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• [Erratum] Erratum for the Research Article: "Targeting the kinase activities of ATR and ATM exhibits antitumoral activity in mouse models of MLL-rearranged AML" by I. Morgado-Palacin, A. Day, M. Murga, V. Lafarga, M. E. Anton, A. Tubbs, H.-T. Chen, A. Erg

  09-10-2016 23:49 via stke.sciencemag.org
  An author's last name is corrected and middle initial is inserted. A closing parenthesis in a sentence in the Abstract has also been added.
  
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• [Erratum] Erratum for the Research Article: "Peripheral motor neuropathy is associated with defective kinase regulation of the KCC3 cotransporter" by K. T. Kahle, B. Flores, D. Bharucha-Goebel, J. Zhang, S. Donkervoort, M. Hegde, G. Hussain, D. Duran, B.

  09-10-2016 23:49 via stke.sciencemag.org
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• Ruling party in Georgia decisively wins parliament vote

  09-10-2016 20:38
  By Margarita Antidze TBILISI (Reuters) - The ruling party in Georgia decisively won parliamentary elections, firming its grip on power in the former Soviet nation, near-complete results showed on Sunday. With 99.41 percent of the votes in, data from the Central Election Commission gave the ruling Georgian Dream party 48.61 percent of the vote and the opposition United National Movement (UNM) 27.04 percent. A U.S. ally traditionally buffeted between Russia and the West, Georgia hopes to join the
  
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• Ukraine military postpones withdrawal from town, cites rebel shelling

  09-10-2016 20:02
  Ukraine's military on Sunday postponed a planned parallel withdrawal with pro-Russian separatists from Stanytsa Luhanska, a town on the eastern frontline, saying rebels had disregarded the agreement by firing artillery at Ukrainian positions. "The separation of forces and equipment which was planned for today was postponed," said General Borys Kremenetsky, Ukraine's representative to the ceasefire coordination centre. Both sides accuse the other of violating the 18-month-old 'Minsk' ceasefire ag
  
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• 3D mannequin helps cyclist go for gold

  09-10-2016 19:40
  
  By printing a 3D mannequin of leading international cyclist Tom Dumoulin and testing a series of skinsuits on his replica inside a wind tunnel until they found the perfect fit, researchers at TU Delft believe they can help Team Giant-Alpecin win gold at the UCI Road World Championships in Doha.
  
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• Baby rhino steals show in BBC interview

  09-10-2016 18:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Aspinall Foundation's Port Lympne wildlife park in Kent has praised the arrival of two critically endangered black rhino calves in Tanzania.
  
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• Syrian insurgent group says loyal to former al Qaeda branch - statement, monitor

  09-10-2016 18:01
  A powerful Syrian Islamist insurgent group on Sunday pledged allegiance to former al Qaeda branch Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, a statement circulated by rebel officials and reported by a monitoring group said. The Jund al-Aqsa group said it was trying to settle differences with Ahrar al-Sham, with which it has been fighting for days in the northwestern Idlib province, so as not to weaken rebel fighting against President Bashar al-Assad's government. Government forces in recent days have captured territ
  
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• Thousands of armed Yemeni protesters call for investigation into wake bombing

  09-10-2016 16:49
  By Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) - Thousands of Yemenis, many of them armed, gathered at the United Nations headquarters in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Sunday calling for an international investigation into an air strike on a wake this weekend that was widely blamed on Saudi-led forces. The attack has been condemned by the U.N., the European Union and the United States. One Sanaa resident, Ahmed Abu Taleb, described his frantic search for a relative.
  
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• The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week

  09-10-2016 15:41
  
  Each week we uncover the most interesting and informative articles around, here are 10 of the coolest stories in Science this week. The Spooky Secret Behind Artificial Intelligence's Incredible Power: Neural networks work so well because they roughly reflect the structure of the underlying universe around us, new research suggests. Hurricane Matthew Photos: See How the Monster Storm Evolved: Hurricane Matthew became the fifth hurricane of the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season on Sept. 29.
  
