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Computational biology: Biological logic - Premium content
An intuitive approach to computer modelling could reveal paths to discovery, finds Lucas Laursen.
25 November 2009
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The FDA: A tough tonic - Premium content
The new head of the US Food and Drug Administration has inherited an agency battered by crises. Meredith Wadman asks whether Peggy Hamburg can concoct a cure.
25 November 2009
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Biodiversity: Biodiversity's bright spot
While species losses mount worldwide, conservationists in Brazil have made great strides towards saving the golden lion tamarin and its forest habitat from destruction. Gene Russo reports.
18 November 2009
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Biodiversity: Putting a price on nature - Premium content
Gretchen Daily knows the value of ecosystems — but can ascribing financial worth to them help to maintain biodiversity? Emma Marris meets an ecosystem-services evangelist.
18 November 2009
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Biodiversity: On the origin of bar codes - Premium content
Genetic sequences in a cell's mitochondria can be used to accurately determine species. Could this be because they are responsible for creating what they identify? Nick Lane investigates.
18 November 2009
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Swine flu: One killer virus, three key questions - Premium content
Nature reports from three laboratories scrutinizing the pandemic flu virus.
11 November 2009
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Carbon trading: How to save a forest - Premium content
Projects in Madagascar could provide a model for stemming deforestation. But first these efforts must deal with the poverty and political upheaval that threaten forests, reports Anjali Nayar.
04 November 2009
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Conservation biology: Reflecting the past
Unsatisfied with merely halting environmental destruction, some conservationists are trying to reconstruct ecosystems of the past. Emma Marris travels back in time with the rewilders.
04 November 2009
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Decision-making: Risk school - Premium content
Can the general public learn to evaluate risks accurately, or do authorities need to steer it towards correct decisions? Michael Bond talks to the two opposing camps.
28 October 2009
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Science journalism: Breaking the convention? - Premium content
Blogs and Twitter are opening up meetings to those not actually there. Does that mean too much access to science in the raw, asks Geoff Brumfiel.
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Protein structures: Structures of desire - Premium content
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