In an editorial, Nature announces that they will be introducing a creative commons license for the reuse of papers reporting full genome sequences. Under this license, non-commercial publishers may reuse the pdf and html versions of the article and other users may copy, distribute, and/or adapt the paper for non-commercial uses. This continues, the editors write, "[Nature's] drive to make papers as accessible as possible." In Germany, science is getting a lift. The Christian Democrat–Social Democrat majority approved a nearly ten percent increase in the 2008 German federal budget for science and education. The Ministry for Education and Research will get €9.35 billion and the German research council will see a three percent rise in its funds for university research. Non-university research centers, such as the Max Planck Centers, will also see a three percent increase. Researchers led by Sergey Nejentsev and the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium analyzed 1,729 polymorphisms from type one diabetes datasets to look at major histocompatibility complex class I genes. Nejentsev and his collaborators report that events mediated by MHC class I genes, particularly HLA-B*39, contribute to the etiology of diabetes. In a related News and Views, Bart Roep writes, "The innovative analytical approach of Nejentsev et al. underscores the outstanding importance of HLA class I genes not just in the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes but, conceivably, in other HLA-associated autoimmune diseases."
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