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Technology

Open secret

50 years since Watson and Crick’s discovery of DNA

DNA is a live wire

Running repair keeps DNA in order

Reading the genetic master code

For chromsomes, it’s location location location

Technology

The robot within

Ghosts of the great eel war

Table of contents

News

The world’s first brain prosthesis

A chip has been made that mimics the hippocampus. Could it one day replace damaged brain tissue?

Few vaccine side effects

Cancer risk clouds miracle gene cures

Dispatches

Soundbites

Dialysis filters out killers

Bones tell where victims lived and when they died

Altered beet offers taste of the future

War will stifle aid

Record companies fear launch of 100-hour discs

Will tourist island ruin Barrier Reef?

Humans

Future looks bleak for Iraq’s fragile environment

Is that sinister spot cancer?

Earliest human footprints preserve prehistoric trek

Brainy crows learn how to upgrade tools

Technology

Text message beats fraud

Technology

Tree-free paper saves forests

Smarter poll could call the closest races

Technology

Making the most of memories

Talent-spotting software predicts chart toppers

Art treasures survive detox unscathed

Switching off Huntington’s

Lizards like to keep it in the family

Smart virus hunts down tumours wherever they are

A phone that knows you’re busy

Burping animals clean up their act on a fishy diet

Physics

Bending light backwards

Physics

Chill out with the magnetic refrigerator

Physics

Optical tweezers pluck out cancer cells

Yawning gap divides monkeys and us

Nano-world snapped

Sex aid for pandas

A forest of polluters

Soft-centred planet

Opinion

No special pleading

If cricketers and wine buyers boycott repressive regimes, why not scientists?

Johnny Mnemonic’s headache

Madness on trial

Health

Christopher Reeve’s good fight

The word red snow

Humans

Westminister diary

Features

Technology

Open secret

Whatever happened to nanotubes, the hollow threads of carbon that were going to change the world? Well, they're everywhere, says Valerie Jamieson. Haven't you noticed?

50 years since Watson and Crick’s discovery of DNA

DNA is a live wire

Running repair keeps DNA in order

Reading the genetic master code

For chromsomes, it’s location location location

Technology

The robot within

Ghosts of the great eel war

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There was a young fellow of Italy鈥�

Survival of a genius

Simon Blackburn

Graham Farmelo

Serious greenery

Boom, bust, boom

High flyers

Think of a鈥�

Watson and DNA: Making a scientific revolution by Victor McElheny

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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