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• Iran diaspora responds to protests

  Iranian researchers abroad help keep information flowing from home.

  24 June 2009

• Patchy pig monitoring may hide flu threat - Premium content

  Experts call for increased surveillance of animals.

  16 June 2009

• Flu pandemic underway - Premium content

  Countries prepare for the long haul in combating novel H1N1 strain.

  11 June 2009

• US ramps up swine flu protection - Premium content

  New technologies may help boost H1N1 vaccine production.

  03 June 2009

• Swine flu attention turns to the tropics - Premium content

  New flu strains are more likely to arise in equatorial countries, where influenza is present the year round and surveillance is poor.

  27 May 2009

• The virus grower - Premium content

  Immunologist Doris Bucher talks about cultivating the swine flu virus.

  14 May 2009

• Marie-Paule Kieny - Premium content

  The vaccine research director of the World Health Organization, on swine flu.

  13 May 2009

• Vaccine decisions loom for new flu strain - Premium content

  World Health Organization considers live attenuated vaccines for swine-associated H1N1 outbreak.

  12 May 2009

• How severe will the flu outbreak be? - Premium content

  Epidemiologists race to pin numbers on the global H1N1 spread.

  05 May 2009

• Swine flu goes global - Premium content

  New influenza virus tests pandemic emergency preparedness.

  29 April 2009

• Technology: The textbook of the future - Premium content

  Undergraduate textbooks are going digital. Declan Butler asks how this will shake up student reading habits and the multi-billion-dollar print textbook market.

  01 April 2009

• Bush's legacy: The wasted years - Premium content

  In the first of three features on the legacy of the Bush administration, Declan Butler looks at the United States' failure to deal with the risks of nuclear proliferation.

  14 January 2009

• China: The great contender - Premium content

  China's performance has been remarkable in any number of fields. Declan Butler charts the country's scientific and economic growth.

  23 July 2008

• Translational research: Crossing the valley of death - Premium content

  A chasm has opened up between biomedical researchers and the patients who need their discoveries. Declan Butler asks how the ground shifted and whether the US National Institutes of Health can bridge the gap.

  11 June 2008

• Architecture: Architects of a low-energy future - Premium content

  Low- and zero-energy buildings could have a huge impact on energy use and carbon emissions. We have the technologies, but if they are to mitigate climate change, green-building design must hit the mass market, says Declan Butler.

  02 April 2008

• Earth Monitoring: The planetary panopticon - Premium content

  Technology will soon allow the world to be mapped in near-real time and at high resolution. Declan Butler investigates the potential for operational monitoring of the planet.

  05 December 2007