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  • 4 votes

    Biology

  • 3 votes

    Miscellaneous

  • 9 votes

    Biology

    • Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

      • Eric S. Lander, Lauren M. Linton, Bruce Birren, Chad Nusbaum, Michael C. Zody, Jennifer Baldwin, Keri Devon, Ken Dewar, Michael Doyle, William FitzHugh, Roel Funke, Diane Gage, Katrina Harris, Andrew Heaford, John Howland, Lisa Kann, Jessica Lehoczky, Rosie LeVine, Paul McEwan, Kevin McKernan, James Meldrim, Jill P. Mesirov, Cher Miranda, William Morris, Jerome Naylor, Christina Raymond, Mark Rosetti, Ralph Santos, Andrew Sheridan, Carrie Sougnez, Nicole Stange-Thomann, Nikola Stojanovic, Aravind Subramanian, Dudley Wyman, Jane Rogers, John Sulston, Rachael Ainscough, Stephan Beck, David Bentley, John Burton, Christopher Clee, Nigel Carter, Alan Coulson, Rebecca Deadman, Panos Deloukas, Andrew Dunham, Ian Dunham, Richard Durbin, Lisa French, Darren Grafham, Simon Gregory, Tim Hubbard, Sean Humphray, Adrienne Hunt, Matthew Jones, Christine Lloyd, Amanda McMurray, Lucy Matthews, Simon Mercer, Sarah Milne, James C. Mullikin, Andrew Mungall, Robert Plumb, Mark Ross, Ratna Shownkeen, Sarah Sims, Robert H. Waterston, Richard K. Wilson, LaDeana W. Hillier, John D. McPherson, Marco A. Marra, Elaine R. Mardis, Lucinda A. Fulton, Asif T. Chinwalla, Kymberlie H. Pepin, Warren R. Gish, Stephanie L. Chissoe, Michael C. Wendl, Kim D. Delehaunty, Tracie L. Miner, Andrew Delehaunty, Jason B. Kramer, Lisa L. Cook, Robert S. Fulton, Douglas L. Johnson, Patrick J. Minx, Sandra W. Clifton, Trevor Hawkins, Elbert Branscomb, Paul Predki, Paul Richardson, Sarah Wenning, Tom Slezak, Norman Doggett, Jan-Fang Cheng, Anne Olsen, Susan Lucas, Christopher Elkin, Edward Uberbacher, Marvin Frazier, Richard A. Gibbs, Donna M. Muzny, Steven E. Scherer, John B. Bouck, Erica J. Sodergren, Kim C. Worley, Catherine M. Rives, James H. Gorrell, Michael L. Metzker, Susan L. Naylor, Raju S. Kucherlapati, David L. Nelson, George M. Weinstock, Yoshiyuki Sakaki, Asao Fujiyama, Masahira Hattori, Tetsushi Yada, Atsushi Toyoda, Takehiko Itoh, Chiharu Kawagoe, Hidemi Watanabe, Yasushi Totoki, Todd Taylor, Jean Weissenbach, Roland Heilig, William Saurin, Francois Artiguenave, Philippe Brottier, Thomas Bruls, Eric Pelletier, Catherine Robert, Patrick Wincker, Douglas R. Smith, Lynn Doucette-Stamm, Marc Rubenfield, Keith Weinstock, Hong Mei Lee, JoAnn Dubois, André Rosenthal, Matthias Platzer, Gerald Nyakatura, Stefan Taudien, Andreas Rump, Huanming Yang, Jun Yu, Jian Wang, Guyang Huang, Jun Gu, Leroy Hood, Lee Rowen, Anup Madan, Shizen Qin, Ronald W. Davis, Nancy A. Federspiel, A. Pia Abola, Michael J. Proctor, Richard M. Myers, Jeremy Schmutz, Mark Dickson, Jane Grimwood, David R. Cox, Maynard V. Olson, Rajinder Kaul, Christopher Raymond, Nobuyoshi Shimizu, Kazuhiko Kawasaki, Shinsei Minoshima, Glen A. Evans, Maria Athanasiou, Roger Schultz, Bruce A. Roe, Feng Chen, Huaqin Pan, Juliane Ramser, Hans Lehrach, Richard Reinhardt, W. Richard McCombie, Melissa de la Bastide, Neilay Dedhia, Helmut Blöcker, Klaus Hornischer, Gabriele Nordsiek, Richa Agarwala, L. Aravind, Jeffrey A. Bailey, Alex Bateman, Serafim Batzoglou, Ewan Birney, Peer Bork, Daniel G. Brown, Christopher B. Burge, Lorenzo Cerutti, Hsiu-Chuan Chen, Deanna Church, Michele Clamp, Richard R. Copley, Tobias Doerks, Sean R. Eddy, Evan E. Eichler, Terrence S. Furey, James Galagan, James G. R. Gilbert, Cyrus Harmon, Yoshihide Hayashizaki, David Haussler, Henning Hermjakob, Karsten Hokamp, Wonhee Jang, L. Steven Johnson, Thomas A. Jones, Simon Kasif, Arek Kaspryzk, Scot Kennedy, W. James Kent, Paul Kitts, Eugene V. Koonin, Ian Korf, David Kulp, Doron Lancet, Todd M. Lowe, Aoife McLysaght, Tarjei Mikkelsen, John V. Moran, Nicola Mulder, Victor J. Pollara, Chris P. Ponting, Greg Schuler, Jörg Schultz, Guy Slater, Arian F. A. Smit, Elia Stupka, Joseph Szustakowki, Danielle Thierry-Mieg, Jean Thierry-Mieg, Lukas Wagner, John Wallis, Raymond Wheeler, Alan Williams, Yuri I. Wolf, Kenneth H. Wolfe, Shiaw-Pyng Yang, Ru-Fang Yeh, Francis Collins, Mark S. Guyer, Jane Peterson, Adam Felsenfeld, Kris A. Wetterstrand, Aristides Patrinos, Michael J. Morgan
        Original article citation: Nature 409," (2001).

