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-Special: VACCINES
Vaccines are responsible for some of the world's greatest public
health triumphs. In the past decade, vaccines against leading killer
diseases have been introduced, and more are on the way.

But funding is tight, and unfounded doubts about the safety of vaccines
persist. Nature explores the social and scientific challenges facing
this key weapon in the twenty-first century's medical armoury.
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** Q&A **
-A LEGACY OF SCEPTICISM
30 May 2011
Edzard Ernst, the world's first professor of alternative medicine,
is stepping down.
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-SMART-REDD PLAN TARGETS CAUSES OF DEFORESTATION
29 May 2011
Strategy would focus on drivers of deforestation to reduce carbon
emissions and improve human welfare.
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-SPIT TEST OFFERS GUIDE TO HEALTH
28 May 2011
Telomeres may not predict how long we'll live, but they can still
revolutionise medicine, says Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn.
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-CRITICS WEIGH IN ON ARSENIC LIFE
27 May 2011
Field needs independent experiments to prove or disprove the work,
researchers say.
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-GERMAN E. COLI OUTBREAK LEADS TO DRUG TRIAL
27 May 2011
Timely discovery of new use for expensive drug put to the test.
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-CANADIAN COURT BANS ANONYMOUS SPERM AND EGG DONATION
27 May 2011
For the first time in North America, the child of a donor has won the
right for future donor offspring to know their biological parents.
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-TEVATRON'S LEGACY SET TO DISAPPEAR
27 May 2011
Lack of long-term preservation plan threatens to leave key information
inaccessible for future analysis.
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-WILDLIFE THREATENED BY FUKUSHIMA RADIATION
27 May 2011
Leaked isotopes likely to affect marine ecosystems more than
terrestrial ones.
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-TERRORIST 'PRE-CRIME' DETECTOR FIELD TESTED IN UNITED STATES
27 May 2011
Screening system aims to pinpoint passengers with malicious intentions.
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-HAWAIIAN HOT SPOT FUELS VOLCANO DEBATE
26 May 2011
Textbook picture of Earth beneath Hawaii may be wrong.
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-HOW TO MAKE A HUMAN NEURON
26 May 2011
Researchers have worked out how to reprogram cells from human skin
into functioning nerve cells.
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--Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy
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CO2 emissions climb to all-time high
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Global warming will open Arctic sea routes but sever the region?s ice
roads
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New Jersey nixes participation in US cap-and-trade system
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Family planning must be top of developing countries? health agenda
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Planet-hunting pioneer calls for probe to Alpha Centauri
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Study to examine use of chimpanzees in US research -- UPDATED
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Animal lab reprimanded for poor safety again
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Attention! New study points to power of controlling neurons
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Shareholders inch towards responsibility for fracking risks
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Fukushima nuclear plant is leaking like a sieve
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Europe's 'stress tests' of nuclear power plants will exclude terrorism
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French lawmakers duel over human stem cell and embryo research
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NASA plans asteroid sample return
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Gamma-ray burst is most distant yet seen
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Italian seismologists to be tried for manslaughter
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