Silk route to preservation

Protein in fibre can replace expensive ways to store drugs

Mind your tongue

Language>> public Places • The US

Our own microbe catalogue

First genetic map of the microbes found in a healthy human body

Lincoln’s fake Facebook

Social Network>> History • The US

Mix and match

DNA-RNA hybrid virus may provide clues to virus evolution

Google booked

Google>> Privacy • The US

Bowing to web

Encyclopaedia>> Website • The US

How to curb neuro disorders

Inhibiting a brain enzyme provides protection, says study  

News Snippets

Glossary of an ancient world

Dictionary>> History • Iraq/US

Mummy returned

Museum>> Ethnic Politics • China/US

SOUTH AMERICA

Indebted forever

Hanging in balance

The future of products developed from the knowledge of indigenous communities is threatened

CENTRAL AMERICA

South America unites

A new community of nations is to be formed

Caribbean in trouble

All about the environment

Headbangers' ball

Cell phone now a lab too

Smells toxic

America thinks

Beekiller's genes

Bad news They have sex

Goodies from Darwin