Editor's Summary
4 September 2008
- Big data: science in the petabyte era
- The White House trail
- Spectroscopy: atomic fingerprints
- Small RNAs: miRNA tunes proteins
- Dorsal–ventral patterning: collagens and BMP signalling
- Black hole physics: a new window on the Galactic Centre
- Superconductivity: 'itinerant' oxypnictides
- A little emulsion: the WOW factor
- The hydroxide ion: passing bonds
- Tropical cyclones: the strong get stronger
- Anti-predatory defence: double jeopardy
- The biter bit: viral infections for viruses
- Mutation hotspots: the role of insertions and deletions
- HIV/AIDS: gp120 structure changes
- Neuronal migration: neurogenin 2 acts via Rnd2
- Cell division: PLK1 and aurora A at the checkpoint
- Epac proteins: changes on cyclic AMP binding
- Myosin V motors: in step with ATP
