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Summaries of newsworthy papers include Protein monitors arrested eggs for DNA damage, Mount St Helens rock causes ‘drumbeats’, Drug promise for renal disease, By their teeth ye shall know them, Corals take a battering, Watching proteins unfold, Superconducting silicon, Hessian ware recipe

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Summaries of newsworthy papers include Nanomaterials for imaging and therapy – Nature Materials, High times for memory – Nature Neuroscience, An unexpected mechanism of pain – Nature Neuroscience, Auditory repetition and dyslexia – Nature Neuroscience

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The December issue of Nature Immunology presents a Focus on special immune proteins that detect the presence of invading pathogens in various hosts. The Focus will go live on 16 November at http://www.nature.com/ni/focus/innateproteins/.

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A detailed analysis of Neanderthal DNA provides a unique insight into the genetic changes that accompanied the transition from early hominid to modern man. The study, reported in this week’s Nature, paves the way for a Neanderthal genome-sequencing effort.

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Researchers have discovered two mutations in the H5N1 avian influenza virus that enable it to recognise human receptor proteins. The amino acid changes, might prove useful molecular markers for assessing the pandemic potential of H5N1 samples.

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