Nature News highlights: 19 May 2016

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19 May 2016       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               The GK Rat Model of Type II Diabetes   The Taconic GK rat is a non-obese model of type II diabetes that exhibits metabolic, hormonal, and vascular phenotypes that mimic human disease. Characteristics include fasting hyperglycemia, impaired secretion of insulin in response to glucose, hepatic and peripheral insulin resistance and polyuria. Late stage complications such as retinopathy, microangiopathy, neuropathy, and nephropathy are also common. Find Out How to Try the GK Rat            FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS - CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES June 6-8, 2016 | Nanjing, China Presented by: Nanjing Tech University | Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM) Nature Communications | Nature REGISTER NOW!         • Latest News               Mixed-up metals make for stronger, tougher, stretchier alloys ▶ 18 May 2016     Materials scientists are creating next-generation mixtures with remarkable properties. Read More ▶             Hundreds of antibiotics built from scratch ▶ 18 May 2016     Chemists generate variations on erythromycin in 'daring' synthesis. Read More ▶             Scientific sceptics hit back after rebuke ▶ 18 May 2016     A science writer challenges the sceptics community to move beyond tackling just 'easy' issues. Read More ▶                 Nature Outlook: Research commercialization Universities need to deliver more value for research outlay. Companies are facing competition in the search for the next business-sustaining product. These sectors have their own objectives, but are locked in a synergistic embrace that is fuelling a push to extract commercial value from academic research. Available free online         • More Stories               The week in science: 13–19 May 2016 ▶ 18 May 2016     Costs of climate adaptation soar; Mexican porpoise close to extinction; and overhaul for UK science funding. Read More ▶             The race to create super-crops ▶ 18 May 2016     Old-fashioned breeding techniques are bearing more fruit than genetic engineering in developing hyper-efficient plants. Read More ▶             Australian climate job cuts leave hole in Southern Hemisphere research ▶ 18 May 2016     Details of redundancies at CSIRO alarm global climate community. Read More ▶             Bankruptcy filing worries developers of nanoparticle cancer drugs ▶ 18 May 2016     Financial woes of leading biotech firm highlight challenges of developing innovative therapies. Read More ▶             Boaty McBoatfleet: British ship joins wave of rugged polar vessels ▶ 18 May 2016     Ice-going vessels like Britain's RRS Sir David Attenborough — named Boaty McBoatface by the Internet — are being built across the world. Read More ▶             Gridlock over Italy's olive tree deaths starts to ease ▶ 18 May 2016     A court ruling paves the way for disease-containment measures, but the risk of spread to other regions and nations remains. Read More ▶             Scientists track last 2,000 years of British evolution ▶ 17 May 2016     Technique tested on Britons' genomes provides first look at human genetic adaptation over the past 2,000 years. Read More ▶             Genome reveals why giraffes have long necks ▶ 17 May 2016     Scientists spot mutations that could explain how giraffes became the world's tallest living mammals. Read More ▶             Teach students the biology of their time ▶ 17 May 2016     An experiment in genetics education reveals how Mendel's legacy holds back the teaching of science, says Gregory Radick. Read More ▶             Magic-mushroom drug lifts depression in first human trial ▶ 17 May 2016     Researchers' long fight to test psilocybin's safety finally yields fruit. Read More ▶             Social-sciences preprint server snapped up by publishing giant Elsevier ▶ 17 May 2016     The Social Science Research Network says that it will continue to offer free submissions and downloads under its new owner. Read More ▶             Mirror-image enzyme copies looking-glass DNA ▶ 16 May 2016     Synthetic polymerase is a small step along the way to mirrored life forms. 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