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Highlights from Nature China include - Scientists have developed a non-invasive prenatal detection method for Down's syndrome, Calculations predict that a diamond-like boron-carbon compound could be the hardest known conductor and more

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Two devices that help researchers correlate nerve cell activity with behaviour in the living worm are presented in Nature Methods this week.

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Summaries of newsworthy papers include Ageing and cancer: Henrietta's legacy, Geology: The creeping San Andreas, Materials: Testing one’s metal and Social mammals: Drive him away or let him stay

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The common garden onion is an indicator of arsenic contamination in the environment, The wealth in China follows the same probability distribution as in many other developed economies and more from Nature China

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Summaries of newsworthy papers include Natural products in a flask, Prevention and treatment of craniosynostosis, Positive selection during human evolution, Signalling flies to sleep and a sponge to soak up regulatory RNAs

Read more of the article entitled 'How West Nile virus became dangerous'