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An end to gridlock? ▶

Europe says it is embarking on an unprecedented overhaul of its electricity system. But it must do more to convince the private sector that it is serious. Read Editorial ▶

A long way to go ▶

Overpriced and underused, the International Space Station could still be a research asset. Read Editorial ▶

Undue obstruction ▶

Republican opposition to the US–Russia arms-control treaty is based on politics, not science. Read Editorial ▶

A sustainable planet needs scientists to think ahead ▶

Globalization means that Earth's life-support system can no longer be treated as separate from the socio–economic system, says Sybil Seitzinger. Read Column ▶

Seven days: 2 December 2010 ▶

The week in science Read Seven Days ▶

Iranian nuclear scientists attacked ▶

Murder and cyber-assault target nuclear programme. Read News ▶

Complex synthesis yields breast-cancer therapy ▶

Drug approval marks culmination of a marathon trek from sea sponges to clinic. Read News ▶

Physics centre plans rapid growth ▶

Perimeter Institute steps up drive to attract top talent. Read News ▶

Partners wanted to run research lab in space ▶

NASA seeks wider research-community involvement in the International Space Station. Read News ▶

India blocks nuclear meeting ▶

Fission group is 'hostile to India', government claims. Read News ▶

Chemists help archaeologists to probe biblical history ▶

Collaboration establishes a new approach for teasing out clues hidden in the soil. Read News ▶

Stem cells: The impatient advocate ▶

Bob Klein founded the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the biggest state-run research project in US history. What legacy will he leave behind? Read Feature ▶

Energy: Supergrid ▶

Is a vast undersea grid bringing wind-generated electricity from the North Sea to Europe a feasible proposition or an overpriced fantasy? Read Feature ▶

Follow the money ▶

What was the impact of the nanotechnology funding boom of the past ten years? Philip Shapira and Jue Wang have scrutinized the literature to find out. Read Comment ▶

Biography: Envy and power ▶

A balanced biography brings out the many contradictions of nuclear physicist Edward Teller, finds Robert P. Crease. Read Books and Arts ▶

Neuroscience: Patterns from the brain ▶

Vincent A. Billock recommends an introduction to the mathematics of geometric hallucinations. Read Books and Arts ▶

Books in brief ▶

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History: How to behave beyond the grave ▶

Instructions for the afterlife from Ancient Egypt reveal a step change in moral psychology, discovers Andrew Robinson. Read Books and Arts ▶

Technology: Libraries of the future ▶

A hands-on exhibition shows how online tools are shaping the way we use knowledge, says Aleks Krotoski. Read Books and Arts ▶

Archiving lessons from radiobiology ▶

Paul N. Schofield, Soile Tapio & Bernd Grosche Read Correspondence ▶

The politics of climate (dis)belief ▶

Francis Nicholson Read Correspondence ▶

How to conserve the tropics as they warm ▶

Jedediah Brodie, Eric Post & William Laurance Read Correspondence ▶

Faraday on the fiscal benefits of science ▶

Michael Polymenis Read Correspondence ▶

Lkb1 regulates cell cycle and energy metabolism in haematopoietic stem cells ▶

Daisuke Nakada, Thomas L. Saunders & Sean J. Morrison

Little is known about metabolic regulation in stem cells and how this modulates ... Read Research ▶

The Lkb1 metabolic sensor maintains haematopoietic stem cell survival ▶

Sushma Gurumurthy, Stephanie Z. Xie, Brinda Alagesan, Judith Kim, Rushdia Z. Yusuf et al.

Haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) can convert between growth states that have mar... Read Research ▶

U1 snRNP protects pre-mRNAs from premature cleavage and polyadenylation ▶

Daisuke Kaida, Michael G. Berg, Ihab Younis, Mumtaz Kasim, Larry N. Singh et al.

In eukaryotes, U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein (snRNP) forms spliceosomes in ... Read Research ▶

A dimorphic pheromone circuit in Drosophila from sensory input to descending output ▶

Vanessa Ruta, Sandeep Robert Datta, Maria Luisa Vasconcelos, Jessica Freeland, Loren L. Looger et al.

Drosophila show innate olfactory-driven behaviours that are observed in naive a... Read Research ▶

Acid sensing by the Drosophila olfactory system ▶

Minrong Ai, Soohong Min, Yael Grosjean, Charlotte Leblanc, Rati Bell et al.

