November 2006

• Systems biology: A user's guide

  This special focus contains a collection of highly accessible and practical guides to some of the most important approaches and challenges in systems biology.

  Nature Cell Biology and Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

  November

• Stay trim to cut cancer risk

  Fat could send the wrong signals to sick cells.

  news@nature

  23rd October

• Funding agencies toughen stance on open access

  The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is considering a plan to pressure its investigators into making their published papers freely accessible.

  news@nature

  25th October

• Cell biology: Power games

  Otto Warburg's ideas on cell respiration in cancer are making a comeback.

  Nature

  25th October