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<jats:p> Harnessing knowledge gained from modern research in neuroscience and genetics to improve the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders was a major impetus for undertaking a revision of the <jats:italic>Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders</jats:italic> ( <jats:italic>DSM</jats:italic> ). </jats:p>

<jats:p> The dean of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Subra Suresh, is in line to become the next director of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> has learned. </jats:p>

<jats:p>A tight budget and unanticipated safety problems are threatening to kill plans to convert an abandoned gold mine in South Dakota into a $750 million deep underground science and engineering laboratory.</jats:p>

<jats:p> Monsanto has revealed that a common insect pest has developed resistance to its flagship genetically modified (GM) product in India. Monsanto claims that the finding "is the first case of field-relevant resistance to <jats:italic>Cry1Ac</jats:italic> products, anywhere in the world." </jats:p>

<jats:p>Science won high praise and a hefty budget boost at last week's meetings of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Central government spending on science and technology is slated to rise 8% to $24 billion in 2010.</jats:p>

<jats:p>In a nod to rising public expectations, China's government work plan for 2010, rolled out last week at the country's two major annual political powwows, puts the environment front and center.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> NOW reported this week that psychopaths may be hypersensitive to rewards, which may create a pathological drive for money, sex, and status; a proposed carbon-capture method could poison oceans; a way to finger criminals from their skin bacteria; and the successful identification of the memory a person is recalling by analyzing their brain activity; among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p>The Polish Parliament this month began voting on legislation creating a new national agency charged with distributing competitive grants for frontier research.</jats:p>

<jats:p> Two papers published by <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> this week, one on work in ants and bees and the other on work in fruit flies, demonstrate that sperm competition between males continues even after the sperm enters the female. </jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> Insider reported this week that congressional supporters of stem cell research have introduced legislation to codify President Barack Obama's 2009 executive order, which lifted restrictions on the number of human embryonic stem cell lines available to federally funded researchers, among other stories. </jats:p>