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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7391) Peer-ReviewedSydney Brenner argues that cells and living organisms are good examples of Turing and von Neumann machines (Nature 482, 461; 2012). But the nature of living matter cannot be properly accommodated within such a...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7391) Peer-ReviewedImagine a global weather and climate forecasting system that collects data regularly in just a handful of countries, and takes measurements elsewhere only during extreme weather events. That is what today's global...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7391) Peer-ReviewedAn online archive of Albert Einstein's personal papers and related documents is being expanded and updated, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced on 19 March. A limited sample of the physicist's papers is already...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7391) Peer-ReviewedEfforts over the past decade to characterize the genetic alterations in human cancers have led to a better understanding of molecular drivers of this complex set of diseases. Although we in the cancer field hoped that...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7391) Peer-ReviewedThe gut microbiota is a complex ecosystem that has coevolved with host physiology. Colonization of germ-free (GF) mice with a microbiota promotes increased vessel density in the small intestine (1), but little is known...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7391) Peer-ReviewedGeneration of induced pluripotent stem cells iPSCs) by somatic cell reprogramming involves global epigenetic remodelling 1). Whereas several proteins are known to regulate chromatin marks associated with the distinct...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7391) Peer-ReviewedThe Vatican has abruptly cancelled a controversial stem-cell conference that was to have included an audience with the Pope next month. The Third International Congress on Responsible Stem Cell Research, scheduled for...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7391) Peer-ReviewedWhen researchers created strains of the H5N1 avian influenza virus that could spread easily between mammals, they argued that their work would aid in surveillance, by identifying mutations to watch for in the wild....
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7391) Peer-ReviewedDario Maestripieri Basic Books 320 pp. $27.99 (2012) Evolutionary biologist Dario Maestripieri uncovers the roots of human social behaviour using psychology, behavioural science and economics. Reasoning that social...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7391) Peer-ReviewedAn emerging strategy in cancer drug development is to target key metabolic molecules in tumours. Researchers have pinpointed one for prostate cancer: an enzyme involved in glucose metabolism that seems to be crucial to...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7391) Peer-ReviewedThe US Supreme Court has ordered a New York appeals court to reconsider its ruling last year that patents on genes are valid (see Nature 476, 11; 2011). The 26 March order follows a 20 March Supreme Court ruling to...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7391) Peer-ReviewedThe Goldilock Planet: The 4 Billion Year Story of Earth's Climate JAN ZALASIEWICZ AND MARK WILLIAMS Oxford University Pres: 2012, 272 pp. 16.99 [pound sterling]; $29.95 Earth has warmed rapidly before. About...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7391) Peer-ReviewedWylie Vale and his colleagues answered a long-standing biological riddle: which substance controls the body's 'fight or flight' response? Vale's isolation of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) in 1981 and his...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7391) Peer-ReviewedThe [sup.142]Nd/[sup.144]Nd ratio of the Earth is greater than the solar ratio as inferred from chondritic meteorites, which challenges a fundamental assumption of modern geochemistry--that the composition of the...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7391) Peer-ReviewedLapses in oversight that stopped a US university from halting clinical trials based on flawed research are symptomatic of a larger problem, according to a 23 March report by the Institute of Medicine in Washington DC....
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7391) Peer-ReviewedOlivier Oullier questions the commercial and judicial use of brain-scan technology to predict or judge human behaviour (Nature 483, 7; 2012). His arguments undermine a major driver of academic funding and research--its...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7391) Peer-ReviewedChemical fertilizers get a bad press, with some justification. Their use can pollute water supplies and generate significant greenhouse-gas emissions. But they are an excellent way to boost crop yields: they help to...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7391) Peer-ReviewedMany bacterial pathogens can enter various host cells and then survive intracellularly, transiently evade humoral immunity, and further disseminate to other cells and tissues. When bacteria enter host cells and...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7391) Peer-ReviewedEvery day on my way to the hospital, I pass streets lined with poultry. The birds disappeared a few years ago, but have gradually returned. This would be of little concern if I was in Europe or North America--but I work...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 483, Issue 7391) Peer-ReviewedJeffrey Ravetch, from the Rockefeller University in New York City, is among seven scientists who have won this year's Canada Gairdner Awards. The prizes, each worth US$100,000, are given by the Gairdner Foundation in...