It is a tribute to Eugene Garfield’s vision and insight that The Scientist is still, after 25 years, a flourishing magazine “for the science professional,” as he put it in his inaugural editorial. The magazine’s primary focus is no longer on the political and economic affairs surrounding science, however, but on the heart of the matter: the rapid advances in methodology and the consequent torrent of new findings in the life sciences, lucidly explained both to the broader professional community and to the scientifically literate public. This special anniversary issue features six topics, including several areas of research that did not exist when The Scientist first went to press: omics, neuroscience, nanomedicine, synthetic biology, biodiversity and conservation biology, and science funding. I contributed an opinion article to the first issue of the magazine advocating that the human genome be sequenced. At the invitation of the editors, I now reflect on the huge strides made in the life sciences in the last quarter century and offer some thoughts about how to conquer some of the outstanding problems in the future.
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