Opinion

The cloud over Sarawak p315

Forest fires and urban pollution are wreaking havoc in South-East Asia. Technology and ecology can offer a little help, but more national and international awareness would also be useful.

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Ashkenazi signals are timely p315

Concerns in the US Jewish community about the potential misuse of genetic results need to be addressed.

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News

Scientists close in on 'cell from hell' lurking in Chesapeake Bay p317

Colin Macilwain

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EPA to be sued over gene-modified crops p317

Meredith Wadman

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Cancer scientist takes on top job at Wellcome Trust p318

David Dickson

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£10 million pledged for UK synchrotron source p318

David Dickson

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US biologists adopt cloning moratorium p319

Meredith Wadman

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End agreed for ozone-destroying pesticide p319

David Spurgeon

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German physicists honour Planck p320

Alison Abbott

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NASA to fund life science beam line at Brookhaven? p320

Tony Reichhardt

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France asked to drop N-test simulations p320

Eric Glover

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Forest fires cause pollution crisis in Asia p321

David Swinbanks

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Air pollution index indicates danger levels p321

David Swinbanks

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Jewish leaders seek genetic guidelines... p322

Sally Lehrman

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... as Israel offers to test adopted children p322

Haim Watzman

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Creationist appeal told that Ark claims 'were scientific' p323

Peter Pockley

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Scientists criticize review of Indian research institute p323

K. S. Jayaraman

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News in Brief p324

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Correspondence

Fat (and thin) rats distort results p326

Angelo Turturro, Julian Leakey, William T. Allaben and Ronald W. Hart

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Whodunnit? p326

Benjamin White

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Nepotism and sexism in peer-review p326

Gillian Breen

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News and Views

It's not easy to make the Moon p327

Jack J. Lissauer

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Allosteric proteins:  Cuddling up to channel activation p328

Christopher Miller

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Artificial enzymes:  The importance of being selective p329

John T. Groves

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Conservation biology:  The hen harrier and the grouse p330

Robert M. May

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Fluid dynamics:  All stressed out p331

Mark Robbins

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Solvents:  Molecular trees for green chemistry p333

Joan F. Brennecke

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Inhibitory synapses:  Anaesthetics set their sites on ion channels p334

N. P. Franks and W. R. Lieb

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Avoided objects p335

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Geophysics:  Probing Earth's dynamo p337

Peter Olson

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100 and 50 years ago p337

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Biopolymers:  The structure of starch p338

Paul Calvert

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Daedalus:  The light rolls in p339

David Jones

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Obituary:  John Cowdery Kendrew (1917-97) p340

K. C. Holmes

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Scientific Correspondence

A clupeid fish can detect ultrasound p341

David A. Mann, Zhongmin Lu and Arthur N. Popper

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How accurate are satellite 'thermometers'? p342

John R. Christy, Roy W. Spencer and William D. Braswell

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Frogs reabsorb glucose from urinary bladder p343

Jon P. Costanzo, Phyllis A. Callahan, Richard E. Lee Jr and Michael F. Wright

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Parental age gap skews child sex ratio p344

J. T. Manning, R. H. Anderton and M. Shutt

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Book Reviews

Tapping a rich vein of medical history p345

David Weatherall reviews Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in 20th-Century America by Keith Wailoo

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Killing and culture p346

Henrietta Wilson reviews The Chemical Weapons Taboo by Richard M. Price

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Let it shine p347

William Shea reviews The Fire Within the Eye: A Historical Essay on the Nature and Meaning of Light by David Park

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The ten chromosomes of corn p347

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Truth on the outside p348

Roald Hoffmann reviews On the Surface of Things: Images of the Extraordinary in Science by Felice Frankel and George M. Whitesides

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Progress

Histone acetylation in chromatin structure and transcription p349

Michael Grunstein

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Letters to Nature

Lunar accretion from an impact-generated disk p353

Shigeru Ida, Robin M. Canup and Glen R. Stewart

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The optical counterpart of the isolated neutron star RX J185635-3754 p358

Frederick M. Walter and Lynn D. Matthews

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A general boundary condition for liquid flow at solid surfaces p360

Peter A. Thompson and Sandra M. Troian

doi:10.1038/38686

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Laser action in organic semiconductor waveguide and double-heterostructure devices p362

V. G. Kozlov, V. Bulovi, P. E. Burrows and S. R. Forrest

doi:10.1038/38693

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Continuous formation of supported cubic and hexagonal mesoporous films by sol–gel dip-coating p364

Yunfeng Lu, Rahul Ganguli, Celeste A. Drewien, Mark T. Anderson, C. Jeffrey Brinker, Weilang Gong, Yongxing Guo, Hermes Soyez, Bruce Dunn, Michael H. Huang and Jeffrey I. Zink

doi:10.1038/38699

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Extraction of a hydrophilic compound from water into liquid CO₂ using dendritic surfactants p368

