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# Nature 2021: all accepted papers

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801. **[A hormone complex of FABP4 and nucleoside kinases regulates islet function ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04137-3)**Kacey J. Prentice, Jani Saksi, Lauren T. Robertson et al.*104 citations*
802. **[Enhanced fitness of SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern Alpha but not Beta ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04342-0)**Lorenz Ulrich, Nico Joël Halwe, Adriano Taddeo et al.*104 citations*
803. **[Genome of a middle Holocene hunter-gatherer from Wallacea ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03823-6)**Selina Carlhoff, Akin Duli, Kathrin Nägele et al.*104 citations*
804. **[Loop extrusion mediates physiological Igh locus contraction for RAG scanning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03121-7)**Hai‐Qiang Dai, Hongli Hu, Jiangman Lou et al.*104 citations*
805. **[Activation of homologous recombination in G1 preserves centromeric integrity ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04200-z)**Duygu Yilmaz, Audrey Furst, Karen J. Meaburn et al.*103 citations*
806. **[Cell competition constitutes a barrier for interspecies chimerism ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03273-0)**Canbin Zheng, Yingying Hu, Masahiro Sakurai et al.*103 citations*
807. **[Dynamic regulation of TFH selection during the germinal centre reaction ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03187-x)**Julia Merkenschlager, Shlomo Finkin, Víctor Ramos et al.*103 citations*
808. **[Efficient Fizeau drag from Dirac electrons in monolayer graphene ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03574-4)**Wenyu Zhao, Sihan Zhao, Hongyuan Li et al.*103 citations*
809. **[Climate-driven flyway changes and memory-based long-distance migration ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03265-0)**Zhongru Gu, Shengkai Pan, Zhenzhen Lin et al.*102 citations*
810. **[Cryo-EM structures of full-length Tetrahymena ribozyme at 3.1 Å resolution ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03803-w)**Zhaoming Su, Kaiming Zhang, Kalli Kappel et al.*102 citations*
811. **[MAP3K2-regulated intestinal stromal cells define a distinct stem cell niche ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03283-y)**Ningbo Wu, Hongxiang Sun, Xiaoyun Zhao et al.*102 citations*
812. **[More floods, fires and cyclones — plan for domino effects on sustainability goals ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00927-x)**Markus Reichstein, Felix Riede, Dorothea Frank*102 citations*
813. **[A dusty veil shading Betelgeuse during its Great Dimming ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03546-8)**M. Montargès, Emily Cannon, E. Lagadec et al.*101 citations*
814. **[Coupling of activity, metabolism and behaviour across the Drosophila brain ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03497-0)**Kevin J. Mann, Stéphane Deny, Surya Ganguli et al.*101 citations*
815. **[Dynamic slab segmentation due to brittle–ductile damage in the outer rise ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03937-x)**Taras Gerya, David Bercovici, T. W. Becker*101 citations*
816. **[Optomechanical dissipative solitons ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04012-1)**Jing Zhang, Bo Peng, Seunghwi Kim et al.*101 citations*
817. **[Structural insights into the inhibition of glycine reuptake ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03274-z)**Azadeh Shahsavar, Peter Stohler, Gleb P. Bourenkov et al.*101 citations*
818. **[Cancer research needs a better map ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00182-0)**Jesse S. Boehm, Mathew J. Garnett, David J. Adams et al.*100 citations*
819. **[Could new COVID variants undermine vaccines? Labs scramble to find out ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00031-0)**Ewen Callaway*100 citations*
820. **[Electroacupuncture activates neurons to switch off inflammation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02714-0)**Luis Ulloa*100 citations*
821. **[Primate cell fusion disentangles gene regulatory divergence in neurodevelopment ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03343-3)**Rachel M. Agoglia, Danqiong Sun, Fikri Birey et al.*100 citations*
822. **[Scientists want virtual meetings to stay after the COVID pandemic ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00513-1)**Ariana Remmel*100 citations*
823. **[Structure of a mammalian sperm cation channel complex ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03742-6)**Shiyi Lin, Meng Ke, Yuqi Zhang et al.*100 citations*
824. **[The conformational cycle of prestin underlies outer-hair cell electromotility ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04152-4)**Navid Bavi, Michael David Clark, Gustavo F. Contreras et al.*100 citations*
