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Here we present recent news items specially selected from Nature, Nature Medicine and Nature Biotechnology.
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News 2007: The year in which...
The Nature News team takes a look back at some of the biggest science stories of 2007, from the production of pluripotent stem cells from human skin to a baby polar bear that stole headlines.
Nature News (20 December 2007)
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2007 Gallery: Images of the Year
A collection of the most arresting scientific images from 2007 — including the prize winning image of a transgenic mouse embryo and its yolk sac — is presented in this gallery.
Nature News (20 December 2007)
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Exchange rate hits US researchers
The weak dollar is affecting US researchers working abroad and threatens American involvement in flagship projects, as grants paid in US dollars to researchers in Europe are now worth substantially less than they were a year ago.
Nature News (20 December 2007)
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Q&A: Siti Fadilah Supari
Indonesia's health minister explains why Indonesia refuses to share its H5N1 bird-flu virus samples with the World Health Organization (WHO), despite having more human deaths from the virus than any other country.
Nature News (20 December 2007)
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Regulator under siege
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has faced a stinging rebuke from a high-powered panel of academics and industry managers; the panel claims that "American lives are at risk" because of what it terms "scientific deficiencies" at the FDA.
Nature News (20 December 2007)
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Nuclear-reactor closure hits cancer tests
Hospitals across North America have been forced to cancel tests for cancer and heart disease because the unexpected closure of a Canadian nuclear reactor has led to a sudden shortage of medical isotopes.
Nature News (13 December 2007)
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London to host ambitious research hub
A consortium of the Medical Research Council (MRC), Cancer Research UK (CRUK), the Wellcome Trust and University College London are financing the construction of Europe's largest medical-research facility in central London.
Nature News (13 December 2007)
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Institutional changes may mean more resources for Indian scientists
India has launched a new department within its health ministry that promises to grant more funds and autonomy to medical researchers and foster more international collaborations.
Nature Medicine 13, 1393 (2007)
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Spat over firing threatens medical school at US–Mexico border
Texas Tech University's fledgling medical school in El Paso is floundering after the university fired the school's founding dean, Robert Suskind, over a disagreement about the proposed research focus of the new school.
Nature Medicine 13, 1392 (2007)
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Pfizer dumps Exubera
After 11 years of development and barely one full year of sales, disappointing sales have prompted Pfizer to remove the much-anticipated inhaled powder insulin product Exubera from the market.
Nature Biotechnology 25, 1331-1332 (2007)
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Proposed changes to patent code loom over biotech industry
In response to a suit filed by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the US District Court has issued an injunction against proposed changes to the US patent code, which GSK and other biotechnology companies fear would negatively affect the drug development industry.
Nature Biotechnology 25, 1333-1334 (2007)
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Chinese manufacturers vie for piece of outsourcing pie
Pharmaceutical consultants say that it's "only a question of time" before China becomes a major destination for pharmaceutical manufacturing outsourcing, leaving Chinese drugmakers scrambling to establish better production lines and improve the manufacturing process.
Nature Biotechnology 25, 1337-1338 (2007)
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Saudi–Italian biomedical institute gets go-ahead
Two oncology institutes in Italy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with representatives of the Saudi Arabia General Investment Authority (SAGIA) to help to train Saudi–Arabian students, advise Saudi authorities on the creation of a hospital and cancer research center, and collaborate in research projects.
Nature News (6 December 2007)
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Asia plans first cancer network
Cancer researchers from around Asia met in China to discuss plans to coordinate and share data from cancer registries, which could then be used for epidemiological research, cancer risk assessment and prevention planning.
Nature News (6 December 2007)
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Fund boost for German science
The German coalition government's Christian Democrat–Social Democrat majority approved a record 9.8% increase in the federal budget for science and education for 2008.
Nature News (6 December 2007)
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News in brief
| Science appoints Bruce Alberts as editor-in-chief
| UK government claims half of MRC's patent profits
| Pasteur Institute fined over patent dispute
| Switzerland launches systems-biology initiative
| Hackers steal personal data from US laboratories
| New antibiotics guidance
| Genzyme goes to China
| Feds eye genetic testing
| Avastin limited
| Funding plant genomes
| Safer way to make human stem-like cells revealed
| Risk analysis for Boston lab slammed as 'shoddy'
| AIDS worker's misconduct ban belatedly comes to light
| Californian stem-cell directors to be investigated
News Features
Biotech for your companion?
Drug companies are beginning to market therapeutics for pets early in the product development process — reversing the traditional route in which new drugs are approved first in humans and then later applied to animals.
Nature Biotechnology 25, 1343-1345 (2007)
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Smart Networking
Theoreticians have combined their expertise to form a network to help other scientists design materials or understand biological pathways.
Nature News (6 December 2007)
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