Nature News highlights: 16 September 2014

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16 September 2014       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.                   • Featured               Diversity: A Nature & Scientific American special issue ▶       Embracing diversity – in all its forms – is key to good science. In this special, Nature and our sister publication Scientific American explore the experiences of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered scientists in the lab, and how neglecting to include subjects from all ethnicities in clinical trials can endanger populations. We also discuss how confronting economic inequalities within collaborations can strengthen global research, and how a more ethnically diverse team can have a positive impact on citation rate. Read More ▶                   • Latest News               Charities chief: 'Pharma blockbusters are gone' ▶ 15 September 2014     Incoming chief executive of the Association of Medical Research Charities lays out what the country needs. Read More ▶             Hitchcock thriller reveals busy mind in 'vegetative' man ▶ 15 September 2014     Brain scans from a man who has been in a vegetative state for 16 years show activity similar to that of healthy viewers. Read More ▶             Rosetta comet lander gets a touch-down site ▶ 15 September 2014     Philae probe will land on ‘head’ of rubber-duck-shaped comet. Read More ▶                 • More Stories               Artificial spleen cleans up blood ▶ 14 September 2014     Device improves survival in rats after severe infections. Read More ▶             Invasive-species control: Bounty hunters ▶ 12 September 2014     Destructive lionfish are invading coral reefs in the Americas, but fishing competitions can help to keep the problem species in check. Read More ▶             Japanese woman is first recipient of next-generation stem cells ▶ 12 September 2014     Surgeons implanted retinal tissue created after reverting the patient's own cells to 'pluripotent' state. Read More ▶             Swimming dinosaur found in Morocco ▶ 11 September 2014     Sail-backed reptile ruled an ancient river system. Read More ▶             NASA to return sample from Earth-bound asteroid ▶ 11 September 2014     US$800 million OSIRIS-REx will head for asteroid that could collide with Earth in twenty-second century. Read More ▶             Vaginal microbe yields novel antibiotic ▶ 11 September 2014     Drug is one of thousands that may be produced by the human microbiome. Read More ▶             How gibbons got their swing ▶ 11 September 2014     Apes' genes explain their flexibility — and why their chromosomes are so peculiar. Read More ▶             Next-generation stem cells cleared for human trial ▶ 10 September 2014     Japanese team will use 'iPS' cells to treat patient with degenerative eye disease. Read More ▶             Seven days: 5–11 September 2014 ▶ 10 September 2014     The week in science: NIH finds forgotten ricin, scientists discover massive dinosaur, and greenhouse gases hit record highs. Read More ▶             Wildlife energy: Survival of the fittest ▶ 10 September 2014     Using a wildlife version of fitness trackers, biologists can finally measure how much energy animals need to stay alive. Read More ▶             Curing blindness: Vision quest ▶ 10 September 2014     Technologies are allowing doctors to do what was once unheard of: restore blind people's sight. Now the real challenges begin. Read More ▶             NASA to send 3D printer into space ▶ 10 September 2014     Machine will let astronauts create parts to order. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. STAP co-author offers yet another recipe for stem cells Western Australian agency lets sharks off the hook Where to land on a comet? New details emerge on retracted STAP papers Ozone recovery helped by warming climate Economist and lawyer nominated for key science-related EU posts Digital mapping uncovers ‘super henge’ that dwarfed Stonehenge Arctic archaeologists find Franklin Expedition ship Rise in greenhouse-gas concentrations continues at alarming rate Balzan prizes honour plant ecologist and mathematician more...                     nature.com webcasts Macmillan Science Communication presents a custom webcast on: Understanding bacterial diversity through metagenomics 16S sequencing Wednesday September 24th, 2014 Time: 8AM PDT, 10AM CDT, 11AM EDT, 4PM BST, 5PM CEST Register for the webcast and live Q and A session Sponsored by:           The Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nature Genetics, and Nature Reviews Cancer present: NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING AND THE CANCER GENOME 2014 October 31- November 2, 2014 Ramada Plaza, Guangzhou, China Click here for more information or to register for this conference today.         • Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Director of Philanthropy     The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)            Assistant Professor     Yale University            Physiology Teaching Fellow     Imperial College London            Research Assistant / Laboratory Manager     Heriot-Watt University            Lecturer in Bio-Organic Chemistry     University of East Anglia (UEA)          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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