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Summaries of newsworthy papers include Neurotrophins to the rescue; Susceptibility to heart attack; Flies go large on RNAi; Zinc irritates an ion channel and The memory of things past

Using moss to remove heavy metal contaminants from water; X-ray charge density to directly observe chemical interactions at the molecular level; new fluorescent probes to discover unknown functions and potential in living things; iPS cells against cancer; Omics Science Centre and The X-Ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL)

Long-range spin currents induced by heat herald a new era for spintronic applications

The application of sophisticated imaging techniques illuminates spatio-temporal regulation critical for T cell activation

Unscrambling the link between molecular bonding and distributing pigment leads to potential therapeutics for a rare skin disease

Statistical analysis helps the search for fundamental causes of disease. Most Japanese people fall into one of two distinct groups genetically, biostatisticians from RIKEN’s Center for Genomic Medicine in Yokohama have shown.

A research is conducted at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak to design a solar-based pepper-berries dryer.

Summaries of newsworthy papers include The earliest animal life, H5N1 structure reveals focus of viral replication, Failing the fish, Hyper-starburst spawned galaxy bulge, No man is an island, Radioresistance in cancer stem cells explained? and A long story about tropical temperatures

TOKYO, 4 Feb - Japanese researchers have announced the world’s first discovery of genes in jigsaw-like pieces from an archaeon living in hot spring, which gives new insight into the origin of genes.

Up until last September, we thought the U.S. financial and economic crisis was just “fire on the other side of the Pacific.” Now we know otherwise: this America originated crisis is striking Japanese corporations directly.

Originating with the US subprime loan situation, it’s not just the worldwide financial crisis that is causing problems — there is a growing and strong impact on the real economy.

Financial instability triggered by the subprime-mortgage problem due to the decline in housing prices in the Unites State has drastically increased since the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers last September.

Summaries of newsworthy papers in Nature and Nature research journals including Genetics: Clue to gene-environment interaction in Parkinson's disease, Nature: Getting to know you and Genetics: Gene variant increases risk of essential tremor

By turning enzymes into better editors, Japanese scientists achieve improved results in protein engineering

RIKEN researchers have revealed an unexpectedly large recoil of ‘free’ electrons emitted from a simple metal

Non-coding RNAs play a role in regulating the expression of genes in yeast

Genomic analysis helps scientists to start determining how licorice plants produce a highly beneficial compound

PENANG, 29 Jan.- The ‘Out of Africa’ theory that suggested fossils of early man were only found in Georgia roughly 1.7 to 1.8 million years ago, may have to be rewritten with the latest discovery by Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) archaelogists.

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Grass genome offers clues to drought tolerance, Recipe for seafood toxin, Solving the world’s imaging problem, Superconductor shows unusual behaviour, Mouse model of hepatitis C infection one step closer, Boron beauty and Things get heated

The School of Pharmacy has signed a Memorandum of understanding (MoU) with five local and international institutions and a well-known conglomerate to ensure that the Nuclear Pharmacy Centre will become a reality.

The main problem in palm oil production recently was infection of Ganoderma which would decrease the number of production and cause the plants’ death.

International Agriculture Students Symposium 2009 (IASS 2009) held in Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) recently has formed a network for accessible collection of knowledge and experience gained by the agriculture students.

Summaries of newsworthy papers appearing in Nature and Nature Research Journals including: Gene variants associated with risk of psoriasis, Hedgehog blocker thwarts cancer stem cells, Future oceans low in oxygen? and Nanotechnology: Read the small print.

RIKEN researchers report that social courtship behavior in male zebra finches increases brain activity in a similar fashion as drugs abuse.

Solitary waves trapped in superconducting junctions could illustrate time dilation effects similar to those in special relativity

When the bonds between atoms suddenly alter in strength, structural changes in symmetry result

A new twist on an old technique helps researchers identify proteins with a regulatory ‘death sentence’

A pioneering research by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has uncovered the previously unknown anti-inflammatory mechanism for soothing the pain arising from arthritis, and thus unlocked the key to conducting further researches on the relationship between functional foods and this common crippling disease.

A group of Japanese scientists including former RIKEN researcher Toshiyuki Nakagaki were among this year’s winners of the Ig Nobel Prizes, recognized for their discovery that a unicellular amoeboid organism can figure out the shortest distance in a maze.

This book identifies the indicators for evaluating hazardous trees tree and the elements in hazard tree management.