Nature News highlights: 04 August 2016

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04 August 2016       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               Are you worried about antibody specificity? You should be - because the NIH is. Free access to a new white paper on commercial antibody specificity testing using high-content proteome microarrays. Includes background, methods and data.           The 4th Helmholtz-Nature Medicine DIABETES CONFERENCE Accepting abstracts on type 2 diabetes research! September 18-20, 2016 | Lenbach Palais, Munich, Germany REGISTER NOW!          • Latest News               The week in science: 29 July–4 August 2016 ▶ 03 August 2016     Theranos debuts new blood-testing device; Google and GlaxoSmithKline team up on bioelectronics; and United States has first domestic Zika transmissions. Read More ▶             Donald Trump's appeal should be a call to arms ▶ 03 August 2016     Trump's nomination as Republican presidential candidate is a reminder that scientific progress has not benefited all Americans, says Daniel Sarewitz. Read More ▶             Legal confusion threatens to slow data science ▶ 03 August 2016     Researcher who spent months chasing permission to republish online data sets urges others to read up on the law. Read More ▶               • More Stories               Welcome to the Cyborg Olympics ▶ 03 August 2016     The Cybathlon aims to help disabled people navigate the most difficult course of all: the everyday world. Read More ▶             Scholarly Olympics: How the games have shaped research ▶ 03 August 2016     A graphical guide to the impact of the Olympics on science. Read More ▶             Scientists seek influence on 'Brexit ministry' ▶ 02 August 2016     They hope for an active role in the UK department for exiting the EU. Read More ▶             Women in physics face big hurdles — still ▶ 01 August 2016     Persistent biases continue to affect the numbers of female physicists. Read More ▶             Brain implants and gene-editing enhancements worry US public ▶ 01 August 2016     Huge survey tests people's attitudes towards potential future biomedical technologies. Read More ▶             Troubled Japanese space agency seeks fresh start ▶ 29 July 2016     Push to resurrect instrument lost during satellite failure highlights JAXA's resilience. Read More ▶             Cruising sharks, fiery dragons and invisible dust ▶ 29 July 2016     July's sharpest science shots, selected by Nature's photo team. Read More ▶             Parasitic infection may have spoiled zebrafish experiments ▶ 29 July 2016     Common contaminant may change shoaling behaviour, a proxy for stress and anxiety in behavioural studies. Read More ▶             Monumental proof to torment mathematicians for years to come ▶ 28 July 2016     Conference on Shinichi Mochizuki's work inspires cautious optimism. Read More ▶             Major review calls time on 'gaming' in UK research assessment ▶ 28 July 2016     Report tries to curb bad behaviours incentivized by academic audit system. Read More ▶             Antibiotics funding splurge gets mixed reception ▶ 28 July 2016     Multimillion dollar initiative prioritizes drug development over discovery of new molecules. Read More ▶             The fiery birth of Earth's largest ocean exposed ▶ 27 July 2016     A volatile arrangement of tectonic plates millions of years ago gave us the Pacific. Read More ▶                 An open access, online-only, multidisciplinary research journal dedicated to publishing the most important scientific advances in the life sciences, physical sciences, and engineering fields that are facilitated by spaceflight and analogue platforms. 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