Cell

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Cell discovery helps understanding of heart growth, Extreme UV and finally… When moons collide and collide and collide

Newsworthy papers include Rare 'de novo' mutations contribute to schizophrenia risk, New prognostic marker for breast cancer, Cellular senescence and ageing, Fighting infection from an unlikely source, Vitamins on the move, Synthesis shuts down power, Warm and salty Cretaceous oceans, Multi-part bacterial sensor, Preventing amyloid formation

Newsworthy papers include A cold snap explained, I think therefore I touch, The 'good', the 'bad' and the gut, Forced out and fighting it, An infrared ring round a neutron star, Diagnostics in the balance, The big thaw, Engineering surface features of titania crystals, Quantum phase transition in a quantum dot, Visual invisibles, Packing wrapped up

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Outburst marking the birth of a supernova, Molecular clues to appetite and drug addiction, Magma can directly produce earthquakes, A trick of light, Stem cells: Getting to grips with self-renewal, How a vaccine enhancer, Climate : Tracking extreme conditions and A Texan fossil astride the amphibian gap

A genome wide study from Japan and Korea suggests generic susceptibility to gastric cancer. Other newsworthy papers include Fewer Atlantic hurricanes under global warming, Genetic links between pigmentation and skin cancer, Towards a model for Huntingdon’s disease and Three-dimensional microscopy at nanoscale resolution

Nocturnal tree frogs living in China have been found to possess extraordinary vocal skills comparable to dolphins, elephants and humans. Summaries of other newsworthy papers include The origins of the modern tomato, Insight into devastating pregnancy condition, Targeting dormant leukaemia cells, Tracking plates in the subsurface & more

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Why we are all different, Decadal-scale climate prediction in the North Atlantic, Shadows and dust, Is our children learning?, Key factor for cell migration identified, Missing memristor is found, Understanding phase slips, Southern anomaly goes North and Testing out a photochemical compass

In Nature China this week - Dyslexic readers of the English and Chinese languages have different brain abnormalities, Global warming may have caused the intensity of dust storms in the Gobi Desert to decrease and more

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Fast ice flow on water?, THC meets its rival, Methyl modifications spread out, A rogue neighbourhood, Breast cancer risk variants, Inflammatory bowel diseases share genetic risk factors, Sequencing sheds light on the cancer genome, Let there be light, Visualizing neuronal activity in 3D

Papayas are not just exotic fruits with nutritional and medicinal benefits, they are also model plants for studying genetics and evolution. Summaries of newsworthy papers include Beetle key to carbon switch, Test-tube recipe makes functioning heart cells, Linking events across a key climate transition and more

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Plant genetics: Evolution provides a cleanser for polluted soils, Greenhouse effect from tropospheric ozone and Back-to-front West Nile vaccine

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Tracing gases over the pristine Amazon forest, Nanotechnology: Extraordinary light, New mode of pathogen attack revealed?, A new route to ferroelectricity and Heat flow: A counterintuitive phenomenon

Summaries of newsworthy papers include IPCC underestimates challenge of global warming, Moving in on drug resistance, Another core bites the dust, Route to thwarting skin cancer stem cells?, Superinsulators and superconductors, In pole position and Insight into short-term information storage

Summaries of newsworthy papers: Perception of depth and depth of perception, Lifeline for tumour cells can be cut, Receptor crystallization speeds up, Rocks on film, A new drug for schistosomiasis, Adapting brain and behaviour to match the environment, Reining in lethal inflammation, Damage limitation ­and Finding allele-specific gene expression

Newsworthy papers: Deep impact, The worm turns, Changing nitrate sinks, Subverting a metabolic pathway for tumour growth, Missing cells to blame in Job’s syndrome, Neural coding of visual information, Partners in crime for neurodegenerative diseases, Clever catalysis in a gut microorganism and DNA Lego

Summaries of newsworthy papers include The tree rings have it, Oncogenic microRNA and New resources to precisely map mutations in the fly – Nature Methods

Highlights from Nature China include - Scientists in Beijing have identified the gene responsible for cell-corpse degradation, A fossil found in north-eastern China reveals the smallest ever pterosaur and scientists in Beijing have assembled a logic gate using nanocontacts and nanowires made from a metal alloy

RIKEN researchers find link with protein build-up

An exhibition created by RIKEN researchers at the National Science Museum in Tokyo is educating the public about the sequencing of the human genome and new directions in the post-genomic world.

Other newsworthy papers include Renewable cell therapy for diabetes inches closer from Nature Biotechnology and Treatment-resistant depression might be in the genes from Neuropsychopharmacology.

Summaries of newsworthy papers including Mars: Understanding its water flow, Diabetes: Sugars regulate insulin signalling, Evolutionary Biology: A photosynthetic parasite, Chemistry: Reacting the unreactable, Structural biology: Defining an anti-HIV protein, Tectonics: Deep mantle penetration events, And finally… Bend me, break me

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Mississippi sinking, Pass the acetyl, please, New syndrome of mental retardation and epilepsy identified, Gene hunters strike oil and Reversing impaired brain function in diabetes – Nature Neuroscience

Researchers solve the mystery of how biological clocks are disrupted - A team led by researchers from RIKEN has revealed how daily or circadian rhythms in mammals can be reinforced, shifted or disrupted by exposure to a burst of bright light.

Summaries of newsworthy papers in Nature and Nature research journals including: When microbes ruled the Earth, Making waves in the ionosphere, Amyloid inhibitors are aggregates too, An amicable separation, Mother knows best, Sleep onset and duration uncoupled

Molecular-scale rearrangements influence how receptors transmit their message, adding another layer of complexity to the regulation of cell signaling

Japanese researchers unravel how cells move to form the brain

Summaries of newsworthy papers include The Mississippi’s carbon footprint, Repeat Offenders – are scientists publishing more duplicate papers?, The power of Jupiter’s jets, DARPA at 50, Growth of Hawaiian volcanoes, Towards realizing the benefits of spin and Insight into a tropical ecosystem

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Animals: Turn up the heat on sex determination, Volcanoes under ice, From little seeds do laser beams grow, The dark side of X-ray imaging, A stem cell-based therapy to treat muscular dystrophy, Genetic variants associated with susceptibility to lupus

Summaries of other newsworthy papers include Walking after spinal rewiring in Nature Medicine and First sign of trouble in Nature Immunology

Diabetes mellitus is one of the global health problems in both developed and developing countries. One of the complications is diabetic retinopathy, a leading cause of blindness. This research suggest that a compound extracted from a Himalayan medicinal plant has the potential to prevent this.