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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7390) Peer-ReviewedIsrael and Iran can agree on little these days, but they have found common ground in a scientific project. Despite brinkmanship over Iran's nuclear programme, the two nations have joined with Jordan and Turkey to...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7390) Peer-ReviewedIn a typical human cell, about two metres of DNA is wrapped around proteins to form nucleosomes, the basic units of chromatin. When this DNA is duplicated, the nucleosomes that lie ahead of the replication machinery are...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7390) Peer-ReviewedLearning from the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease Rafe Sagarin Basic Books 320 pp. $26.99 (2012) How are tide pools linked to national security?...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7390) Peer-ReviewedMany meat-eating animals have lost their ability to taste sugars, having lost a working copy of a gene that encodes a taste receptor for sugar. Peihua Jiang and Gary Beauchamp at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7390) Peer-ReviewedEpigenetics is a hot new research field, but it seems that the influenza virus already has it figured out. By mimicking epigenetic regulation in human cells, one flu strain suppresses the expression of antiviral genes....
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7390) Peer-ReviewedPeng Gong misrepresents the thoughts of Chinese philosophers Confucius and Zhuang Zhou by suggesting that they hinder scientific advancement in modern China (Nature 481, 411; 2012). Confucius encouraged curiosity and...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7390) Peer-ReviewedThe giant eyes of the world's largest squid seem to be specially adapted to spot approaching predatory sperm whales. Dan-Eric Nilsson at Lund University in Sweden and his colleagues examined a photograph of an adult...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7390) Peer-ReviewedEach year, thousands of macaques and other monkeys are flown into Europe and North America to supply academic and industrial research labs--more than 18,000 to the United States in 2011 alone. But in a campaign that...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7390) Peer-ReviewedBoth genome-wide genetic and epigenetic alterations are fundamentally important for the development of cancers, but the interdependence of these aberrations is poorly understood. Glioblastomas and other cancers with the...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7390) Peer-ReviewedStudies of rare hereditary disorders are intended to find treatments, but they can also bring other discoveries. One such study links the dysfunction of a protein to that of the cell's energy producers, the...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7390) Peer-ReviewedThe hydrosulphide ion (H[S.sup.-]) and its undissociated form, hydrogen sulphide ([H.sub.2]S), which are believed to have been critical to the origin of life on Earth (1), remain important in physiology and cellular...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7390) Peer-ReviewedOpium: Reality's Dark Dream Thomas Dormandy Yale University Press 376 pp. $40 (2012) 'Poppy tears'--the sap of the opium poppy--are aptly named: the drug has enslaved multitudes and sparked violence for 6,000...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7390) Peer-ReviewedRenato Dulbecco, a giant of cancer biology, passed away peacefully on 19 February, just three days shy of his 98th birthday. Through a decade-long series of experiments that began in the late 1950s--first at the...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7390) Peer-ReviewedA high-resolution climate model has produced the most accurate representation yet of rainfall in the southern United Kingdom, bolstering confidence in the potential of detailed regional modelling. A team led by...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7390) Peer-ReviewedIndia's remarkable growth in science funding--notching up annual increases of about 25% over the past five years--seems finally to have been hit by the global economic downturn. Last week, the governments budget for...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7390) Peer-ReviewedCirculation: William Harvey's Revolutionary Idea Thomas Wright Chatto & Windus 272 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling] (2012) It is easy to forget that William Harvey's great theory on the circulation of blood was as...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7390) Peer-ReviewedThe spectacle of animals moving en masse is arguably one of the most fascinating phenomena in biology. For example, schools of fish can move in an orderly manner, and then change direction abruptly or, if under pressure...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7390) Peer-ReviewedWomen taking testosterone pills collaborate less effectively than those given a placebo. Nicholas Wright and his colleagues at University College London asked 17 pairs of women to decide individually if a set of...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7390) Peer-ReviewedThe Wellcome Trust, the world's largest nongovernmental funder of biomedical research, announced on 20 March that it would launch a 200-million [pounds sterling] (US$371-million) business to invest in health-care and...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7390) Peer-ReviewedFifty billion chickens are heading to the slaughter at any one time on Earth. What humans eat determines which crops are grown and which animals are reared, with big implications for science, agriculture, the...