Autophagy

Summaries of newsworthy papers: Resolving inflammatory pain; Ovarian hormones drive stem cell proliferation; Failure of cannibalization in Huntington disease; Variants associated with kidney function and Anxious interactions

Genetic variants influence risk of coeliac disease; Small creatures, big extinction; Tragic ending for mutant immune cells; Pass the sugar, please; “Licensed” to cross-prime; Protein dynamics in a living cell and Getting through the night without a drink

Autofluorescence in glioma: a different way to isolate cancer stem cells; Streamline genome indicates ‘needy’ organism; Variant associated with lung disease; Enzyme deficiency linked to anaemia; Fewer but stronger tropical cyclones; How non- coding DNA can increase your risk of coronary artery disease and more

Summaries of newsworthy papers: Nature: A big deletion, Medicine: Platelets promote closure of vessels in newborns, Neuroscience: To boldly go, Geoscience: Sensitive climate and Nature: The good fight

Internal degradation within plant cells and their response to aging and disease are linked

Variants associated with hearing loss in children receiving chemotherapy medication; The long shadows of adversity; Low-level seismicity in Southern California; Smoking and autoimmunity affect rheumatoid arthritis susceptibility; Arthritis is spreading; A deletion is associated with neurodevelopmental problems and more

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Variants associated with blood cell traits and Routing rogue bacteria for destruction

In Nature China this week - Climate change is likely to worsen China's desertification problem in the twenty-first century, threatening the lives of 80 million people

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Possible signature of dark matter detected, Melting mantle plumes and island formation and All in a spin

Summaries of newsworthy papers in Nature and Nature research journals including: Turning decision-making on its head, Weaving a web of tiny reactors and Neuroscience: Forming first impressions.

Summaries of newsworthy papers include ‘PiggyBac’ to pluripotency; Where decisions are made; Microtubes made easy; First-rate help; Managing iron overload and Clostridium virulence factor identified

In Nature China this week - A national study shows that cigarette smoking remains a major risk factor for mortality in China

Summaries of newsworthy papers: Neuroscience: Loud and clear, Lullaby learning, Neuronal function implicated in obesity risk, Live, fast, die old, A rotating surface shell on Mars, Avoiding overreaction and Vaccine mystery solved

A fragment of the Pacific tectonic plate beneath Tokyo may be the source of recurring large earthquakes. Other newsworthy papers include Crick hypothesis vindicated, Silicon solar cells bent on success, The genetic origins of cleft lip, Linking schizophrenia to neuronal changes, Magnetization switching using only spin and more.

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Practical cloaking devices, Biofuels: A genomic approach, Key receptor identified for HCMV infection, A two-faced drug, A trick to conjure with, Solid at the core, Changing cycles and Spooky speed limit

Newsworthy papers include Cleaning up the house, The ocean’s surprisingly hungry algae, Made in yeast, Genetic risk factor for chronic inflammatory disorder, Rats weigh up the evidence, An antibacterial catapult, Adopting an orphan receptor and Better action anticipation in elite basketball players

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Evolution: New look at human family tree, Your number of fat cells stays constant in adulthood, Starting out on the road to maleness, Earth’s early magnetic field, Genetic susceptibility to obesity and Generating human autoimmune cells

Summaries of newsworthy papers including: Host-to-graft disease spread in Parkinson disease?, Common genetic variants influencing adult height and p53 hampers energy metabolism in cancer cells.

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Warming soot, Shedding light on the bolt-from-the-blue, Gases not to blame for mass extinction, ‘Superdense’ coding gets denser, Therapeutic cloning treats neurodegenerative disease, The best of both worlds and How synaptic activity protects neurons

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Male and female flies wired differently for sex, A threshold for massive star formation, Completing the record, Locating what’s in the larder, An engineering material toughens up and Donning a disguise outside the theatre

Summaries of newsworthy papers including: Terrestrial ancestors of whales, Looking for cancer in all the right places, Optics: A fine-tooth comb, Stem cells: A case of mistaken functional identity, Superconductors: Who needs phonons?, Palaeoclimate: Early warming signs, Dating the Moon's formation and Making the most of melodious mistakes

Summaries of newsworthy papers include In charge of biosensing, Fountain of youth and Finding co-dependent genes in fission yeast

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Stellar weather, Omega 3 fatty acids may prevent eye disease, Tastier GM tomatoes?, How cancer cells keep their telomeres and Seeing histone tails specifically

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Saturn’s magnetosphere gets the Cassini treatment, Transients in the sky: Stellar puzzle, Why cold is such a pain, Human carbon footprint leaves a lasting mark on forests, Water on Mars revisited and The eyes have it

Summaries of newsworthy papers that will be published online on 22 April 2007 in Nature and Nature Research Journals, including: Enzyme curtails allergic reaction to chitin, Magnetic imaging enters the nanoworld, Catalysts under the microscope, The immune system and susceptibility to cancer, Engineering diverse sets of drug sensitive proteins.

Genetic susceptibility to Crohn disease, Mutation leads to male infertility, Astrocytes kill neurons in ALS, Increasing bad cholesterol levels

Summaries of newsworthy papers include A synchrotron for neutral molecules, Nanocrystals used as dopants, Reinventing the wheel, For goodness sake, Gambling on consciousness, A tunnel that transfers lipids

Summaries of newsworthy stories from Nature Vol 440, No 7087 Dated 20 April 2006 including Evolutionary pathways lead to same destination and Invisible skeleton