Contents
16 September 2016
Vol 353, Issue 6305
Vol 353, Issue 6305
Special Issue
Plant Translational Biology
News
- The new harvest
Translational plant science yields sustainable oils, pharmaceuticals, and proteins.
- The plant engineer
Dan Voytas has worked tirelessly to make targeted genome editing of plants a reality.
- When is a GM plant not a GM plant?
New genome-editing technologies have confused the regulatory picture for genetically modified plants.
- The nitrogen fix
Few projects in plant biotechnology are harder, or promise a greater payoff, than enabling crops to make their own nitrogen fertilizer.
PLANT TRANSLATIONAL BIOLOGY
Reviews
Contents
This Week in Science
Editorial
Editors' Choice
Products & Materials
- New Products
A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers.
In Brief
In Depth
- Pyre experiments cast doubt on students' fate
Findings suggest investigators in Mexico should take new tack in unsolved case.
- Turkey shakes up universities as coup fallout continues
Grants are frozen, campuses closed, and staffers fired.
- Former star surgeon's disgrace rocks Swedish science
Investigations into the Paolo Macchiarini scandal highlight misconduct and institutional failings.
- Cystic fibrosis foundation opens drug discovery lab
Funded by a drug royalty bonanza, lab seeks novel ways to target mutations.
- Study takes sharp tusk to effort to legalize ivory trade
Slow-growing elephants can't be harvested sustainably.
- In Iran, a shady market for papers flourishes
New law would tame the practice of selling theses and research articles—if enforced.
Feature
- Whatever happened to …
Celebrity molecules promised to transform our health, but haven't always lived up to their billing.
Working Life
Letters
Books et al.
- The socially savvy tree
Anthropomorphisms abound, but science underlies a forester's reverent ode to woodland complexity
- Scientist's guide to modern art
Scientific inquiry and abstract artistic expression may have more in common than you think
Policy Forum
- Will latest U.S. law lead to successful schools in STEM?
Despite shortcomings, there is room for cautious optimism
- A missed opportunity for U.S. biotechnology regulation
Policy options for change were not on the table
Perspectives
- Plating up solutions
Can eating patterns be both healthier and more sustainable?
- Designer nanorod synthesis
Modified cellulose strands create versatile reactor compartments
- Harnessing mutation: The best of two worlds
Combining vertebrate and bacterial immunity components enables targeted mutagenesis
- Vaccine trust and the limits of information
Understanding trust in local contexts is key to communication about vaccination
Research Articles
Reports
About The Cover
COVER Camelina sativa seeds (length: 2 to 3 millimeters) in their pods, floating in oil extracted from the seeds. This antioxidantrich oil can become a source of hearthealthy omega-3 fatty acids. Research on Camelina and other plants is exploring the means to improve food quality, build sustainability, discover pharmaceuticals, and reduce the environmental impact of deriving specialty chemicals. For more on challenges and opportunities in plant translational biology, see page 1218.
Photo: © Sasha Gitin