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-News: GERMAN E. COLI OUTBREAK
Confronted with what has become one of the world's most severe outbreaks
of Escherichia coli, physicians and scientists in Germany say that
the country's fractured health-management system has failed to handle
the crisis properly.

While the source of the outbreak is still a mystery, overuse of
antibiotics could have contributed to it becoming so deadly.
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-VACCINES WARRANT FIRM FOCUS
21 June 2011
Diseases such as malaria and HIV still present a major challenge to
vaccine development, says Gates foundation's departing global-health
chief.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=5&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0

-THE SMELL OF A MEAT-EATER
20 June 2011
Chemical in urine alerts prey species to a nearby predator.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=16&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0

-WING HAIRS HELP TO KEEP BATS IN THE AIR
20 June 2011
Receptors in the wing membrane sense aerodynamic conditions.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=22&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0


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-RESEARCHERS TWEET TECHNICAL TALK
20 June 2011
In the latest trend in scientific discourse, journal clubs and data
disclosures move to Twitter.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=21&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0

-NANOPARTICLES HIT TUMOURS WITH ONE-TWO PUNCH
19 June 2011
Using scout particles to pave the way makes drug delivery more effective.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=6&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0

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-CULTUROMICS: WORD PLAY
17 June 2011
By mining a database of the world's books, Erez Lieberman Aiden is
attempting to automate much of humanities research. But is the field
ready to be digitized?
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=20&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0

-HADRIAN'S BUILDINGS CATCH THE SUN
16 June 2011
The Emperor's country estate is aligned to meet the solstices.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=19&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0

-GENOME STUDY SOLVES TWINS' MYSTERY CONDITION
15 June 2011
Sequencing ends years of speculation over children's rare disorder.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=26&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0

-MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT FOREST-DWELLERS OVERTURNED
15 June 2011
Study rejects claims that poor residents cause most deforestation.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=25&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0

-MOUSE LIBRARY SET TO BE KNOCKOUT
15 June 2011
Global effort to disable every mouse gene nears completion.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=4&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0

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-ANIMAL RIGHTS: CHIMPANZEE RESEARCH ON TRIAL
15 June 2011
As pressure from activists builds, the United States is considering
whether it should end invasive experiments in chimpanzees.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=2&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0


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The German E. coli outbreak: 40 lives and hours of crowdsourced sequence analysis later
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=39&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0

Report plots strategy for UK taxonomy
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=46&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0

Researchers rebut critiques of stem cells derived from adult cells
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=44&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0

NIH intervenes in Alzheimer's mouse lawsuit
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=45&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0

University rankings ranked
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=50&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0

UK immigration cancels DNA screening programme
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=51&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0

Reversing course, US Senate votes to kill corn ethanol subsidies
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=47&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0

FDA speedier than European agency on cancer drug approvals
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=49&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0

Big bucks for 15 plant scientists
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=40&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0

Fukushima still wet 'n' wild
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=43&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0

Science live, tweeted by a killer of Pluto
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=24&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0

US primate research centre evacuated
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=31&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0

Neutrino experiments could test matter-antimatter symmetry
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=32&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0

Senate rejects bid to kill corn ethanol subsidy
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=27&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0

UK health reforms bring research promise
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=28&ms=MzY3MzkyMzUS1&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=MTA0NDUzNDg1S0&mt=1&rt=0

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