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• Medical schools swap pigs for plastic

  Doctors used to try out their surgical skills on animals before being allowed to work on patients. Now just a handful of US medical schools still have animal labs. Meredith Wadman asks if they've lost a vital tool.

  07 May 2008

• Genetics bill cruises through Senate

  Unanimous vote welcomed by personal genomics companies.

  30 April 2008

• Banning genetic discrimination

  US close to a law preventing discrimination based on genes.

  25 April 2008

• Fake drugs: lessons for the world

  Dora Akunyili is director-general of Nigeria's National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). Since her appointment in 2001, she has led a successful crusade against counterfeit pharmaceuticals, which are responsible for millions of deaths worldwide each year. Nature caught up with her last week in Washington DC.

  23 April 2008

• James Watson's genome sequenced at high speed

  New-generation technology takes just four months and costs a fraction of old method.

  16 April 2008

• Crunch time for peer review in lawsuit

  Ruling imminent on Pfizer's challenge to journal confidentiality.

  05 March 2008

• Revamp for NIH grants

  US funding body receives recommendations for improving its peer-review process.

  22 February 2008

• Bush asks for more physics - again

  President seeks competitive edge with final budget request.

  05 February 2008

• Regulator under siege

  Science at the Food and Drug Administration is in need of a revamp, as Meredith Wadman reports.

  19 December 2007

• Gene therapy trial to restart

  FDA lifts ban on trial after investigating death.

  27 November 2007