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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 479, Issue 7372) Peer-ReviewedBy implying that 11- and 12-year-old girls are "prepubescent", you play into the hands of those who oppose vaccinating young girls against human papilloma virus (HPV) to prevent cervical cancer (Nature 477, 369; 2011)....
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 479, Issue 7372) Peer-ReviewedMarshalling everything from major radar facilities to backyard telescopes, astronomers geared up this week for a fantastic view of an asteroid called 2005 YU55. The 400-metre-diameter rock passed Earth on 8 November...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 479, Issue 7372) Peer-ReviewedThe resemblance of the orbitally filtered isotope signal from the past 340 kyr in Antarctic ice cores to Northern Hemisphere summer insolation intensity has been used to suggest that the northern hemisphere may drive...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 479, Issue 7372) Peer-ReviewedIn many organisms, developmentally programmed double-strand breaks (DSBs) formed by the SPO11 transesterase initiate meiotic recombination, which promotes pairing and segregation of homologous chromosomes (1). Because...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 479, Issue 7372) Peer-ReviewedImmunologists are delighted that the field of innate immunity has been recognized by this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. However, we believe that the Nobel Committee should also have acknowledged the...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 479, Issue 7372) Peer-ReviewedCondoms. Breastfeeding. Hand washing. After a decade of ramped-up spending, the donors to global-health programmes are grappling with a thorny issue: why are some health-care interventions that are proven life-savers...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 479, Issue 7372) Peer-ReviewedAs we get older, most of us will at times wonder why ageing comes with degeneration, or, more pressingly, whether something can be done about it. Ageing causes progressive loss of function, decreased fertility and...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 479, Issue 7372) Peer-ReviewedAtomic physicist Norman Ramsey, who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics, died on 4 November, aged 96. After working on radar and the atomic bomb in the Second World War, Ramsey (pictured) moved to Harvard University...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 479, Issue 7372) Peer-ReviewedScottish law exempts academic work from the freedom-of-information laws, but the rest of the United Kingdom does not. Ireland also exempts, and although the United States is commonly thought to, it turns out that, as so...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 479, Issue 7372) Peer-ReviewedThe spectrum of any star viewed through a sufficient quantity of diffuse interstellar material reveals a number of absorption features collectively called 'diffuse interstellar bands' (DIBs). The first DIBs were...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 479, Issue 7372) Peer-ReviewedA Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest William deBuys OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 384 pp. $27.95 (2011) The bone-dry American Southwest is a trainwreck waiting to happen, says writer...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 479, Issue 7372) Peer-ReviewedPossible energy sources have long been sought for a dynamo that could have produced the magnetic field possessed by the Moon 4 billion years ago (1). In this issue, Dwyer et al. (2) and Le Bars et al. (3) show how the...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 479, Issue 7372) Peer-ReviewedDrug giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced on 3 November that it has agreed to pay US$3 billion to settle a bevy of US federal investigations into the way it has developed and marketed some of its biggest-selling drugs....
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 479, Issue 7372) Peer-ReviewedThere are more funding opportunities for entrepreneurial US scientists than Steve Blank conveys (Nature 477, 133; 2011). These are especially pertinent in a year when the National Science Foundation (NSF) is seeking...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 479, Issue 7372) Peer-ReviewedBaby-Making: What the New Reproductive Treatments Mean for Families and Society Bart Fauser and Paul Devroey OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 289 pp. 16.99[pounds sterling] (2011) One in 25 European infants now gets its...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 479, Issue 7372) Peer-ReviewedRepair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) by homologous recombination requires resection of 5'-termini to generate 3'-single-strand DNA tails (1). Key components of this reaction are exonuclease 1 and the bifunctional...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 479, Issue 7372) Peer-ReviewedSix men have survived 520 days cooped up in 3 small rooms at the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow, where they were simulating the isolation of a journey to Mars and back. On 4 November, the crewmen--three of...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 479, Issue 7372) Peer-ReviewedSustaining tropical biodiversity in the long term requires more than just protection of remaining primary forests (L. Gibson et al. Nature 478, 378-381; 2011). It is essential to encourage land-use strategies that...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 479, Issue 7372) Peer-Reviewed"The times" sang Bob Dylan, "they are a-changin'." His words could become literal truth in January, when the World Radiocommunication Conference of the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva, Switzerland, will...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 479, Issue 7372) Peer-ReviewedMembrane-bound respiratory [NiFe]-hydrogenase (MBH), a [H.sub.2]-uptake enzyme found in the periplasmic space of bacteria, catalyses the oxidation of dihydrogen: [H.sub.2] [right arrow] 2[H.sup.+] [2e.sup.-] (ref. 1)....