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What's wrong with UNESCO p447
The new director-general needs to buck all expectations and
transform the agency.
doi:10.1038/461447a
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Earth's boundaries? pp447-448
An attempt to quantify the limits of humanity's load on our
planet opens an important debate.
doi:10.1038/461447b
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Biobanks need pharma p448
Which is why Europe's citizens need reassurance that their
donations will be in the public interest.
doi:10.1038/461448a
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Glaciology: Getting thinner faster p450
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Immunology: Natural born killers p450
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Systems biology: Metabolic map p450
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Evolution: Armed and dangerous p450
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Behavioural science: Jelly shots and jackpots p450
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Neurobiology: Shocktopus p451
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Gene therapy: Panning for phage p451
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Evolutionary biology: Well endowed p451
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Analytical chemistry: Evaporating flesh p451
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Aquatic toxicology: Mixed-up fish p451
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Journal club p451
Mikiko C. Siomi
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Correction p451
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News briefing: 24 September 2009 pp452
The week in science
doi:10.1038/461452a
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Buoy damage blurs El NiNo forecasts p455
Missing data from the eastern Pacific Ocean may hinder
predictions of this year's event.
Naomi Lubick
doi:10.1038/461455a
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German science looks to new political players pp456-457
Coalition change could affect policies, reports Quirin
Schiermeier.
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/461456a
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Genomics shifts focus to rare diseases pp458-459
Disappointing genome-wide studies prompt researchers to
tackle single-gene defects.
Erika Check Hayden
doi:10.1038/461458a
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The elephant and the neutrino p459
Conservationists challenge physics observatory in Indian
wildlife reserve.
Killugudi Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/461459a
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Gold rush for algae pp460-461
The second of four weekly articles on biofuels describes how
oil giants and others are placing their bets on algae.
Amanda Leigh Mascarelli
doi:10.1038/461460a
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Physics: The edge of physics pp462-465
Canada's Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics was
intended to become a world leader in the field. Eric Hand
finds out if it has lived up to its ambitions.
Eric Hand
doi:10.1038/461462a
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Atmospheric science: Cloudy, with a chance of science pp466-468
When American and Chinese scientists agreed to measure
pollution and dust over China, nobody foresaw how
difficult it would be. Jane Qiu reports.
Jane Qiu
doi:10.1038/461466a
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Luxury bushmeat trade threatens lemur conservation p470
Meredith A. Barrett and Jonah Ratsimbazafy
doi:10.1038/461470a
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A communication wipeout by gabbling presenters p470
Dongwook Ko
doi:10.1038/461470b
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Politics and priorities behind Greek research reforms p470
Fragiskos N. Kolisis
doi:10.1038/461470c
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Overzealous use of decimal places has wrong kind of impact p470
J. M. D. Coey
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A safe operating space for humanity pp472-475
Identifying and quantifying planetary boundaries that must
not be transgressed could help prevent human activities from
causing unacceptable environmental change, argue Johan Rockstrom
and colleagues.
Johan Rockstrom et al.
doi:10.1038/461472a
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OPINION
The younger Oppenheimer pp476-477
Frank Oppenheimer founded the San Francisco Exploratorium: his
charisma and passion for science education made him as influential,
if not as famous, as his brother, explains Robert Crease.
Robert Crease reviews Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens:
Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up by K.C. Cole
doi:10.1038/461476a
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Howard's end at Perimeter p477
Joao Magueijo reviews First Principles: The Crazy
Business of Doing Serious Science by Howard Burton
doi:10.1038/461477a
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A floating island of sustainability p478
Christopher Turner reviews The Waterpod Project
doi:10.1038/461478a
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Correction p478
doi:10.1038/461478b
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Archaeology: Maya, Khmer and Inca 479-480
Past societies have struggled against environmental problems
similar to those that beset us today. Three publications illuminate
the outcomes for three different tropical civilizations during the
period AD 700-1600.
Jared Diamond
doi:10.1038/461479a
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Developmental biology: Rise of the source-sink model pp480-481
Gradients of signalling molecules dictate where specific cell
types form in developing tissues, but how these gradients are set
up is much debated. A model proposed 40 years ago by Francis Crick
may provide an answer.
