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Chemistry's understated majesty ▶

The International Year of Chemistry is under way. Chemists should celebrate their discipline's past as the foundation of other fields, and face the future with increasing confidence. Read Editorial ▶

Legal highs: the dark side of medicinal chemistry ▶

Synthetic chemist David Nichols describes how his research on psychedelic compounds has been abused — with fatal consequences. Read Column ▶

Seven days: 31 December-6 January 2011 ▶

The week in science Read Seven Days ▶

US science faces big chill ▶

Spending cuts and political battles loom on the horizon. Read News ▶

Going out on a high ▶

Bart Gordon reflects on his career at the sharp end of science politics. Read News ▶

Chávez squeezes scientific freedom ▶

A string of new laws and a presidential power grab unsettle researchers in Venezuela. Read News ▶

New year, new science ▶

Nature looks at key findings and events that could emerge from the research world in 2011. Read News ▶

IceCube completed ▶

A neutrino observatory encased in ice at the South Pole could spot new physics. Read News ▶

Chemistry: The trials of new carbon ▶

Researchers have spent 25 years exploring the remarkable properties of fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and graphene. But commercializing them is neither quick nor easy. Read Feature ▶

Chemistry: It's not easy being green ▶

In the past two decades, the green-chemistry movement has helped industry become much cleaner. But mindsets change slowly, and the revolution still has a long way to go. Read Feature ▶

Let's get practical ▶

Chemistry needs an overhaul if it is to solve big global problems and advance fundamental understanding, say George M. Whitesides and John Deutch. Read Comment ▶

What lies ahead ▶

Ten leading chemists set priorities for the forthcoming decades, and reveal the scientists they find inspiring. Read Comment ▶

Beyond the bond ▶

More than ever before, new techniques show the bond to be a convenient fiction, albeit one that holds the field of chemistry together, finds Philip Ball. Read Comment ▶

History: Radioactive romance ▶

Giovanni Frazzetto is captivated by an illustrated biography of Marie and Pierre Curie. Read Books and Arts ▶

In retrospect: The Sceptical Chymist ▶

Robert Boyle's widely misunderstood book elevated the status of chemistry, explains Lawrence Principe. Read Books and Arts ▶

Books in brief ▶

Read Books and Arts ▶

Palaeontology: In the bones ▶

Jan Zalasiewicz enjoys a romp through vertebrate evolution and its eccentric scholars. Read Books and Arts ▶

Dance: Rhythm and reason ▶

Nicola Jones witnesses a meeting of dance and ecology. Read Books and Arts ▶

Non-English papers decrease rankings ▶

Ton van Raan, Thed van Leeuwen & Martijn Visser Read Correspondence ▶

Citation bubble about to burst? ▶

Jürgen Schmidhuber Read Correspondence ▶

Measuring impact of research on society ▶

Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Thomas Dorner & Manfred Maier Read Correspondence ▶

How will growing cities eat? ▶

John R. Porter, Lisa Deutsch, David Dumaresq & Rob Dyball Read Correspondence ▶

Frank Fenner (1914–2010) ▶

A guiding light of the campaign to eradicate smallpox. Read Obituary ▶

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 ▶

A selective role for dopamine in stimulus–reward learning ▶

Shelly B. Flagel, Jeremy J. Clark, Terry E. Robinson, Leah Mayo, Alayna Czuj et al.

Individuals make choices and prioritize goals using complex processes that assig... Read Research ▶

Fungal lipochitooligosaccharide symbiotic signals in arbuscular mycorrhiza ▶

Fabienne Maillet, Véréna Poinsot, Olivier André, Virginie Puech-Pagès, Alexandra Haouy et al.

Arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) is a root endosymbiosis between plants and glomeromyc... Read Research ▶

Sensing the anomeric effect in a solvent-free environment ▶

Emilio J. Cocinero, Pierre Çarçabal, Timothy D. Vaden, John P. Simons & Benjamin G. Davis

The anomeric effect is a chemical phenomenon that refers to an observed stabiliz... Read Research ▶

Competition and phylogeny determine community structure in Müllerian co-mimics ▶

Markos A. Alexandrou, Claudio Oliveira, Marjorie Maillard, Rona A. R. McGill, Jason Newton et al.

