Nature News highlights: 22 May 2012

Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser.     22 May 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 Issue: Peopling the planet ▶       Not long ago, the story was simple. A vanguard of modern humans left their African birthplace 50,000–60,000 years ago and quickly conquered Asia. They turned left into Europe some 40,000 years ago, later crossing the Bering Strait and marching southward into the Americas. With their advance, Neanderthals and other earlier peoples dwindled and vanished. But in the past five years, the picture has grown more complex — and more interesting. Read More ▶                           Visit the Biomedical Genomics Series Web Focus on Obesity and Diabetes The Journal of Human Genetics is proud to present the Biomedical Genomics Series Web Focus on Obesity and Diabetes - a collection of the latest original and review articles on obesity and diabetes. Access the Web Focus today!               • Latest News               Plastic Logic exits e-reader market ▶ 21 May 2012     Company to shift focus to selling flexible plastic displays. Read More ▶             Rewritable memory encoded into DNA ▶ 21 May 2012     Difficulty of the task is indicative of the need for new tools in synthetic biology, researchers say. Read More ▶             Global council aims to coordinate science ▶ 21 May 2012     Research-agency heads from around the world agree to formulate shared principles to aid collaborations. Read More ▶                 • More Stories               Canada's renowned freshwater research site to close ▶ 21 May 2012     Budget fall-out hits environmental research stations. Read More ▶             Why great ideas come when you aren't trying ▶ 21 May 2012     Allowing the mind to wander aids creativity. Read More ▶             Source found for missing water in sea-level rise ▶ 20 May 2012     Human use of water contributes markedly to rising tides. Read More ▶             Finches learn even when practice isn't perfect ▶ 20 May 2012     Covert skill-development in songbirds challenges brain model. Read More ▶             California considers DNA privacy law ▶ 18 May 2012     Academic researchers fear measures would prohibit work with genetic databases. Read More ▶             Volcanic eruptions trigger shocking finding ▶ 18 May 2012     Tracking lightning in Alaskan explosions could pave way to ash-detection system for air travel. Read More ▶             Failings exposed at India's drug regulator ▶ 18 May 2012     Inadequate testing and insufficient staffing plague the granting of pharmaceutical licences. Read More ▶             Humans riddled with rare genetic variants ▶ 17 May 2012     Blossoming of variation followed explosion in population size. Read More ▶             Slo-mo microbes extend the frontiers of life ▶ 17 May 2012     Community in the deep seabed uses so little oxygen that it is no longer clear where the lower bound for life lies. Read More ▶             Speaking science to power ▶ 17 May 2012     EPA researcher gets her job back ― for the second time. Read More ▶             South Korean research centre seeks place at the top ▶ 17 May 2012     Institute for Basic Science aims to turn country from a follower to a global leader. Read More ▶             Mind-controlled robot arms show promise ▶ 16 May 2012     People with tetraplegia use their thoughts to control robotic aids. 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