Genomics and human lifespan — what's left to extend? Strohman, R. C. Nature Biotechnology March (2001).

Tie receptors: new modulators of angiogenic and lymphangiogenic responses.  Jones, N., Iljin, K., Dumont, D. J. & Alitalo, K. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology April (2001). A review about the Tie receptor family and their ligands. These receptors are providing new insights into how vessels make decisions on whether to grow or regress during development and throughout an organism's life.

A big development for a small RNA. Clayton, D. A. Nature 1 March (2001) . This News and Views article discusses the finding that a nuclear gene that encodes the RNA component of an RNA-cleaving enzyme underlies a clinically complex genetic disease called cartilage–hair hypoplasia.

Bioethics for an educated debate. Finegold, P. Nature Biotechnology March (2001) .

Yeast longevity gene goes public. Gems, D. Nature 8 March (2001). A News and Views article on the discovery that the sir-2.1 gene, which controls lifespan in yeast, also has a homologue that controls longevity in Caenorhabditis elegans, thus validating the use of yeast to study ageing.

The early days of DNA sequences. Sanger, F. Nature Medicine March (2001).

Celebrate the genome A collection of News and Views articles in the March issue of Nature Genetics, in which geneticists express their views on the publication of the draft human genome sequence and speculate about what lies ahead.

The end of all human DNA maps? Little, P.

Backing up the promises. Antonarakis, S. E.

Variation is the spice of life. Kruglyak, L. & Nickerson, D. A.

Chipping away at the transcriptome. Burge, C. B.