From Philip Campbell, Editor of Nature and Editor-in-Chief of Nature publications:

David Cyranoski, Nature’s Asia-Pacific correspondent, has won the 2007 Michel E DeBakey journalism award from the Washington-based Foundation for Biomedical research, for his article ‘Primates in the frame’ (Nature 444, 812-813; 2006). This was part of last year’s special issue on debates about animal research within the biology community.

Every year the Association of British Science Writers gives a set of much-coveted awards, and Nature has received a bunch of shortlisted nominations.For ‘the best feature on science subject in a specialist periodical’ the following three articles were nominated out of a total of four:

Jo Marchant, for ‘In search of lost time’ published in Nature 30 November 2006

The ancient Antikythera Mechanism doesn’t just challenge our assumptions about technology transfer over the ages — it gives us fresh insights into history itself.

Helen Pearson, for ‘What is a gene?’ published in Nature 25 May 2006

The idea of genes as beads on a DNA string is fast fading. Protein-coding sequences have no clear beginning or end and RNA is a key part of the information package.

Quirin Schiermeier, for ‘A sea change’ published in Nature 19 January 2006.

A collapse in ocean currents triggered by global warming could be catastrophic, but only now is the Atlantic circulation being properly monitored.

For ‘the best science journalism on the World Wide Web’, one of the three shortlisted nominations is Michael Hopkin and the news team for ‘World Cup 2006 Special’, published on news@nature.com on 9 June 2006.

Please join me in congratulating all of them, as well as Oliver Morton (Nature’s Chief News and Features Editor) and the news team as a whole for fostering such outstanding work.

(The articles can be seen at the links provided, subscription or site licence required.)