A hulking metal box, some three metres tall, is quietly beaming terabytes' worth of data
through thick orange cables that disappear off through the ceiling. It is one of the world's
most advanced cryo-electron microscopes: a device that uses electron beams to photograph …

Author (s): Ewen Callaway After a summer marred by disappointing clinical-trial results in
patients with Alzheimer's disease, drug developers are regrouping to plot a fresh course in
the battle against the devastating disorder. The bad news began in July and August, when …

Scientists in London have been granted permission to edit the genomes of human embryos
for research, UK fertility regulators announced. The 1 February approval by the UK Human
Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) represents the world's first endorsement of …

Other labs have collected similar data, but on a much smaller scale, with fewer animals or fewer
neurons. This information has been difficult to merge and compare, as a result of differences
in the species, techniques or brain regions examined. And most data remain in the hands of …

When colleagues called the work of Dutch psychologist Diederik Stapel too good to be true,
they meant it as a compliment. But a preliminary investigative report (go. nature.
com/tqmp5c) released on 31 October gives literal meaning to the phrase, detailing years of …

The North Sea is not known for calm days, and neither is its inlet called Nissum Bredning,
300 kilometres northwest of Copenhagen. On a typical afternoon, windsurfers skate across
the grey-green water while birds seem to hover, frozen, in mid-air. Along the horizon stretch …

© 2013 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved at the University of Washington in
Seattle. His team, funded by the NIH, started decoding HeLa DNA in 2011, as part of an
effort to develop new sequencing techniques. They also hoped that the genome would be …

1. Nature. 2015 Oct 8;526(7572):174-5. doi: 10.1038/nature.2015.18507. Anti-parasite drugs
sweep Nobel prize in medicine 2015. Callaway E, Cyranoski D. PMID: 26450037 [Indexed
for MEDLINE]. Publication Types: Historical Article; News. MeSH terms. Animals; …

One person died, and five others were hospitalized, after a clinical trial of an experimental
drug in France went tragically wrong. But days after the first public acknowledgement of the
incidents on 15 January, a lack of official information has left outside experts and the public …

First detected in February and confirmed with genome sequencing by Kamoun's lab this
month, the wheatblast outbreak has already caused the loss of more than 15,000 hectares of
crops in Bangladesh.“It's really an explosive, devastating disease,” says plant pathologist …