Nature News highlights: 10 July 2012

Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser.     10 July 2012       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.                       Save on best-in-class personal flow cytometry With a combined value package, you can save 10% on the BD Accuri™ C6 personal flow cytometer and 40% on high quality BD Pharmingen™ reagents for 2 full years. There's never been a better time to buy and get the best-in-class power, flexibility, and insight personal flow cytometry can offer. Flow cytometry within reach™.  bdbiosciences.com/go/accuri               • Featured               Special: Rio+20 ▶       Twenty years after global leaders pledged to protect Earth's climate and biodiversity at the Rio Earth Summit, they are back for another try at Rio 2.0. In this special report, Nature shows that while the leaders have made little headway, scientists' understanding of the environmental crisis continues to deepen. Read More ▶                           Nature Reviews Cancer POSTER - MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTION AND CANCER Author: Douglas C. Wallace Access the Poster FREE online! http://www.nature.com/nrc/posters/mitochondria This Poster is freely available thanks to sponsorship from Abcam               • Latest News               Law spurs regulators to heed patients’ priorities ▶ 10 July 2012     US FDA to consider risks and benefits more explicitly in drug approvals. Read More ▶             Genome study highlights risk factor for multiple sclerosis ▶ 09 July 2012     Discovery of genetic variant could help to improve clinical trials of potential therapies. Read More ▶             Arsenic-loving bacterium needs phosphorus after all ▶ 09 July 2012     Two teams repeat much-debated study, and find that the chemical rules of life remain unbroken. Read More ▶                 • More Stories               Call for NIH research chimpanzees to be retired ▶ 06 July 2012     Animal-rights group asks biomedical agency director to intervene. Read More ▶             Nature Publishing Group wins long-running libel trial ▶ 06 July 2012     Case brought by Mohamed El Naschie dismissed, but campaigners say it proves need for libel reform. Read More ▶             Racial bias colours visual perception ▶ 05 July 2012     Prejudiced people slowest to recognize faces from other races. Read More ▶             Fish return to undammed Elwha River ▶ 05 July 2012     First hope for salmon and trout restoration in biggest dam-removal project in US history. Read More ▶             Cost of human-animal disease greatest for world's poor ▶ 04 July 2012     But the United States and western Europe are hotspots for emerging diseases. Read More ▶             Neighbouring cells help cancers dodge drugs ▶ 04 July 2012     Proteins in a tumour's microenvironment play a part in drug resistance. Read More ▶             Science in three dimensions: The print revolution ▶ 04 July 2012     Three-dimensional printers are opening up new worlds to research. Read More ▶             Dark matter’s tendrils revealed ▶ 04 July 2012     Direct measurement of a dark-matter ‘filament’ confirms its existence in a galaxy supercluster. Read More ▶             Neurodevelopment: Unlocking the brain ▶ 04 July 2012     Much of our neural circuitry is fixed during childhood. Researchers are finding ways to unglue it, raising hopes for treating many brain disorders. Read More ▶             Seven days: 29 June–5 July 2012 ▶ 04 July 2012     The week in science: First weight-loss pill approved for more than a decade; GSK pleads guilty to health-care fraud; and Gabon burns ivory in stance against illegal trade. Read More ▶             Meet patients to get your motivation back ▶ 04 July 2012     Biomedical scientists risk forgetting what they’re working for if they don’t connect with the people who are affected by their research, says Tal Nuriel. Read More ▶             African researchers sue flagship programme for discrimination ▶ 04 July 2012     Conflict at Kenya Medical Research Institute exposes widespread tensions. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. FDA hopes to curb prescription painkiller abuse with education Researchers highlight the impact of slavery on health and disease Study says US conservation agency ignored scientific advice Spanish scientists ask for European intervention on national R&D policy Patients seek stem-cell compensation South Korea aims to be second nation to engage in ‘scientific’ whaling Was Yasser Arafat killed by polonium? Live Q&A: Higgs found, so what’s next? Live blog: the Higgs announcement Courting cuttlefish dons drag to keep off rivals more...                       Scientific Reports publishes 457 open access papers in its first year Publishing technically sound research articles, Scientific Reports is Nature Publishing Group’s fastest growing journal. Given the speed and visibility offered, no wonder 93% of our authors said that they are “likely” or “very likely” to submit again. Keep your research moving. Submit to Scientific Reports                         SPECIAL FOCUS The great strides in advancing resolution in genetic diagnosis, largely due to molecular techniques with nextgen sequencing as trailblazer, is fuelling the debate on the discordance between resolution and precision. Somewhere between those two lies the holy grail of patient benefit. Do we need to find everything, and can we, already? 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