Nature News highlights: 10 December 2013

Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser.     10 December 2013       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               FAPESP and Keele University extend deadline for call for proposal  The new closing date for submission of proposals involving young investigators is January, 24th Researchers announce clinical trials for dengue vaccine  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 ▶                       • Latest News               Report slams university's animal research ▶ 09 December 2013     Imperial College London accepts heavy criticism from independent reviewers after exposé by animal-rights group. Read More ▶             Mercury shrinking more than thought ▶ 09 December 2013     Latest views of the planet settle a decades-old argument about its evolution. Read More ▶             Why fruitflies know their beer ▶ 09 December 2013     Competing neuronal pathways help adults to choose locations with just the right amount of alcohol for their offspring to thrive. Read More ▶               • More Stories               Hopes raised for simplification of cancer research ▶ 09 December 2013     Incoming director of major US research centre predicts identification of key genes to target with cancer drugs. Read More ▶             Earth science: Under the volcano ▶ 09 December 2013     Geophysicists are scouring the globe for evidence of mantle plumes — the presumed source of some mega-eruptions. Read More ▶             Not all species deteriorate with age ▶ 08 December 2013     Researchers claim that some buck trend in mortality and fertility, challenging evolutionary theory. Read More ▶             Hopes of HIV cure in 'Boston patients' dashed ▶ 06 December 2013     Announcement reveals hurdles to virus detection in patients. Read More ▶             Killer qualities of Japanese fault revealed ▶ 05 December 2013     Ocean drilling finds thin, weak layer of clay was behind giant earthquake and tsunami of 2011. Read More ▶             Dyslexia linked to brain communication breakdown ▶ 05 December 2013     Language centres struggle to access phonetic information. Read More ▶             Probe spots enormous convection currents on the Sun ▶ 05 December 2013     Slow-moving cells had been hunted for decades. Read More ▶             Bacterium can reverse autism-like behaviour in mice ▶ 05 December 2013     Findings support idea that gut microbiome has a role in disorder. Read More ▶             Overhaul recommended for gene-therapy review ▶ 05 December 2013     US Institute of Medicine says the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee's activities should be scaled back. Read More ▶             NASA funding shuffle alarms planetary scientists ▶ 04 December 2013     Agency restructuring will postpone a major grants programme for one year. Read More ▶             Hominin DNA baffles experts ▶ 04 December 2013     Analysis of oldest sequence from a human ancestor suggests link to mystery population. Read More ▶             Peer reviewers urged to speak their minds ▶ 04 December 2013     Controversial model points to benefits of more opinionated reviews. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. More science funding for UK universities Researchers push for more funding as dementia cases rise Q&A on the forest agreement in Warsaw China mission on its way to the Moon X-ray observatory confirmed as ESA's next big mission US agency reverses stance on controversial diabetes drug UK government's overspending could hit science budget UN climate talks conclude with a whimper, and a new forest policy Taiwan scientist's findings did not constitute defamation ESA's Swarm mission launches successfully more...                   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!            Nature Biotechnology FREE POSTER Antibody-drug conjugates for cancer therapy    Made available with the generous support of Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company and Seattle Genetics         • Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Postdoctoral Fellow     Northwestern University- Feinberg School of Medicine             Ph.D. Student Position In Cancer Research     University of Wuerzburg, Germany            Associate Research Scientist     Columbia University            Research Assistant     University of Bristol            Predoctoral fellow (f / m)     Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus          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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