September 2005

• Scientists & Societies

  Graduate students band together to foster communication

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  17 August 2005; doi:10.1038/nj7053-1062b

• Cell biology: The secret life of sperm

  Far from being mere DNA delivery boys, it's now becoming clear that sperm also ship a complex cargo of RNA and proteins that may be crucial for an embryo's early development. Claire Ainsworth reports.

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  10 August 2005; doi:10.1038/436770a

• Bacteria designed to make new antibiotics

  Approach may produce tools to fight drug-resistant infections.

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  15 August 2005; doi:10.1038/news050815-1

• Looking at US versus European exit opportunities

  Data suggest that investor exits are dwindling in the US. For now, prospects are rosier in Europe. But, mixed messages are everywhere.

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  12 August 2005; doi:10.1038/bioent876

• An individual approach

  Reduced side effects and more effective therapies are some of the benefits promised by pharmacogenomics. But to reach these goals industry will have to marshall a broad range of skills, as Ricki Lewis explains.

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  3 August 2005; doi:10.1038/nj7051-746a