Nature Communications

About Nature Communications

Nature Communications is an open access journal that publishes high-quality research from all areas of the natural sciences. Papers published by the journal represent important advances of significance to specialists within each field.

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12 Jul 2011
Nature Publishing Group
Summaries of newsworthy papers: 16 years of regeneration for the newt lens; A new cellular role for TorsinA
05 Jul 2011
Nature Publishing Group
Summary of newsworthy paper: Optical switch for quantum computing
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03 Jun 2011
RIKEN
Gene expression data offer surprising evidence that embryos of different vertebrate species are most similar at intermediate stages of development
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17 May 2011
RIKEN
A new comparative transcriptomic analysis of four vertebrate species conducted by Naoki Irie in RIKEN's Laboratory for Evolutionary Morphology strongly suggests that the 'hourglass model' is the more accurate description of how the vertebrate phylotype manifests.
28 Mar 2011
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
By successfully changing the spin of a molecule, researchers have been able to perform an on/off operation for a molecular magnet. Such reversible switching paves the way for single molecule memory.
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19 Nov 2010
RIKEN
A new molecular simulation technique developed by researchers at RIKEN and Kyoto University has confirmed for the first time the function of the transporter protein AcrB in E. coli multidrug resistance.
18 May 2010
Nature Publishing Group
Summaries of newsworthy papers include: Large Rashba spin splitting of a metallic surfacestate band on a semiconductor surface; Intestinal stem cells lacking the Math1 tumour suppressor are refractory to Notch inhibitors
05 May 2010
Nature Publishing Group
Hydrothermal vent animals avoid the heat
23 Sep 2009
Nature Publishing Group
Nature Communications will publish high-quality peer-reviewed research across the biological, chemical and physical sciences, and will be the first online-only Nature-branded journal