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Four new Horizons published in Nature
Nature Horizons articles present experts’ visions of the foreseeable future of a research theme. The articles are commissioned by Nature‘s editors, and usually published without peer review, given the journal’s intention of capturing a respected individual perspective. The articles are intended to anticipate the future, but also to influence it. On publication of the first set of Horizons, Philip Campbell, Editor of Nature, wrote: “I hope that these visions will inspire and maybe even encourage some to adjust their research ambitions as a result. Inspired by them ourselves, we’ll be publishing more Horizons in the future.” In its 9 July 2009 issue, Nature published the following four articles, all of which can be accessed online via the Horizons archive page.