FEBRUARY 2006

Features

IS PEER REVIEW BROKEN?

Submissions are up, reviewers are overtaxed, and authors are lodging complaint after complaint about the process at top-tier journals. What's wrong with peer review?
By Alison McCook

Truth or Myth?
What About Fast-Track?

WHITHER GENE THERAPY?

Success has been mingled with failure; a few technical modifications could make the method safer
By Alain Fischer and Marina Cavazzana-Calvo
7 Steps to Better Gene Therapy

THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT +5

The five years since the draft of the human genome was published have been productive but bumpy. What will the next five be like?
By Victor K. McElheny
Where Are We Now?
Delivering on the Dream
Teaching a New Language

BATTLING BAD BEHAVIOR

How do you convince people to do what's in their best interest?
By The McDonnell Social Norms Group
Barriers to Adoption
College Drinking: Norms vs. Perceptions