Nature News highlights: 1 December 2016

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01 December 2016       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               Maximize culture quality and minimize daily feeding. StemBeads® are developed and tested by scientists who understand the complexity of cells and the importance of high quality reagents. Reduce Spontaneous Differentiation and Cell Death Improve Culture Quality Use your Favorite Media Media savings of up to 67% Save Time and Money Watch our video and learn more           LDI Multiline Laser Illuminator for spinning disk confocal, photactivation, optogenetics, TIRF, PALM/STORM. High power/Low cost. Up to 1W of power per channel, feedback controlled stability, up to 7 wavelengths, ultimate price to performance ratio.       • Latest News               Deforestation spikes in Brazilian Amazon ▶ 30 November 2016     Illegal land clearing hits its highest levels since 2008 as environmental policies come under attack. Read More ▶             Big biology projects warm up to preprints ▶ 30 November 2016     Consortium backed by US National Institutes of Health is first major biology programme to mandate online publication of results ahead of peer review. Read More ▶             UK moves closer to allowing 'three-parent' babies ▶ 30 November 2016     Scientists say mitochondrial-replacement therapy is ready for tests in the clinic. Read More ▶                     • More Stories               Can old computers bring Palestinians and Israelis together? ▶ 30 November 2016     Some of the most toxic refuse from modern society ends up in poor communities. Researchers are helping one area in the Middle East clean up its electronic-waste problem. Read More ▶             Tracking the Trump transition, agency by agency ▶ 30 November 2016     Nature's list of the key issues and appointments facing US government science agencies. Read More ▶             Chernobyl's shield, dodo skeleton and HIV vaccines ▶ 30 November 2016     The week in science: 25 November–1 December 2016. Read More ▶             Experimental treatments aim to prevent brain damage in babies ▶ 30 November 2016     Advances in neuroscience are driving the development of therapies that could save thousands of the most vulnerable patients. Read More ▶             Trump's pick for US health secretary has pushed to cut science spending ▶ 29 November 2016     Tom Price, Republican congressman from Georgia, has a thin track-record on science and research issues. Read More ▶             Science Europe lobby group hit by sudden exodus ▶ 29 November 2016     Brussels-based advocacy group aimed to provide single voice for scientists in the EU – but is losing members. Read More ▶             Speedy Antarctic drills start hunt for Earth's oldest ice ▶ 29 November 2016     British team is first to seek site of 1.5-million-year-old sample. Read More ▶             Weaponized antibodies use new tricks to fight cancer ▶ 29 November 2016     Next generation of Trojan-horse drugs designed to minimize damage to healthy cells. Read More ▶             Post-truth: a guide for the perplexed ▶ 28 November 2016     If politicians can lie without condemnation, what are scientists to do? Kathleen Higgins offers some explanation. Read More ▶             Living cells bind silicon and carbon for the first time ▶ 24 November 2016     Modified bacterial enzyme taught to make bonds that evolution avoids. Read More ▶             Failed Alzheimer's trial does not kill leading theory of disease ▶ 23 November 2016     The drug, and others based on the 'amyloid hypothesis', are still being tested in other, different trials. Read More ▶             UK scientists excited by surprise £2-billion government windfall ▶ 23 November 2016     Cash to include fund modelled on DARPA, the US defence department's research arm — but how much will go to basic research is unclear. Read More ▶                       Inside View ▶ Advertisement Feature       Short and informative Q&As with leaders in science and technology.                 • Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Post-doctoral fellows     KU Leuven, The Laboratory for Cell Death Research & Therapy (CDRT)            Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioinformatics     Swiss Tropical Institute            Junior Group Leaders Positions     CRUK Manchester Institute             Postdoctoral Scientist     Medical Research Council          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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