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Nature Medicine’s year in review
In keeping with the journal’s annual tradition, the December issue of Nature Medicine takes a look back at the key developments in biomedicine during 2009. Yearbook 2009 p1348 Behind the news, there are always the newsmakers. Inspired by the high school yearbook tradition, we have rounded up a few such individuals worthy of notice in 2009. Some stepped into the spotlight eagerly, whereas others operated behind the scenes. Melinda Wenner reports. Notable advances Melinda Wenner highlights some of the key papers published in 2009, including topics such as lifespan, T-cell immunity, hepatitis C, HIV, microRNA, Alzheimer’s disease, tuberculosis, cardiology and