The odour of acids has a distinct quality that is perceived as sharp, pungent an... Read Research ▶

Oxidant stress evoked by pacemaking in dopaminergic neurons is attenuated by DJ-1 ▶

Jaime N. Guzman, Javier Sanchez-Padilla, David Wokosin, Jyothisri Kondapalli, Ema Ilijic et al.

Parkinson’s disease is a pervasive, ageing-related neurodegenerative dis... Read Research ▶

Lkb1 regulates quiescence and metabolic homeostasis of haematopoietic stem cells ▶

Boyi Gan, Jian Hu, Shan Jiang, Yingchun Liu, Ergün Sahin et al.

The capacity to fine-tune cellular bioenergetics with the demands of stem-cell m... Read Research ▶

Structural changes of envelope proteins during alphavirus fusion ▶

Long Li, Joyce Jose, Ye Xiang, Richard J. Kuhn & Michael G. Rossmann

Alphaviruses are enveloped RNA viruses that have a diameter of about 700... Read Research ▶

Glycoprotein organization of Chikungunya virus particles revealed by X-ray crystallography ▶

James E. Voss, Marie-Christine Vaney, Stéphane Duquerroy, Clemens Vonrhein, Christine Girard-Blanc et al.

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an emerging mosquito-borne alphavirus that has caus... Read Research ▶

Head swivel on the ribosome facilitates translocation by means of intra-subunit tRNA hybrid sites ▶

Andreas H. Ratje, Justus Loerke, Aleksandra Mikolajka, Matthias Brünner, Peter W. Hildebrand et al.

The elongation cycle of protein synthesis involves the delivery of aminoacyl-tra... Read Research ▶

Structure and mechanism of the S component of a bacterial ECF transporter ▶

Peng Zhang, Jiawei Wang & Yigong Shi

The energy-coupling factor (ECF) transporters, responsible for vitamin uptake in... Read Research ▶

Crystal structure of bacterial RNA polymerase bound with a transcription inhibitor protein ▶

Shunsuke Tagami, Shun-ichi Sekine, Thirumananseri Kumarevel, Nobumasa Hino, Yuko Murayama et al.

The multi-subunit DNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RNAP) is the principal enzyme of... Read Research ▶

Integrative genomics identifies LMO1 as a neuroblastoma oncogene ▶

Kai Wang, Sharon J. Diskin, Haitao Zhang, Edward F. Attiyeh, Cynthia Winter et al.

Neuroblastoma is a childhood cancer of the sympathetic nervous system that accou... Read Research ▶

A role for mitochondria in NLRP3 inflammasome activation ▶

Rongbin Zhou, Amir S. Yazdi, Philippe Menu & Jürg Tschopp

An inflammatory response initiated by the NLRP3 inflammasome is triggered by a v... Read Research ▶

Reversing EphB2 depletion rescues cognitive functions in Alzheimer model ▶

Moustapha Cissé, Brian Halabisky, Julie Harris, Nino Devidze, Dena B. Dubal et al.

Amyloid-β oligomers may cause cognitive deficits in Alzheimer’s di... Read Research ▶

Telomerase reactivation reverses tissue degeneration in aged telomerase-deficient mice ▶

Mariela Jaskelioff, Florian L. Muller, Ji-Hye Paik, Emily Thomas, Shan Jiang et al.

An ageing world population has fuelled interest in regenerative remedies that ma... Read Research ▶

Paneth cells constitute the niche for Lgr5 stem cells in intestinal crypts ▶

Toshiro Sato, Johan H. van Es, Hugo J. Snippert, Daniel E. Stange, Robert G. Vries et al.

Homeostasis of self-renewing small intestinal crypts results from neutral compet... Read Research ▶

Cancer: Chemotherapy counteracted ▶

Urban Emmenegger & Robert S. Kerbel

Resistance of tumour cells to chemotherapy can severely affect the efficacy of t... Read Research ▶

Neuroscience: Sexy circuits ▶

Richard Benton

As in humans, the actions and reactions of male and female fruitflies during cou... Read Research ▶

Analytical biochemistry: Weighing up protein folding ▶

Martin Gruebele

Labelling molecules by fast oxidation allows mass spectrometry to study protein ... Read Research ▶

Parasitology: Nematode debt to bacteria ▶

Noah K. Whiteman & Andrew D. Gloss

The transition by certain nematode worms to plant parasitism, and possibly more ... Read Research ▶

Stem cells: The blood balance ▶

Ellen M. Durand & Leonard I. Zon

Blood cells are generated from haematopoietic stem cells on demand. The protein ... Read Research ▶

Structural biology: An alphavirus puzzle solved ▶

Margaret Kielian

Alphaviruses infect their host by binding to cellular receptors and fusing with ... Read Research ▶

Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases ▶

Felicia Keesing, Lisa K. Belden, Peter Daszak, Andrew Dobson, C. Drew Harvell et al.

