Obesity: The fat and the short of it

In Nature China this week - Many middle-aged women in Chongqing are short and overweight because of severe malnutrition in their early years of life

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.

Immunology: Negative seven
Researchers in China have identified a negative regulator of mitochondrial antiviral signalling, a protein that activates interferon production

Surface chemistry: An intriguing pattern
When deposited on a graphene-on-ruthenium substrate, phthalocyanines self-organize into a tunable kagome lattice

Obesity: The fat and the short of it
Many middle-aged women in Chongqing are short and overweight because of severe malnutrition in their early years of life

Palaeontology: Four wings and a prey
Bird ancestors had four wings and large contour feathers some 150 million years ago

Published: 07 Oct 2009

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