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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7260) Peer-ReviewedA standards war is brewing in the gene-synthesis industry. At stake is the way that the industry screens orders for hazardous toxins and genes, such as pieces of deadly viruses and bacteria. Two competing groups of...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7260) Peer-ReviewedDNA sequencing of the human Y chromosome suggests that humans carry 100-200 genetic mutations not seen in their parents. This direct measurement of the human mutation rate should help researchers to refine evolutionary...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7260) Peer-ReviewedSpeaking on 26 August at IBM's Almaden Institute the Nobel laureate said that today's expensive and short-lived fuel cells must to go back to the R&D lab. (Greentech Media) Burton Richter, Stanford University,...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7260) Peer-Reviewed"Galaxies, like elephants, have long memories," says an influential article from the 1980s. Tapping into these memories has revealed some surprising facts about the history of our neighbouring Andromeda galaxy. In...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7260) Peer-ReviewedReconstructions of extinct species often attribute garish colours to animals on the basis of nothing more than artistic licence. Now Derek Briggs of Yale University and his colleagues have discovered evidence of...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7260) Peer-ReviewedGas deal: Australia's environment ministry approved a Aus$50-billion (US$42-billion) development of the country's Gorgon natural gas fields off northwest Australia. Energy companies Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell expect...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7260) Peer-ReviewedThe ability of cells to sense and respond to mechanical force underlies diverse processes such as touch and hearing in animals, gravitropism in plants, and bacterial osmoregulation (1,2). In bacteria, mechanosensation is...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7260) Peer-ReviewedMechanosensitive channels release tension in cell membranes by opening 'pressure relief' pores. The structure of a partially open channel suggests a gating mechanism and delivers an unexpected architectural twist. In...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7260) Peer-ReviewedThe precise spatio-temporal dynamics of protein activity are often critical in determining cell behaviour, yet for most proteins they remain poorly understood; it remains difficult to manipulate protein activity at...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7260) Peer-ReviewedResearchers describe the scientific and public-health challenges they face in battling the H1N1 virus. Author Affiliations: Mexico | Australia | Japan | Argentina | Vietnam | United States | India | Sub-Saharan...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7260) Peer-ReviewedAn Internet search for the words 'pheromone attractant' pulls up products ranging from human aphrodisiacs to control measures for the Colorado potato beetle. But sexual chemistry is not only important to humans and...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7260) Peer-ReviewedLast month, the administration of US President Barack Obama released the first document that hints at how it intends to shape the science and technology budget for fiscal year 2011. If the administration rigorously...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7260) Peer-ReviewedIn April, US President Barack Obama told a crowd in Prague of his hope for a world free of nuclear weapons. Achieving such a vision would take "patience and persistence", he said. But we "must ignore the voices who tell...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7260) Peer-ReviewedClimate change: The global cost of adapting to global warming has been grossly underestimated, according to a report released on 27 August by the International Institute for Environment and Development in London. It...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7260) Peer-ReviewedContract break: The US Department of Veterans Affairs has cancelled a five-year, $75-million contract with the University of Texas to research Gulf War syndrome. The department cited "persistent noncompliance and...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7260) Peer-ReviewedCalifornia's troubled economy has hit the state's ambitious stem-cell research programme, delaying the construction of facilities and disrupting recruitment. Atleast three of the dozen groups that received a share of...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7260) Peer-ReviewedAntibiotic resistance in pathogens can be reversed by rolling back the total amount of the drug consumed, but it increases as soon as consumption rises again. During a seven-month period in 2001-02, the use of...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7260) Peer-ReviewedResearch productivity: European pharmaceutical companies offer a better bang for the buck than their US counterparts, according to a re-analysis of more than 20 years of data on drug discovery. A 2006 investigation (H....
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7260) Peer-ReviewedMEXICO POPULATION 110 MILLION Data suggest that Mexico has seen two waves of infection--the first, which peaked in late April, affected the Mexico City area, and the second, broader wave spanned June through August in...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7260) Peer-ReviewedDuring her travels through Wonderland, Alice finds several ways of growing and shrinking in size. A polymeric vesicle plays the same trick in response to pH, in a process that might one day be useful for drug delivery....