25 February 2009
Nature China highlights the best research coming out of Mainland China and Hong Kong, providing scientists from around the world with a convenient portal into publications drawn from across all scientific disciplines.
Oncology: Cancer connection
Regulating proteins in the centrosome connect two major pathways to chromosome instability
Structural biology: New clues on bird flu
Researchers have identified a key region of the avian influenza virus that is responsible for viral replication and transcription in the nucleus of infected cells
Physical chemistry: Ferroelectricity in one dimension
Study on a one-dimensional coordination polymer shows that ferroelectric properties are closely related to coordination geometry and packing structure
Polymer chemistry: Micelles inside out
Researchers have developed co-polymer molecules that self-assemble in different micelle structures depending on their surrounding environment
Cellular differentiation: A two-stage procedure
Cell differentiation can be uncoupled into two stages that have different regulatory relationships with cell proliferation
Nuclear physics: A massive problem
Chinese researchers propose an experiment that could help describe how the neutrino gets its mass