      • Categories: Biology and Technology & Inventions
      • Recommended by : Chris Gunter on 10/09/2007 03:28PM GMT

        It's the human genome!
      • Comment on this subject: 1 comment made

  • 2 votes

    Technology & Inventions

  • 2 votes

    Technology & Inventions

  • 2 votes

    History

      • Eugene A. Foster, M. A. Jobling, P. G. Taylor, P. Donnelly, P. de Knijff, Rene Mieremet, T. Zerjal, C. Tyler-Smith
        Original article citation: Nature 396," (1998).

      • Categories: History
      • Recommended by : Steven Corneliussen on 10/17/2007 07:53PM GMT

        Whether or not slaveholder Thomas Jefferson paradoxically merits remembrance as history's greatest human rights idealist, and whether or not he fathered the last child of Sally Hemings, whom he owned under grotesque, perverted laws then in force, this genetic-science report contributed importantly to historical understanding by showing that _someone_ carrying Jefferson family DNA fathered the child. This scientific report contributed importantly even though Nature's misleading headline, "Jefferson fathered slave's last child," propagated misunderstanding worldwide by seeming plainly to invoke what neither the authors nor their text ever invoked: the full authority of science, alone, for what was actually a historical interpretation of molecular findings. The report is thus a classic in biohistory, and its headline a classic case study for science communicators. -Steven T. Corneliussen, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab), Newport News, Virginia, USA
      • Comment on this subject: 1 comment made

  • 1 vote

    Biology

  • 1 vote

    Medicine

    • Counterfeit pharmaceuticals: Murder by medicine

      • Peter Aldhous
        Original article citation: Nature 434," (2005).

      • Categories: Medicine and Art & Literature
      • Recommended by : Nicola Jones on 10/09/2007 03:05PM GMT

        This news feature about the dangers of fake pharmaceuticals, written by Peter Aldhous during his travels in Asia and complete with investigative reporting, is now part of the Wellcome Trust exhibition on medicine. It's not every day you get to see your colleagues' work under glass as part of an art or museum exhibit! The Wellcome Trust is well worth a visit if you're in London.
      • Comment on this subject: 0 comments made

  • 1 vote

    Anthropology

    • Human evolution writ small

      • Marta Mirazon Lahr, Robert Foley
        Original article citation: news@nature 431," (2004).

      • Categories: Anthropology
      • Recommended by : Alison Muskett on 10/09/2007 03:34PM GMT

        I'm no scientist, but I was fascinated by the idea of "hobbits" really existing (I guess partly from an interest in fantasy fiction like Lord of the Rings). This paper was big news too - it was all anyone was talking about for ages!
      • Comment on this subject: 0 comments made

  • 1 vote

    Chemistry

    • Total synthesis of taxol

      • K. C. Nicolaou, Z. Yang, J. J. Liu, H. Ueno, P. G. Nantermet, R. K. Guy, C. F. Claiborne, J. Renaud, E. A. Couladouros, K. Paulvannan, E. J. Sorensen
        Original article citation: Nature 367," (1994).

      • Categories: Chemistry
      • Recommended by : Andrew Mitchinson on 10/10/2007 08:22AM GMT

        This paper is one of the all-time classics of chemistry. The synthesis of Taxol, an anti-cancer drug, stretched the limits of organic chemistry and is still regarded as a monummental achievement 13 years on. Enormous skill is required to make molecules of this complexity, especially in the later stages of the synthesis, when only tiny quantities of material would have been available. This paper inspired a generation of organic chemists - what else can I say?
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