M,M

更新日期：2020-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The ever-increasing speed and resolution of modern microscopes make the storage and post-processing of images challenging and prevent thorough statistical analyses in developmental biology. Here, instead of deploying massive storage and computing power, we exploit the spherical geometry of zebrafish embryos by computi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Schmid B,Shah G,Scherf N,Weber M,Thierbach K,Campos CP,Roeder I,Aanstad P,Huisken J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma accelerators driven by particle beams are a very promising future accelerator technology as they can sustain high accelerating fields over long distances with high energy efficiency. They rely on the excitation of a plasma wave in the wake of a drive beam. To generate the plasma, a neutral gas can be field-ioni...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Corde S,Adli E,Allen JM,An W,Clarke CI,Clausse B,Clayton CE,Delahaye JP,Frederico J,Gessner S,Green SZ,Hogan MJ,Joshi C,Litos M,Lu W,Marsh KA,Mori WB,Vafaei-Najafabadi N,Walz D,Yakimenko V

更新日期：2016-06-17 00:00:00