Until recently, the study of negative and antagonistic interactions (for example... Read Research ▶

Rapid evolutionary innovation during an Archaean genetic expansion ▶

Lawrence A. David & Eric J. Alm

The natural history of Precambrian life is still unknown because of the rarity o... Read Research ▶

Formation, regulation and evolution of Caenorhabditis elegans 3′UTRs ▶

Calvin H. Jan, Robin C. Friedman, J. Graham Ruby & David P. Bartel

Post-transcriptional gene regulation frequently occurs through elements in mRNA ... 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 ▶

The assembly of a GTPase–kinase signalling complex by a bacterial catalytic scaffold ▶

Andrey S. Selyunin, Sarah E. Sutton, Bethany A. Weigele, L. Evan Reddick, Robert C. Orchard et al.

The fidelity and specificity of information flow within a cell is controlled by ... Read Research ▶

CENP-B preserves genome integrity at replication forks paused by retrotransposon LTR ▶

Mikel Zaratiegui, Matthew W. Vaughn, Danielle V. Irvine, Derek Goto, Stephen Watt et al.

Centromere-binding protein B (CENP-B) is a widely conserved DNA binding factor a... Read Research ▶

Taxadiene synthase structure and evolution of modular architecture in terpene biosynthesis ▶

Mustafa Köksal, Yinghua Jin, Robert M. Coates, Rodney Croteau & David W. Christianson

With more than 55,000 members identified so far in all forms of life, the family... Read Research ▶

Leadership, social capital and incentives promote successful fisheries ▶

Nicolás L. Gutiérrez, Ray Hilborn & Omar Defeo

One billion people depend on seafood as their primary source of protein and 25% ... Read Research ▶

c-Jun N-terminal phosphorylation antagonises recruitment of the Mbd3/NuRD repressor complex ▶

Cristina Aguilera, Kentaro Nakagawa, Rocio Sancho, Atanu Chakraborty, Brian Hendrich et al.

AP-1 (activator protein 1) activity is strongly induced in response to numerous ... Read Research ▶

Ependymal cells of chordate larvae are stem-like cells that form the adult nervous system ▶

Takeo Horie, Ryoko Shinki, Yosuke Ogura, Takehiro G. Kusakabe, Nori Satoh et al.

In ascidian tunicates, the metamorphic transition from larva to adult is accompa... Read Research ▶

Hydrostatic pressure and the actomyosin cortex drive mitotic cell rounding ▶

Martin P. Stewart, Jonne Helenius, Yusuke Toyoda, Subramanian P. Ramanathan, Daniel J. Muller et al.

During mitosis, adherent animal cells undergo a drastic shape change, from essen... Read Research ▶

Experimental niche evolution alters the strength of the diversity–productivity relationship ▶

Dominique Gravel, Thomas Bell, Claire Barbera, Thierry Bouvier, Thomas Pommier et al.

The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) has become... Read Research ▶

Evolutionary biology: Catfish mimics ▶

James Mallet & Kanchon Dasmahapatra

Mutualism can be a double-edged sword if the animals concerned also compete for ... Read Research ▶

Alzheimer's disease: Recollection of lost memories ▶

Robert C. Malenka & Roberto Malinow

With age comes wisdom, or so they say. The reality is that, with age, the abilit... Read Research ▶

What lies ahead ▶

Ten leading chemists set priorities for the forthcoming decades, and reveal the scientists they find inspiring. Read News and Comment ▶

Books in brief ▶

 Read News and Comment ▶

Palaeontology: In the bones ▶

Jan Zalasiewicz enjoys a romp through vertebrate evolution and its eccentric scholars. Read News and Comment ▶

