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By being picky about its binding partners, an RNA-modifying enzyme brings an important measure of quality control to the protein production process

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Press Release - A new fluorescent protein has illuminated complex neural networks of the hippocampus. The protein, engineered by researchers at RIKEN opens the possibility to dramatically extend the scope of research into brain function.

Read more of the article entitled 'New fluorescent proteins report electrical signals of brain cells'

Summaries of newsworthy papers: Variants associated with cleft lip with or without cleft palate, Socializing the amygdala, Inflammation and Type 2 Diabetes, Visualizing metastasis, Single-cycle laser pulses, Sticky sediments shape deltas, Wrapping up a ring, Chip-scale multiwavelength sources, Lenses that see it all

Read more of the article entitled 'Acidification increases ocean noise'

Professor Zilfalil from Universiti Sains Malaysia and his co-researchers will be holding a press conference in Kuala Lumpur on 23 December 2009 on this research. The paper was published in Science on 10 December 2009.

Read more of the article entitled 'Scientific consortium maps the range of genetic diversity in Asia, and traces the genetic origins of Asian populations'

A ‘super-Earth’ orbiting a nearby star, We must confront the quake risk of geothermal energy, Parental influence on SNP effect, Tiny SUMOs do good work, Controlling an atom, one photon at a time, Electrons make light work of nanostructures, Creating a 3D image from one look, Coots learn to recognise their chicks, War — what is it good for?

Read more of the article entitled 'Cancer genomes: A smoking gun'