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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 464, Issue 7291) Peer-ReviewedThe European Southern Observatory (ESO) Council will soon decide where to install the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). The currently recommended site is Armazones, a sierra near Paranal in Chile (Nature 464,...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 464, Issue 7291) Peer-ReviewedThe idea of awarding patents for specific gene sequences has been a contentious subject since at least the early 1990s, when it first became technologically possible to generate such sequences in large numbers. But US...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 464, Issue 7291) Peer-ReviewedDuring both inhalation and exhalation, the air in birds' lungs moves in just one direction, through small tubes. This is unusual: most animals move air tidally, in and out of dead-end gas-exchange structures. The...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 464, Issue 7291) Peer-ReviewedA watchdog office of the US government criticized the Department of Energy's showcase laser-fusion facility last week, warning that management problems there could hamper the ability of scientists to use it to ensure...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 464, Issue 7291) Peer-ReviewedProtein synthesis involves a complex interplay of various cellular components. Ribosomes are the cell's protein-production factories, and interact with messenger RNA (the template), amino-acylated transfer RNAs (which...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 464, Issue 7291) Peer-ReviewedCancer chemoprevention uses natural, synthetic, or biological substances to reverse, suppress, or prevent either the initial phase of carcinogenesis or the progression of neoplastic cells to cancer1. It holds promise...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 464, Issue 7291) Peer-ReviewedTumour metastasis is the primary cause of death of cancer patients. Development of new therapeutics preventing tumour metastasis is urgently needed. Migrastatin is a natural product secreted by Streptomyces (1,2), and...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 464, Issue 7291) Peer-ReviewedThe average salary gain for a full-time US faculty member in 2009-10, over 200809; a 1.5% decrease when adjusted for inflation. Source: American Association of University Professors survey, 12 April...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 464, Issue 7291) Peer-ReviewedA rally in defence of scientists who use animals in research drew between 300 and 400 supporters at the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on 8 April. Organized by the group Pro-Test for...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 464, Issue 7291) Peer-ReviewedThree exoplanets around the star HR 8799 have recently been discovered by means of differential imaging with large telescopes1. Bright scattered starlight limits high-contrast imaging to large angular offsets, currently...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 464, Issue 7291) Peer-ReviewedBrain disorder eradicates ethnic but not gender bias. www.nature.com/news...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 464, Issue 7291) Peer-ReviewedNature Commun. doi:10.1038/ncomms1002 (2010) Animal displays are thought to evolve from ancestral behaviours that turn, over time, into ritual communication signals. The masked-birch caterpillar (Drepana arcuata...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 464, Issue 7291) Peer-ReviewedNature Phys. doi:10.1038/nphys1628 (2010) Elusive magnetic monopoles--regions of lone north or south magnetic charge--have recently been detected in very cold 'spin ices, a class of tetrahedral crystals. Now Will...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 464, Issue 7291) Peer-ReviewedIn a country such as Japan, where personal loyalties are strong and university pedigrees are often akin to a family bond, objective evaluation of grants can be a challenge. That is perhaps one reason why Japan has...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 464, Issue 7291) Peer-ReviewedNuclear review: Nuclear-weapons research could benefit from the US Nuclear Posture Review. The policy, unveiled on 6 April ahead of both an agreement signed with Russia on 8 April to reduce nuclear stockpiles and a...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 464, Issue 7291) Peer-ReviewedTwo of the most widely used embryonic stem (ES) cell lines could be just weeks away from being eligible for US federal funding. The lines, which were approved under the administration of former president George W. Bush,...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 464, Issue 7291) Peer-ReviewedMost archaeal groups and deeply branching bacterial lineages harbour thermophilic organisms with a chemolithoautotrophic metabolism. They live at high temperatures in volcanic habitats at the expense of inorganic...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 464, Issue 7291) Peer-ReviewedArcherfish eyes must cope with the light spectrum of two very different media. These fish live among mangroves and in rivers, and are renowned for their ability to bring down an insect target from overhanging foliage by...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 464, Issue 7291) Peer-ReviewedDo Fish Feel Pain? by Victoria Braithwaite Oxford University Press: 2010. 256 pp. $29.95, 14.99 [pounds sterling] Biologist Victoria Braithwaite found herself in the media spotlight in 2003 after publishing...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 464, Issue 7291) Peer-ReviewedJ. Neurosci. 30, 5037-5046 (2010) The emotional arousal associated with a class of stress hormones may be required to form long-term memories, say Benno Roozendaal at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands,...