October 2006

• Web focus: Statistical analysis

  This free focus in Nature Genetics aims to familiarize readers with the current and most debated statistical analysis tools.

  Nature Genetics

  Nature Genetics, October 2006

• Naturally dead embryos yield stem cells

  Researchers have succeeded in developing a human embryonic stem-cell line from an embryo that had died naturally.

  news@nature | doi:10.1038/news060918-10

  21st September 2006

• Tumour survey unearths wealth of mutants

  A hunt through thousands of human genes has turned up nearly 200 that are altered in breast and colon cancer.

  news@nature | doi:10.1038/news060904-13

  7th September 2006

• Open-access chemistry databases evolving slowly but not surely

  Publicly available initiatives still have a long way to go to catch up with proprietary counterparts

  Nature Reviews Drug Discovery | doi:10.1038/nrd2148

  11th September 2006