PSI in the Spotlight: December 2008

PSI-SGKB 19 November 2008

Industry shifts focus to immunology and cancer

Cardiology and anaemia lose out in the hunt for the next pharmaceutical blockbusters.

Nature News 4 November 2008

Human genes are multitaskers

Up to 94% of human genes can generate different products.

Nature News 2 November 2008

What Obama's win means for science

Nature takes a look at some of the races — from Congressional competitions to state-wide ballot initiatives — that will affect the nation's research.

Nature News 5 November 2008

Pathways to cancer therapy

New studies have affirmed the complexity of genetic changes in solid tumours, but also revealed commonalities in the associated pathways, suggesting that a pathway-oriented perspective could aid cancer drug discovery and therapy.

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery November 2008

US researchers await key science appointments by next president

Nature Medicine November 2008

Older scientists publish more papers

Age is no barrier to productivity.

Nature News 28 October 2008

Accessible genomes move closer

Meeting captures human interest in genetic research.

Nature News 22 October 2008

Outcry at scale of inheritance project

NIH launches multi-million-dollar epigenomics programme.

Nature News 10 October 2008

No more third time lucky

NIH clamps down on proposal resubmissions.

Nature News 15 October 2008

Nobel for AIDS virus discovery, finally

Medicine prize goes to virus researchers; physics prize given for symmetry-breaking work.

Nature News 8 October 2008

Charitable bodies hit by credit crisis

But most organizations unaffected as yet.

Nature News 8 October 2008

Entire-paper plagiarism caught by software

Thousands of 'similarities' found between papers.

Nature News 8 October 2008

The future for Howard Hughes

Robert Tjian speaks to Nature about his plans as the new president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Nature News 8 October 2008

London forges £2 billion research cluster

Nature Biotechnology October 2008

10 influential people to watch in biomedical policy

Nature Medicine October 2008

Collaboration: Group theory

What makes a successful team? John Whitfield looks at research that uses massive online databases and network analysis to come up with some rules of thumb for productive collaborations.

Nature News 8 October 2008