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<jats:p>Five years after it launched, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) last week awarded its first disease-oriented grants—$230 million to 14 teams—intended to speed stem cell therapies to patients.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> NOW this week reported on fellatio among fruit bats, the death toll from a pair of man-eating lions, a primordial nuclear age, and the definition of p-value, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p>The World Health Organization has promised to supply developing countries with H1N1 vaccine donated by manufacturers and rich countries. But it has secured only about 200 million doses for 95 countries that together are home to a third of the world's population.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> Insider reported this week on the National Institutes of Health's decision to fund 840 of the more than 20,000 applications it received for its vaunted Challenge Grants program and a petition to the United Nations human rights committee to stop the Large Hadron Collider from restarting because of risks that the collisions could create dangerous mini–black holes, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p>A federal pilot project launched this summer aims not just to improve the tracking of jobs created by the $787 billion stimulus package but also to lay the foundation for a system to measure the impact of research on the U.S. economy.</jats:p>

<jats:p> How and when did religion arise? In the 11th essay in <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> 's series in honor of the Year of Darwin, Elizabeth Culotta explores the human propensity to believe in unseen deities. </jats:p>

<jats:p>The Max Planck Society's expansion into the former East Germany seeded top science into the region, but challenges remain in making sure the successes take root.</jats:p>

<jats:p> The reunification of Germany was a mixed blessing for East German scientists. For many, especially the younger ones, it was a great opportunity (see p. <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/326/5954/792">792</jats:ext-link> ). But others were set adrift when entire preexisting eastern institutes were closed or cut to a fraction of their original size. </jats:p>

<jats:p>An East German family of scientists reflects on life before and after 1989. The Hübners have become a dynamic demonstration of how the lives of scientists in the former East Germany have changed over the past 2 decades.</jats:p>

<jats:p>A project to sequence 10,000 vertebrates has just been launched, but sequencing technologies are not yet up to the task.</jats:p>