Nature News highlights: 14 February 2012

Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser.     14 February 2012       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.                       BD Accuri® C6 personal flow cytometer The BD Accuri C6 gives you 4-color cell analysis in an affordable, transportable, and easy-to-use format, putting flow cytometry within reach for both novice and experienced researchers. BD CFlow® software's intuitive interface guides you through workflows, making it easy to begin collecting and analyzing data. Learn more today at bdbiosciences.com/go/accuri               • Featured               Special: The changing Amazon ▶       Earth's largest rainforest will be in the news more than ever this year. In June, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will discuss how to protect the Amazon, and a proposed change to Brazil's forest code could speed the destruction of this biodiversity hot spot. Already the forest is becoming a net carbon source rather than a sink, as a review in Nature shows. Read more about the science and the controversies in Nature's News stories, Comment articles and research papers. Read More ▶                           Miami 2012 Winter Symposium: Nanotechnology in Biomedicine February 26-29, 2012 • Miami, FL, USA The 45th Miami Winter Symposium will bring together leaders in the field to discuss breakthroughs in new nanomaterials and the challenges in translating these materials into products for the clinic and laboratory. For more information and to register, visit: www.nature.com/natureconferences/miami/mws2012               • Latest News               Debate bubbles over the origin of life ▶ 13 February 2012     Could life have originated in geothermal ponds? Read More ▶             Death-rate row blurs mutant flu debate ▶ 13 February 2012     Even if a 59% mortality rate for H5N1 is too high, the virus could still cause a flu pandemic more serious than that of 1918. Read More ▶             Models hone picture of climate impacts ▶ 13 February 2012     International programme will improve predictions. Read More ▶                 • More Stories               Should mutant flu data be censored? ▶ 13 February 2012     Researchers and policy-makers debate the case for redacting avian flu papers. Read More ▶             A career on display ▶ 10 February 2012     Outgoing director Cristián Samper reflects on his time at the Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History. Read More ▶             US commissions first new nuclear reactors in 30 years ▶ 10 February 2012     But government incentives go begging as applications for plants dry up. Read More ▶             FDA unveils biosimilars guidance ▶ 10 February 2012     Move could open the door to cheaper generic versions of biological drugs. Read More ▶             Humans implicated in Africa's deforestation ▶ 09 February 2012     Climate change alone cannot explain abrupt loss of rainforest 3,000 years ago, study suggests. Read More ▶             Elsevier boycott gathers pace ▶ 09 February 2012     Rebel academics ponder how to break free of commercial publishers. Read More ▶             Human experiments: First, do harm ▶ 08 February 2012     In the 1940s, US doctors deliberately infected thousands of Guatemalans with venereal diseases. The wound is still raw. Read More ▶             Supercontinent Amasia to take North Pole position ▶ 08 February 2012     Next supercontinent will form over the Arctic Ocean. Read More ▶             Lab flu may not aid vaccines ▶ 08 February 2012     Game-changing vaccine technologies are needed to strengthen global pandemic defences. Read More ▶             Seven days: 3–9 February 2012 ▶ 08 February 2012     The week in science: hope for drilling breakthrough to Antarctic lake; AstraZeneca's neuroscience cuts; and how land-grabs threaten Africa's sustainable development. Read More ▶             Finding the true value of US climate science ▶ 08 February 2012     A new strategy for addressing climate change takes a realistic approach to the challenge of making science useful, says Ryan Meyer. Read More ▶             Japan finds a key to unlock philanthropy ▶ 07 February 2012     Latest Kavli centre beats legal hurdle to using endowments. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. World's water footprint linked to free trade LHC plays it safe Vega shoots into space Hockey superstar scores for developmental health 'We can see you' display deters bee-botherers FDA unveils biosimilars guidance The 'nuclear renaissance' arrives. Now what? Report finds US slow to implement synthetic biology policies Complete Denisovan genome offers glimpse of ancient variation Lake Vostok drilling success confirmed more...                           Special Review Series and Web Focus: Gender Difference in Hypertension Hypertension Research is proud to present a special Review Series on Gender Difference in Hypertension. The accompanying Web Focus brings together a collection of review articles recently published in Hypertension Research. Access to select articles has been made free for a limited time.                         Focus on Membrane dynamics The January 2012 issue of Nature Cell Biology presents a series of review articles by leading scientists on recent developments in membrane dynamics - including endocytosis, and vesicle biogenesis and transport - and the importance of these processes in development and disease. 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