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• Nanotechnology on the cusp: Bob McDonald

  09-10-2016 14:07 via cbc.ca
  
  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded this week for developments in nanotechnology heralds a new era in science, akin to the discovery of electromagnetic induction 185 years ago. And like electricity, nanotechnology could influence the world in dramatic ways, not even imaginable today.
  
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• 50 years ago, noise was a nuisance (it still is)

  09-10-2016 14:00
  
  In 1966, scientists warned of the physical and psychological dangers of a louder world.
  
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• Yemen ex-president urges attack on Saudi Arabia after air strike

  09-10-2016 13:46
  DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen's powerful ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, a key ally of the country's dominant Houthi movement, called for an escalation of attacks against their common enemy Saudi Arabia on Sunday. A politician who retains influence over Yemen's military, Saleh spoke a day after an apparent Saudi-led air attack on a meeting hall in the capital Sanaa killed at least 140 people according to local health officials cited by the United Nations. Sources in the Saudi-led coalition denied any
  
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• Ruling party in Georgia wins election - partial results

  09-10-2016 13:20
  By Margarita Antidze TBILISI (Reuters) - The ruling party in Georgia was on track for a comfortable win in parliamentary elections seen as a test of political stability in the former Soviet nation, partial results showed on Sunday. With 72.4 percent of the votes in, data from the Central Election Commission gave the ruling Georgian Dream party 49.95 percent of the vote and the opposition United National Movement (UNM) 26.63 percent. A U.S. ally traditionally buffeted between Russia and the West,
  
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• OSCE says Georgian parliament vote was competitive with some flaws

  09-10-2016 13:06
  TBILISI (Reuters) - The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe said on Sunday that a parliamentary election held in Georgia the previous day had been competitive and that fundamental freedoms had been generally respected. The OSCE gave the election a broadly positive assessment in a statement, but flagged up allegations of unlawful campaigning, incidents of violence, some procedural counting problems, and accused some broadcasters of not providing balanced coverage. ...
  
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• No casualties reported after China refinery blast

  09-10-2016 11:52
  BEIJING (Reuters) - Equipment at an oil refinery in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing caught fire and exploded on Sunday, state media said, in the country's latest industrial accident. The explosion occurred at around 1:50 p.m. at the Jinlingshihua Nanjing Refinery, a subsidiary of Sinopec Group, the official Xinhua news agency said, adding that no casualties had yet been reported. Xinhua said fire fighters had been dispatched to battle the flames and pictures carried by state media showed thi
  
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• New drug hailed a 'game changer' for cancer patients

  09-10-2016 11:49
  
  Nivolumab is one of a new class of antibody drugs called “checkpoint inhibitors” that help the immune system fight cancer.
  
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• New spin on nanofibers

  09-10-2016 06:00
  (Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) Researchers have developed a new method to make nanofibers that could lead to stronger, more durable bulletproof vests and armor and more robust cellular scaffolding for tissue repair.
  
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• First-line pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy improves outcomes in advanced NSCLC

  09-10-2016 06:00
  
  (European Society for Medical Oncology) The addition of PD-1 antibody pembrolizumab to standard first-line chemotherapy for treatment-naïve advanced non-small-cell lung cancer significantly improves response rates and progression-free survival, researchers reported at the ESMO 2016 Congress in Copenhagen today.
  
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• Cell protein offers new hope in fighting the effects of aging

  09-10-2016 06:00
  
  (University of Nottingham) A protein found within the powerhouse of a cell could be the key to holding back the march of time, research by scientists at The University of Nottingham has shown.
  
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• As arable land disappears, here come the vertical farmers

  09-10-2016 04:58
  
  As cities expand, eating up swathes of countryside in the process, agricultural pioneers are finding new ways to grow the fresh produce we need, in containers, empty buildings and any other spare space they can find to create new vertical farms.
  
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