The #21toWatch Top21.2026 winners have been announced at an awards ceremony at The Glasshouse innovation hub in Cambridge.

Neonatal sepsis caused by Escherichia coli is associated with reduced transfer of pathogen-specific maternal antibodies and, in a mouse model, can be prevented by maternal preconceptual&nbsp...

Early-life exposure to allergens triggers a distinct local mode of dendritic cell activation in neonatal skin without requiring migration to lymph nodes, which shapes responses to allergens in later l...

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Seminars run on the first Thursday of every month at 16:00 CET. We kick off with a 15-minute spotlight talk from an early-career researcher, then a senior scientist takes the stage for a deeper dive, ...

Seminars run on the first Thursday of every month at 16:00 CET. We kick off with a 15-minute spotlight talk from an early-career researcher, then a senior scientist takes the stage for a deeper dive, ...

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The Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research (Loke CTR) offers fully-funded 4-year PhD studentships for home or overseas students The Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research (Loke CTR) provides a dynamic env...

Lab-made organoids that mimic reproductive tissues could point to treatments for common conditions such as pre-eclampsia and endometriosis.

Plasmacytoid dendritic cells are type 1 interferon (IFN-I)-producing antiviral specialists that have been shown to be able to differentiate into conventional dendritic cells. Here the authors show how...

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Gestational changes in Hofbauer cells alter their interactions with Listeria monocytogenes.

Jay Bhattacharya discusses staff morale, grant cuts, and “rumors”

Immune-microbiota interactions are required to maintain host homeostasis. Kim et al. identified that steady-state sensing of IL-10 by interstitial macrophages (IMs) prevents spontaneous lung inflammat...

Human pelvic evolution following the human-chimpanzee divergence is thought to result in an obstetrical dilemma, a mismatch between large infant brains and narrowed female birth canals, but empirical ...

Much of the Trump administration’s agenda for research is laid out in the 900-plus-page blueprint. Nature read it so you don’t have to.

The child, who is now almost three years old, shows no signs of the often fatal motor neuron disease.

The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. The search is on to find out what they do.

scRNA-seq has uncovered ontogenically distinct hepatic macrophage populations, but their functions remain unclear. Here, De Ponti et al. identify recruited LAMs and resident LAM-like KCs in multiple l...

Next Generation Fellowships Applications now open ngf_application_timeline-02.png The Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research has an established highly-successful program to fund and mentor Next Generat...

We are delighted to announce that Professor Ashley Moffett has been awarded Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the King's New Year's Honours.

During mammalian embryogenesis, extraembryonic tissues are required for the patterning and morphogenesis of the embryo. This Review discusses how signalling networks and epigenetic modifications regul...