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The article offers information to biologists who wish to submit their papers to the journal "Nature." The journal aspires to publish papers that are not only interesting and thought-provoking, but reproducible and useful. To be published, materials and reagents need to be carefully described and readily available to interested scientists.

The article comments on the difference between theory and application in conservation biology. The gap between conservation biologists and practitioners lies between their form of actions, wherein the former writes and publish papers while the latter make decisions through their personal experiences and acquired knowledge.

The author reflects on the pitfalls on the massive amounts of data on the genome studies of biologists. The author states that scientists are making many careless errors such as the high number of corrections on the research paper on life sciences. The author also mentions that the scientific errors are driven by the pressure of generating surprising results and quick publishing. Moreover, the importance of training on experimental method and collaboration with good statisticians is recommended.

The article focuses on the career of biologist Alina Vrabioiu. After finishing high school in Romania, she went to the U.S. and studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After receiving PhD in biology from Harvard University, she co-authored a paper with her adviser, professor Tim Mitchison.