Nature News highlights: 16 October 2012

Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser.     16 October 2012       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.                       Save on best-in-class personal flow cytometry With a combined value package, you can save 10% on the BD Accuri™ C6 personal flow cytometer and 40% on high quality BD Pharmingen™ reagents for 2 full years. There's never been a better time to buy and get the best-in-class power, flexibility, and insight personal flow cytometry can offer. Flow cytometry within reach™. bdbiosciences.com/go/accuri               • Featured               Special: Election 2012 ▶       Science and politics are uneasy bed-fellows. Nowhere is that relationship more fraught than in the United States, where the need to win votes can trump scientific evidence on issues such as climate change and public health - and where scientists have little sympathy for political give and take. Nature scrutinizes the intersection of politics and science in the run-up to the US election on Tuesday 6 November. Read 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. Watch the full series of films including this week's releases 'Beyond the classroom' featuring Harry Kroto and Dudley Herschbach, and 'Betting on the cosmos' featuring Robert Laughlin and David Gross. nature.com/lindau/2012 Supported by Mars, Incorporated and published weekly from Sept 19th - Oct 10th               • Latest News               Stem-cell transplant claims debunked ▶ 12 October 2012     Transplant of induced pluripotent stem cells to treat heart failure probably never happened. Read More ▶             Megacities pose serious health challenge ▶ 12 October 2012     Researchers call for stringent air-quality control during rapid urbanization. Read More ▶             Cancer institute tackles sloppy data ▶ 12 October 2012     Funder demands better evidence for biomarkers in clinical trials. Read More ▶                 • More Stories               Rejection improves eventual impact of manuscripts ▶ 11 October 2012     A study of papers' histories from submission to publication unearths unexpected patterns. Read More ▶             Global biodiversity priced at $76 billion ▶ 11 October 2012     Researchers hope estimates of conservation cost will spur government action. Read More ▶             The mysterious case of the missing noble gas ▶ 10 October 2012     Xenon has almost vanished from Earth's atmosphere. German geoscientists think they know where it went. Read More ▶             Stress and the brain: Under pressure ▶ 10 October 2012     A special section of Nature traces the emerging links between stress and mental illness. Read More ▶             Picking an ancient brain ▶ 10 October 2012     Traces of an early arthropod's neural tissue might be evidence of a long-running evolutionary arms race. Read More ▶             Stress: The roots of resilience ▶ 10 October 2012     Most people bounce back from trauma — but some never recover. Scientists are trying to work out what underlies the difference. Read More ▶             Thyroid is latest success in regenerative medicine ▶ 10 October 2012     Hormone-producing gland can be created from embryonic stem cells. Read More ▶             Seven days: 5–11 October 2012 ▶ 10 October 2012     The week in science: Drug hope for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Europe's nuclear plants need safety upgrade and a well-preserved mammoth is revealed in Siberia. Read More ▶             Stress and the city: Urban decay ▶ 10 October 2012     Scientists are testing the idea that the stress of modern city life is a breeding ground for psychosis. Read More ▶             Cell-signalling work nets chemistry Nobel ▶ 10 October 2012     Kobilka and Lefkowitz win award for decades of research on G-protein-coupled receptors. Read More ▶             Expert assessments can work if lessons are learned ▶ 10 October 2012     For the Oxford Martin Commission on Future Generations to be heard, it should learn from previous mistakes, argues Ehsan Masood. Read More ▶             Hyped GM maize study faces growing scrutiny ▶ 10 October 2012     Food-safety bodies slam feeding study that claims increased cancer incidence in rats. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. NIH re-evaluating two strikes rule Could a moon of Uranus harbour an underground ocean? EU reversal on biofuels policy kicks off fresh battle German research minister on plagiarism charge A tool to quantify consciousness? 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