Nature News highlights: 06 November 2012

Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser.     06 November 2012       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.                       Hamamatsu offers a wide variety of detectors for microarray scanners. They include fluorescence detectors such as PMTs and modules with improved sensitivity. We also offer advanced detectors, such as multianode PMTs and hybrid photodetectors, for next-generation microarray scanners. Also available are CCD and CMOS cameras for high scanning throughput.               • 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 ▶                           Bio research: from the world's preeminent journal for all of chemistry and the interfacing areas of science.             Access free quick-read summaries of research selected by JACS Editors. pubs.acs.org/JACS/bioresearch               • Latest News               Blind mole rats may hold key to cancer ▶ 05 November 2012     Rodents' cells commit mass suicide when overcrowded, preventing uncontrollable proliferation. Read More ▶             General anaesthetic disrupts brain communication ▶ 05 November 2012     'Slow' brain waves linked to anaesthesia's coma-like state. Read More ▶             Hopes linger for Mars methane ▶ 05 November 2012     But negative signal from the Curiosity rover raises questions about planned European mission. Read More ▶                         Scientific Reports New research published daily. Let the research come to you! Sign up for FREE alerts now.               • More Stories               Health sector opens purse for US election ▶ 04 November 2012     Biotech and health industries spend nearly $200 million in record-breaking election cycle. Read More ▶             NASA rover yet to find methane on Mars ▶ 02 November 2012     Non-detection casts doubt on claims of hotspots. Read More ▶             Astronomers set up telescope timeshare ▶ 02 November 2012     Time swap between observatories points to closer collaboration among large telescopes. Read More ▶             Government 'confusion' is harming sockeye salmon ▶ 02 November 2012     Report criticizes dual role for Canada's fisheries department. Read More ▶             'Climate services' go global ▶ 02 November 2012     UN meteorological body approves framework for managing climate predictions. Read More ▶             British Antarctic Survey keeps its independence ▶ 02 November 2012     Research centre will not face controversial merger with oceanography body. Read More ▶             3-D printing enters the fourth dimension ▶ 01 November 2012     Read More ▶             Curiosity set to weigh in on Mars methane puzzle ▶ 01 November 2012     After years of debate, a mystery with implications for life gets the 'sniff' test. Read More ▶             Disappointment as Antarctic protection bid fails ▶ 01 November 2012     Plans for huge marine reserves founder at international meeting. Read More ▶             Science in the developing world: Eritrea's shattered science ▶ 31 October 2012     An impoverished African nation was making promising strides in medicine — before the government clamped down on its foreign partnerships. Read More ▶             Redhead pigment boosts skin-cancer risk ▶ 31 October 2012     'Ginger' mice more susceptible to melanoma even without ultraviolet radiation. Read More ▶             'Tree of life' constructed for all living bird species ▶ 31 October 2012     Ambitious attempt to link geography to diversification ruffles some feathers. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. 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