Editorials in 2007

The balance of scientific power is moving east as scientists in the Asia-Pacific region learn to collaborate more effectively.

US universities must act to recruit and retain minority faculty members.

With all deference to the sensibilities of religious people, the idea that man was created in the image of God can surely be put aside.

Everyone knows bad peer review when they come across it — but too few are nurturing good referees.

Introducing three free-access websites for research networking and outreach.

China won't achieve a tenable drug regulation policy by hanging public officials.

Universities in Germany have undertaken overdue reform, but more change is needed to fully tap their potential.

The leaders meeting at this year's G8 summit must grasp the opportunity to assert themselves and commit to real action on climate change.

The United States' domestic security agency has yet to make best use of science and technology.

The pharmaceutical industry is struggling to adapt to a harsher political environment.

A draft law will unnecessarily hinder embryo research.

Equating animal-rights activism with terrorism increases the penalties for offenders and will please many of their victims. But it is not in the interests of science.

Top scientists should campaign only where they can truly make a difference.

Philanthropy offers a valuable approach to funding.

In the end, the European Institute of Technology will not be worthy of its title.

The Blair–Brown era has been a golden one for British science.

The process established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has generated a sound foundation of knowledge on which policy-makers must now build.

The use of 'black box' techniques carries risks.

Scientific élites retain a severe gender imbalance.

A strategic plan has been developed to tackle the nation's HIV crisis — at last.