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Beads made from ostrich eggshells, produced by people over the past 50,000 years, provide evidence for a long period of social connection between eastern and southern Africa, followed by isolation and then reconnection.

Highlights from News & Views published this year.

Harnessing immune cells to target tumours is a growing trend. The results of a clinical trial combining such treatment with other standard therapies for gastric cancer have altered medical practice — and more changes are to come.

A computational method has been devised to identify drug-candidate molecules from a library of billions of molecules using 100 times less computational power than is used by standard methods.