Editorials in 2007

Taxonomy in an age of transformation.

Countries and professions that export skilled staff do not always lose out.

California's stem-cell institute is already transparent enough.

There is a dangerous gulf between the global programmes to fight AIDS and TB.

International Polar Year 2007 can leave an imprint.

European heads of state gathered in Brussels today must show they are serious about climate change.

Japan's professed interest in whale research rings rather hollow.

In praise of those physicists who are unobtrusively revolutionizing everyday life.

Only the most promising AIDS gels should reach large-scale trials.

The European Research Council, launched next week, is a stimulus for weak universities.

A move to wrest control of US federal regulations from government agencies should be opposed.

Ten years on, mammalian cloning is moving forward with central societal issues remaining unresolved. Yet human reproductive cloning seems inevitable.

Good policy decisions on science and the environment require sound contributions from official bodies, pressure groups, the media — and scientists themselves.

From now on, Nature authors will be able to include more experimental details in their papers.

Science needs to be better applied to the US food-safety system.

Better budgets for biologists.

Italian and Spanish researchers returning from abroad deserve more support.

An emphatic and clear status report on global warming opens the way for action — presenting new risks.

A public debate about renewing Britain's nuclear weaponry is undermined by excessive secrecy.

Research cuts by the world's largest drug company reflect a challenging outlook for the industry.