Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10876-y

In mice, a sparse population of sleep-active long-range inhibitory neurons in the neocortex promote widespread cortical synchronization and sleep, revealing a cortical mechanism that contributes to the regulation of sleep.

Nature, Published online: 01 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10424-8

In the mouse visual cortex, multimodal cell-type definitions, gene expression patterns and cell location predict long-range projection targets of excitatory neurons, linking transcriptomic identity with morphological, electrophysiological and circuit-level properties.