CONTENTS
April 2007
Years of development and hundreds of millions of dollars later, what has the CDC's syndromic surveillance program accomplished? |
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Nine years ago, Rusty Gage shattered a neuroscience dogma when he showed that human brains give birth to new neurons. Today, a company is eager to take those findings to the clinic. |
RELATED: A harsh decree: Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated
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A highly effective treatment strategy is being ignored by many companies and investors. What can be done to boost funding? |
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From stem cells to wild trees and evolution to CSI, a recent crop of books has something to say about scientific conflicts, conquests and controversies. |
RELATED: Christopher Thomas Scott reviews a trio of new stem cell books Jennifer Rohn reviews Lynn Margulis’ Luminous Fish Brendan Maher examines faith, Darwin, and Intelligent Design Andrea Gawrylewski reviews Richard Preston’s The Wild Trees Newamul Khan takes on Saxons, Vikings, and Celts by Bryan Sykes Faith McLellan writes on Michael J. Sandel’s Case Against Perfection Katharine Ramsland picks her way through books about bodies |
EDITORIAL
Companies, you’re on notice.
Want press coverage? Here’s what to do – and what not to do.
COLUMNS
Socrates 2.0 Can bioethics be taught on the Internet?
Disease control by decree How not to deal with epidemics.
Notebook
The Agenda; Scooped by a blog; The whirling fish kill; (Slideshow: The whirling fish kill); The sniffling sheep;Biotech horsekeepers; A war against war metaphors
FOUNDATIONS
PROFILES
The Chromosome Queen
Nancy Kleckner, who grew up with molecular genetics, has answered some of the field's most important questions.
The Moose in the Room
Centocor CEO Neal Fowler learned valuable lessons in sales about straight talk that he hopes will help his company through uncertain times. Just don't ask him about potential layoffs.
Scientist to Watch Rachel Wilson: Death defying
How a 10-year project thought to be doomed to failure revealed what endocannabinoids do in the brain.
THE LITERATURE
Hot papers: ANDREA GAWRYLEWSKI on how CyPD knockout mice reveal a path to necrosis
Paper to watch: Locust navigation
Paper to watch: Hidden Markov genomics
LAB TOOLS
An RNAi rogue's gallery How to size up the available libraries for high throughput screening in mammalian cells.
How it works: Automated pipettor
CAREERS
Bringing cancer science to the bedside NIH is investing millions of dollars in translational cancer research. How can you get involved?