Editor's Summary
29 May 2008
- A gut issue: Bacterial symbiosis shapes a healthy immune response
- The origins of death: 'Apoptosis' in phytoplankton
- Mandatory retirement: staying on
- Metagenomics: fertile ground
- Auditory processing: variations on a theme
- Sex and the malaria parasite
- A tropical origin for flu virus
- Magnetars: Ring of fire
- Jammed matter: Mathematics of the spheres
- Quantum dots: Phase transition in a single molecule
- Surface activation: Changing facets
- Snowball Earth: Exit strategy
- Global temperatures: A glitch in the forties
- Vertebrate evolution: A live birth in the Devonian
- Microbial diversity: Life under the ocean waves
- Cellular lipids: Trouble in store
- Phosphoinositide 3-kinase: Role of the p110
isoform - Monoclonal antibodies: A production boost
- Dengue virus: Reading the signals
- DNA damage: More protection for ssDNA
- DNA repair: Mobilizing chromatin factors