825. **[The orbitofrontal cortex maps future navigational goals ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04042-9)**Raunak Basu, Robert Gebauer, Tim Herfurth et al.*100 citations*
826. **[A bright γ-ray flare interpreted as a giant magnetar flare in NGC 253 ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03076-9)**Дмитрий Сергеевич Свинкин, Dmitry D. Frederiks, Kevin Hurley et al.*99 citations*
827. **[Competing magnetic orders in a bilayer Hubbard model with ultracold atoms ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03058-x)**Marcell Gall, Nicola Wurz, Jens Samland et al.*99 citations*
828. **[Efficient and targeted COVID-19 border testing via reinforcement learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04014-z)**Hamsa Bastani, Kimon Drakopoulos, Vishal Gupta et al.*99 citations*
829. **[How Latin American researchers suffer in science ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02601-8)**Ana M. Valenzuela‐Toro, Mariana Viglino*99 citations*
830. **[Hunger enhances food-odour attraction through a neuropeptide Y spotlight ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03299-4)**Nao Horio, Stephen D. Liberles*99 citations*
831. **[A wealth of discovery built on the Human Genome Project — by the numbers ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00314-6)**Alexander J. Gates, Deisy Morselli Gysi, M Kellis et al.*98 citations*
832. **[Activity of convalescent and vaccine serum against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03846-z)**Juan Manuel Carreño, Hala Alshammary, Johnstone Tcheou et al.*98 citations*
833. **[Fair algorithms for selecting citizens’ assemblies ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03788-6)**Bailey Flanigan, Paul Gölz, Anupam Gupta et al.*98 citations*
834. **[Fluid-rich subducting topography generates anomalous forearc porosity ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03619-8)**Christine Chesley, Samer Naif, Kerry W. Key et al.*98 citations*
835. **[Human social sensing is an untapped resource for computational social science ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03649-2)**Mirta Galešić, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Jonas Dalege et al.*98 citations*
836. **[Ostrich eggshell beads reveal 50,000-year-old social network in Africa ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04227-2)**Jennifer M. Miller, Yiming V. Wang*98 citations*
837. **[Structural basis of human separase regulation by securin and CDK1–cyclin B1 ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03764-0)**Jun Yu, Pierre Raia, Chloe M. Ghent et al.*98 citations*
838. **[Mesozoic cupules and the origin of the angiosperm second integument ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03598-w)**Gongle Shi, Fabiany A. Herrera, Patrick S. Herendeen et al.*97 citations*
839. **[Want to track pandemic variants faster? Fix the bioinformatics bottleneck ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00525-x)**Emma B. Hodcroft, Nicola De Maio, Robert Lanfear et al.*97 citations*
840. **[Early-life inflammation primes a T helper 2 cell–fibroblast niche in skin ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04044-7)**Ian C. Boothby, Maxime Kinet, Devi P Boda et al.*96 citations*
841. **[Evidence of hydrogen−helium immiscibility at Jupiter-interior conditions ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03516-0)**Stephanie Brygoo, Paul Loubeyre, Marius Millot et al.*96 citations*
842. **[Mounting evidence suggests Sputnik COVID vaccine is safe and effective ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01813-2)**Bianca Nogrady*96 citations*
843. **[RETRACTED ARTICLE: Cross-HLA targeting of intracellular oncoproteins with peptide-centric CARs ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04061-6)**Mark Yarmarkovich, Quinlen F. Marshall, John M. Warrington et al.*96 citations*
844. **[Structural basis of early translocation events on the ribosome ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03713-x)**Emily J. Rundlet, Mikael Holm, Magdalena Schacherl et al.*96 citations*
845. **[How COVID broke the evidence pipeline ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01246-x)**Helen E. Pearson*95 citations*
846. **[India’s massive COVID surge puzzles scientists ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01059-y)**Smriti Mallapaty*95 citations*
847. **[Limited potential for bird migration to disperse plants to cooler latitudes ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03665-2)**Juan P. González‐Varo, Beatriz Rumeu, Jörg Albrecht et al.*95 citations*
848. **[Precision test of statistical dynamics with state-to-state ultracold chemistry ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03459-6)**Yu Liu, Ming-Guang Hu, Matthew A. Nichols et al.*95 citations*
849. **[An endogenous opioid circuit determines state-dependent reward consumption ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04013-0)**Daniel C. Castro, Corinna S. Oswell, Eric T. Zhang et al.*94 citations*
