Editor's Summary
2 October 2008
- Speciation in colour: a textbook example of evolution in action
- Stem cell therapy: ask the patient
- UK physics research: down but not out
- The Human Terrain System: a military way with social sciences
- Vine tuning: the tools for metabolomics
- TWAS Beijing 1987: China steps out
- HIV/AIDS The long road to vaccines
- HIV/AIDS then and now
- HIV-1 protease unmasked
- Insulin production: adult cells repurposed
- Telomeres: TERT structure revealed
- Galactic magnetism: not what it used to B
- Galactic star formation: Two lines of evidence
- Spintronics: diamonds make sense
- Northern Hemisphere glaciation: all in the timing
- The Tonga Slab: akimotoite under pressure
- Mathematical ability: safety in numbers
- Axon guidance: cue here
- Interferon stung into action
- Myc back in the limelight
- eIF6: transmitter to the 60S ribosome
- DNA repair: pathways in balance


