Hill Briefing: Scientists, Clinicians Must Join Forces
Speeding treatments from bench to bedside will require better communication between basic and clinical researchers—a key goal for the new AAAS journal, Science Translational Medicine.

Personalized Medicine's Ties to Health Care Reform
New NIH Director Francis Collins and others will discuss the role of personalized medicine in health care reform at an October 26-27 event at AAAS headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Science: Before “Lucy,” There Was “Ardi”
In a special issue of Science, researchers offer the first detailed description of Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia.