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Cancer-genome study challenges mouse 'avatars'

Grafting human cancer cells into mice alters tumour evolution.

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How the durian got its sulfuric stench
Fruit’s genome sequence has sulfur-related genes, which probably evolved to attract elephants and bats.
News | 09 October 2017
LIGO's unsung heroes
Nature highlights just a few of the people who played a crucial part in the discovery of gravitational waves — but didn’t win the Nobel Prize.

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The ambitious effort to document California’s changing deserts
Ecologists catalogue bird and mammal populations as warming transforms Death Valley.
News | 11 October 2017
The rise and fall and rise again of 23andMe
How Anne Wojcicki led her company from the brink of failure to scientific pre-eminence.
News | 10 October 2017
How the United States plans to trap its biggest stash of nuclear-weapons waste in glass
After decades of delays, a challenging clean-up project is gaining ground.
News | 10 October 2017
Developing nations need more than just money
Grants from big science funders can be hard to use without better administration and mutual understanding, says Rana Dajani.
News | 10 October 2017
Publishers threaten to remove millions of papers from ResearchGate
Take-down notices “imminent” as lawsuit is filed alleging widespread copyright infringement.
News | 10 October 2017
Trump EPA begins push to overturn Obama-era climate regulation
The agency's plan to reverse limits on greenhouse-gas emissions is likely to draw legal challenges.

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Research Highlights | 11 October 2017
Immune cells go home to die
Neutrophil white blood cells can end up back in the bone marrow once their job is done.
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Research Highlights | 11 October 2017
Tiny, fleeting flares might heat Sun’s corona
Short-lived ‘nanoflares’ could explain why the Sun’s outer atmosphere can be several million degrees hotter than its surface.
Nature 550, 161
Research Highlights | 11 October 2017
Pancreatic cancer: Intra-tumour bacteria promote gemcitabine resistance in pancreatic adenocarcinoma
- Hugh Thomas
Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

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