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Summary of news: White matter cells linked to depression

Summary of news: Closing the season for stem cell tourism

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.

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

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

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: 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

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

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

Cultures of embryonic stem cells can be coaxed to spontaneously develop into a mature, properly organized retina

Summaries of newsworthy papers - Medicine: Treating snakebite; Chemical Biology: Plutonium poisoning; Nanotechnology: Turning the heat up on cancer; Neuroscience: Reversing brain damage in neonates; Geoscience: Insensitive climate models; Nature: Editing the genome to correct genetic diseases and more

The RIKEN CDB seeks laboratory heads to lead independent laboratories under the Creative Research Promoting Program and the Center Director’s Strategic Program

Signaling proteins that help immune cells develop also enable those cells to mount an effective counterattack against infections

Summaries of newsworthy papers - Materials: Targeting tumours through nanoparticles that scout, broadcast and recruit; Geoscience: Marginal temperature benefits from forest regrowth; Climate Change: Tell-tale signs of tipping; Climate Change: A push from pathogens; And finally…Neuroscience: Flies learn to smell friend from foe

Identification of the transcription factor that regulates a protein that dampens immune responses could aid the fight against autoimmune disease

In an effort to help rebuild research communities in areas devastated by the recent earthquake, the RIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC), together with bioinformatics solution provider CLC bio Japan, will provide a free software environment for advanced DNA/RNA/protein analysis to researchers in affected areas.

Summaries of newsworthy papers - Chemistry: Finding a ‘Goldilocks’ catalyst; Photonics: A cellular laser; Methods: Fast and sensitive sequencing; Geoscience: Rain in the Sahel; Immunology: Inducing lung immune centers; And finally…Genetics: Variants associated with migraine

Brain structure is maintained during development by two distinct mechanisms that regulate the production and movement of cells

Summaries of newsworthy papers - Nature: Sculpting of the inner Solar System; Neuroscience: Insul(in)-ation from obesity; Geoscience: Slow release of carbon during ancient warming; Nature: Genomic clues for targeting chronic lymphocytic leukaemia; Geoscience: Permafrost degradation leads to wetland loss.

Five Canadian and Developing Country Teams to Study Climate Change Adaptation

It was a 100 percent victory for Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) at the 22nd International Invention, Innovation & Technology Exhibition (ITEX). The exhibition, held at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre also saw USM taking home four special awards.

The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Data Storage Institute (DSI) recently entered into a strategic partnership with 4DS, Inc. to develop a 16 kilobit (Kbit) resistive random access memory (RRAM) prototype and memory controller.

Nanopillars significantly boost the power conversion efficiency of thin-film solar cells

An enzyme helps control the extension of cellular tendrils by regulating the delivery of supplies needed for growth

Identification a master regulator of the response of plants to injury sheds light on organ regeneration

A new gene expression technique adapted for single molecule sequencing has enabled researchers at the RIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC) to accurately and quantitatively measure gene expression levels using only 100 nanograms of total RNA.

Summaries of newsworthy papers - Geoscience: Net loss of landscape during 2008 Wenchuan earthquake; Cell Biology: Directing the building of blood vessels; Genetics: Exome sequencing for autism; Geoscience: Oxygen oases for tiny animals; Methods: Renewable reagents for detecting human proteins; Physics: Single spins resolved in imaging experiment