Nature News highlights: 12 March 2015

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12 March 2015       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               Trouble with donor vector cloning or design approaches? Donor clone applications—new tech note.   Reliably edit more than 4 alleles at once Fast delivery: bacterial stock or ready-to-transfect purified plasmid Genome-CRISP™ CRISPR Products and Services: Search gene specific CRISPRs—click to buy!         • Latest News               Dolphins, diatoms and sea dragons join census of all known marine life ▶ 11 March 2015     Near-complete tally lists more than 220,000 species and deletes 190,400 duplicates. Read More ▶             Neanderthals wore eagle talons as jewellery ▶ 11 March 2015     130,000-year-old claws show tell-tale signs of ornamental decoration. Read More ▶             Flu genomes trace H7N9's evolution and spread in China ▶ 11 March 2015     But surveillance of avian influenza viruses is patchy and slow. Read More ▶               • More Stories               Anthropocene: The human age ▶ 11 March 2015     Momentum is building to establish a new geological epoch that recognizes humanity's impact on the planet. But there is fierce debate behind the scenes. Read More ▶             Hints of hot springs found on Saturnian moon ▶ 11 March 2015     Particles streaming from Enceladus strengthen push to hunt for extraterrestrial life. Read More ▶             Seven days: 6–12 March 2015 ▶ 11 March 2015     The week in science: NASA's Dawn probe orbits dwarf planet Ceres; ivory burns in Kenya; and the first round-the-world trip by a solar plane begins. Read More ▶             LHC 2.0: A new view of the Universe ▶ 11 March 2015     As the Large Hadron Collider switches on again, a graphical guide to what it might find. Read More ▶             Conflict resolution: Wars without end ▶ 11 March 2015     The world is full of bloody conflicts that can drag on for decades. Some researchers are trying to find resolutions through complexity science. Read More ▶             World's whaling slaughter tallied ▶ 11 March 2015     Commercial hunting wiped out almost three million animals last century. Read More ▶             Bioelectric signals spark brain growth ▶ 10 March 2015     Voltage changes coax frog cells to build new brain tissue. Read More ▶             Australian research facilities under threat ▶ 10 March 2015     Political stand off leaves key programmes preparing for shut down. Read More ▶             Help to fight the battle for Earth in US schools ▶ 10 March 2015     Scientists everywhere must champion a set of US education standards that promote Earth sciences, argues Nicole D. LaDue. Read More ▶             DNA mutation clock proves tough to set ▶ 10 March 2015     Geneticists meet to work out why the rate of change in the genome is so hard to pin down. Read More ▶             Mistrust and meddling unsettles US science agency ▶ 10 March 2015     National Science Foundation under pressure from lawmakers to revise its agenda. Read More ▶             Smartphones set to boost large-scale health studies ▶ 09 March 2015     Tech giant Apple introduces mobile platform for biomedical research. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. Contamination created controversial 'acid-induced' stem cells US to lift ban on blood donations from gay men Gates Foundation announces world's strongest policy on open access research Energy outlook sees continuing dominance of fossil fuels Private rocket explodes on launch to space station WHO plans for millions of doses of Ebola vaccine by 2015 US research ethics agency upholds decision on informed consent Western Australia abandons shark cull Fundamental overhaul of China's competitive funding AstraZeneca neither confirms nor denies that it will ditch antibiotics research more...                   Nature Insight Frontiers in biology This year's Frontiers in Biology Insight covers the amygdala and how technology is helping us to understand its complex connectivity, innate lymphoid cells, nutrient-sensing mechanisms in mammals, a form of cell death called necroptosis, and the regulation and function of DNA methylation and its use as a cellular marker.   Access the Insight online.              nature.com webcasts Nature Publishing Group presents a custom webcast on: Using cellular reprogramming and live cell identification to advance cardiac disease modelling   Wednesday 18 March, 8AM PDT, 11AM EDT, 3PM GMT, 4PM CET   Register for the webcast and live Q & A session    Sponsored by:         • Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Assistant Professor or Associate Professor     Rutgers New Jersey Medical School            Research Chair in Aquatic Toxicology and Stress Physiology     University of Lethbridge            Professor of Climate and Weather Risks     ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology             Senior Research Assistant     The Francis Crick Institute            Chair in Pathogen Biology     The University of York          No matter what your career stage, student, postdoc or senior scientist, you will find articles on naturejobs.com to help guide you in your science career. 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