850. **[Antigen-presenting innate lymphoid cells orchestrate neuroinflammation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04136-4)**John B. Grigg, Arthi Shanmugavadivu, Tommy Regen et al.*94 citations*
851. **[Direct limits for scalar field dark matter from a gravitational-wave detector ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04031-y)**S. M. Vermeulen, P. Relton, H. Grote et al.*94 citations*
852. **[BANP opens chromatin and activates CpG-island-regulated genes ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03689-8)**Ralph Stefan Grand, Lukas Burger, Cathrin Gräwe et al.*93 citations*
853. **[Gut microbiota modulates weight gain in mice after discontinued smoke exposure ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04194-8)**Leviel Fluhr, Uria Mor, Aleksandra A. Kolodziejczyk et al.*93 citations*
854. **[Impact factor abandoned by Dutch university in hiring and promotion decisions ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01759-5)**Chris Woolston*93 citations*
855. **[Monitoring hiring discrimination through online recruitment platforms ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03136-0)**Dominik Hangartner, Daniel Kopp, Michael Siegenthaler*93 citations*
856. **[The asymmetry of antimatter in the proton ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03282-z)**J. Dove, B. Kerns, R. E. McClellan et al.*93 citations*
857. **[Observation of Feshbach resonances between a single ion and ultracold atoms ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04112-y)**Pascal Weckesser, Fabian Thielemann, Dariusz Wiater et al.*92 citations*
858. **[Single-cell proteomics takes centre stage ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02530-6)**Jeffrey M. Perkel*92 citations*
859. **[Tomographic reconstruction of oxygen orbitals in lithium-rich battery materials ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03509-z)**Hasnain Hafiz, Kosuke Suzuki, B. Barbiellini et al.*92 citations*
860. **[COVID vaccines to reach poorest countries in 2023 — despite recent pledges ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01762-w)**T. V. Padma*91 citations*
861. **[Rogue antibodies could be driving severe COVID-19 ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00149-1)**Roxanne Khamsi*91 citations*
862. **[Tunable self-assembled Casimir microcavities and polaritons ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03826-3)**Battulga Munkhbat, Adriana Canales, Betül Küçüköz et al.*91 citations*
863. **[Widespread changes in surface temperature persistence under climate change ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03943-z)**Jingyuan Li, David W. J. Thompson*91 citations*
864. **[C. difficile exploits a host metabolite produced during toxin-mediated disease ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03502-6)**Kali M. Pruss, Justin Laine Sonnenburg*90 citations*
865. **[Evidence for European presence in the Americas in ad 1021 ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03972-8)**Margot Kuitems, Birgitta Wallace, Charles L. Lindsay et al.*90 citations*
866. **[How COVID unlocked the power of RNA vaccines ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00019-w)**Elie Dolgin*90 citations*
867. **[Count the cost of disability caused by COVID-19 ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01392-2)**Andrew H. Briggs, Anna Vassall*89 citations*
868. **[Structural and developmental principles of neuropil assembly in C. elegans ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03169-5)**Mark W. Moyle, Kristopher M Barnes, Manik Razdan Kuchroo et al.*89 citations*
869. **[Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03655-4)**Bret Beheim, Quentin Douglas Atkinson, Joseph A. Bulbulia et al.*89 citations*
870. **[Fine-regolith production on asteroids controlled by rock porosity ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03816-5)**Saverio Cambioni, Marco Delbò, Giovanni Poggiali et al.*88 citations*
871. **[Inceptor counteracts insulin signalling in β-cells to control glycaemia ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03225-8)**Md Ansarullah, Chirag Jain, Fataneh Fathi Far et al.*88 citations*
872. **[Microsoft’s million-tonne CO2-removal purchase — lessons for net zero ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02606-3)**Lucas Joppa, Amy Lynd Luers, Elizabeth Willmott et al.*88 citations*
873. **[Emergent hydrodynamics in a strongly interacting dipolar spin ensemble ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03763-1)**C. Zu, F. Machado, B. Ye et al.*87 citations*
874. **[Food cue regulation of AGRP hunger neurons guides learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03729-3)**Janet Berrios Wallace, Chia Li, Joseph C. Madara et al.*87 citations*
