Table of contents
Volume 388 Number 6640 pp309-404
Opinion
Progress on patents, but more action is needed p309
Europe's proposed directive on biotechnology patenting has passed its most difficult hurdle. But patent policy still faces problems, such as the way some claims are implemented, and the lack of a 'grace period'.
Planting a sound idea p309
The US Senate should be applauded for rejecting the administration's caution on plant genome sequencing.
News
Pressure grows for inquiry into welfare of transgenic animals p311
Ehsan Masood
CNRS gets first woman director general p311
Declan Butler
NSF urged to increase plant genome sequencing effort p312
Colin Macilwain
Call for human subjects monitoring body p313
Sally Lehrman
Collins' student sanctioned over 'most severe' case of fraud p313
Rex Dalton
Euro-vote lifts block on biotech patents p314
Alison Abbott
...but parliament wants closer scrutiny p314
Alison Abbott
Swiss researchers facing 'anti-transgenics' vote p315
Quirin Schiermeier
Russian minister tells academy: streamlining must continue p315
Carl Levitin
Tokyo officials are told to agree on carbon strategy p316
Richard Nathan
Australia to rejoin space race with satellite project p316
Peter Pockley
NIH and genome project set for more funds p316
Colin Macilwain
Talks start on policing bio-weapons ban... p317
Declan Butler
...as 'designer weapons' threat is disputed p317
Declan Butler
Correspondence
The serious business of listing authors p320
Christopher Stubbs
Cloning, dignity and ethical revisionism p320
Axel Kahn
Salmonella or Smithella? p320
Friedrich Katscher
Commentary
Fat rats and carcinogenesis screening p321
It is poor science to use inappropriate strains of rodents in badly designed and inefficient experiments for testing the safety of chemicals. It is also costly and unethical because greater numbers of laboratory animals are needed.
News and Views
Seeking wisdom in innate immunity p323
Douglas T. Fearon
Solar physics: Gravity waves with a new spin p324
Douglas Gough
Palaeoanthropology: Fossil muzzles and other puzzles p327
Meike Köhler and Salvador Moyà-Solà
River management: What's best on the banks? p328
David R. Montgomery
Protein folding: The difference with prokaryotes p329
Mary-Jane Gething
Extraterrestrial impacts: Earth rocked by combination punch p331
Dieter Stöffler and Philippe Claeys
100 and 50 years ago p331
Homogeneous catalysis: On the trail of dioxygen activation p332
Craig L. Hill and Ira A. Weinstock
An artist of the floating world p333
Kate McGeown
Daedalus: A personal thermostat p333
David Jones
Obituary: Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910-97) p334
Roger Cans
Scientific Correspondence
Recent subsidence of the northern Suez canal p335
Daniel J. Stanley and Glenn A. Goodfriend
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Clouds without supersaturation p336
Markku Kulmala, Ari Laaksonen, Robert J.Charlson and Pekka Korhonen
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A new west African chimpanzee subspecies? p337
M. Katherine Gonder, John F. Oates, Todd R. Disotell, Michael R. J. Forstner, Juan Carlos Morales and Don J. Melnick
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Imaging individual green fluorescent proteins p338
Daniel W. Pierce, Nora Hom-Booher and Ronald D. Vale
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Book Reviews
On the trail of the transistor p339
Frederick Seitz reviews Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age by Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson
The magic of mushrooms p340
Ceaseless fluctuations p340
Ian Aitchison reviews Conceptual Developments of Twentieth Century Field Theories by Tian Yu Cao
In retrospect chosen by John L. Casti p341
John L. Casti reviews Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
Correction p341
Stuart Sutherland reviews Psychology Astray: Fallacies in Studies of 'Repressed Memory' and Childhood Trauma by Harrison G. Pope, Jr
Article
Recombination of protein domains facilitated by co-translational folding in eukaryotes p343
William J. Netzer and F. Ulrich Hartl
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Letters to Nature
A magnetic switch that determines the speed of astrophysical jets p350
D. L. Meier, S. Edgington, P. Godon, D. G. Payne and K. R. Lind
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A ruthenium-substituted polyoxometalate as an inorganic dioxygenase for activation of molecular oxygen p353
Ronny Neumann and Mazal Dahan
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On/off blinking and switching behaviour of single molecules of green fluorescent protein p355
Robert M. Dickson, Andrew B. Cubitt, Roger Y. Tsien and W. E. Moerner
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The soil production function and landscape equilibrium p358
Arjun M. Heimsath, William E. Dietrich, Kunihiko Nishiizumi and Robert C. Finkel
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Experimental and theoretical identification of a new high-pressure phase of silica p362
L. S. Dubrovinsky, S. K. Saxena, P. Lazor, R. Ahuja, O. Eriksson, J. M. Wills and B. Johansson
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The age of the Popigai impact event and its relation to events at the Eocene/Oligocene boundary p365
Richard Bottomley, Richard Grieve, Derek York and Victor Masaitis
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Earliest known Old World monkey skull p368
Brenda R. Benefit and Monte L. McCrossin
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Apparent competition structures ecological assemblages p371
M. B. Bonsall and M. P. Hassell
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Genetic interaction between male mating strategy and sex ratio in a marine isopod p373
Stephen M. Shuster and Clay Sassaman
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Different types of fear-conditioned behaviour mediated by separate nuclei within amygdala p377
Simon Killcross, Trevor W. Robbins and Barry J. Everitt
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Infants listen for more phonetic detail in speech perception than in word-learning tasks p381
Christine L. Stager and Janet F. Werker
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Laminar fine structure of frequency organization in auditory midbrain p383
Christoph E. Schreiner and Gerald Langner
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Kinesin hydrolyses one ATP per 8-nm step p386
Mark J. Schnitzer and Steven M. Block
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Coupling of kinesin steps to ATP hydrolysis p390
Wei Hua, Edgar C. Young, Margaret L. Fleming and Jeff Gelles
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A human homologue of the Drosophila Toll protein signals activation of adaptive immunity p394
Ruslan Medzhitov, Paula Preston-Hurlburt and Charles A. Janeway, Jr
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A protein related to splicing factor U2AF35 that interacts with U2AF65 and SR proteins in splicing of pre-mRNA p397
Hlne Tronchre, Jiwu Wang and Xiang-Dong Fu
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Correction: Expression of Radical fringe in limb-bud ectoderm regulates apical ectodermal ridge formation p400
Ed Laufer, Randall Dahn, Olivia E. Orozco, Chang-Yeol Yeo, Jacqueline Pisenti, Domingos Henrique, Ursula K. Abbott, John F. Fallon and Cliff Tabin
Techniques and Technology
Using GFP to study virus invasion and spread in plant tissues p401
Karl J. Oparka, Alison G. Roberts, Simon Santa Cruz, Petra Boevink, Denton A.M. Prior and Anna Smallcombe
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New on the Market
Microscopy and image analysis p403
With the objective of reviewing recent releases in the field of microscopy, this feature looks at a variety of optical and confocal microscopes, instruments for SPM, SEM, AMF and TEM, as well as accessories and software.
compiled by Brendan Horton from information provided by the manufacturers.
