Nature News highlights: 21 May 2015

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21 May 2015       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               Nature Outlook: Colorectal Cancer Colorectal cancer is the world's fourth most deadly cancer, killing almost 700,000 people every year. And it is expected to become more common as more people adopt Western diets and lifestyles, which are implicated as risk factors. But research into screening, prevention and treatments is helping to fight the disease.  Access the Outlook free online for six months. Produced with support from:Hoffman-La Roche Ag and Eli Lilly & Company.         • Latest News               US lawmakers advance controversial science-policy bill ▶ 20 May 2015     Republicans in the House of Representatives seek to reshape research agenda. Read More ▶             Deepwater Horizon oil spill linked to Gulf of Mexico dolphin deaths ▶ 20 May 2015     Animals suffered from adrenal and lung problems that are consistent with exposure to petroleum. Read More ▶             The week in science: 15–21 May 2015 ▶ 20 May 2015     WHO outlines plans for a crisis fund in wake of Ebola; rules to curb polar pollution agreed; and newly discovered rodent is named after James Bond. Read More ▶               • More Stories               No more hidden solutions in bioinformatics ▶ 20 May 2015     Precision medicine cannot advance without full disclosure of how commercial genome sequencing and interpretation software works, says Mauno Vihinen. Read More ▶             Congress seeks to quash patent trolls ▶ 20 May 2015     Revised legislation would spare universities from being penalized in the same way as unscrupulous companies. Read More ▶             Quantum physics: What is really real? ▶ 20 May 2015     A wave of experiments is probing the root of quantum weirdness. Read More ▶             Russia turns screw on science foundation ▶ 20 May 2015     Ministry of Justice threatens to label Dynasty Foundation a 'foreign agent'. Read More ▶             'Young blood' anti-ageing mechanism called into question ▶ 19 May 2015     A protein in the blood of young mice that seemed to rejuvenate older animals may do the opposite. Read More ▶             Billion-dollar particle collider gets thumbs up ▶ 19 May 2015     Proposed US electron–ion smasher wins endorsement from influential nuclear-science panel. Read More ▶             Panda guts not suited to digesting bamboo ▶ 19 May 2015     Bear's microbiome shows poor evolutionary adaptation to the fibrous food. Read More ▶             Reproducibility crisis: Blame it on the antibodies ▶ 19 May 2015     Antibodies are the workhorses of biological experiments, but they are littering the field with false findings. A few evangelists are pushing for change. Read More ▶             US science academies take on human-genome editing ▶ 18 May 2015     National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine to develop guidelines for rapidly advancing technology to modify human embryos and germ cells. Read More ▶             Artificial intelligence joins hunt for human–animal diseases ▶ 18 May 2015     Model predicts that the midwestern United States and Central Asia are at high risk for outbreaks of rodent-borne pathogens. Read More ▶             Engineered yeast paves way for home-brew heroin ▶ 18 May 2015     Advance holds potential for better opiate painkillers — but raises concerns about illicit use. Read More ▶             Indian Ocean may be key to global warming 'hiatus' ▶ 18 May 2015     Upper ocean may be storing heat, giving atmosphere a break. Read More ▶                         nature.com webcasts Nature Publishing Group presents a custom webcast on: Addressing the challenges of characterizing mesenchymal populations Thursday, May 28, 2015, 10AM PDT, 1PM EDT, 6PM BST, 7PM CEST Register for the webcast and live Q & A session  Access the accompanying Nature Collections: Multicolor flow cytometry free online. 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