Opinion

Steps towards challenges of prioritization p537

The US National Science Board has drawn necessary and welcome attention to the shortcomings of the White House's procedures for deciding what research to support.

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News

$40m plant genome sequencing effort targets the best science p539

Colin Macilwain

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UK institutes club together to win sponsors p539

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Greenwich observatory's fate hangs in the balance p540

Ehsan Masood

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UK accused over risk of CJD in plasma... p541

Declan Butler

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...and latest BSE beef ban 'comes too late' p541

Declan Butler

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Geologist fails to overturn Creationist judgement p542

Peter Pockley

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Dispute blocks agreement on Europe's fusion funds p542

Alison Abbott

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Science board seeks priority agreement p543

Colin Macilwain

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US wins access to Framework programme p543

Colin Macilwain

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Asia/Pacific 'bionetwork' comes to life p544

David Swinbanks

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Taiwan looks to the skies for a boost to its basic research p544

Richard Nathan

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Australia lifts budget threats to public research p545

Peter Pockley

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Kyoto meeting bridges gaps, though differences remain p545

Ehsan Masood

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CERN deal 'historic and path-breaking' p545

Colin Macilwain

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News in Brief p546

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Correspondence

Red grouse and their predators p547

Simon Thirgood and Steve Redpath

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Exaggeration or underestimate? p547

George M. Woodwell

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A little learning p548

Gareth Griffiths

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Open access to data p548

Henry Rishbeth

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An early warning of the risks of rocketry p549

Paul Tunbridge

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Nuclear agency's research misjudged p549

Catherine Cesarsky

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How to evaluate journal impact factors p550

Johannes Stegmann

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Standards for safety cabinets p550

Raymond P. Clark

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News and Views

The fastest way from A to B p551

Tony Sudbery

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Learning and memory:  Never fear, LTP is hear p552

Robert C. Malenka and Roger A. Nicoll

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Genome sequencing:  New tricks of tick-borne pathogen p553

Alan G. Barbour and Wolfram R. Zückert

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Stellar astronomy:  Clocks within the hourglass p555

Mario Livio

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100 and 50 years ago p555

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Evolutionary biology:  A star is born p556

Stephen R. Palumbi

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Analgesia:  The painless synergism of aspirin and opium p557

John T. Williams

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Deafness:  Sounds from the cochlea p559

Karen B. Avraham

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Anticancer drugs:  Ringing the changes p560

Andrew Holmes

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Daedalus:  Payment in advance p561

David Jones

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News and Views Feature

The past and the future of El Niño p562

Peter J. Webster and Timothy N. Palmer

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Art and Science

Callan's canyons p565

Jonathan Callan is a landscape artist with a difference. He is experimenting with the unpredictable by allowing his powdered medium to go with the flow, producing avalanches that create their own terrain.

Martin Kemp

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Scientific Correspondence

An E2F-like repressor of transcription p567

M. Morkel, J. Wenkel, A. J. Bannister, T. Kouzarides and Christian Hagemeier

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Ribonuclease inhibits Kaposi's sarcoma p568

Suzanne J. Griffiths, David J. Adams and Simon J. Talbot

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Mosaicism in Turner's syndrome p569

Wolfram Henn and Klaus D. Zang

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Reply:  Mosaicism in Turner's syndrome p569

David Skuse and Patricia Jacobs

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Detoxifying aluminium with buckwheat p569

Jian Feng Ma, Shao Jian Zheng, Hideaki Matsumoto and Syuntaro Hiradate

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Book Reviews

In for a penny, off for a pound p571

Richard Davenport-Hines reviews Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery by ElizabethHaiken

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Elementary history p572

Robert Hedges reviews Traces of the Past: Unraveling the Secrets of Archaeology through Chemistry by Joseph B.Lambert

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The dawn of photography p572

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Insects bite back p573

Lawrence M. Hanks reviews Nature Wars: People vs. Pests by Mark L.Winston

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Plants on the catwalk p573

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Reliable recipes p573

Richard D. Wood reviews Correcting the Blueprint of Life: An Historical Account of the Discovery of DNA Repair Mechanisms by Errol C.Friedberg

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New in paperback p574

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Articles

Experimental quantum teleportation p575

Dik Bouwmeester, Jian-Wei Pan, Klaus Mattle, Manfred Eibl, Harald Weinfurter and Anton Zeilinger

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Genomic sequence of a Lyme disease spirochaete, Borrelia burgdorferi p580