Current unprecedented declines in biodiversity reduce the ability of ecological ... Read Research ▶

Zoology: Showcasing the sea's strange secrets ▶

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Geoscience: How plants check global warming ▶

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Chemistry: Tiny molecular 'water bottle' ▶

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Medicine: Profiling for blood pressure ▶

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Stem cells: Platelets get a boost ▶

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Developmental biology: Placenta key to fetal growth rate ▶

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Neurobiology: The source of sour taste ▶

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Cell biology: Genes that make cells move ▶

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A long way to go ▶

Overpriced and underused, the International Space Station could still be a research asset. Read News and Comment ▶

Neuroscience: Patterns from the brain ▶

Vincent A. Billock recommends an introduction to the mathematics of geometric hallucinations. Read News and Comment ▶

Books in brief ▶

 Read News and Comment ▶

History: How to behave beyond the grave ▶

Instructions for the afterlife from Ancient Egypt reveal a step change in moral psychology, discovers Andrew Robinson. Read News and Comment ▶

Archiving lessons from radiobiology ▶

 Paul N. Schofield, Soile Tapio & Bernd Grosche Read News and Comment ▶

Awards for biomedicine ▶

Grants aim to foster collaboration. Read Careers ▶

More News & Comment on Biological Sciences ▶

U1 snRNP protects pre-mRNAs from premature cleavage and polyadenylation ▶

Daisuke Kaida, Michael G. Berg, Ihab Younis, Mumtaz Kasim, Larry N. Singh et al.

In eukaryotes, U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein (snRNP) forms spliceosomes in ... Read Research ▶

Head swivel on the ribosome facilitates translocation by means of intra-subunit tRNA hybrid sites ▶

Andreas H. Ratje, Justus Loerke, Aleksandra Mikolajka, Matthias Brünner, Peter W. Hildebrand et al.

The elongation cycle of protein synthesis involves the delivery of aminoacyl-tra... Read Research ▶

Structure and mechanism of the S component of a bacterial ECF transporter ▶

Peng Zhang, Jiawei Wang & Yigong Shi

The energy-coupling factor (ECF) transporters, responsible for vitamin uptake in... Read Research ▶

Crystal structure of bacterial RNA polymerase bound with a transcription inhibitor protein ▶

Shunsuke Tagami, Shun-ichi Sekine, Thirumananseri Kumarevel, Nobumasa Hino, Yuko Murayama et al.

The multi-subunit DNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RNAP) is the principal enzyme of... Read Research ▶

A role for mitochondria in NLRP3 inflammasome activation ▶

Rongbin Zhou, Amir S. Yazdi, Philippe Menu & Jürg Tschopp

An inflammatory response initiated by the NLRP3 inflammasome is triggered by a v... Read Research ▶

Analytical biochemistry: Weighing up protein folding ▶

Martin Gruebele

Labelling molecules by fast oxidation allows mass spectrometry to study protein ... Read Research ▶

Chemistry: Tiny molecular 'water bottle' ▶

 Read News and Comment ▶

Optical physics: A peek at a molecule's guts ▶

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Stem cells: Platelets get a boost ▶

 Read News and Comment ▶

More News & Comment on Chemical Sciences ▶

A ground-based transmission spectrum of the super-Earth exoplanet GJ 1214b ▶

Jacob L. Bean, Eliza Miller-Ricci Kempton & Derek Homeier

In contrast to planets with masses similar to that of Jupiter and higher, the bu... Read Research ▶

Trapped antihydrogen ▶

G. B. Andresen, M. D. Ashkezari, M. Baquero-Ruiz, W. Bertsche, P. D. Bowe et al.

Antimatter was first predicted in 1931, by Dirac. Work with high-energy antipart... Read Research ▶

Fluctuating stripes at the onset of the pseudogap in the high-T _c superconductor Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O_8+x  ▶

Colin V. Parker, Pegor Aynajian, Eduardo H. da Silva Neto, Aakash Pushp, Shimpei Ono et al.

