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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7161) Peer-ReviewedThe draft genome sequence of Vitis vinifera, the grapevine, described in this issue, provides plenty of scope for discussion over a glass of its fermented product. The sequence was published online on 26 August and now...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7161) Peer-ReviewedThe analysis of the first plant genomes provided unexpected evidence for genome duplication events in species that had previously been considered as true diploids on the basis of their genetics (1-3). These...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7161) Peer-ReviewedCAPE TOWN South Africa's mission to create a globally competitive national academy of sciences reached another milestone last week with the announcement of 51 new research chairs. The South African Research Chairs...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7161) Peer-ReviewedThe norm is for most undifferentiated, progenitor cells to irreversibly mature into one particular type of cell. But some cells, even after commitment to a specific fate, can acquire properties of an entirely different...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7161) Peer-ReviewedDisgraced South Korean cloning scientist Woo Suk Hwang has set up a research base in Thailand, according to reports from South Korea last week. Science-policy officials in Thailand say they are worried about the reports,...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7161) Peer-ReviewedAs the seating in the arena slowly fills up the children can't hide their giddy anticipation. Neither can Ken Lacovara, chattering away about dinosaurs and digs. Admittedly, he has a soul patch on his chin, a beer and a...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7161) Peer-ReviewedOne of the most common ways to investigate the role of a gene in human physiology is to delete its equivalent from a mouse genome and to observe the effect. The use of one enzyme in particular, the recombinase 'Cre', has...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7161) Peer-ReviewedThe western Pacific warm pool, one of the open ocean's largest bodies of warm water, wields significant influence over Earth's climate. Even though scientists understand the key part that the warm pool plays in the El...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7161) Peer-ReviewedThe Editorial 'Epo, by any other name' (Nature 449, 259; 2007) incorrectly stated that the drug Cerezyme is produced by Genentech. It is, in fact, produced by Genzyme Therapeutics....
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7161) Peer-ReviewedAMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) regulates cellular metabolism in response to the availability of energy and is therefore a target for type II diabetes treatment (1). It senses changes in the ratio of AMP/ATP by...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7161) Peer-ReviewedThe Volterra Chronicles: The Life and Times of an Extraordinary Mathematician 1860-1940 by Judith R. Goodstein American Mathematical Society/London Mathematical Society: 2007. 310 pp. $59 Vito Volterra was an...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7161) Peer-ReviewedDendritic cells (DCs) orchestrate a repertoire of immune responses that bring about resistance to infection and silencing or tolerance to self. In the settings of infection and cancer, microbes and tumours can exploit...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7161) Peer-ReviewedOne motivation in the study of development is the discovery of mechanisms that may guide evolutionary change. Here we report how development governs relative size and number of cheek teeth, or molars, in the mouse. We...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7161) Peer-ReviewedOn 14 September, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) appointed Australian biologist Alan Trounson as its new president. The CIRM has lacked a permanent director since neuroscientist Zach Hall...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7161) Peer-ReviewedThe German media last week trumpeted the claim that a patient in Dusseldorf with terminal heart failure has been successfully treated with adult stem cells from his own bone marrow. Although clinical researchers know...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7161) Peer-ReviewedUnder a policy adopted last week, scientists at the University of California's ten campuses can continue to accept research grants from tobacco firms. But new grants coming from the industry will undergo added scrutiny....
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7161) Peer-ReviewedThe adoption of cereal cultivation was one of the most important cultural processes in history, marking the transition from hunting and gathering by Mesolithic foragers to the food-producing economy of Neolithic farmers...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7161) Peer-Reviewed"Food inspection and adulteration"--[A] more drastic and far-reaching enactment is just now coming into force in the United States, and the working of one of its provisions in particular will be watched with much...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7161) Peer-ReviewedScience 317, 1709-1711 (2007) The fluid that flowed most recently through Athabasca Valles, the youngest of the 'outflow channels' on the surface of Mars, was lava and not water, according to data from the Mars...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7161) Peer-ReviewedNobel-prizewinning particle physicist Steven Weinberg is less than impressed with the achievements of manned spaceflight....