In fewer than 15 years, nanomedicine has gone from fantasy to reality.
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Our silver anniversary issue celebrates a quarter century of covering major advances in the life sciences—some in fields that didn’t even exist when we first went to press—and looks ahead to future research milestones.
At the nanoscale old materials acquire new properties that International Institute for Nanotechnology Director Chad Mirkin thinks will change the way medicine is practiced.
Exploiting the unique properties of living systems makes synthetic biologists better engineers.
Investing more federal dollars in life science research may save the US economy.
Designing genomes from scratch will be the next revolution in biology.
By extending its reach beyond science, the field of omics will change the way we live our lives.
History repeats itself, and so do trends in research funding.
Reversing catastrophic threats to our planet’s biodiversity is not optional: our lives depend on it.
Large-scale data collection and analysis have fundamentally altered the process and mind-set of biological research.
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