Doped Mott insulators have a strong propensity to form patterns of holes and spi... Read Research ▶

A substantial population of low-mass stars in luminous elliptical galaxies ▶

Pieter G. van Dokkum & Charlie Conroy

The stellar initial mass function (IMF) describes the mass distribution of stars... Read Research ▶

Planetary science: A cloudy view of exoplanets ▶

Drake Deming

The lack of absorption features in the transmission spectrum of exoplanet GJ 121... Read Research ▶

High-temperature superconductivity: How the cuprates hid their stripes ▶

Kathryn A. Moler

Extensive mapping of local electronic structure in copper oxide superconductors ... Read Research ▶

Geoscience: How plants check global warming ▶

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Optical physics: A peek at a molecule's guts ▶

 Read News and Comment ▶

Materials: Controlling water on synthetic silk ▶

 Read News and Comment ▶

An end to gridlock? ▶

Europe says it is embarking on an unprecedented overhaul of its electricity system. But it must do more to convince the private sector that it is serious. Read News and Comment ▶

A long way to go ▶

Overpriced and underused, the International Space Station could still be a research asset. Read News and Comment ▶

Undue obstruction ▶

Republican opposition to the US–Russia arms-control treaty is based on politics, not science. Read News and Comment ▶

Follow the money ▶

What was the impact of the nanotechnology funding boom of the past ten years? Philip Shapira and Jue Wang have scrutinized the literature to find out. Read News and Comment ▶

Biography: Envy and power ▶

A balanced biography brings out the many contradictions of nuclear physicist Edward Teller, finds Robert P. Crease. Read News and Comment ▶

Books in brief ▶

 Read News and Comment ▶

The politics of climate (dis)belief ▶

 Francis Nicholson Read News and Comment ▶

More News & Comment on Physical Sciences ▶

A ground-based transmission spectrum of the super-Earth exoplanet GJ 1214b ▶

Jacob L. Bean, Eliza Miller-Ricci Kempton & Derek Homeier

In contrast to planets with masses similar to that of Jupiter and higher, the bu... Read Research ▶

The redox state of arc mantle using Zn/Fe systematics ▶

Cin-Ty A. Lee, Peter Luffi, Véronique Le Roux, Rajdeep Dasgupta, Francis Albaréde et al.

Many arc lavas are more oxidized than mid-ocean-ridge basalts and subduction int... Read Research ▶

Planetary science: A cloudy view of exoplanets ▶

Drake Deming

The lack of absorption features in the transmission spectrum of exoplanet GJ 121... Read Research ▶

Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases ▶

Felicia Keesing, Lisa K. Belden, Peter Daszak, Andrew Dobson, C. Drew Harvell et al.

Current unprecedented declines in biodiversity reduce the ability of ecological ... Read Research ▶

Geoscience: How plants check global warming ▶

 Read News and Comment ▶

The politics of climate (dis)belief ▶

 Francis Nicholson Read News and Comment ▶

How to conserve the tropics as they warm ▶

 Jedediah Brodie, Eric Post & William Laurance Read News and Comment ▶

More News & Comment on Earth & Environmental Sciences ▶

Publishing: A helping hand ▶

Manuscript-editing services are growing. Can they turn a mediocre paper into a publishable one? And at what cost? Read Careers ▶

Postdoc unions ▶

Canadian universities seek better working conditions. Read Careers ▶

Awards for biomedicine ▶

Grants aim to foster collaboration. Read Careers ▶

Academic jobs safe ▶

Scottish universities try to preserve research posts in the face of cuts. Read Careers ▶

Complex synthesis yields breast-cancer therapy ▶

Drug approval marks culmination of a marathon trek from sea sponges to clinic. Read News and Comment ▶

Partners wanted to run research lab in space ▶

NASA seeks wider research-community involvement in the International Space Station. Read News and Comment ▶

Follow the money ▶

What was the impact of the nanotechnology funding boom of the past ten years? Philip Shapira and Jue Wang have scrutinized the literature to find out. Read News and Comment ▶

Postdoctoral Position In Bioinformatics And Systems Biology

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Trondheim, Norway

Research Scientist in the Field of Microacoustics and RF Devices

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Turku Finland

PhD in Biological Engineering

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Leuven, Belgium

Postdoctoral Researcher on Nano / Microfluidics / Electrokinetics for study of transport phenomena in cell and nanofluidics

University of South Carolina Columbia, SC

Neurizons 2011 - From Molecules to Mind: Making Sense of the Brain

25.-28.05.11 Goettingen, Germany