Alexander F. Schier and Daniel Needleman
doi:10.1038/461480a
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Climate change: The El Nino with a difference pp481-484
Patterns of sea-surface warming and cooling in the tropical Pacific
seem to be changing, as do the associated atmospheric effects.
Increased global warming is implicated in these shifts in El Nino
phenomena.
Karumuri Ashok and Toshio Yamagata
doi:10.1038/461481a
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Chemical biology: Caught in the activation pp484-485
A crystal structure reveals how a protein kinase is
activated by the binding of a small molecule at a pocket
far from the catalytic site. This opens the door to the design
of modulators of protein phosphorylation.
Yi Liu
doi:10.1038/461484a
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Astrophysics: Inner workings of a star pp485-486
By borrowing a technique used by seismologists to investigate
Earth's interior, astronomers have probed the hitherto-unknown
interior rotation profile of a white-dwarf star.
Sung-Chul Yoon
doi:10.1038/461485a
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Developmental biology: A bad boy comes good pp486-487
Reactive oxygen species are often blamed for the development
of cancer and other diseases. Contrary to their 'bad boy' reputation,
these species seem to be essential for the development of immune
cells, at least in the fly.
Ulrich Theopold
doi:10.1038/461486a
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Human genetics: Tracing India's invisible threads pp487-488
One measure of the extraordinary level of human diversity
found in India is the use of 15 languages on its banknotes.
The genetic underpinnings of that population diversity are yielding
to whole-genome analysis.
Aravinda Chakravarti
doi:10.1038/461487a
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Reconstructing Indian population history pp489-494
Genome-wide analysis of human variation in 25 diverse groups from
India reveals two ancient populations, genetically divergent, that
are ancestral to most Indians today. Traditionally upper caste and
Indo-European speakers tend to be descended from a group that is
genetically close to Middle Easterners, Central Asians and Europeans.
The other group, the 'Ancestral South Indians', does not appear to
be close to any group outside the subcontinent.
David Reich et al.
doi:10.1038/nature08365
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A luminal epithelial stem cell that is a cell of origin for prostate
cancer pp495-500
A known regulator of prostate epithelial differentiation,
Nkx3-1, is shown here to mark a stem cell population that functions
during prostate regeneration. Furthermore, in mice in which the Pten
tumour suppressor gene is deleted in a group of rare cells that express
Nkx3-1 in the absence of testicular androgens, termed CARN cells,
there is rapid carcinoma formation after andogen-mediated regeneration.
These observations indicate that prostate cancer can originate in CARN
cells.
Xi Wang et al.
doi:10.1038/nature08361
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Seismic evidence for the loss of stellar angular momentum before the
white-dwarf stage pp501-503
The majority of all stars finish their evolution as white dwarf stars.
If white dwarf stars kept the angular momentum of their progenitors,
they should rotate relatively rapidly, with typical periods of the
order of a few seconds. Observations show that they rotate much more
slowly, but it is not known whether a white dwarf could 'hide' some of
its original angular momentum below its superficial layers. Here, a
determination of the internal rotation profile of a white dwarf
shows that it rotates as a solid body and with a relatively long
period.
S. Charpinet, G. Fontaine and P. Brassard
doi:10.1038/nature08307
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Violation of Bell's inequality in Josephson phase qubits pp504-506
Bell inequalities are a quantitative measure that can distinguish
classically determined correlations from stronger quantum
correlations, and their measurement provides strong experimental
evidence that quantum mechanics provides a complete description.
The violation of a Bell inequality is now demonstrated in a
solid-state system; the experiment provides further strong evidence
that a macroscopic electrical circuit is really a quantum system.
Markus Ansmann et al.
doi:10.1038/nature08363
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Stable isotope constraints on Holocene carbon cycle changes
from an Antarctic ice core pp507-510
Antarctic ice cores can be used to reconstruct atmospheric
CO2 concentrations, revealing significant changes during the
Holocene epoch which started 11,000 years ago. Here, a highly
resolved [delta]13C record is presented for the past 11,000 years
from measurements on atmospheric CO2 trapped in an Antarctic ice
core. These data are combined with a simplified carbon cycle model
to shed light on the processes responsible for the changes in
CO2 concentrations.
