Editorials in 2009

Science and technology can be used to build relations between countries. Thus, scientific diplomacy is becoming increasingly important.

Additional work is needed to prepare for the next pandemic viral outbreak.

Federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research must become bolder to truly support progress in the field.

The research community needs to increase the number of minority students who choose scientific research careers.

Reporting of scientific research is sometimes exaggerated or at worse inaccurate. Researchers need to change this and have the power to do so.

A rescue of some sort will be needed to save a large subset of the US biotechnology industry.

Nature Publishing Group has established new responsibilities for authors and has introduced changes in reporting methodology.

Over 20 years ago, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was launched. Today, polio is still endemic in four countries.

Immune cell signal transduction is just too complicated to be effectively queried using traditional methods and mindsets.

Journals are taking steps to stem of the practice of plagiarism.

The time has come to reassess the benefits of the present practice of patenting human genetic material.

Will the ongoing financial crisis prevent Barack Obama from increasing funding for the biomedical sciences?