This Week in Nature: Mar 1, 2007

Mar 01, 2007

Nature hits the newsstands today, which means we hit the books to bring you our weekly round-up of articles worth reading.

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Breaking News

The US Department of Justice has proposed a rule change to enable DNA to be collected from migrants, the Associated Press reports.

Bernard Fisher, a surgeon who changed how breast cancer is treated, has died at 101, the New York Times reports.

A Washington Post columnist writes that she is skeptical about DNA-based diets.

In PNAS this week: recurrent inactivation of DEPDC5 in gastrointestinal stromal tumors, taxonomic reliability of GenBank sequences, and more.