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Here we present recent news items specially selected from Nature, Nature Medicine and Nature Biotechnology.
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Panel quits in row over sonar damage
Evidence is emerging that the US Navy may have been pressuring scientists to downplay links between sonar and damage to marine life.
Nature (26 January 2006)
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Treasure island: pinning down a model ecosystem
Craig Venter and a band of ecologists are launching the Moorea Biocode Project which aims to turn the island into something like a model organism for tropical ecology.
Nature (26 January 2006)
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Bad data fail to halt patents
Two patent applications filed by the California Institute of Technology will proceed despite concerns over the accuracy of data they contain.
Nature (26 January 2006)
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Alarms ring over bird flu mutations
Scientists studying virus samples from the human outbreak of avian flu in Turkey have identified two mutations in the virus's sequence that increase its affinity for humans.
Nature (19 January 2006)
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Doctor admits Lancet study is fiction
A Norwegian researcher dreamed up the lives and lifestyles of some 900 people — and used them in a study on cancer.
Nature (19 January 2006)
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Journals submit to scrutiny of their peer-review process
Results are starting to come in from what may be the largest-ever study of the practice of peer review.
Nature (19 January 2006)
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Will Germany chose a fair élite?
Germany's universities are taking part in a contest that is intended to boost their global standing.
Nature (19 January 2006)
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Stress makes medics ever gloomier
A survey of faculty members in US medical schools has revealed that as many as one in five report signs of depression.
Nature (19 January 2006)
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Verdict: Hwang's human stem cells were all fakes
Korean scientist did not clone a human embryo but did clone a dog.
Nature (12 January 2006)
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French research chief quits over reforms
Plans to restructure France's basic-research agency, the CNRS, prompt the resignation of its president.
Nature (12 January 2006)
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Yes, but will it jump?
Experts divided on whether H5N1 bird flu will gain ability to spread between people.
Nature (12 January 2006)
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US ponders unlocking the gates to prisoner research
The US government is considering revising the rules that govern research on prisoners.
Nature Medicine (January 2006)
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Unchecked by guidelines, Indian stem cell scientists rush ahead
Researchers are injecting stem cells to treat heart, nerve and immune disorders without ethical oversight from India's regulatory agencies.
Nature Medicine (January 2006)
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New rules propose greater scrutiny for NIH grant recipients
Many researchers are worried that they might have to start accounting for their time and money or face being investigated.
Nature Medicine (January 2006)
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Biotech jostles with pharma for slice of HIV market
A new class of HIV/AIDS drugs called entry inhibitors is progressing towards the market and promises to yield the first novel class of HIV drugs in a decade.
Nature Biotechnology (January 2006)
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Mashups mix data into global service
Websites that weave data from different sources could fundamentally change many areas of science — if researchers can be persuaded to share their data.
Nature (5 January 2006)
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Intelligent design verdict set to sway other cases
A federal judge has struck down a local school-board decision in a scathing 139-page rebuke to the intelligent-design movement.
Nature (5 January 2006)
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Croatian scientists call for openness over funding
More than 250 scientists have signed a petition calling for more transparency in the country's funding of science and technology.
Nature (5 January 2006)
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Blow follows blow for stem-cell work
Stem-cell researchers' worst fears are confirmed as no evidence is found of any of Hwang's patient-specific stem cell lines.
Nature (5 January 2006)
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News in brief
Doctors attack constraints on access to patients' data
| Tobacco giant sponsors work on DNA repair
| Computer network focuses on marine genomes
| German science receives promised boost in funds
| Google Scholar search engine goes multilingual
| US drug agency gives green light to early clinical trials
| Budget cut hits core US biomedical research
| US bill outlaws political interference in science
| Journal bans authors with secret ties to companies
| Pfizer launches large Celebrex safety study
| Resistance emerges to new malaria drug
| UK stem cell drive
| EU proposal for tissue-engineered products
| Science clings on as Japan slashes spending
| Terrorist attack in India raises alarm for scientists
News Features
China: Open season
The ensuing struggle to characterize and contain SARS has put the China's work on infectious diseases back on target.
Nature (26 January 2006)
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Genomics: Discovery in the dirt
Soil microbes are notoriously hard to culture, but genetic sequencing of samples rather than species could make the ground yield its secrets.
Nature (26 January 2006)
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Origins of DNA: Base invaders
Could viruses have invented DNA as a way to sneak into cells?
Nature (12 January 2006)
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Prion disease: The shape of things to come
A number of fatal brain diseases are linked to misfolded proteins, an effect researchers are mimicking in the lab. But as they generate new versions of these malformed molecules, could they be creating a monster?
Nature (12 January 2006)
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Hormone in the hot seat
Three years after scientists declared estrogen harmful to the heart, some say the hormone was unfairly maligned.
Nature Medicine (January 2006)
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