Nature Middle East update: 12 March 2015

Nature Middle East update 12 March 2015 In this issue  Latest news and features  Latest research  Editor's blog  Our picks  Nature jobs Stay connected:    sponsor Latest news & features News: Tumours and blood vessels conspirators in drug resistance Qatari researchers have found that ovarian cancer cells communicate with blood vessels to resist a commonly used anti-cancer drug. News: Imagine a marriage of science and art The Middle East’s first science film festival hopes to inspire more scientists to look to art to communicate their work. Features: Could Syria really be polio free? With no new cases recently reported, the WHO says its efforts to contain Syria’s polio outbreak are working, but experts are reluctant to declare it has been wiped out. Latest reseach How a soil-living bacterium survives gene loss and starvation in Genetics Editor’s blog - House of Wisdom Saudi Arabia opens a cutting-edge laser facility; unique in the region Our picks Get free access to some premium content of relevance to you published in journals and portals across the Nature Publishing Group. Note - free access is only available through the Nature Middle East Our picks page. A robust SNP barcode for typing Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains. Coll, F. et al. Nature Communications naturejobs Postdoctoral Positions in Electrocatalysis and Photocatalysis Thuwal, Saudi Arabia Graphene based Polymer Nanocomposites for Energy application Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Postdoctoral Fellowships in Single Molecule Imaging at KAUST Thuwal, Saudi Arabia Assistant Professor of Physiology Al Ain, United Arab Emirates