News
A collection of the very latest news items relevant to the cell migration community, selected from the CMC, news@nature.com and journals from the Nature family.
January 2008
Consortium January Update
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The phasor approach: A lifetime method for fluorescence image analysis.
Biosensors: The life of FAK activation.Barrier to bird flu transmission found in humans
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Sugar shape may limit human-to-human spread of avian flu... for now.
Ageing makes the imagination wither
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A finding that old age may diminish our ability to imagine things provides support for the 'prospective brain' hypothesis - the idea that imagining the future and remembering the past rely on the same neural machinery.
Free journal-ranking tool enters citation market
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A new internet database allows users to generate citation statistics of published research papers for free, and calculates impact factors using a new algorithm similar to that used by Google to rank web pages.
Disgraced cloner seeks licence in comeback bid
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Korean researcher Woo Suk Hwang, whose 2006 work on human embryonic stem cells was found to be fabricated, is trying to obtain a new licence to work with human embryonic stem cells.