Dance: Rhythm and reason ▶

Nicola Jones witnesses a meeting of dance and ecology. Read News and Comment ▶

How will growing cities eat? ▶

 John R. Porter, Lisa Deutsch, David Dumaresq & Rob Dyball Read News and Comment ▶

Frank Fenner (1914–2010) ▶

A guiding light of the campaign to eradicate smallpox. Read News and Comment ▶

More News & Comment on Biological Sciences ▶

Fungal lipochitooligosaccharide symbiotic signals in arbuscular mycorrhiza ▶

Fabienne Maillet, Véréna Poinsot, Olivier André, Virginie Puech-Pagès, Alexandra Haouy et al.

Arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) is a root endosymbiosis between plants and glomeromyc... Read Research ▶

Vernier templating and synthesis of a 12-porphyrin nano-ring ▶

Melanie C. O’Sullivan, Johannes K. Sprafke, Dmitry V. Kondratuk, Corentin Rinfray, Timothy D. W. Claridge et al.

Templates are widely used to arrange molecular components so they can be covalen... Read Research ▶

Sensing the anomeric effect in a solvent-free environment ▶

Emilio J. Cocinero, Pierre Çarçabal, Timothy D. Vaden, John P. Simons & Benjamin G. Davis

The anomeric effect is a chemical phenomenon that refers to an observed stabiliz... Read Research ▶

CENP-B preserves genome integrity at replication forks paused by retrotransposon LTR ▶

Mikel Zaratiegui, Matthew W. Vaughn, Danielle V. Irvine, Derek Goto, Stephen Watt et al.

Centromere-binding protein B (CENP-B) is a widely conserved DNA binding factor a... Read Research ▶

Taxadiene synthase structure and evolution of modular architecture in terpene biosynthesis ▶

Mustafa Köksal, Yinghua Jin, Robert M. Coates, Rodney Croteau & David W. Christianson

With more than 55,000 members identified so far in all forms of life, the family... Read Research ▶

Supramolecular chemistry: Bigger and better synthesis ▶

Christopher Hunter

Nature constructs macromolecules with a precision that chemists have struggled t... Read Research ▶

Molecular computing: DNA as a logic operator ▶

Thomas Carell

Computers use transistor-based logic gates as the basis of their functions, but ... Read Research ▶

Chemistry's understated majesty ▶

The International Year of Chemistry is under way. Chemists should celebrate their discipline's past as the foundation of other fields, and face the future with increasing confidence. Read News and Comment ▶

Let's get practical ▶

Chemistry needs an overhaul if it is to solve big global problems and advance fundamental understanding, say George M. Whitesides and John Deutch. Read News and Comment ▶

What lies ahead ▶

Ten leading chemists set priorities for the forthcoming decades, and reveal the scientists they find inspiring. Read News and Comment ▶

Beyond the bond ▶

More than ever before, new techniques show the bond to be a convenient fiction, albeit one that holds the field of chemistry together, finds Philip Ball. Read News and Comment ▶

History: Radioactive romance ▶

Giovanni Frazzetto is captivated by an illustrated biography of Marie and Pierre Curie. Read News and Comment ▶

In retrospect: The Sceptical Chymist ▶

Robert Boyle's widely misunderstood book elevated the status of chemistry, explains Lawrence Principe. Read News and Comment ▶

Books in brief ▶

 Read News and Comment ▶

More News & Comment on Chemical Sciences ▶

A high C/O ratio and weak thermal inversion in the atmosphere of exoplanet WASP-12b ▶

Nikku Madhusudhan, Joseph Harrington, Kevin B. Stevenson, Sarah Nymeyer, Christopher J. Campo et al.

The carbon-to-oxygen ratio (C/O) in a planet provides critical information about... Read Research ▶

Evidence for a spin-aligned neutron–proton paired phase from the level structure of 92Pd ▶

B. Cederwall, F. Ghazi Moradi, T. Bäck, A. Johnson, J. Blomqvist et al.

Shell structure and magic numbers in atomic nuclei were generally explained by p... Read Research ▶

Grains and grain boundaries in single-layer graphene atomic patchwork quilts ▶

Pinshane Y. Huang, Carlos S. Ruiz-Vargas, Arend M. van der Zande, William S. Whitney, Mark P. Levendorf et al.

