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HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Sarah C.P. Williams	Fruit Fly Cells Don't All Know What Sex They Are HHMI scientists have now found that many cells in male and female fruit flies not only look the same, they are more identical at a molecular level than was previously thought.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Virginia Hughes	Glimpsing Inside a Moving Fruit Fly's Brain Vivek Jayaraman wants to capture, in real time, how the fly's brain responds to a changing environment. Ultimately, he hopes to uncover very basic patterns -- "algorithms" -- of fly brain activity that hold true in more complex brains including, presumably, ours.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Sarah C.P. Williams	Gut Bacteria Do More Than Digest Food Someone can blame their diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease on the churning mass of bacteria that lives inside their intestines, but there's no magic pill to change the dynamics of that complicated world of the human microbiome.
Chemistry World August 2010	Column: The crucible Did you hear about the McDonald's 'Shrekgate' fiasco? Colorful characters from the Shrek movies adorned drinking glasses being sold in the burger chain's US branches, but sadly the images had been painted with cadmium pigments.
Outside June 2010 Abe Streep	The Wild File: Black Widows Why do black widows eat their mates? Is there an evolutionary advantage?
Chemistry World July 27, 2010 Mike Brown	Bright ideas to develop solar fuels The US Department of Energy is financing the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, with $22 million going towards the project this year and the remainder handed out at a rate of approximately $25 million annually over the following four years.
Chemistry World July 26, 2010 Phillip Broadwith	Predicting nanoparticle toxicity Judging nanoparticle toxicity could be made easier by a new theoretical model that predicts which materials will make nanoparticles that could damage living cells. The model can predict the available electronic energy levels in the nanoparticle structure
Chemistry World July 22, 2010 Mike Brown	Microspheres help restore eyesight Polymer microspheres could deliver stem cells to the eyes of patients whose sight has been destroyed by age-related macular degeneration to repair the damage and enable them to see clearly again, say researchers in the UK.
Chemistry World July 21, 2010 Lewis Brindley	Selenium-based quinones show anticancer promise The new compounds have great potential for future cancer therapy, and early studies show similar activity to the well-known chemotherapy drug cisplatin, although a selenium-based therapy would cost a fraction of the price.
Chemistry World July 18, 2010 Manisha Lalloo	Nanoscale tRNA architecture US chemists have designed and built self-assembling 3D nanostructures using transfer RNA as a building block. They hope their structures could find uses in areas such as drug delivery.
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