Nature News highlights: 12 March 2013

Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser.     12 March 2013       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.                       Save on best-in-class personal flow cytometry With a combined value package, you can save 10% on the BD Accuri™ C6 personal flow cytometer and 40% on high quality BD Pharmingen™ reagents for 2 full years. There's never been a better time to buy and get the best-in-class power, flexibility, and insight personal flow cytometry can offer. Flow cytometry within reach™. bdbiosciences.com/go/accuri               • Featured               Nature special issue: Women in science ▶       Science remains institutionally sexist. This special issue of Nature takes a hard look at the gender gap and at what is being done to close it. Three feature articles describe how women in science are still paid less than men, they are kept out of biotech companies' boardrooms, and they face challenges when starting a family while pursuing an academic career. Four comment piece raise issues ranging from subtle biases in men's favour to the disadvantages of gender quotas. Read More ▶                           New Nature Journals iPad app Read Nature anytime, anywhere. Subscribe to Nature on the iPad for only $35.99* Download the new app from the app store. *Apple exchange rates apply to international prices.               • Latest News               Vaccine hope for Tasmanian devil tumour disease ▶ 11 March 2013     Researchers discover how transmissible facial cancer hides from the immune system. Read More ▶             Cold telescope faces hot death ▶ 11 March 2013     Herschel space observatory nears its end after unravelling star formation and tracking dust from supernovae. Read More ▶             Mummies reveal that clogged arteries plagued the ancient world ▶ 11 March 2013     Scans suggest that there's more to heart disease than a modern diet. Read More ▶                 • More Stories               Tropical forests unexpectedly resilient to climate change ▶ 10 March 2013     Models predict that forests such as the Amazon will keep carbon locked up until 2100. Read More ▶             Leishmaniasis drug fails a fifth of patients ▶ 08 March 2013     High failure rate of front-line therapy puts eradication campaign at risk. Read More ▶             Lab-made supermaterial that could boost computing exists in nature too ▶ 08 March 2013     Naturally occurring topological insulator is cleaner than synthetic samples. Read More ▶             Indian medical officials charged in land deal case ▶ 08 March 2013     Former head of Indian Council of Medical Research is avoiding arrest but denies wrongdoing. Read More ▶             Global temperatures are close to 11,000-year peak ▶ 07 March 2013     Planet is set to get hotter than at any time since last ice age by end of century. Read More ▶             Red wine's link to health gains support ▶ 07 March 2013     Evidence found for resveratrol's mechanism of action. Read More ▶             Melting Arctic ice will make way for more ships and more species invasions ▶ 07 March 2013     A new study shows immense increases in shipping are likely over the North Pole and Arctic Ocean in the coming years, alerting scientists who study invasive species. Read More ▶             Salt linked to autoimmune diseases ▶ 06 March 2013     Nanowires show sodium chloride may cause harmful T-cell growth. Read More ▶             Inequality quantified: Mind the gender gap ▶ 06 March 2013     Despite improvements, female scientists continue to face discrimination, unequal pay and funding disparities. Read More ▶             Women in biotechnology: Barred from the boardroom ▶ 06 March 2013     The number of women in scientific research is going up — but where academia crosses into industry, men still rule. Read More ▶             Women in science: Women's work ▶ 06 March 2013     A special section of Nature finds that there is still much to do to achieve gender equality in science Read More ▶             From the frontline: 30 something science ▶ 06 March 2013     What's being female got to do with anything, ask the scientists who are starting labs and having kids. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. Drug-resistant bacteria and lack of new antibiotics pose 'catastrophic threat' Italian seismologists appeal L'Aquila ruling India fails to deliver on promises to boost science budget Global call for coordinated fight against cancer Former Bell Labs head abandons bid to become South Korea's science minister Blaze leaves Naples science museum in ashes Obama nominates Moniz for energy, McCarthy for EPA US budget cuts inevitable as science agencies brace for next fight 100 million sharks are killed each year Dragon soars then stumbles more...                           Nature Structural & Molecular Biology FOCUS ON EPIGENETIC DYNAMICS Access the Focus for FREE at: www.nature.com/nsmb/focus/epigeneticdynamics This Focus is freely available thanks to support from Active Motif                         Published research in BJC makes the BBC news Differences in cancer awareness and beliefs between Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the UK (the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership): do they contribute to differences in cancer survival? 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