This week, we learn how engineered bacteria are helping to produce better biofuels, how functional brain cells have been created directly from skin cells, and discover what fossils found in Northern China tell us about the colour of feathered dinosaurs. Plus, a round-up of what’s hot elsewhere in Nature.
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