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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 478, Issue 7369) Peer-ReviewedFixing the genes in iPS cells Before human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells can be used to treat genetically inherited human disease, it will be necessary to develop methods of correcting disease-causing mutations...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 478, Issue 7369) Peer-ReviewedA high-profile US advocacy group plans to create the world's largest library of sequenced genomes from people with autism. Autism Speaks, based in New York, announced on 13 October that it will help to fund the BGI...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 478, Issue 7369) Peer-ReviewedMy attention has been directed to three elm trees at Ettington ... which it is said have been "killed by wasps." It appears that the wasps were attracted by the sweetness of the sap, and attacked the trees in such...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 478, Issue 7369) Peer-ReviewedPity the science lobbyist. As we report on page 299 of this issue, the combination of the economic downturn, concerns over the budget deficit and anti-science rhetoric from the Tea Party have created a difficult...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 478, Issue 7369) Peer-ReviewedThe 'Beyond the bomb' issue of Nature (22 September 2011) inadvertently omitted the credit for the cover illustration. The image was produced by Viktor Koen....
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 478, Issue 7369) Peer-ReviewedDetermining the signalling pathways that direct tissue expansion is a principal goal of regenerative biology. Vigorous pancreatic [beta]-cell replication in juvenile mice and humans declines with age, and elucidating...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 478, Issue 7369) Peer-ReviewedStars in dense clusters were mostly born at the same time, but a few seem to be much younger. The origin of these oddly young stars, which are known as blue stragglers, has been attributed to collisions between stars in...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 478, Issue 7369) Peer-ReviewedRhyolite is the most viscous of liquid magmas, so it was surprising that on 2 May 2008 at Chaiten Volcano, located in Chile's southern Andean volcanic zone, rhyolitic magma migrated from more than 5 km depth in less...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 478, Issue 7369) Peer-ReviewedThe Higgs boson is an expensive quarry. Finding this as-yet-unseen elementary particle, thought to endow others with mass, is the headline aim of the Large Hadron Collider--a venture costing billions of dollars and...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 478, Issue 7369) Peer-ReviewedClashes at sea. Disputed borders. It is not the usual stuff of science. But researchers and scientific journals are being pulled into long-simmering border disputes between China and its neighbours. Confrontations...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 478, Issue 7369) Peer-ReviewedWhere Good Ideas Come from: The Seven Patterns of Innovation Steven Johnson (Penguin, 2011; 9.99 [pounds sterling]) Good ideas, says writer Steven Johnson, are rarely produced by lone geniuses. Innovation more...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 478, Issue 7369) Peer-ReviewedThe US government's offshore-drilling regulator last week formally charged BP with seven safety violations in the lead up to the April 2010 explosion on the firm's Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. BP's...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 478, Issue 7369) Peer-ReviewedExtremophilic organisms require specialized enzymes for their exotic metabolisms. Acid-loving thermophilic Archaea that live in the mudpots of volcanic solfataras obtain their energy from reduced sulphur compounds such...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 478, Issue 7369) Peer-ReviewedThe business of lobbying the US government on behalf of research has rarely been more challenging, according to an informal survey. A polarized Congress focused on reducing government spending, coupled with anti-science...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 478, Issue 7369) Peer-ReviewedChasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life Richard Cohen (Simon & Schuster, 2011; 8.99 [pounds sterling]) Richard Cohen examines why our star is studied and even worshipped. Douglas Gough noted...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 478, Issue 7369) Peer-ReviewedIran's bid to send a live monkey into space last month ended in failure, according to 12 October reports quoting the Iranian Students' News Agency. "The launch was not publicized as all of its anticipated objectives...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 478, Issue 7369) Peer-ReviewedDespite some impressive demonstrations of root-pressure, 'pumping' or positive pressure is generally thought to be of little importance for the ascent of sap in trees ... In ten species of palms at Calcutta I was able...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 478, Issue 7369) Peer-ReviewedThe subventricular zone of many adult non-human mammals generates large numbers of new neurons destined for the olfactory bulb (1-6). Along the walls of the lateral ventricles, immature neuronal progeny migrate in...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 478, Issue 7369) Peer-ReviewedThe Evolution of Childhood: Relationships, Emotion, Mind Melvin Konner (Harvard Univ. Press, 2011; $22.50) Anthropologist Melvin Konner reveals how our childhood affects who we are individually and as a species....
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 478, Issue 7369) Peer-ReviewedIt is every government's dream: a system that can predict future events such as riots, political upheavals and the outbreak of wars. Last week, a collection of academics and private businesses was scrambling to meet the...