Nature News highlights: 03 April 2012

Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser.     03 April 2012       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.                       Southern Research offers target validation services for both in vitro systems and animal models. Our latest findings can help expand your drug's potential. Learn how.               • Featured               Special: Fukushima one year on ▶       One year after the biggest earthquake in Japan's history, and the tsunami and nuclear disaster that followed, Nature dissects what has been learned and how those lessons can help societies to prepare for future disasters. Read More ▶                           Nature Reviews Cancer & Nature Reviews Immunology FOCUS ON TUMOUR IMMUNOLOGY & IMMUNOTHERAPY Access the Focus online for FREE until end of September 2012: www.nature.com/reviews/focus/tumourimmunology Produced with support from Boehringer Ingelheim               • Latest News               Million-year-old ash hints at origins of cooking ▶ 02 April 2012     South African cave yields earliest evidence for human use of fire. Read More ▶             Glaciologists to target third pole ▶ 02 April 2012     High-tech stations on track to monitor third-largest ice store. Read More ▶             PhDs leave the ivory tower ▶ 02 April 2012     UK doctoral training centres prepare students to run a lab — or work outside academia. Read More ▶                         The Naturejobs Career Expo London 2012 UK's largest career fair and conference focused exclusively on the scientific world. 20 September 2012 - Business Design Centre, London, UK Register today! Career fair is FREE of charge. Conference fee is £40.               • More Stories               Embattled neutrino project leaders step down ▶ 02 April 2012     No-confidence vote follows confirmation of faults in experiment's cable and clock. Read More ▶             US opts not to ban BPA in canned foods ▶ 01 April 2012     Status quo decision unlikely to be final word on controversial chemical. Read More ▶             US biosecurity board revises stance on mutant-flu studies ▶ 30 March 2012     Decision comes one day after release of new guidelines for dual-use research. Read More ▶             UK oceanography cuts make global waves ▶ 30 March 2012     Layoffs will hit international research and collaboration. Read More ▶             Canadian budget hits basic science ▶ 30 March 2012     Innovation wins over basic research and the environment Read More ▶             Moving towards a universal flu vaccine ▶ 30 March 2012     Israeli company reports good results with supplemental shot in elderly. Read More ▶             Gene behind van Gogh's sunflowers pinpointed ▶ 29 March 2012     'Double-flowered' mutation sheds light on the evolution of an iconic bouquet. Read More ▶             Ratio rethink will adjust rock clocks ▶ 29 March 2012     Measurement of crucial constant set to make mineral dating more accurate. Read More ▶             Brain nerves line up neatly ▶ 29 March 2012     Imaging study finds neural connections form regular grid. Read More ▶             UK National Oceanography Centre preps for significant staff cuts ▶ 29 March 2012     Centre to shed 35 scientific jobs. Read More ▶             Flu surveillance lacking ▶ 28 March 2012     Nature analysis highlights need for international strategy to watch for pandemic threats. Read More ▶             Drug candidates derailed in case of mistaken identity ▶ 28 March 2012     PARP inhibitor that wasn't highlights widespread flaws in preclinical studies. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. High flying cosmic ray detector offers hints but no results yet US agency will not ban BPA from canned foods Leaders of faster-than-light neutrino team resign Syrian ancient sites under threat Heart studies needed for obesity drugs, FDA advisers say US seeks to unleash power of 'big data' Welcome to the biobank Geneticists debate what to tell patients about clinical genome sequences Gaining control of our circadian rhythms UK National Oceanography Centre preps for significant staff cuts more...                           Emerging Microbes & Infections (EMI) - New open access journal launching in July 2012! EMI aims to provide a forum to publish articles related to all aspects of emerging pathogens, such as their previously unknown genotypic or phenotypic characteristics, their mechanisms of pathogenesis and evasion of immunity, and the diseases they cause. 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