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Summaries of newsworthy papers in Nature dated 29 June 2006

Read more of the article entitled 'How earthquakes squeeze the Earth, Brittleness key to prion behaviour, Plant biology: Who needs bacteria?, Stem cells: Hopes and realities, Semiconductor sponge, Quantum physics: Flat gas comes to order, The recipe for a healthy ecosystem'

NATURE AND THE NATURE RESEARCH JOURNALS PRESS RELEASE - For papers that will be published online on 25 June 2006 including Assembly dynamics of microtubules at molecular resolution, New class of cancer therapeutic, Clostridium difficile genome

Read more of the article entitled 'Stimulating stem cells fights stroke damage'

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.

Read more of the article entitled 'Orchid has sexual intercourse with itself, Ancient lampreys are ‘design classic’ '

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

Read more of the article entitled 'Earthquakes: When is the next big one on the southern San Andreas fault?'

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.

Read more of the article entitled 'New tools for making sense of the human genome'