Editor's Summary
22 May 2008
- Flights of fancy: 'Lévy glass' opens a window on new optical materials
- Identity crisis: Police line-ups on trial
- It's only words: Geneticists mind their language
- West life: Challenging times for scientists in the new Europe
- Birth of a supernova: X rays mark the spot
- Motile cells: Getting into shape
- Proteasomes: Ubiquitin binding via Rpn 13
- DNA repair: Fair exchange
- Gelation: Short-range attraction
- Ancient atmospheres: Snowball Earth exit by proxy
- Seismogenic lavas: Explosive collapse
- Seismogenic magma: Breaking news
- An amphibian evolution: Bridging the gap
- Embryonic stem cells: The ground state for self-renewal
- Embryonic stem cells: Take heart from a growth factor cocktail
- Cancer model: Pten deletion mimics acute T lymphoblastic leukaemia
- Pseudogenes: Not without influence
- Pluripotency: Cell-to-cell variations
- Life without mitochondria: Microsporidia 'borrow' their ATP