Joachim Elsig et al.
doi:10.1038/nature08393
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El Nino in a changing climate pp511-514
A distinctly different type of El Nino event, causing global
climate effects dramatically different from those caused by the
canonical El Nino, was observed in the late twentieth century.
Using data from projected global warming scenarios it is now
demonstrated that this new type of El Nino event is likely to become
progressively more common in the future as a result of anthropogenic
climate change.
Sang-Wook Yeh et al.
doi:10.1038/nature08316
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An epistatic ratchet constrains the direction of glucocorticoid
receptor evolution pp515-519
Whether evolution can go back to an ancestral structure by reversing
the selection pressure on function has long fascinated biologists.
Here, the evolution of hormone specificity in the vertebrate
glucocorticoid receptor is used as a case-study to investigate
this issue; the mutations that optimized the new specificity of the
glucocorticoid receptor are found to have destabilized
elements of the protein structure that were required to
support the ancestral conformation.
Jamie T. Bridgham, Eric A. Ortlund and Joseph W. Thornton
doi:10.1038/nature08249
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Population context determines cell-to-cell variability in
endocytosis and virus infection pp520-523
Susceptibility to drug treatment or viral infection can vary
greatly from one cell to another even in a population of
genetically identical cells cultured together, but until
now the causes of this heterogeneity had not been investigated.
Here, deterministic links are revealed between fundamental cellular
features and a cell's population context -- for example,
whether a cell is localized at the centre or at the periphery
of an island of adhering cells.
Berend Snijder et al.
doi:10.1038/nature08282
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Integration of neuronal clones in the radial cortical columns by
EphA and ephrin-A signalling pp524-528
During development of the cerebral cortex, excitatory projection
neurons migrate to form a cellular infrastructure of radial
columns. However, some of these clonally related neurons undergo
a lateral shift to intermix with neurons originating from
neighbouring proliferative units. This process is now shown
to be dependent on Eph receptor A and ephrin A signalling, a
so far unrecognized mechanism for lateral neuronal dispersion
that seems to be essential for the proper intermixing of
neuronal types in the cortical columns.
Masaaki Torii, Kazue Hashimoto-Torii, Pat Levitt and Pasko Rakic
doi:10.1038/nature08362
Abstract: http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=290&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
Article: http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=309&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
Asymptomatic deer excrete infectious prions in faeces pp529-532
Infectious prion diseases are transmitted naturally within affected
host populations, for example of sheep and deer. Once an
animal is symptomatic its excretions may contain contagious
prions, but the biological importance of these sources in sustaining
epidemics remains unclear. Here it is shown that asymptomatic mule
deer infected with chronic wasting disease excrete
infectious prions in their faeces long before they develop
clinical signs of prion disease.
Gultekin Tamguney et al.
doi:10.1038/nature08289
Abstract: http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=311&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
Article: http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=304&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
Fgf8 morphogen gradient forms by a source-sink mechanism with
freely diffusing molecules pp533-536
Concentration gradients of certain molecules termed 'morphogens' are
known to control tissue development during embryogenesis, but how
exactly these gradients are formed remains unclear. Using the
technique of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, Fgf8 morphogen
gradients are now shown to be established and maintained in living
zebrafish by two essential factors: free diffusion of single molecules
away from the source and a sink function of the receiving cells.
Shuizi Rachel Yu et al.
doi:10.1038/nature08391
Abstract: http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=306&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
Article: http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=300&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
Reactive oxygen species prime Drosophila haematopoietic
progenitors for differentiation pp537-541
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are generally considered to be
deleterious to cells. Despite the fact that, in mammals,
haematopoietic stem cells contain low levels of ROS, common
myeloid progenitors (CMPs) unexpectedly produce relatively
high levels of ROS. Here it is shown that the equivalent
class of cells to CMPs in Drosophila display increased
levels of ROS in vivo, apparently priming them for
differentiation.
