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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7218) Peer-ReviewedRelative to the CI chondrite class of meteorites (widely thought to be the 'building blocks' of the terrestrial planets), the Earth is depleted in volatile elements. For most elements this depletion is thought to be a...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7218) Peer-ReviewedIf the remnants of the first stars were to be found, they should be in small galaxy groups--relatively common structures. Calculations by Michele Trenti, now of the University of Colorado at Boulder, and his colleagues...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7218) Peer-ReviewedRecruited in 2001 from the US National Cancer Institute, Edison Liu was the first big international catch for Singapore's burgeoning Biopolis research hub. He still heads the Genome Institute of Singapore there and had...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7218) Peer-ReviewedSIR--In response to Cristina Banks-Leite's comments in Correspondence ('More ground work needed to prepare students for PhDs' Nature 455, 285; 2008)--I couldn't agree more. I secured a PhD scholarship straight from...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7218) Peer-ReviewedIn its waning days, the administration of President George W. Bush may roll out a number of new environmental regulations, the effects of which could persist long after Bush leaves office on 20 January 2009. Last week,...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7218) Peer-ReviewedIf a starving woman becomes pregnant, her child's DNA can still bear traces of her hunger more than six decades later. Lambert Lumey of Columbia University in New York, Bastiaan Heijmans of Leiden University Medical...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7218) Peer-ReviewedWhen Richard Feynman died in 1988, he left behind the following words on his blackboard: "What I cannot create, I do not understand." His message certainly resonates with protein engineers. When it comes to making...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7218) Peer-Reviewed[Ca.sup.2+]-release-activated [Ca.sup.2+] (CRAC) channels underlie sustained [Ca.sup.2+] signalling in lymphocytes and numerous other cells after [Ca.sup.2+] liberation from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). RNA...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7218) Peer-ReviewedAcute myeloid leukaemia is a highly malignant haematopoietic tumour that affects about 13,000 adults in the United States each year. The treatment of this disease has changed little in the past two decades, because most...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7218) Peer-ReviewedAfter more than two years of debate, a vote of 74 Earth scientists at last week's American Association of Petroleum Geologists conference blamed an Indonesian oil company for creating a mud volcano. Mud has been...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7218) Peer-ReviewedAccurately dating the formation of Earth's core is key to understanding the birth and evolution of Earth and other planets in the Solar System. Until now, scientists have used a radio isotope dating technique based on...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7218) Peer-ReviewedNanotubes made of a honeycomb arrangement of carbon atoms are famed for their strength, but Tienchong Chang of Shanghai University in China has found a chink in their armour. His calculations show that pinching a...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7218) Peer-ReviewedThe factors driving glacial changes in ocean overturning circulation are not well understood. On the basis of a comparison of 20 climate variables over the past four glacial cycles, the SPECMAP project (1) proposed that...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7218) Peer-ReviewedA protein called MyoVb may aid learning and memory by helping to strengthen connections between neurons. Memories are thought to form through a process of 'long-term potentiation', which improves communication between...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7218) Peer-ReviewedThe United Kingdom is on track this month to become the first country to have legally binding targets for cutting greenhouse gases. On 28 October, the British Parliament approved a bill that includes a requirement to...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7218) Peer-ReviewedSuperconductors are characterized by an energy gap that represents the energy needed to break the pairs of electrons (Cooper pairs) apart. At temperatures considerably above those associated with superconductivity, the...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7218) Peer-ReviewedWhen Complete Genomics, based in Mountain View, California, announced in early October that it would "offer complete human genomes for $5,000", Jim Hudson wondered if it could live up to its claim. So when Hudson, the...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7218) Peer-ReviewedBlessed Days of Anaesthesia: How Anaesthetics Changed the World by Stephanie J. Snow Oxford University Press: 2008. 256 pp. 16.99 £, $34.95 I am no hero. All my life I have tried to avoid situations that might...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7218) Peer-ReviewedBacterial virulence determinants can be identified, according to the molecular Koch's postulates (1), if inactivation of a gene associated with a suspected virulence trait results in a loss in pathogenicity. This...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7218) Peer-ReviewedWhen Wyeth Pharmaceuticals announced last week that it would cut some of its research and development (R&D) programmes in women's health, the decision seemed counter-intuitive. The pharmaceutical giant, based in New...