Nature News highlights: 5 January 2017

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05 January 2017       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               Unexplored opportunities in the druggable human genome This poster presents a categorization of human proteins based on the amount of data on them, highlighting a knowledge deficit and indicating novel drug discovery opportunities.   Download the Poster free online    Produced with support from:   Illuminating the Druggable Genome Knowledge Management Center (IDG KMC)          • Featured               What does 2017 hold for science? ▶       Expect researchers to glimpse an event horizon, continue striving for quantum supremacy and brace themselves for a political hangover. Read More ▶                 • Latest News               NASA sets sights on asteroid exploration ▶ 04 January 2017     Missions to visit Trojan asteroids, and the metallic asteroid Psyche, would launch in 2021 and 2023. Read More ▶             US scientists fear new restrictions on fetal-tissue research ▶ 04 January 2017     House Republicans conclude that tissue from aborted fetuses is of limited value for research and seek to reduce funding. Read More ▶             Mysterious cosmic radio blasts traced to surprising source ▶ 04 January 2017     Repeating bursts come from a faint, distant dwarf galaxy. Read More ▶               • More Stories               Google reveals secret test of AI bot to beat top Go players ▶ 04 January 2017     Updated version of DeepMind's AlphaGo program behind mystery online competitor. Read More ▶             What's killing the world's shorebirds? ▶ 04 January 2017     Researchers brave polar bears, mosquitoes and gull attacks in the Canadian Arctic to investigate an alarming die off Read More ▶             China's ivory ban, spine-disease drug and dark-matter pioneer dies ▶ 04 January 2017     The week in science. Read More ▶             Scientists should not resign themselves to Brexit ▶ 04 January 2017     Leaving the European Union is not yet a done deal, and UK researchers must look past a pay-off and take a stand, says Colin Macilwain. Read More ▶             Argentina's researchers occupy science ministry ▶ 03 January 2017     Young scientists angry at budget cuts say they have been denied permanent jobs. Read More ▶             Quantum computers ready to leap out of the lab in 2017 ▶ 03 January 2017     Google, Microsoft and a host of labs and start-ups are racing to turn scientific curiosities into working machines. Read More ▶             3D ocean map tracks ecosystems in unprecedented detail ▶ 03 January 2017     Tool to divide water masses into precise categories can help in conservation planning. Read More ▶             Scientists in Germany, Peru and Taiwan to lose access to Elsevier journals ▶ 23 December 2016     Libraries pursue alternative delivery routes after licence negotiations break down. Read More ▶             Bat banter is surprisingly nuanced ▶ 22 December 2016     The racket that Egyptian fruit bats make when jammed next to each other contains information about food, sleeping arrangements and mating attempts. Read More ▶             Fatal French clinical trial failed to check data before raising drug dose ▶ 22 December 2016     Revelation from drug firm Bial prompts criticism from pharmacologists. Read More ▶             2017 sneak peek: What the new year holds for science ▶ 22 December 2016     Expect researchers to glimpse an event horizon, continue striving for quantum supremacy and brace themselves for a political hangover. Read More ▶             Brain scan hints at first simple test for concussion ▶ 22 December 2016     Small study suggests long-sought biological marker for brain injuries. 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       Postdoctoral Fellow     University of California - Davis            Teacher position-Nanjing Institute of Technology     Nanjing Institute of Technology             Jinan University: Thousand Young Talents Program     Jinan University            Postdoctoral Position Yale University     Stefania Nicoli, PhD Internal Medicine and Pharmacology          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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