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How to bake a Nature cake

Ingredients

Malaria parasite (or other organism of your choice)

Butter

Flour

Sugar

Eggs

Method

Sequence your chosen organism’s genetic code.

Submit your genome sequence to Nature.

Ensure your paper is given pride of place on the cover of that journal.

Make your cake.

Put said cover of Nature onto your cake.

Et voila. Your Nature cake should now look something like this…

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Thanks to the authors behind the recent Plasmodium vivax paper for sending us these photos of their brilliant cake. Below the fold: the team with their tasty, tasty cover.


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From left to right: Fernando Merino, Simon Kang’a, Jane Carlton and Steven Sullivan.

Photos: Steven Sullivan and Sabia Taqvi, New York University Langone Medical Center.

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    M@ said:

    Excellent. I wonder if a request was filed to our rights and permissions department to reproduce the cover in a sugar-based medium.

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    rpg said:

    I want to see the referee reports on the cake.

    It was peer-reviewed, yes?

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