Nature News highlights: 17 March 2016

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17 March 2016       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               Go Green! Try Non-toxic Nucleic Acid Gel Stains Environmental Friendly Replace Ethidium Bromide (EtBr) More Sensitive Request a free sample>>         • Latest News               CRISPR: Ask us anything ▶ 16 March 2016     Join us on Reddit where we'll be talking about all things CRISPR. Read More ▶             Dengue vaccine aces trailblazing trial ▶ 16 March 2016     Protection against virus raises hopes of vaccine development for dengue and even Zika. Read More ▶             Memories retrieved in mutant 'Alzheimer's' mice ▶ 16 March 2016     Study suggests that patients with Alzheimer's disease can still form memories, raising hopes of new treatments. Read More ▶               • More Stories               Turkish academics jailed for 'making terrorism propaganda' ▶ 16 March 2016     Arrests could be first of many after peace petition led to 30 academics being fired. Read More ▶             The week in science: 11–17 March 2016 ▶ 16 March 2016     Tilikum has incurable lung disease; UK scientists want to stay in the EU; and WHO holds emergency mosquito-control meeting. Read More ▶             The elephant in the room we can't ignore ▶ 16 March 2016     If Donald Trump were to trigger a crisis in Western democracy, scientists would need to look at their part in its downfall, says Colin Macilwain. Read More ▶             The red-hot debate about transmissible Alzheimer's ▶ 16 March 2016     A controversial study has suggested that the neurodegenerative disease might be transferred from one person to another. Now scientists are racing to find out whether that is true. Read More ▶             The Go Files: AI computer wraps up 4-1 victory against human champion ▶ 15 March 2016     Nature reports from AlphaGo's victory in Seoul. Read More ▶             On the hunt for a mystery planet ▶ 15 March 2016     Scientists are searching for an unseen world at the fringes of the solar system. Read More ▶             What Google's winning Go algorithm will do next ▶ 15 March 2016     AlphaGo's techniques could have broad uses, but moving beyond games is a challenge. Read More ▶             Fermat's last theorem earns Andrew Wiles the Abel Prize ▶ 15 March 2016     Mathematician receives coveted award for solving three-century-old problem in number theory. Read More ▶             Horse-sized dinosaur sheds light on T. rex's origins ▶ 14 March 2016     Fossil found in Uzbekistan suggests tyrannosaurs evolved sophisticated senses before later growth spurt. Read More ▶             High-fat diets raise risk of obesity in offspring ▶ 14 March 2016     Study in mice suggests that behaviour of parents influences health of children through 'epigenetic' inheritance. Read More ▶             Oldest ancient-human DNA details dawn of Neanderthals ▶ 14 March 2016     Sequence of 430,000-year-old DNA pushes back divergence of humans and Neanderthals. Read More ▶             Peculiar pattern found in 'random' prime numbers ▶ 14 March 2016     Last digits of nearby primes have 'anti-sameness' bias. Read More ▶                 This animation explores progress in the development of oral anticoagulants that target components of the blood coagulation cascade to inhibit blood clotting in high-risk patients, as well as recent advances with antidotes to reverse the effects of oral anticoagulants when necessary. Watch now and download a poster on Anticoagulant drugs. Produced with support from: Boehringer Ingelheim           Special Feature on molecular pathophysiology of obesity and metabolic diseases This special feature of Experimental & Molecular Medicine contains six review articles dealing with recent findings on the crosstalk between metabolic organs in the regulation of energy homeostasis and the etiology of obesity. 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