Neuroscience News
A collection of the latest news relevant to the neuroscience community, specially selected from news@nature.com and journals from the Nature family.
March 2008
Business: Stepping out
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A surprisingly large number of university-inspired patents may be going to industry instead. Rex Dalton reports.
Nature News
(12 March 2008); doi:10.1038/452146a
Epilepsy drug saves rats from seizures
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Drug seems to be effective even months after treatment has stopped.
Nature News
(6 March 2008); doi:10.1038/news.2008.652
Nobel prizewinner's paper retracted
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Failure to reproduce results deals blow to work on olfactory networks.
Nature News
(5 March 2008); doi:10.1038/452013a
Mind-reading with a brain scan
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Brain activity can be decoded using magnetic resonance imaging.
Nature News
(5 March 2008); doi:10.1038/news.2008.650
Animal-rights activists invade Europe
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Experts fear extremists may be travelling from Britain.
Nature News
(27 February 2008); doi:10.1038/4511034a
English grants under review
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Funding agency ditches peer review in favour of metrics.
Nature News
(27 February 2008); doi:10.1038/4511039b
Brain changes linked to adolescent moods
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Variation in the brain correlates with normal aggressive behaviour.
Nature News
(25 February 2008); doi:10.1038/news.2008.619
Revamp for NIH grants
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US funding body receives recommendations for improving its peer-review process.
Nature News
(22 February 2008); doi:10.1038/4511035a