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The orchid Holcoglossum amesianum, which tends to flower in windless drought conditions, defies gravity to twist the male part of its flower into the necessary shape to fertilize the female one; The fossilized remains of two tiny freshwater lampreys in Inner Mongolia, China suggests that lampreys have changed little over the last 100 million years.

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Summaries of newsworthy papers in Nature: Thymus bipotent precursor cells found, Cell regeneration in mammalian inner ear, Eavesdropping yields benefits, T-cell link to cancer, The hole story, Cellular spaces fuse into blood vessels, Pump up the bandwidth

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New procedures for mapping the regions responsible for controlling gene expression across the entire human genome are described in two papers in the July issue of Nature Methods. The resulting understanding should help researchers understand the genetic problems leading to various diseases.

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Summaries of newsworthy papers from Nature Research Journals that will be published online on 18 June 2006.

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Summaries of newsworthy papers from Nature Vol.441 No.7095 including Two become one, A glass from dry ice, Unhappy partners, Self-renewal understood, Sperm storage weakens immune system

Read more of the article entitled 'Exploratory brain region pinpointed; Ovaries don't need help from circulating blood and bone cells; Night flights cause more global warming'