Nature News highlights: 12 November 2013

Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser.     12 November 2013       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               Brazilian study indicates that HIV has genetic diversity  Research teams evaluated blood samples from HIV+ children and adolescents and found an unexpected rate of recombinant subtypes of the virus that causes AIDS. Researchers develop a bioluminescent enzyme  Sign up for FAPESP's free weekly newsletter with the latest developments of Brazilian science         • Featured               Special Issue: New angles on the brain ▶       In this neuroscience special, Nature brings together reporting and expert opinion on efforts to apply current technologies and invent new ones to probe how the brain works. Articles cover the uncertainty around President Obama's BRAIN initiative; computer chips inspired by human neuron networks; new techniques to create models of neurological disease in monkeys; a neuroscientist's experience of studying the progress of Parkinson's — in himself, and much more. Read More ▶                   BD Accuri™ C6 for teaching-institution labs  It's easy to learn and operate, powerful enough for the majority of routine flow applications, transportable, and affordably priced. The BD Accuri C6 is perfectly suited for demanding educational environments requiring flexibility for personal research, student mastery, and core lab use. bdbiosciences.com/go/learn          • Latest News               Preprints come to life ▶ 12 November 2013     A dedicated website for sharing biology papers before peer review leaves journals divided. Read More ▶             Weak statistical standards implicated in scientific irreproducibility ▶ 11 November 2013     One-quarter of studies that meet commonly used statistical cutoff may be false. Read More ▶             Smelly microbes help hyenas to communicate ▶ 11 November 2013     Bacteria in scent glands give information about hosts' species, sex and reproductive state. Read More ▶               • More Stories               Did climate change cause Typhoon Haiyan? ▶ 11 November 2013     There is limited evidence that warming oceans could make superstorms more likely. Read More ▶             Ozone-hole treaty slowed global warming ▶ 10 November 2013     Montreal Protocol helped to curb climate change and so did world wars and the Great Depression. Read More ▶             No evidence found that Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was poisoned ▶ 08 November 2013     Study confirms that the left-wing intellectual suffered from advanced prostate cancer when he died. Read More ▶             Hubble Space Telescope spots unprecedented asteroid with six tails ▶ 08 November 2013     Sunlight may have set space rock spinning at breakup speed. Read More ▶             Divinations of academic success may be flawed ▶ 08 November 2013     Method for predicting future h-index comes under fire. Read More ▶             Gravity maps reveal why the dark side of the Moon is covered in craters ▶ 07 November 2013     Heat differences meant impacts left larger, shallower basins on the lunar surface that faces Earth. Read More ▶             No firm proof Arafat was poisoned ▶ 07 November 2013     Investigation claims evidence of polonium poisoning in death of Palestinian leader but draws no certain conclusions. Read More ▶             Fountain-of-youth gene unleashes healing power ▶ 07 November 2013     A protein naturally expressed in embryos boosts repair capacity in adult tissues. Read More ▶             Unfortunate insects fossilized at their most intimate ▶ 07 November 2013     Permanently linked lovers suggest species' mating technique has remained unchanged for millennia. Read More ▶             Babies' weak immune systems let good bacteria in ▶ 06 November 2013     Resistance to infections is suppressed to prevent inflammation from bacterial colonization. Read More ▶             Risk of massive asteroid strike underestimated ▶ 06 November 2013     Meteor in Chelyabinsk impact was twice as heavy as initially thought. Read More ▶             Autism symptoms seen in babies ▶ 06 November 2013     Infants that will later be diagnosed with the disorder begin to avoid eye contact at two months of age. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. India's Mars probe struggles to leave Earth orbit Open-access genome project lands in UK GM labeling initiative likely defeated in Washington state UK backs away from 'value-based pricing' for drugs Five physicists make the shortlist for $3-million award Mutant-flu researchers appeal Dutch court ruling on export permits 'Ethical failure' leaves one-quarter of all clinical trials unpublished India balks during Montreal Protocol talks UK environmental regulator to cut more than 1,500 jobs Millions of TB cases going undetected, says WHO more...                   nature.com webcasts Macmillan Science Communication presents a custom webcast on: The latest innovations in real-time imaging of cells with Super Resolution Microscopy   Thursday November 7th at 8am PST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET   Register for the free webcast followed by our live Q & A session    Sponsored by: Andor Technology            Subscribe to Nature this Holiday season for only $50, £50 or €50    Enjoy 51 issues in print, online and multimedia content, and access via the nature.com app for iPhone, iPod touch and the new issue-based NatureJournals iPad app with enhanced features.   Subscribe today!          • Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Biology Assistant Professor     Tallahassee Community College            PhD student     CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology Brno, Czech Republic            Postdoctoral Fellow (Level A)     Australian National University            Postdoctoral Fellow     Stanford Univeristy            Faculty Position in Traumatic Brain Injury     The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute          No matter what your career stage, student, postdoc or senior scientist, you will find articles on naturejobs.com to help guide you in your science career. 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