Nature News highlights: 14 May 2015

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14 May 2015       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.             • Featured               Science in India ▶       From Mars to medicines, there is some great research in India, but by most metrics the country is underperforming. Ten Indian science leaders offer prescriptions for building their country's research capacity. Key will be cheap and clean energy. Meanwhile what will Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan do with much of India's biological science funding? Read More ▶                 • Latest News               Latest Ebola data rule out rapid mutation ▶ 13 May 2015     Genetic-sequence haul shows that the virus evolved differently — but no faster — than in previous epidemics. Read More ▶             Indian bioscience: The anti-bureaucrat ▶ 13 May 2015     K. VijayRaghavan is determined to cut through red tape and build up biological science in India. Read More ▶             India by the numbers ▶ 13 May 2015     Highs and lows in the country's research landscape. Read More ▶               • More Stories               India: The fight to become a science superpower ▶ 13 May 2015     Despite great strides in some areas of research and development, the nation still has a long way to go. Read More ▶             Science in India ▶ 13 May 2015     A special issue explores the enormous potential and major challenges for research in south Asia's superpower. Read More ▶             Australia takes university cash to pay for research facilities ▶ 13 May 2015     But overall flat science funding in latest budget is seen as a reprieve after last year's heavy cuts. Read More ▶             European Commission unveils long-awaited science advice plans ▶ 13 May 2015     Team of expert researchers will bridge between politicians and wider science community. Read More ▶             Early European may have had Neanderthal great-great-grandparent ▶ 13 May 2015     Genome of 40,000-year-old jaw from Romania suggests humans interbred with Neanderthals in Europe. Read More ▶             Seven days: 8–14 May 2015 ▶ 13 May 2015     The week in science: first Arab mission to Mars; guidance on disease-naming without offence; and atmospheric carbon dioxide passes a symbolic threshold. Read More ▶             Ebola failures prompt WHO rethink ▶ 13 May 2015     Health agency's annual meeting will address shortcomings in outbreak response highlighted by West Africa crisis. Read More ▶             Rogue antimatter found in thunderclouds ▶ 12 May 2015     Aeroplane detects signature spike in photons that does not fit any known source of antiparticles. Read More ▶             UK researchers fret about downgrading of science minister role ▶ 12 May 2015     Jo Johnson is smart and well-connected, but will not attend highest-level policy meetings. Read More ▶             India eases stance on GM crop trials ▶ 12 May 2015     States begin to permit field tests of transgenic plants. Read More ▶             Regulate gene editing in wild animals ▶ 12 May 2015     The use of genome-modification tools in wild species must be properly governed to avoid irreversible damage to ecosystems, says Jeantine Lunshof. Read More ▶             'Dino-chickens' reveal how the beak was born ▶ 12 May 2015     Chicken embryos have been altered so that the birds grow dinosaur-like snouts. Read More ▶                   Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of SELEX: An Aptamer Symposium Supported by the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy, the Aptamers Workshop will provide a unique opportunity to celebrate the 25th anniversary of aptamers and to meet researchers around the world developing nucleic acid aptamers as high affinity targeting reagents for both diagnosis and therapy. 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