Table of contents
Volume 388 Number 6644 pp699-809
Opinion
Malaria initiative needs drug industry's backing p699
The pharmaceutical industry must get behind recent efforts by science funding agencies to coordinate an international attack on malaria.
Hope for science on the subcontinent p699
Fifty years after independence, India and Pakistan are still struggling to develop strength in science.
News
Funding assured for international malaria sequencing project p701
Declan Butler
Europe's poorer regions woo researchers p701
Alison Abbott
UK watchdog boosts science credentials p702
David Dickson
Management problems prompt Canadian utility to shut reactors p702
David Spurgeon
$100m payout after drug data withheld p703
Meredith Wadman
'Action needed to counter bioterrorism' p703
Meredith Wadman
Ecologists urged to 'win climate debate' p704
Colin Macilwain
Miami AIDS researcher denies charges over billing irregularities p704
Rex Dalton
US-Cuba row over insects goes to weapons meeting p705
Declan Butler
Royal observatory could return to Greenwich site p705
Ehsan Masood
Correspondence
Public-sector patents on human DNA p709
S. M. Thomas, N. Birtwistle, M. Brady and J. F. Burke
Keeping a balance p709
Hermann Bondi
Wisdom in physiology p709
Alexander Maryanovich
Ain't misbehavin' p710
Jim Stevenson
Faraway Faraday p710
John Meurig Thomas
Skewed citations p710
Martin Rees
Natural name selection p710
James Murray
News and Views
The right sort of roughness p713
Peter Carpenter
Apoptosis CED-4 is a stranger no more p714
Michael O. Hengartner
Microporous solids Cobalt caged for catalysis p715
Robert L. Bedard
Neurodegeneration A silent channel opens its gates p716
Peter H. Seeburg
100 and 50 years ago p717
Atomic physics Shaping atoms in optical lattices p719
Christopher Monroe
Galactic structure Bar serves cosmic scorpion p719
Karen Southwell
Protein folding Folding with a two-stroke motor p720
George Lorimer
Demography Death and the demon drink in Russia p723
Tim Lincoln
Immunology Inside the gearbox of the dendritic cell p724
Colin Watts
Daedalus Magnetic autoeroticism p725
David Jones
Obituary John Zachary Young (1907-97) p726
John Messenger
Scientific Correspondence
Hyperactive antifreeze protein from beetles p727
Laurie A. Graham, Yih-Cherng Liou, Virginia K. Walker and Peter L. Davies
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Role of CED-4 in the activation of CED-3 p728
Arul M. Chinnaiyan, Divya Chaudhary, Karen O'Rourke, Eugene V. Koonin and Vishva M. Dixit
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Vaccination onto bare skin p729
De-chu Tang, Zhongkai Shi and David, T. Curiel
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Seeing where your hands are p730
Giuseppe di Pellegrino, Elisabetta Làdavas and Alessandro Farné
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Book Reviews
New narratives of creation p731
Andrew H. Knoll reviews Life: An Unauthorized Biography by Richard Fortey
It's a colourful world p731
Watching the neutrinos p732
Fabric of the Universe p732
F. D. Kahn reviews Shadow of a Star: The Neutrino Story of Supernova 1987A by Alfred K. Mann
Tomato-watching in a dark corner p733
Michael Morgan reviews Readings on Color: Volume 1 – The Philosophy of Color; Volume 2 – The Science of Color edited by Alex Byrne and David R. Hilbert
Mind over chatter p734
David Poeppel reviews The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence Deacon
Articles
Hydrothermal syntheses and structural characterization of zeolite analogue compounds based on cobalt phosphate p735
Pingyun Feng, Xianhui Bu and Galen D. Stucky
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The crystal structure of the asymmetric GroEL–GroES–(ADP)7 chaperonin complex p741
Zhaohui Xu, Arthur L. Horwich and Paul B. Sigler
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Letters to Nature
Faint X-ray sources in the core of the globular cluster M28 p751
R. Danner, S. R. Kulkarni, Y. Saito and N. Kawai
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Turbulent drag reduction by passive mechanisms p753
L. Sirovich and S. Karlsson
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Large-scale production of single-walled carbon nanotubes by the electric-arc technique p756
C. Journet, W. K. Maser, P. Bernier, A. Loiseau, M. Lamy de la Chapelle, S. Lefrant, P. Deniard, R. Lee and J. E. Fischer
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Enantioseparation using apoenzymes immobilized in a porous polymeric membrane p758
Brinda B. Lakshmi and Charles R. Martin
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Torsional oscillations and the magnetic field within the Earth's core p760
Stephen Zatman and Jeremy Bloxham
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Self-similarity of extinction statistics in the fossil record p764
Ricard V. Solé, Susanna C. Manrubia, Michael Benton and Per Bak
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Genetic tagging of humpback whales p767
Per J. Palsbøll, Judith Allen, Martine Bérube´, Phillip J. Clapham, Tonnie P. Feddersen, Philip S. Hammond, Richard R. Hudson, Hanne Jørgensen, Steve Katona, Anja Holm Larsen, Finn Larsen#, Jon Lien, David K. Mattila, Jóhann Sigurjónsson, Richard Sears, Tim Smith, Renate Sponer, Peter Stevick and Nils Øien
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Neurodegeneration in Lurcher mice caused by mutation in 
2 glutamate receptor gene p769
Jian Zuo, Philip L. De Jager, Kanji A. Takahashi, Weining Jiang, David J. Linden and Nathaniel Heintz
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A second endogenous cannabinoid that modulates long-term potentiation p773
Nephi Stella, Paul Schweitzer and Daniele Piomelli
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Placental abnormalities in mouse embryos lacking the orphan nuclear receptor ERR-
p778
Jiangming Luo, Robert Sladek, Jo-Ann Bader, Annie Matthyssen, Janet Rossant and Vincent Giguère
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Inflammatory stimuli induce accumulation of MHC class II complexes on dendritic cells p782
Marina Cella, Anneke Engering, Valerie Pinet, Jean Pieters and Antonio Lanzavecchia
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Developmental regulation of MHC class II transport in mouse dendritic cells p787
Philippe Pierre, Shannon J. Turley, Evelina Gatti, Michael Hull, Joseph Meltzer, Asra Mirza, Kayo Inaba, Ralph M. Steinman and Ira Mellman
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Distinct actions of cis and trans ATP within the double ring of the chaperonin GroEL p792
Hays S. Rye, Steven G. Burston, Wayne A. Fenton, Joseph M. Beechem, Zhaohui Xu, Paul B. Sigler and Arthur L. Horwich
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DNA renaturation activity of the SMC complex implicated in chromosome condensation p798
Takashi Sutani and Mitsuhiro Yanagida
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Metal ion catalysis during splicing of premessenger RNA p801
Erik J. Sontheimer, Sengen Sun and Joseph A. Piccirilli
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A second catalytic metal ion in a group I ribozyme p805
Lara B. Weinstein, B. C. N. M. Jones, Richard Cosstick and Thomas R. Cech
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Correspondence
Correction CO2 fixation and photoevolution of H2 and O2 in a mutant of Chlamydomonas lacking photosystem I p808
E. Greenbaum, J. W. Lee, C. V. Tevault, S. L. Blankinship and L. J. Mets
New on the Market
Molecular means and methods p809
Items on view at the meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in San Francisco may include a versatile hybridization oven, affinity purification reagents and a dual-laser-induced fluorescence detector.
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