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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 480, Issue 7378) Peer-ReviewedFor science--as for politics and economics--2011 was a year of upheaval, the effects of which will reverberate for decades. The United States lost three venerable symbols of its scientific might: the space-shuttle...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 480, Issue 7378) Peer-ReviewedA project to log all the genetic variations that cause disease in humans took a step forward last week with the launch of its Chinese arm at a meeting in Beijing. The Human Variome Project, based in Victoria, Australia,...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 480, Issue 7378) Peer-ReviewedMethylation of cytosines is an essential epigenetic modification in mammalian genomes, yet the rules that govern methylation patterns remain largely elusive. To gain insights into this process, we generated...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 480, Issue 7378) Peer-ReviewedScience saw farther than ever this year, glimpsing new wonders in the microworld and in the distant reaches of the Solar System. But some of the most powerful images were taken at an all too human scale, as the earth...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 480, Issue 7378) Peer-ReviewedA rare consequence of bone-marrow transplantation gave scientists the opportunity to observe the evolution of one cancer in two patients. Seven years after donating bone marrow and white blood cells called leukocytes to...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 480, Issue 7378) Peer-ReviewedFor the past decade, physicist Kenneth Libbrecht has been studying how ice crystals form, taking thousands of photographs of their intricate structures. He describes how he grows snowflakes in his lab at the California...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 480, Issue 7378) Peer-Reviewed* India makes plans to phase out classroom dissections go.nature.com/dipenn...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 480, Issue 7378) Peer-ReviewedVarious cultures have developed their own philosophies of science and, consequently, practices in medicine. The twentieth century has seemed to vindicate the Western approach, bringing huge advances in our understanding...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 480, Issue 7378) Peer-ReviewedIn mammals, molecular clocks regulate transcription and glucose homeostasis. One way they do so is by controlling glucocorticoid-receptor signalling, which suggests that clocks are embedded in liver metabolism. See...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 480, Issue 7378) Peer-ReviewedMeasles virus is an aerosol-transmitted virus that affects more than 10 million children each year and accounts for approximately 120,000 deaths (1,2). Although it was long believed to replicate in the respiratory...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 480, Issue 7378) Peer-ReviewedCompass-containing bacteria face a challenge when they come to divide: splitting their strong internal magnets. These bacteria use chains of organelles called magnetosomes to orient themselves with Earths magnetic...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 480, Issue 7378) Peer-ReviewedAnthony Hyman and Kai Simons recount how E. B. Wilson described a cell in 1896 as "the basis of the life of all organisms" (Nature 480, 34; 2011). But it was an almost-forgotten German biologist, Max Schultze, who 150...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 480, Issue 7378) Peer-ReviewedWhen Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, overruled the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on 7 December and denied over-the-counter access to the Plan B One-Step...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 480, Issue 7378) Peer-ReviewedThe taxi rounded a corner and I wound down the window to let in some fresh air. Outside I could the see vibrant-coloured spittoons, hear the sharp clang of metal being worked and smell the scent of washed clothes...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 480, Issue 7378) Peer-ReviewedRockets bound for orbit could one day be fired not from launch pads, but from the underbelly of the largest aeroplane ever built--according to Stratolaunch Systems, a company that was announced on 13 December....
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 480, Issue 7378) Peer-ReviewedNASA's Kepler telescope has reached one of its major mission milestones: discovering another Earth-sized planet. It has also spotted a Venus-sized planet in the same star system, which is about 290 parsecs (946 light...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 480, Issue 7378) Peer-ReviewedThe Emei music frog accurately tells potential mates about the structure and quality of the nest he has built through his calls. Although females of some frog and bird species size up mates through male song, only...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 480, Issue 7378) Peer-ReviewedMany modern medicines come with warnings of side effects, and some patients are understandably wary of their use. There is a trend for people to consider herbal medicines as natural and therefore 'healthier' than...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 480, Issue 7378) Peer-ReviewedOne of the most important reactions in organic chemistry--amide bond formation--is often overlooked as a contemporary challenge because of the widespread occurrence of amides in modern pharmaceuticals and biologically...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 480, Issue 7378) Peer-ReviewedIn the opening months of his administration, US President Barack Obama gathered scientists in the grand East Room of the White House to promise that things would be different on his watch. The president was there to...