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06 Foreword Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science


09 R&D Insight The latest from the world of research and development with Harry O’Neill


16 Feature Professor Barbara Pierscionek A visionary approach to understanding the human lens


20 Keynote interview Krista Kiuru, Finnish Minister of Education, Science and Communications


24 Analysis Finland and Science, A report into the Finnish love affair with science and technology


Juri Poutanen


40 Biological Interactions Lotta-Riina Sundberg, Employing phages to treat bacterial infections


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42 SenPEP Pedro J Aphalo, The sensory responses of plants to environmental stimuli


60 Special Focus SHOKs, The Strategic Centres for Science, Technology and Innovation


62 Parasitoid Ecology Saskya V Nouhuys, Studying the behaviour of the parasitoid wasp


Minister Krista Kiuru


28 E-CONTROL Sebastiaan van Dijken, Developing hybrid multiferroic materials


30 PAGN Juri Poutanen, Solving the mystery of black holes


34 Spectroscopy Filip Tuomisto, Improving semiconductors using positron spectroscopy


36 CAVITYQPD Mika A. Sillanpää, Quantum-mechanical behaviour at the macro-scale


38 Interview Tuula Tamminen, Chair of the Research Council for Health on Finnish health research


Finland and science


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45 Faculty of Pharmacy Tiina Sikanen, Helder Santos, Investigating nanomedicines and bioanalysis


48 Feature Finland’s vision, The Finnish Research Infrastructure Committee


50 LOAD Henri Huttunen, Decoding the mechanisms of late-onset Alzheimer’s disease


53 Faculty of Medicine Marjo-Ritta Jarvelin, The Northern Finland Birth Cohort Studies


56 Evolutionary Dynamics Patrik Karell, Evolutionary mechanisms in wild owl populations


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