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Britain's second annual 'science week' provokes questions about the aims of the public understanding of science - and about the defects of the educational system, still unreformed.
The early eugenicists were not stupid, but they did not share our social values. The rise and fall of the eugenics movement is a history that modern medical geneticists would do well to heed.
Environmentalists tempted to ignore Wilfred Beekerman's latest book had better think again; there is no better way of 'knowing your enemy', and no more mordant enemy.
Cells and tissues are under scrutiny for our cell biology feature. This weeks episode has five new protein kinases, mammalian expression vectors, cell death detection ELISA and proliferating human mesangial cells.