875. **[Malaria protection due to sickle haemoglobin depends on parasite genotype ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04288-3)**Gavin Band, Ellen Miranda Leffler, Muminatou Jallow et al.*87 citations*
876. **[Stabilization of liquid instabilities with ionized gas jets ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03359-9)**Sanghoo Park, Wonho Choe, Hyungyu Lee et al.*87 citations*
877. **[What it will take to vaccinate the world against COVID-19 ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00727-3)**Aisling Irwin*87 citations*
878. **[DAXX represents a new type of protein-folding enabler ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03824-5)**Liangqian Huang, Trisha Agrawal, Guixin Zhu et al.*86 citations*
879. **[Experimental demonstration of the mechanism of steady-state microbunching ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03203-0)**Xiujie Deng, Alexander W. Chao, J. Feikes et al.*86 citations*
880. **[India’s DNA COVID vaccine is a world first – more are coming ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02385-x)**Smriti Mallapaty*86 citations*
881. **[Multicomponent alkene azidoarylation by anion-mediated dual catalysis ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03980-8)**Ala Bunescu, Yusra Abdelhamid, Matthew J. Gaunt*85 citations*
882. **[Optical manipulation of electronic dimensionality in a quantum material ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03643-8)**Shaofeng Duan, Yun Cheng, Wei Xia et al.*85 citations*
883. **[Quantum anomalous Hall octet driven by orbital magnetism in bilayer graphene ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03849-w)**Fabian R. Geisenhof, Felix Winterer, Α. Seiler et al.*85 citations*
884. **[RecA finds homologous DNA by reduced dimensionality search ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03877-6)**Jakub Wiktor, Arvid H. Gynnå, Prune Leroy et al.*85 citations*
885. **[The Montreal Protocol protects the terrestrial carbon sink ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03737-3)**Paul J. Young, Anna Harper, Chris Huntingford et al.*85 citations*
886. **[The human microbiome encodes resistance to the antidiabetic drug acarbose ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04091-0)**Jared N. Balaich, Michael A. Estrella, Guojun Gary Wu et al.*85 citations*
887. **[A Jovian analogue orbiting a white dwarf star ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03869-6)**J. W. Blackman, J. P. Beaulieu, D. P. Bennett et al.*84 citations*
888. **[Biology must generate ideas as well as data ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02480-z)**Paul Nurse*84 citations*
889. **[CAR directs T cell adaptation to bile acids in the small intestine ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03421-6)**Mei Lan Chen, Xiangsheng Huang, Hongtao Wang et al.*84 citations*
890. **[Isoform cell-type specificity in the mouse primary motor cortex ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03969-3)**A. Sina Booeshaghi, Zizhen Yao, Cindy T. J. van Velthoven et al.*84 citations*
891. **[Laser cooling of antihydrogen atoms ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03289-6)**C. J. Baker, William Alan Bertsche, A. Capra et al.*84 citations*
892. **[Architecture of the chloroplast PSI–NDH supercomplex in Hordeum vulgare ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04277-6)**Liangliang Shen, Kailu Tang, Wenda Wang et al.*83 citations*
893. **[Flawed ivermectin preprint highlights challenges of COVID drug studies ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02081-w)**Sara Reardon*83 citations*
894. **[GluD1 is a signal transduction device disguised as an ionotropic receptor ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03661-6)**Jinye Dai, Christopher Patzke, Kifayathullah Liakath‐Ali et al.*83 citations*
895. **[Leprosy in wild chimpanzees ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03968-4)**Kimberley Jane Hockings, Benjamin Mubemba, Charlotte Avanzi et al.*83 citations*
896. **[REV-ERB in GABAergic neurons controls diurnal hepatic insulin sensitivity ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03358-w)**Guolian Ding, Xin Li, Xinguo Hou et al.*83 citations*
897. **[Rapid coronavirus tests: a guide for the perplexed ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00332-4)**Giorgia Guglielmi*83 citations*
898. **[Self-guarding of MORC3 enables virulence factor-triggered immunity ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04054-5)**Moritz M. Gaidt, Alyssa Morrow, Marian R. Fairgrieve et al.*83 citations*
899. **[Striking antibody evasion manifested by the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03826-3)**Lihong Liu, Sho Iketani, Yicheng Guo et al.*83 citations*
900. **[Structure and inhibition mechanism of the human citrate transporter NaCT ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03230-x)**David Bryant Sauer, Jinmei Song, Bing Wang et al.*83 citations*

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