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• Italians sue over stem cells - Premium content

  Government's exclusion of human embryonic cells from funding call sparks anger.

  01 July 2009

• G8 cancels science parley - Premium content

  Science ministers will no longer meet before main summit.

  24 June 2009

• Italy cancels G8 research meeting - Premium content

  Scrapped ministerial summit may jeopardize pressing climate change decisions.

  17 June 2009

• Traces of paint confirmed on Parthenon sculptures - Premium content

  Pristine white marbles were once a riot of colour.

  15 June 2009

• Green boost in European elections may trigger nuclear fight - Premium content

  Funding for human embryonic stem cell research another likely battleground.

  09 June 2009

• Mouse patent sparks 'uncivil' spat - Premium content

  Academic institutes lock horns in legal action over mutant mice.

  03 June 2009

• Europe's parliamentary priorities - Premium content

  This week's Europe-wide elections will affect researchers more than they realize, reports Alison Abbott.

  03 June 2009

• Research from rubble - Premium content

  University returns to work in makeshift lecture halls and laboratories.

  20 May 2009

• I think therefore I move? - Premium content

  Researchers pinpoint a brain area that controls the desire to move.

  07 May 2009

• German virologist's race for swine flu test - Premium content

  Christian Drosten talks to Nature about tackling the threat of a pandemic.

  30 April 2009

• Microscopic marvels: Seeing the system - Premium content

  03 June 2009

• Microscopic marvels: The glorious resolution - Premium content

  03 June 2009

• Greek research: Feast and famine - Premium content

  While researchers in Greece starve for government support, biomedicine is thriving at a lavish new centre in Athens, finds Alison Abbott.

  08 April 2009

• Neuroscience: One hundred years of Rita - Premium content

  From a home lab to the Italian Senate, by way of nerve growth factor — Rita Levi-Montalcini is a scientist like no other. Alison Abbott meets the first Nobel prizewinner set to reach her hundredth birthday.

  01 April 2009

• Neuroscience: The plaque plan - Premium content

  Neuroscientists are pretty sure they know what causes Alzheimer's disease, but their theory has not yet given rise to effective drugs. Alison Abbott asks what's wrong.

  12 November 2008

• Pharmaceutical futures: A fiendish puzzle - Premium content

  Where should the drug industry go to find new ideas? In the first of two features, Alison Abbott asks if the future lies in systems biology -- a field that attempts to piece together 'everything'. In the second, David Cyranoski looks at drug companies' attraction to China.

  29 October 2008

• Psychiatric genetics: The brains of the family - Premium content

  Does the difficulty in finding the genes responsible for mental illness reflect the complexity of the genetics or the poor definitions of psychiatric disorders? Alison Abbott reports.

  09 July 2008

• Portugal: Navigating new waters - Premium content

  Portugal's spending on research is near the lowest in western Europe. Can a single-minded lady with half a billion euros change things, asks Alison Abbott.

  02 April 2008

• Abnormal neuroscience: Scanning psychopaths - Premium content

  Are their brains not wired to feel what others feel, or do they just not care? Alison Abbott joins researchers looking into normal neurobiology through the scope of psychopathy.

  12 December 2007

• Palaeontology: Tunnel vision - Premium content

  Is blasting into a river bluff any way to do palaeontology? Alison Abbott reports on an unusual expedition into the Alaskan wilderness in search of the bones of polar dinosaurs.

  31 October 2007