Nature Milestones highlights key discoveries that have shaped different scientific fields and enables the wider recognition of these classic findings that are often recognized only by those in the field.

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Milestones in Cytoskeleton

Milestones in Cytoskeleton, presented by Nature, Nature Cell Biology and Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, celebrates ground-breaking advances in cytoskeleton research over the past 60 years — from the discovery of actomyosin filaments in muscle to the identification of molecular motors, and from fluorescence analogue cytochemistry and differential interference contrast microscopy to single-molecule assays.

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Milestones in Cutaneous Biology

Milestones in Cutaneous Biology highlights groundbreaking advances in cutaneous biology over the past 100 years. More than 30 international leaders in epidermal and dermal structural proteins, cell differentiation, vascular and tumor biology, autoimmunity, photobiology, and genetic disease were enlisted to edit the series and to recruit specialists, leading to a rich set of educational articles.

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Milestones in Spin

Milestones in Spin, presented by Nature Physics, tells the story of 'spin' - the concept of intrinsic angular momentum for elementary particles that was developed in the 1920s and that has since inspired major advances in physics, as well as finding practical application in chemistry, biology and technology.

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Principal sponsor
Organic Spintronics

Milestones in DNA Technologies

Milestones in DNA Technologies is a collaborative project involving three journals - Nature, Nature Methods and Nature Reviews Genetics - and celebrates more than half a century of discoveries and applications of DNA technologies.

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Principal sponsor
Applied Biosystems

Milestones in Cancer

Milestones in Cancer is a collaborative project involving three journals - Nature, Nature Medicine and Nature Reviews Cancer - and celebrates more than 100 years of discoveries in the field of cancer.

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Principal sponsors
Applied Biosystems
AstraZeneca
Genentech
Academic sponsor
Cancer Research UK
Supporting sponsor
Imclone Systems

Milestones in Gene Expression

Milestones in Gene Expression is a collaborative project involving six journals - Nature, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Genetics, Nature Reviews Genetics, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology and Nature Structural & Molecular Biology - and celebrates almost 50 years of discoveries in the field of transcription and chromatin.

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Principal sponsor
Applied Biosystems
Supporting sponsors
Agendia
March of Dimes
JDRF

Milestones in Development

Milestones in Development is a collaboration between five journals - Nature, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Reviews Genetics, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology and Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Twenty-four 'Milestones' highlight the discoveries that have made the greatest impact on the developmental biology field over the past 100 years.

Milestones in Cell Division

Milestones in Cell Division is a collaboration between four journals - Nature, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Reviews Cancer and Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology - which celebrates the past 100 years of research in the field of cell division. Twenty three 'Milestones' describe some of the seminal discoveries and place them in the context of what was known at the time.