The properties of polycrystalline materials are often dominated by the size of t... Read Research ▶

Quantum photonics: Entangled photons on a chip ▶

Mirko Lobino & Jeremy L. O'Brien

Using photonic chips to control single photons in waveguides is a promising rout... Read Research ▶

Molecular computing: DNA as a logic operator ▶

Thomas Carell

Computers use transistor-based logic gates as the basis of their functions, but ... Read Research ▶

What lies ahead ▶

Ten leading chemists set priorities for the forthcoming decades, and reveal the scientists they find inspiring. Read News and Comment ▶

Beyond the bond ▶

More than ever before, new techniques show the bond to be a convenient fiction, albeit one that holds the field of chemistry together, finds Philip Ball. Read News and Comment ▶

History: Radioactive romance ▶

Giovanni Frazzetto is captivated by an illustrated biography of Marie and Pierre Curie. Read News and Comment ▶

Books in brief ▶

 Read News and Comment ▶

More News & Comment on Physical Sciences ▶

A high C/O ratio and weak thermal inversion in the atmosphere of exoplanet WASP-12b ▶

Nikku Madhusudhan, Joseph Harrington, Kevin B. Stevenson, Sarah Nymeyer, Christopher J. Campo et al.

The carbon-to-oxygen ratio (C/O) in a planet provides critical information about... Read Research ▶

Geochemical evidence for widespread euxinia in the Later Cambrian ocean ▶

Benjamin C. Gill, Timothy W. Lyons, Seth A. Young, Lee R. Kump, Andrew H. Knoll et al.

Widespread anoxia in the ocean is frequently invoked as a primary driver of mass... Read Research ▶

Leadership, social capital and incentives promote successful fisheries ▶

Nicolás L. Gutiérrez, Ray Hilborn & Omar Defeo

One billion people depend on seafood as their primary source of protein and 25% ... Read Research ▶

Experimental niche evolution alters the strength of the diversity–productivity relationship ▶

Dominique Gravel, Thomas Bell, Claire Barbera, Thierry Bouvier, Thomas Pommier et al.

The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) has become... Read Research ▶

Environmental dynamics: Simplicity versus complexity ▶

Chris Paola & Mike Leeder

Many scientists now use the power of computer models to advance their subjects. ... Read Research ▶

Biogeochemistry: Toxic Cambrian oceans ▶

Graham Shields-Zhou

Isotopic evidence from carbon and sulphur points to the spread of anoxia and tox... Read Research ▶

More News & Comment on Earth & Environmental Sciences ▶

Career paths: Where are they now? ▶

Despite obstacles, many of those who kept Naturejobs postdoc and graduate journals in the past six years have been successful — but not always in ways they had anticipated. Read Careers ▶

Chávez squeezes scientific freedom ▶

A string of new laws and a presidential power grab unsettle researchers in Venezuela. Read News and Comment ▶

New year, new science ▶

Nature looks at key findings and events that could emerge from the research world in 2011. Read News and Comment ▶

Let's get practical ▶

Chemistry needs an overhaul if it is to solve big global problems and advance fundamental understanding, say George M. Whitesides and John Deutch. Read News and Comment ▶

Non-English papers decrease rankings ▶

Read News and Comment ▶

Citation bubble about to burst? ▶

Read News and Comment ▶

Measuring impact of research on society ▶

Read News and Comment ▶

Postdoctoral Scientist

University of Oxford, Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology & Biology Oxford, UK, OX3 7DQ

Research Assistant / Associate in Statistical Genetics

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern) (UTSW) Dallas

Postdoctoral fellow

National University Singapore Singapore

Postdoctoral Associate

State University of New York (SUNY)-Downstate Medical Center New York City, New York, USA

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