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Summaries of newsworthy papers: Medicine: Making clinical diagnoses affordable; Geoscience: Nitrogen and climate; Genetics: Variants associated with asthma; Geoscience: Carbon emissions from hydroelectric reservoirs; Nature: Attractive improvements in data recording; Immunology: Tolerance inducer; Chemical Biology: Mussels stick to it

Scientists and peasants combine traditional farming techniques and cutting-edge research to grow food sustainably in the high Andes, where the ecology is rapidly changing.

Summary of news: Closing the season for stem cell tourism

A joint research group of International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, NIMS, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles succeeded in developing a new inorganic device named "synapse device"

Scientists at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), the world’s first bioengineering and nanotechnology research institute, have developed a new genetic engineering technique that promises safer stem cell therapy for cancer patients

Summaries of newsworthy papers: Fossils: The last straw for the first bird?; Planetary science:; Earth's Trojan companion; Neuroscience: Bringing back memory; Neuroscience: Tipping the balance; Solar physics: Wave power; Climate change: Substantial carbon release from burning Arctic tundra and more

The Industrial Consortium On Nanoimprint (ICON), which is helmed by the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), a research institute of Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), is ready to put roll-to-roll nanoimprint manufacturing to the test.

A comparison of three techniques to detect changes in mangrove forest areas suggests one gives more reliable results than the other two, and this finding will help researchers better understand growth and loss of this important habitat. The work is published in the Pertanika Journal of Science and Technology.

Summaries of newsworthy papers: Neuroscience: Making cocaine less palatable; Climate Change: When to move species; Climate Change: Pollutants from the past ; Geoscience: Rare lunar volcanism

With the opening of its Shenzhen Base in the Nanshan District's High-Tech Industrial Park, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is well poised to further strengthen its collaboration with enterprises in Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region.

Summary of news: Regulating research at the animal-human interface (AOP)

A calcium-driven signaling pathway helps prevent immune cells from contributing to autoimmune disease

As in other multicellular organisms, plants have evolved mechanisms to maintain genome stability and integrity

Researchers at the SPring-8 Photon Science Research Division are developing a range of imaging tools to reveal the remarkable mechanism of bacterial locomotion

Summaries of newsworthy papers: Genetics: That’s not my cup of tea; Evolution: How spiders make all-weather ‘superglue’

Summary of News: Genetics: The changing landscape of recombination

Summaries of newsworthy papers: Genomics: DNA sequencing technique is cheap as chips; Comment: Freeze the footprint of food; Neuroscience: Humans, the robust sharers; Microbiology: Lethal secret of bacterial secretion; Battle of the sexes

Summary of news: 25 years of NF-kappaB

Summaries of newsworthy papers: A new combo for chemo; Absorbing low-cost CO2 capture; Building an insect colony; Polo-like kinase 1 inhibitors safe in the mouse; Ranking information in a complex network

Summary of news: Effects of maternal stress on later life

Summaries of newsworthy articles: Sociology: How New York Beat Crime; Neuroscience: How to Build a Better Learner; Science Agenda: We Need Excellent Science Teachers ; Forum: How to Develop New Drugs of Mental Illnesses ; Human Origins: The Evolution of Grandparents

Researchers from A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics (IME) have developed a lateral silicon-based drug screening tool that has demonstrated simultaneous capture of 12 individual cells – 12 times higher throughput than conventional patch clamping.

Summaries of newsworthy papers: Materials: Imaging bacterial infections; Geoscience: Earth’s heat flux from radioactive decay; Chemical Biology: Inactivating Ras; Immunology: Assembling the turn-off valve; Chemical Biology: A new channel for Polo delocalization; Climate Change: Conflict of interest in IPCC assessment reports

Sighting a theoretical exotic particle may become possible thanks to recently developed mathematical simulations

A family tree of the 2009 pandemic influenza viruses in Japan reveals a high rate of viral evolution

Zinc-transporting protein complexes are found unexpectedly to steer the maturation of an essential enzyme

Scientists are elated after the surprise rediscovery of a wildly-colored frog not seen for 87 years and never before photographed—until now.

Summary of news: The metabolism of breast cancer

Summary of news: Climate science: Explaining Antarctic ozone hole anomalies

Summaries of newsworthy papers: Biology: Low-energy approach to fibrillation; Comment: Medical genomics must cover more ethnic groups; Materials science: Electronic ink; Outlook: Alzheimer's disease – prevention rather than cure; Cancer: Selective slaughter and more