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Summaries of newsworthy papers: A potential new treatment for osteoporosis; Drivers of deforestation; Reprogramming with minicircles and Western Australian drought unique in 750 years?

Read more of the article entitled 'Variants associated with blood cell and metabolic traits'

Press Release - Researchers at RIKEN and Fukuoka University have pinpointed the mechanism responsible for early rejection of transplanted pancreatic islet cells in the treatment of type 1 diabetes, also known as juvenile diabetes.

Read more of the article entitled 'HMGB1 protein triggers islet cell rejection'

Summaries of newsworthy papers: An exoplanet's atmosphere probed from the ground, ‘Missing DNA’ link to obesity, Smells like a human, Protein marks malarial proteins for export, Signalling pathway crucial for cancer stem-cell survival, The quantum glow of photosynthesis, A more complex role for RAF inhibitors

Read more of the article entitled 'Biomaterials: A silken trap for water'

Summaries of newsworthy papers: Geoscience: Volcanoes implicated in ancient ocean oxygen depletion

Read more of the article entitled 'Genetics: Searching for antimalarial drug resistance variants'

Molecular fluorescence applied in an unconventional way allows the life-sustaining chemical reactions in genes to be observed in real time

Read more of the article entitled 'A new approach to diagnosing the dynamic behavior of DNA and RNA'