Edward Owusu-Ansah and Utpal Banerjee
doi:10.1038/nature08313
Abstract: http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=302&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
Article: http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=296&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
A dimerization-dependent mechanism drives RAF catalytic
activation pp542-545
Activation of the kinase RAF, a member of the ERK
(extracellular signal-regulated kinase) pathway, is
triggered by the binding of growth factors to receptor
tyrosine kinases. Activating mutations in RAF can lead
to unbridled signalling through the ERK pathway and have
been linked to several human cancers. Here, the activation
mechanism of RAF is shown to involve a specific mode of dimerization
of its kinase domain, which is relevant for the action of the RAF
activator KSR and certain oncogenic mutations.
Thanashan Rajakulendran et al.
doi:10.1038/nature08314
Abstract: http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=298&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
Article: http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=319&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
Active turnover modulates mature microRNA activity in
Caenorhabditis elegans pp546-549
MicroRNAs have important roles in shaping gene expression profiles
during development, repressing target messenger RNAs to control
various biological processes. The degradation of mature microRNAs in
the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, mediated by the
5[prime][rarr]3[prime] exoribonuclease XRN-2, is now found
to affect functional microRNA homeostasis in vivo.
Saibal Chatterjee and Helge Groszhans
doi:10.1038/nature08349
Abstract: http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=136&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
Article: http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=130&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
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The nature of the globular- to fibrous-actin transition p550
Toshiro Oda et al.
doi:10.1038/nature08440
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=133&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
Reptilian heart development and the molecular basis of cardiac
chamber evolution p550
Kazuko Koshiba-Takeuchi et al.
doi:10.1038/nature08464
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=125&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
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Structural basis for leucine-rich nuclear export signal
recognition by CRM1 p550
Xiuhua Dong et al.
doi:10.1038/nature08491
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=127&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
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News
Sponsor a scientist, online p553
Non-profit collective looks to eBay in search of funds.
Virginia Gewin
doi:10.1038/nj7263-553a
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=324&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
Postdoc journal
Lab trips foster collegiality p553
A well-run lab needs cooperation and communication among lab members.
Bryan Venters
doi:10.1038/nj7263-553b
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=31&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
In Brief
Biotech goes to school p553
Stem-cell and biotech curricula to be added to California public
education.
doi:10.1038/nj7263-553c
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=39&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
Teaching sequestration p553
University of Texas introduces training programme for carbon capture
and storage.
doi:10.1038/nj7263-553d
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=38&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
International health p553
Survey finds increases in graduate and undergraduate global-health
enrolment.
doi:10.1038/nj7263-553e
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=36&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
Careers and Recruitment
Industrial endeavours p554
Biotechnology and drug companies are
piquing graduate student interest with goal-oriented
postdoctoral fellowships that maintain academic ties.
Karen Kaplan surveys the offerings.
Karen Kaplan
doi:10.1038/nj7263-554a
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=35&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
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A kiss isn't just a kiss p558
Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Steve Carper
doi:10.1038/461558a
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=121&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
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Advance Online Publication
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23 September 2009
Direct RNA sequencing
Fatih Ozsolak et al.
doi:10.1038/nature08390
Abstract: http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=123&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
Article: http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=118&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
Extensive dynamic thinning on the margins of the Greenland and
Antarctic ice sheets
Hamish D. Pritchard, Robert J. Arthern, David G. Vaughan
and Laura A. Edwards
doi:10.1038/nature08471
Abstract: http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=116&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
Article: http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=120&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
STING regulates intracellular DNA-mediated, type I
interferon-dependent innate immunity
Hiroki Ishikawa, Zhe Ma and Glen N. Barber
doi:10.1038/nature08476
Abstract: http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=80&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
Article: http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=81&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
20 September 2009
Role of the polycomb protein EED in the propagation of
repressive histone marks
Raphael Margueron et al.
doi:10.1038/nature08398
Abstract: http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=83&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
Article: http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=84&m=34066217&r=MjA1NTkxMDA2MAS2&b=2&j=NTgzNjk2NTgS1&mt=1&rt=0
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