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-Special : SCHIZOPHRENIA: THE SEARCH FOR ORIGINS AND TREATMENTS
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Schizophrenia - the challenges it presents and how some of them might
be overcome - is the focus of a Nature special this week.

A News Feature looks at the difficulty of trying to detect the early
symptoms of schizophrenia in the brain during adolescence. A second
News Feature assesses the acute challenges the disease poses for drug
discovery. In a Comment piece, Norman Sartorius argues that
short-lived campaigns are not enough to change the prevailing
negative attitudes towards the mentally ill.And Til Wykes, in a
second Comment article, calls for more rigorous studies of a little
known but promising treatment for schizophrenia called cognitive
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-SPACE-TIME CLOAK COULD HIDE EVENTS
16 November 2010
Proposed device could edit actions out of history.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=75&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0

-NO REST FOR THE BIO-WIKIS
15 November 2010
Biologists' collaborative data repositories come of age.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=71&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0

-DEMONIC DEVICE CONVERTS INFORMATION TO ENERGY
14 November 2010
Experiment inspired by a paradox tempts a bead uphill.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=72&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0


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-CLIMATE: THE HOTTEST YEAR
15 November 2010
The release of climate-science e-mails last November ripped apart
Phil Jones's life. He's now trying to patch it back together.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=56&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0

-CONSERVATION EXPEDITION SPARKS INTERNATIONAL ROW
12 November 2010
Advocates for indigenous tribes are urging London's Natural History
Museum to cancel an imminent trip to Paraguay.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=55&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0

-FUSION PROJECT LOOKS FOR SAVINGS
12 November 2010
Plans to scale down testing sparks concern.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=59&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0

-WASTEWATER CHEMICALS DAMPEN FISH FERVOUR
12 November 2010
Nest protection and mating behaviour are altered by low levels of
pharmaceuticals and antibacterials.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=57&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0

-RAPID WARMING BOOSTED ANCIENT RAINFOREST
11 November 2010
Increased temperatures and carbon dioxide caused burst of evolution.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=49&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0

-BE STILL MY LIGHT-CONTROLLED HEART
11 November 2010
Photo-sensitive heart-muscle cells in mice and zebrafish probe
physiology and development.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=50&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0

-HIGH HOPES FOR ARTHRITIS DRUGS
11 November 2010
Race is on to develop treatments that inhibit signalling proteins.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=51&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0

-US GENOME INSTITUTE TAKES A CLINICAL APPROACH
11 November 2010
Funding to be diverted from large-scale sequencing towards smaller
health-related projects.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=46&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0


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--Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy
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US scientists "more prone" to fake research? No.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=5&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0

Drugs hit teens harder
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=7&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0

Allan Sandage, surveyor of the cosmos, dies at 84
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=1&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0

Row erupts over early human butchery
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=3&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0

Risks of pathogen release underestimated at proposed facility
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=18&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0

Paraguayan government delays scientific expedition
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=19&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0

Political science: On Copenhagen and the media
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=17&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0

Society for Neuroscience meeting opens with Close call
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=60&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0

Ozone talks delay action on climate
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=61&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0

A hint of Higgs?
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=62&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0

Europe opens ?4.5 billion clean energy fund
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=65&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0

Alleged mega-fraud under investigation in Athens
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=67&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0

Editorial concern over controversial longevity study
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=68&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0

Reactome retracted
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=69&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0

High-speed video reveals how cats lap milk
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=70&m=35992508&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=ODY5NzY1NDAS1&mt=1&rt=0


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