AS REGULAR readers know, New 杏吧原创 sends reporters to many of
the world鈥檚 major scientific meetings to bring you news of cutting-edge
research. This issue of the magazine sees our first attempt at a new, expanded
form of conference coverage. Facing page 48, in the centre of the magazine,
you鈥檒l find a pull-out supplement offering 18 pages of news from a special
conference held at the beginning of April鈥攖he Keystone Millennium
meeting.
The conference brought together three dozen leading cell and molecular
biologists. Normally they鈥檇 never meet, as they work in fields as diverse as
immunology, neuroscience and gene therapy. The topics they discussed range from
building electronic interfaces with the brain to creating a new generation of
vaccines.
If our supplement whets your appetite, you鈥檒l find fuller reports and
background from the conference on our website at
www.newscientist.com/keystone.
For anyone who thought the Human Genome Project
is the only revolutionary venture in biology, we hope that Keystone will prove
an exciting surprise.
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