Editor's Summary
28 August 2008
- Deep viral impact: Virus infections in deep-sea microbes feed the world's largest ecosystem
- Oncogenesis: the natural selection of cancers
- Psychiatric illness: a mixed inheritance
- RNA revolution
- The human lifespan: how far can you go?
- Superconductivity: altered states
- Cooperation is child's play
- Protein misfolding: discriminating quality control
- Milky way satellites: galaxies with a dark side
- Quantum communication: repeat performance
- Global cooling in the Pliocene
- Earth's geodynamo modelled
- Attention seeking: a role for acetylcholine
- Potent cocktail: multi-protein sex pheromones
- Gene regulation: coping with change
- Influenza virus: polymerase structures determined
- Stem cell niches are for life
- E2F proteins: reasons for diversity
- Metalloenzymes: getting hold of copper
