Nature News highlights: 25 September 2012

Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser.     25 September 2012       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.                       Special Offer: Complete Cell Analysis and Cell Sorting Package For a limited time, $260,000 buys the new BD FACSJazz™ sorter, the BD Accuri™ C6 analyzer with BD CSampler™, high quality BD reagents for 2 years, an advanced biosafety cabinet, 2 workstations, and BD FACS™ Sortware and BD Accuri™ C6 software. Add up the savings - it equals unprecedented value. bdbiosciences.com/go/plus               • Featured               Special: ENCODE ▶       The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project dishes up a hearty banquet of data that illuminate the roles of the functional elements of the human genome. To help guide you thourgh it, our special interactive page gives free access to features, comment, video and all 30 related research papers. 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Read More ▶                         Kidney International Supplements presents: KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline for Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease Kidney International Supplements is a peer-reviewed companion journal to Kidney International. KI Supplements' focus is sponsored, topical content of interest to the nephrology community. This supplement is complimentary to subscribers of Kidney International.               • More Stories               NIH retires research chimps at troubled facility ▶ 21 September 2012     US federal support for invasive chimpanzee research continues to wane. Read More ▶             Chilean scientists oppose funding-agency relocation ▶ 21 September 2012     Plan to house science funder in economy ministry revives demand for a science ministry. Read More ▶             Outcry over jailed Russian chemist ▶ 21 September 2012     Narcotics expert Olga Zelenina falsely accused of aiding drug trafficking, say supporters. Read More ▶             African neighbours divided by their genes ▶ 20 September 2012     Geographically close human populations in southern Africa have been genetically isolated for thousands of years. Read More ▶             Dawn spacecraft finds signs of water on Vesta ▶ 20 September 2012     Excess hydrogen and pitted vents suggest asteroid once contained water. Read More ▶             Bacteria replicate close to the physical limit of efficiency  ▶ 20 September 2012     Bacteria reproduce themselves rapidly � but could we make them faster still? Read More ▶             How to confuse a moral compass ▶ 19 September 2012     Survey 'magic trick' causes attitude reversal. Read More ▶             Lab-animal flights squeezed ▶ 19 September 2012     Two biggest cargo carriers affirm that they will not ship mammals and non-human primates, as activist pressure mounts to stop research-animal airlifts. Read More ▶             Retraction record rocks community ▶ 19 September 2012     Anaesthesiology tries to move on after fraud investigations. Read More ▶             Out of disorder comes electricity ▶ 19 September 2012     Nanostructured thermoelectric material breaks record for turning heat into electricity. Read More ▶             Neuroscience: Idle minds ▶ 19 September 2012     Neuroscientists are trying to work out why the brain does so much when it seems to be doing nothing at all. Read More ▶             Forest fires: Burn out ▶ 19 September 2012     Forests in the American west are under attack from giant fires, climate change and insect outbreaks. Some ecosystems will never be the same. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. Cancer centre shoots for the moon Fermilab prepares for a future of muons Arsenic in rice stirs US action One-stop research ethics shop is open for business Ig Nobel prizes honour science of ponytails, coffee spills, and dead salmon Deforestation rebounds in the Amazon Pharma comes together over clinical trials US House nixes bill to increase visas for foreign scientists Canada moves to allay ozone monitoring fears Astronomers relaxed about fracking near South African telescopes more...                           Confronting the Universe - 5 short films on physics At the 2012 Meeting of Nobel Laureates, we filmed five debates on issues that matter to the current generation of researchers. 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