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2010 will be a year to remember for the field of HIV prevention. Two clinical studies are raising the hope that the HIV epidemic can be tamed. But only if we get it right.
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So far, the debate about genes and ownership has been centred on the economic consequences of scientific discovery. The scientific concepts are taken for granted, but not always proven or
It is widely accepted that science should be an open field of knowledge and that communication between scientists is crucial to its progress. In practice, however, everything seems to be
