A roundup of weekly science policy and related news.

Informed consent requirement may change decades-old program.

Virologists baffled by the potent strain's continued spread as more than 30 million poultry hit.

Trials hope to show whether antibodies from recovered patients can save lives.

Combining fossils and lab studies, researchers home in on genes that transformed a snout into a bill.

To avoid offense, WHO says no people, places, food, or animals in new disease names.

After keeping science alive during decades of scarcity, Cuba's “guerrilla scientists” are ready to rejoin the world.

In a Q&A, Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart reveals the truth behind his nom de guerre in Russia and his efforts to launch a nanotechnology R&D center in Havana.

Cuba's biotech success helped give rise to a rapidly aging population; now, its scientists are hoping to ease the disease burden in the golden years.

Scientists rush to study what may be some of the last healthy corals in the Caribbean.

African Americans and the early days of the space program.

For three intrepid Victorian naturalists, exploration and entrepreneurship went hand in hand.

A listing of books received at Science during the week ending 08 May 2015.

The International Health Regulations could help align and trigger World Bank and World Health Organization efforts

Dental remains elucidate the demise of the Neandertals [Also see Report by Benazzi et al.]

Tertiary piRNAs help silence dangerous DNA elements [Also see Reports by Mohn et al. and Han et al.]

Seismic imaging of Yellowstone provides a better understanding of large volcanic systems [Also see Report by Huang et al.]

Rapidly recycled reduced phosphorus compounds play a key role in phosphorus biogeochemistry [Also see Report by Van Mooy et al.]

A neoantigen-based vaccine elicits T cell responses in cancer patients [Also see Report by Carreno et al.]

Helping people in Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, India, Pakistan, and Peru to become self-employed enables the very poor to become less poor.

The Yellowstone supervolcano has a large magma body between the mantle hot spot and the upper crustal magmatic reservoir. [Also see Perspective by Shapiro and Koulakov]

Coupling to a qubit was used to limit the dynamics of a cavity electromagnetic mode.

The discovery of a rare four-quasar system may provide a test-bed for models of galaxy evolution.

Plankton chemically reduces phosphate rapidly in the western tropical North Atlantic Ocean. [Also see Perspective by Benitez-Nelson]

Unlike other fish, opah distribute warmed blood throughout their bodies, enhancing physiological performance in the deep ocean.

In zebrafish brains, changes in the behavior of stem cells underlie generation of additional neurons during regeneration.

The Protoaurignacian culture in southern Europe involved anatomically modern humans and overlapped in time with the last Neandertals. [Also see Perspective by Conard]

As human societies evolved, modeling reveals that allowing both males and females to choose camp members reduces relatedness.

Microtubule detyrosination works as a navigation system for kinetochore-based chromosome motility during cell division.

Passenger mutations encode target melanoma antigens for human cancer immunotherapy. [Also see Perspective by Delamarre et al.]

Centrosome assembly in Caenorhabditis elegans involves self-assembly of an interconnected, micrometer-scale network of proteins.

Phased synthesis of germline-protective piRNAs along precursor RNAs increases piRNA sequence diversity. [Also see Perspective by Siomi and Siomi]

Phased synthesis of germline-protective piRNAs along precursor RNAs increases piRNA sequence diversity. [Also see Perspective by Siomi and Siomi]

On this week's show: Cuban science looks toward the future, and a roundup of daily news stories.

A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers.