Summaries of this week's top stories, from Science Magazine

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The most advanced candidate vaccine for malaria has cleared another major hurdle and is now ready for its last and biggest test: a phase III trial of 12,000 to 16,000 children at 11 locations in seven African countries.

Author: Martin Enserink - [Read more]

A group of scientists met last week in Washington, D.C., at a "Biosummit," part of a new campaign to focus public attention on the importance of the life sciences.

Author: Eliot Marshall - [Read more]

Humans arent rational, as the recent economic crisis shows. So why should financial theories assume that they are?

Author: Chelsea Wald - [Read more]

Last week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security selected Kansas State University in Manhattan as its preferred site for a $450 million facility to replace the aging Plum Island Animal Disease Center off Long Island, New York.

Author: Yudhijit Bhattacharjee - [Read more]

As controversy escalates about researchers who allegedly broke rules on reporting income from drug companies, U.S. National Institutes of Health officials outlined plans last week to tighten federal conflict-of-interest regulations for NIH grantees within the next 6 to 12 months.

Authors: Jocelyn Kaiser, Lila Guterman - [Read more]

U.S. researchers are eagerly anticipating the moment that President-elect Barack Obama takes office and sweeps away the Bush Administrations restrictions on federal funding for research with human embryonic stem cells.

Author: Constance Holden - [Read more]

Officials at CERN, the European particle physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland, issued a four-page report last week tersely describing how they plan to get the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the worlds biggest particle smasher, working again after its 19 September breakdown.

Author: Adrian Cho - [Read more]

Faced with mounting technical glitches, last week NASA decided to delay its Mars Science Laboratory for at least 2 years, meaning the spacecraft will not get off the ground before fall 2011.

Author: Andrew Lawler - [Read more]

Изучали ситуацию на примере самых популярных курортов – Славско, Яблуница и Буковель. Как оказалось, в преддверии праздников вакантные места для отдыха в горнолыжных Карпатах найти все сложнее, но еще можно.

Сегодня, 5 декабря, ночью сгорел административный корпус горнолыжного курорта "Буковель".

Из помещения корпуса, где находились кассы и прокат лыж, еще утром шел дым, на месте происшествия работали пожарные и скорая помощь.

Weaving materials science and biology together, researchers are drawing closer to the elusive goal of recreating tissues that do the bodys work, such as cartilage and muscle.

Author: Robert F. Service - [Read more]

Clinical trials are under way to test an innovative use of antisense technology to stem paralysis in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Author: Elizabeth Pennisi - [Read more]

The axolotl, a salamander that retains unique evolutionary features and is a darling of biologists because it can regenerate limbs, faces adversity on two fronts.

Author: Robert Koenig - [Read more]

The Philippines government is hoping to reinvigorate its science base by improving science education, expanding scholarship programs, and raising research spending. But will it be enough to lure back expatriate scientists?

Author: Dennis Normile - [Read more]

On 20 November, the U.S. National Academies, seeking to reduce misunderstandings between China and the United States, unveiled the first Chinese-English glossary of nearly 1000 nuclear-security terms.

Author: Richard Stone - [Read more]

On page 1562 of this weeks issue of Science, researchers provide an explanation for why some maternal cells that cross the placenta escape attack by the fetal immune system. The work also suggests a new mechanism for how the human immune system learns to spare the bodys own tissues, a tolerance that breaks down in autoimmune diseases.

Author: Mitch Leslie - [Read more]

Last week, the World Health Organization published a provocative model that explores the possibility of "eliminating" the HIV epidemic by annually testing everyone on a voluntary basis and treating all infected people, regardless of their clinical status.

Author: Jon Cohen - [Read more]

Europes space scientists are breathing a collective sigh of relief because the member governments of the European Space Agency last week gave ESA more or less everything it had asked for in funding for the next few years--a total of nearly €10 billion.

Author: Daniel Clery - [Read more]

A team of epidemiologists reported this week that just one-fifth of the standard meningitis vaccine dose triggers an immune response almost as good as that of the full dose, offering a way to potentially stretch limited supplies.

Author: Martin Enserink - [Read more]

South Koreas first very long baseline interferometry array is being completed this week. Linked to arrays in Japan and China, Koreas three instruments will fill out the densest network of its kind.

Author: Dennis Normile - [Read more]