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Nature This week in Nature: Chromosomal instability (CIN) — an increased rate of gain or loss of whole chromosomes — is a hallmark of many cancers and correlates with the presence of extra centrosomes. David Pellman and colleagues use long-term live-cell imaging to define the mechanism linking extra centrosomes to CIN. The cover shows a transient multipolar spindle intermediate in a human cell with extra centrosomes.
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Nature From Nature News: Human embryonic stem cells have been coaxed into forming sperm-like cells
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Nature From Nature News: A rabies vaccine that reverses the disease in mice after just one injection may pave the way to cheap, effective prevention of the fatal illness.
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Nature Four challenges on the nature.com open innovation pavilion close next week (15 July 2009). If you've got a solution, don't miss out!
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Nature From Nature News: Laboratory studies suggest that it may be possible for insects to overcome two disparate toxins produced by genetically modified cotton.
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Nature From Nature News: Earlier this week, the administration of President Barack Obama quietly cancelled plans for a large-scale facility to recycle nuclear fuel.
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Nature Conversations at Lindau: We’ve just announced that Nature Video will be producing a series of videos of the Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting on chemistry, taking place this week. The films will be free on nature.com later this year. If you can't wait, check out the films from last year's physics meeting.
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Nature This week on the Nature Podcast, making stem cells for therapy, how salamanders regrow their limbs, three huge studies of genetic variation and schizophrenia, and how plants keep carbon dioxide above a certain level in the atmosphere.
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Nature In this week's Nature: Despite glimpses of success, the road to cardiac regenerative medicine is proving a long haul [see News, p. 18]. The cover image, by Paul R. Riley, illustrating a heart wrapped in a layer of regenerating cells, is from a study showing that thymosin β4 guides progenitor cells from the outer layer of the heart to tissue repair sites.
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Nature From Nature News: The computers of tomorrow could be quantum not classical, using the quantum world's strange properties to vastly increase memory and speed up information processing.
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Nature An international fund of US$100 billion a year will be needed by 2020 to help developing countries mitigate and adapt to climate change, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said
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Nature This week's Nature Podcast is a science journalism special. Listen in as we ask whether science journalists are cheerleaders or watchdogs for science, hear how technology is changing reporting from conferences, and get the inside scoop on how science gets turned into front page news. Plus, the produce of the Nature News team in our weekly science news chat.
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Nature This week in Nature: Boyce Rensberger reflects on the changing relationship between science and the media, most notably the transition of the role of science reporter. Once cheerleaders for their field, they are now sceptical observers, more like their news-reporter colleagues. This is one of a series of pieces in this week’s issue commissioned in the run-up to the 6th World Conference on Science Journalism.
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Nature In nature News: As more reports come in of a crackdown in Tehran on Iranians protesting against the regime, the vast diaspora of Iranian researchers has mobilized to help the Iranian people get information out to the outside world.
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Nature News: Over-hunting, deforestation and over-population are well-worn routes to societal collapse.
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Nature In Nature News: Researchers who study how tumours balloon in size have discovered one way that enlargement of the heart can lead to heart failure.
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Nature Nature News: Local crop varieties could provide solutions to temperature rises.
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Is all life "biocidal"? Prof. Peter Ward on the geological record of mass extinctions
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Nature Nature News: A compound that stimulates the production of certain steroids in the brain may one day soothe the troubled nerves of people with anxiety disorders, according to results from a small clinical trial.
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Join a live discussion with world experts Dr Richard Cytowic and Dr David Eagleman on the little known phenomenon of synesthesia - seeing numbers as colours, voices as tastes....
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Challenge of the day: stable expression of an enzyme in corn seed
Reward is $20,000 USD
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We've just announced that researchers can now data-mine and text-mine author manuscripts from Nature Publishing Group journals archived in PubMed Central and other academic repositories.
...and these author manuscripts will be in the PMC/UKPMC Open Access subset of articles - so harvestable via OAI-PMH
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Nature This week in Nature: With the H1N1 influenza outbreak now officially a global pandemic, Gabriele Neumann, Takeshi Noda and Yoshihiro Kawaoka compare the antigenic and pathologic properties of the H1N1 virus with those of previously circulating influenza strains.
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Nature This week, we discover the significance of sperm DNA packaging, find out how the Colorado Plateau got so high and so flat, and investigate a fake paper accepted by an open access journal. All that, plus our weekly round-up of science news.
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Nature In Nature News: The Italian government has caught scientists off-guard by unexpectedly, and mysteriously, cancelling the G8 science and technology meeting planned for next week.
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Nature What would the Apollo mission have twittered? Follow the moon mission 140 characters at a time, 40 years later. Brought to you by Nature News on Twitter.
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Nature News twitters the Apollo 11 moon mission as it happened -- 40 years on. Followers can read about technical milestones, political challenges, and related events in the space race starting today, just over a month before the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing.


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Challenge of the day: Making soybean shoots grow faster
Can you propose a media formulation that allows herbicide (e.g. glyphosate) selected transgenic buds to elongate faster? Reward is $10,000
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Nature We're hiring! Some interesting vacancies, including a Picture Researcher. Listed on Naturejobs:
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Challenge of the day: Can you solve the problem of smelly sportswear?
This Challenge is looking for new methods of preventing the build-up of sweat-derived odor in polyester garments. This is an Ideation Challenge with a guaranteed award for at least one submitted solution.
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Nature Nature News: The US military has abruptly ended an informal arrangement that allowed scientists access to data on incoming meteors from classified surveillance satellites.
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Nature New Editorial this week: How to stop blogging - "Organizers have only two options for their meetings: open or closed." What do you think about how open scientific conferences should be? Discuss here or at the micro-blogging site FriendFeed (http://ff.im/4XTAJ)