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The team select some of their favourite stories from the past 12 months.

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Erratum Published: 12 February 2014 Erratum: Commensal microbe-derived butyrate induces the differentiation of colonic regulatory T cells Yukihiro Furusawa, Yuuki Obata, Shinji Fukuda, Takaho A. Endo, ...

Nature 463, 789–792 (2010) In this Letter, the crystallographic a and b axes had been labelled incorrectly in Figs 3a, 4b and in Supplementary Fig. 1. The a- and b-axes labels need to be exchanged to ...

ATTEMPTS to count small particles suspended in fluid flowing through a tube have not hitherto been very successful. With particles such as red blood cells the experimenter must choose between a wide ...

Protein folding is the process by which proteins achieve their mature functional (native) tertiary structure, and often begins co-translationally. Protein folding requires chaperones and often ...