A. I. Cooper, J. D. Londono, G. Wignall, J. B. McClain, E. T. Samulski, J. S. Lin, A. Dobrynin, M. Rubinstein, A. L. C. Burke, J. M. J. Fréchet and J. M. DeSimone

doi:10.1038/38706

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An Earth-like numerical dynamo model p371

Weijia Kuang and Jeremy Bloxham

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Acute stimulation of glucose metabolism in mice by leptin treatment p374

Seika Kamohara, Rémy Burcelin, Jeffrey L. Halaas, Jeffrey M. Friedman and Maureen J. Charron

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Retinal direction selectivity after targeted laser ablation of starburst amacrine cells p378

Shigang He and Richard H. Masland

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Cellular mechanism for anti-analgesic action of agonists of the -opioid receptor p382

Z. Z. Pan, S. A. Tershner and H. L. Fields

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Sites of alcohol and volatile anaesthetic action on GABA_A and glycine receptors p385

S. John Mihic, Qing Ye, Marilee J. Wick, Vladimir V. Koltchine, Matthew D. Krasowski, Suzanne E. Finn, Maria Paola Mascia, C. Fernando Valenzuela, Kirsten K. Hanson, Eric P. Greenblatt, R. Adron Harris and Neil L. Harrison

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Single cyclic nucleotide-gated channels locked in different ligand-bound states p389

MariaLuisa Ruiz and Jeffrey W. Karpen

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G-protein deactivation is rate-limiting for shut-off of the phototransduction cascade p392

Mandeep S. Sagoo and Leon Lagnado

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Somatic linker histones cause loss of mesodermal competence in Xenopus p395

Oliver C. Steinbach, Alan P. Wolffe and Ralph A.W. Rupp

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Transcription factor TFIID recruits factor CPSF for formation of 3' end of mRNA p399

Jean-Christophe Dantonel, Kanneganti G. K. Murthy, James L. Manley and Laszlo Tora

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Visualization of elongation factor Tu on the Escherichia coli ribosome p403

Holger Stark, Marina V. Rodnina, Jutta Rinke-Appel, Richard Brimacombe, Wolfgang Wintermeyer and Marin van Heel

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Haem-ligand switching during catalysis in crystals of a nitrogen-cycle enzyme p406

Pamela A. Williams, Vilmos Fülöp, Elspeth F. Garman, Neil F. W. Saunders, Stuart J. Ferguson and Janos Hajdu

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errata:  The yeast genome directory p412

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errata:  Measurements of elastic anisotropy due to solidification texturing and the implications for the Earth's inner core p412

Michael I. Bergman

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errata:  cAMP-induced switching in turning direction of nerve growth cones p412

Hong-jun Song, Guo-li Ming and Mu-ming Poo

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Corrections:  Synthesis and X-ray structure of dumb-bell-shaped C₁₂₀ p412

Guan-Wu Wang, Koichi Komatsu, Yasujiro Murata and Motoo Shiro

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Corrections:  The complete genome sequence of the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori p412

Jean-F. Tomb, Owen White, Anthony R. Kerlavage, Rebecca A. Clayton, Granger G. Sutton, Robert D. Fleischmann, Karen A. Ketchum, Hans Peter Klenk, Steven Gill, Brian A. Dougherty, Karen Nelson, John Quackenbush, Lixin Zhou, Ewen F. Kirkness, Scott Peterson, Brendan Loftus, Delwood Richardson, Robert Dodson, Hanif G. Khalak, Anna Glodek, Keith McKenney, Lisa M. Fitzegerald, Norman Lee, Mark D. Adams, Erin K. Hickey, Douglas E. Berg, Jeanine D. Gocayne, Teresa R. Utterback, Jeremy D. Peterson, Jenny M. Kelley, Matthew D. Cotton, Janice M. Weidman, Claire Fujii, Cheryl Bowman, Larry Watthey, Erik Wallin, William S. Hayes, Mark Borodovsky, Peter D. Karp, Hamilton O. Smith, Claire M. Fraser and J. Craig Venter

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New on the Market

Software solutions p413

This compilation covers a variety of chemistry packages for process monitoring, molecular visualization and kinetic simulation, as well as mapping and data processing software for geological and environment study.

compiled by Brendan Horton from information provided by the manufacturers.

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Careers and Recruitment

Bioinformatics in a post-genomics age p417

Diane Gershon

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Common language of bioinformatics p418

Bruno W. S. Sobral

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Crossover in interest and skill p418

Brendan Horton

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Choices and challenges p420

Potter Wickware

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Running to catch up in Europe p420

Helen Gavaghan

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Germany on the trail of the Americans p421

Matthias Strobl

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Useful Web sites for bioinformatics in Europe p422

Helen Gavaghan

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