Nature News highlights: 19 March 2015

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19 March 2015       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.             • Latest News               Structural biologist named president of UK Royal Society ▶ 18 March 2015     Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan will replace Paul Nurse in December. Read More ▶             UK mapped out by genetic ancestry ▶ 18 March 2015     Finest-scale DNA survey of any country reveals historical migrations. Read More ▶             Share the risks of Ebola vaccine development ▶ 18 March 2015     Ebola vaccines have little in the way of commercial markets, so the risks should be shared between governments and industry, says Seth Berkley. Read More ▶               • More Stories               Mystery of Darwin's 'strange animals' solved ▶ 18 March 2015     Analysis using ancient collagen protein could permit study of fossils older than DNA allows. Read More ▶             Seven days: 13–19 March 2015 ▶ 18 March 2015     The week in science: Carbon dioxide emissions stall; lapses in hygiene practices at biosafety lab; and vaccine advice on rare meningitis W. Read More ▶             Mystery dust cloud and aurora spotted on Mars ▶ 18 March 2015     MAVEN spacecraft discovers surprises in the planet's upper atmosphere. Read More ▶             Ethics of embryo editing divides scientists ▶ 18 March 2015     Researchers disagree over whether making heritable changes to human genes crosses a line. Read More ▶             The myopia boom ▶ 18 March 2015     Short-sightedness is reaching epidemic proportions. Some scientists think they have found a reason why. Read More ▶             Fish uses 'water tongue' to grab prey on land ▶ 17 March 2015     Mudskipper feeding system offers an explanation for how early animals adapted to land. Read More ▶             Bright spots on Ceres could be active ice ▶ 17 March 2015     Early data from Dawn spacecraft could clear up mystery about dwarf planet. Read More ▶             Fisheries: Eyes on the ocean ▶ 17 March 2015     Daniel Pauly is sounding the alarm over global fish harvests, but others think he is making too much noise. Read More ▶             Irish government under fire for turning its back on basic research ▶ 17 March 2015     Letter from scientists questions commercially driven funding decisions. Read More ▶             Crunch time for Canada’s role in mega-telescope ▶ 17 March 2015     Astronomers ask federal government to honour promise for Thirty Meter Telescope. Read More ▶             Marijuana gears up for production high in US labs ▶ 17 March 2015     Researchers will score more-powerful varieties of the drug courtesy of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Read More ▶             Reprieve for Australian research facilities ▶ 17 March 2015     Government backs down on threat to infrastructure funding. Read More ▶                   Animation: Targeting cancer cell metabolism This animation, created by Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, with distribution supported by Forma Therapeutics, explores the key aspects of the altered metabolism in cancer cells and explains how these can be exploited for the development of new anticancer strategies.  Access the animation free online Produced with support from: Forma Therapeutics, Inc.           • Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Infectious Diseases Faculty     J. 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