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By Erika Check Hayden of Nature magazine When the synthetic biology industry was in its infancy a decade ago, it offered some world-changing opportunities. [More]

By Erika Check Hayden of Nature magazine In the film Contagion , it takes just a few months for scientists to make a vaccine against a deadly virus. [More]

By Erika Check Hayden of Nature magazine As president of global health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, based in Seattle, Washington, 66-year-old Tachi Yamada has been responsible for allocating billions of dollars to health projects around the world.

By Erika Check Hayden of Nature magazine All science students learn the 'central dogma' of molecular biology: that the sequence of bases encoded in DNA determines the sequence of amino acids that makes up the corresponding proteins. [More]

By Erika Check Hayden The 25,000 US women who give birth at home each year received shocking news from the nation's obstetricians early this year. [More]