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<jats:p> Bioinformaticists describe in a paper published online this week by <jats:italic>Science Translational Medicine</jats:italic> a new technology that looks for mutations in the genes behind 448 childhood recessive diseases. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Officials at the U.S. Department of Energy, which funds Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, informed lab officials this week that DOE cannot come up with the extra $35 million per year to keep the Tevatron atom smasher going beyond September.</jats:p>

<jats:p> U.K. scientists report in this week's issue of <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> (p. <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6014/223.abstract">223</jats:ext-link> ) that they have created transgenic chickens that can't pass on avian influenza, a disease that decimates poultry flocks and that flu scientists fear could spawn an influenza pandemic among humans. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Under what Prime Minister Naoto Kan calls "a budget for the reinvigoration of Japan," the country's main research grants program is slated for a whopping 32% increase to $3.2 billion in the coming year.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> Insider reported recently that the <jats:italic>British Medical Journal</jats:italic> has accused gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield of committing scientific fraud in the publication of a 1998 paper in <jats:italic>The</jats:italic> <jats:italic>Lancet</jats:italic> linking vaccines to autism, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p> On page 206 of this week's issue of <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> , a team working in Argentina reports the discovery of a very early dinosaur—possibly a distant ancestor of <jats:italic>Tyrannosaurus rex</jats:italic> —that lived about 230 million years ago, during what paleontologists call the dawn of the dinosaurs. </jats:p>

<jats:p> As a follow-up to the quantitative analysis of data obtained from Google Books published online in <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> on 16 December 2010 and in this week's issue on page 176, one of the study's authors has been using Wikipedia to analyze the fame of scientists whose names appear in books over the centuries. </jats:p>

<jats:p>A novel combination of technologies that has the potential to turn large areas of desert green, producing commercial quantities of food and energy crops, fresh water, and electricity, looks set to have its first large-scale demonstration in Jordan.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> NOW reported recently on the discovery of the first Earth-sized extrasolar planet, a promising new drug to treat mental retardation, scientists' first glimpse of the lunar core, and bumblebee declines, among other stories. </jats:p>