Contents
Vol 348, Issue 6240
Contents
This Week in Science
Editorial
Editors' Choice
Podcasts
- Science Podcast: 12 June Show
On this week's show: Tracking aquatic animals, cochlear implants and emotion recognition, and a roundup of daily news stories.
Products & Materials
- New Products
A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers.
In Brief
In Depth
- Amid panic, a chance to learn about MERS
South Korea's explosive outbreak gives scientists fresh opportunities to study the virus.
- Signs of ancient proteins seen inside dinosaur bones
Can soft tissue survive 75 million years?
- Dinosaur climate probed
Ancient lake sediments in China record epic temperature swings, biotic turnover before the mass extinction.
- Brain implant trials raise ethical concerns
NIH workshop delves into challenges of testing invasive neuromodulation technology.
- The scientist behind the ‘personhood’ chimps
Susan Larson defends her work with two research chimpanzees at the heart of a legal battle.
- HIV family trees reveal viral spread
New studies could aid public health efforts.
Feature
- Business decisions
What does it take for an academic scientist to become an entrepreneur? Here are some of their stories.
- Give us your best pitch
Two venture capitalists explain the investor's mindset.
- Got a startup? Rent a bench
Biotech incubators such as LabCentral are lowering barriers to entrepreneurship.
Working Life
Letters
Books et al.
- The Indian advantage
A commitment to national self-sufficiency set the stage for the rise of India's information technology industry
- Books Received
A listing of books received at Science during the week ending 05 June 2015.
Policy Forum
Perspectives
- Earthquakes induced by fluid injections
Controlling fluid injection may mitigate the extent of induced earthquakes
- Making heads or tails of shattered chromosomes
Isolation of lagging chromosomes in micronuclei causes catastrophic genome rearrangements
- Microbial metabolite triggers antimicrobial defense
Bacteria can activate innate immune responses by releasing a metabolite that enters host cells
- Bringing PGE2 in from the cold
A small molecule that prevents the breakdown of a prostaglandin promotes tissue regeneration
- Can climate feel the pressure?
Changes in atmospheric pressure may be an important long-term climate forcing mechanism
- Economical routes to colloidal nanocrystals
A new precursor library yields high-quality quantum dots for device applications
- Visual tracking in the dead of night
Even in dim light, hawkmoths can track the motions of wind-tossed flowers
Research Article
- Inhibition of the prostaglandin-degrading enzyme 15-PGDH potentiates tissue regeneration
A compound that inhibits prostaglandin degradation enhances tissue regeneration in multiple organs in mice.
Reviews
Reports
- Seismicity triggered by fluid injection–induced aseismic slip
Real-time observations of a reactivated fault provide an option for monitoring of earthquake-inducing wastewater injection.
- A tunable library of substituted thiourea precursors to metal sulfide nanocrystals
High-quality quantum dots with tunable particle size and composition are fabricated using inexpensive thioureas.
- High-performance transition metal–doped Pt3Ni octahedra for oxygen reduction reaction
Molybdenum-doped platinum-nickel nanocrystal catalysts exhibit high activity and durability for a key fuel cell reaction.
- High-performance photovoltaic perovskite layers fabricated through intramolecular exchange
An intramolecular exchange process enables growth of high-quality organic perovskite films with greater solar spectral range.
- Long-term climate forcing by atmospheric oxygen concentrations
Atmospheric oxygen concentrations may have had an important indirect effect on climate in the distant past.
- Correlated gene expression supports synchronous activity in brain networks
Gene expression is more similar than expected by chance in brain regions that are functionally connected.
- Luminance-dependent visual processing enables moth flight in low light
Moth vision in low light matches that needed to follow swaying flowers.
- The dispersal of alien species redefines biogeography in the Anthropocene
Human-mediated dispersal of mollusks is changing the way they can colonize new environments.
- Cytosolic detection of the bacterial metabolite HBP activates TIFA-dependent innate immunity
Eukaryotic cells use the host protein TIFA to sense the monosaccharide HBP, derived from Gram-negative bacteria.
- Regulation of breathing by CO2 requires the proton-activated receptor GPR4 in retrotrapezoid nucleus neurons
A G protein–coupled receptor in the brain controls respiration.
- Kinetochore attachment sensed by competitive Mps1 and microtubule binding to Ndc80C
A sensor for the mitotic spindle assembly checkpoint is revealed.
- Competition between MPS1 and microtubules at kinetochores regulates spindle checkpoint signaling
A sensor for the mitotic spindle assembly checkpoint is revealed.
- A male-determining factor in the mosquito Aedes aegypti
An M-locus gene is necessary and sufficient for male development in the mosquito that transmits dengue and yellow fever.
Technical Comments
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