Claire M. Fraser, Sherwood Casjens, Wai Mun Huang, Granger G. Sutton, Rebecca Clayton, Raju Lathigra, Owen White, Karen A. Ketchum, Robert Dodson, Erin K. Hickey, Michelle Gwinn, Brian Dougherty, Jean-Francois Tomb, Robert D. Fleischmann, Delwood Richardson, Jeremy Peterson, Anthony R. Kerlavage, John Quackenbush, Steven Salzberg, Mark Hanson, Rene van Vugt, Nanette Palmer, Mark D. Adams, Jeannine Gocayne, Janice Weidman, Teresa Utterback, Larry Watthey, Lisa McDonald, Patricia Artiach, Cheryl Bowman, Stacey Garland, Claire Fujii, Matthew D. Cotton, Kurt Horst, Kevin Roberts, Bonnie Hatch, Hamilton O. Smith and J. Craig Venter

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Letters to Nature

Increasing X-ray emissions and periodic outbursts from the massive star Carinae p587

Michael F. Corcoran, Kazunori Ishibashi, Jean H. Swank, Kris Davidson, Robert Petre and Jurgen H. M. M. Schmitt

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Controlling the sign of quantum interference by tunnelling from quantum wells p589

Jérôme Faist, Federico Capasso, Carlo Sirtori, Ken W. West and L. N. Pfeiffer

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Emergence of symbiosis in peptide self-replication through a hypercyclic network p591

David H. Lee, Kay Severin, Yohei Yokobayashi and M. Reza Ghadiri

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Kinetic limitations on droplet formation in clouds p594

P. Y. Chuang, R. J. Charlson and J. H. Seinfeld

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Vanishing atomic migration barrier in SiO₂ p596

Michael J. Aziz, Susan Circone and Carl B. Agee

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Nonlinear ground-motion amplification by sediments during the 1994 Northridge earthquake p599

Edward H. Field, Paul A. Johnson, Igor A. Beresnev and Yuehua Zeng

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Absence of contour linking in peripheral vision p602

Robert F. Hess and Steven C. Dakin

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Fear conditioning induces associative long-term potentiation in the amygdala p604

Michael T. Rogan, Ursula V. Stäubli and Joseph E. LeDoux

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Fear conditioning induces a lasting potentiation of synaptic currents in vitro p607

M. G. McKernan and P. Shinnick-Gallagher

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How opioids inhibit GABA-mediated neurotransmission p611

C. W. Vaughan, S. L. Ingram, M. A. Connor and M. J. Christie

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A Schwann cell mitogen accompanying regeneration of motor neurons p614

Frederick J. Livesey, John A. O'Brien, Meng Li, Austin G. Smith, Liam J. Murphy and Stephen P. Hunt

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Role of cytosolic phospholipase A₂ in allergic response and parturition p618

Naonori Uozumi, Kazuhiko Kume, Takahide Nagase, Noriaki Nakatani, Satoshi Ishii, Fumi Tashiro, Yoshinori Komagata, Kazushige Maki, Koichi Ikuta, Yasuyoshi Ouchi, Jun-ichi Miyazaki and Takao Shimizu

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Reduced fertility and postischaemic brain injury in mice deficient in cytosolic phospholipase A₂ p622

Joseph V. Bonventre, Zhihong Huang, M. Reza Taheri, Eileen O'Leary, En Li, Michael A. Moskowitz and Adam Sapirstein

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Miranda directs Prospero to a daughter cell during Drosophila asymmetric divisions p625

Hiroko Ikeshima-Kataoka, James B. Skeath, Yo-ichi Nabeshima, Chris Q. Doe and Fumio Matsuzaki

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Antiproliferative action of interferon- requires components of T-cell-receptor signalling p629

Emanuel F. Petricoin, III, Satoshi Ito, Brandi L. Williams, Susette Audet, Louis F. Stancato, Ana Gamero, Kathleen Clouse, Philip Grimley, Arthur Weiss, Judy Beeler, David S. Finbloom, Elizabeth W. Shores, Robert Abraham and Andrew C. Larner

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Cdc42 and Rac1 induce integrin-mediated cell motility and invasiveness through PI(3)K p632

Patricia J. Keely, John K. Westwick, Ian P. Whitehead, Channing J. Der and Leslie V. Parise

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An extended microtubule-binding structure within the dynein motor domain p636

Melissa A. Gee, John E. Heuser and Richard B. Vallee

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Structure of the proteasome activator REG (PA28) p639

J. Randolph Knowlton, Steven C. Johnston, Frank G. Whitby, Claudio Realini, Zhiguo Zhang, Martin Rechsteiner and Christopher P. Hill

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Correspondence

CTL induction by a tumour-associated antigen octapeptide derived from a murine lung carcinoma p643

Ofer Mandelboim, Gideon Berke, Mati Fridkin, Michael Feldman, Miriam Eisenstein and Lea Eisenbach

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New on the Market

Imaging is not everything p644

This week's section focuses on cell biology tools — items viewed include imaging and microscopy systems, an intracellular injector, media and media additives, oligosaccharide selections and systems for plant cell biology.

compiled by Brendan Horton from information provided by the manufacturers.

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