Table of contents
Volume 391 Number 6670 pp823-924
Opinion
Time to accept realities of bioweapon control p823
The costs of preventing the barbarity of biological warfare are not only financial but also include intrusiveness, at home as well as abroad. There is an urgent need to shoulder those costs to ensure an effective ban.
doi:10.1038/35930
Cloning's confused signals p823
Worries about failure to replicate Dolly are premature but stimulating.
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News
Dolly researcher plans further experiments after challenges p825
Declan Butler
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French agency faces fresh controversy p825
Declan Butler and Olivier de Gandt
doi:10.1038/35937
Genome panel defends researchers' — and families' — interests p826
Meredith Wadman
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Medical researchers set up UK body to raise public profile p827
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/35941
Japan backs carbon project in shift to applied research p827
Richard Nathan
doi:10.1038/35943
Germany seeks 'non-modified' food label p828
Alison Abbott and Burkhardt Roeper
doi:10.1038/35946
ANZAAS looks to grassroots for relaunch p828
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/35949
Ecologists seek flexible protection rules p829
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/35951
Boost to biodiversity research 'would strengthen US economy' p829
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/35954
US urged to explore accelerator options p830
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/35956
UK nuclear physicists set to lose their privileged funding status p830
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/35958
News Analysis
Iraq crisis spurs new bioweapons moves p831
Lack of provision in the Biological Weapons Convention for monitoring and verifying compliance has long been a worry. But negotiations for such provision have been given new momentum by recent events in Iraq.
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/35961
Individuals face weapons work indictment p831
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/35963
Correspondence
Flow of novel genes for R&D continues p834
David C. U'Prichard, (Chairman, Research and Development)
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New Zealand science p834
P. M. Hargreaves, President
doi:10.1038/35969
Commentary
A test for the insurance industry p835
Life insurers claim they stand to lose unless allowed access to applicants' genetic information, but consumers insist such data should remain out of bounds. Could both sides be right?
doi:10.1038/35971
News and Views
Clouds, contrails and climate p837
John H. Seinfeld
doi:10.1038/35974
Ecology: Green policies for defence spending p838
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/35977
Molecular physiology: Key clockwork component cloned p839
Richard W. Tsien
doi:10.1038/35981
Optics: A time-resolved glimpse of the terahertz glory p841
Philip L. Marston
doi:10.1038/35984
100 and 50 years ago p842
doi:10.1038/35988
Ecology: Kiss of death p842
Alison Mitchell
doi:10.1038/35990
Protein metabolism: Slow and fast dietary proteins p843
Gema Frühbeck
doi:10.1038/35993
Neurobiology: Homeostasis or synaptic plasticity? p845
Yves Frégnac
doi:10.1038/35996
Diabetes: A signal for 
-cell failure p846
Joseph Avruch
doi:10.1038/35998
Erratum: Galileo at Jupiter — meetings with remarkable moons p847
doi:10.1038/36001
Erratum: Fixed hotspots gone with the wind p847
doi:10.1038/36003
Daedalus: Cold porridge p847
David Jones
doi:10.1038/36005
Obituary: Masaru Ibuka (1908-97) p848
Gerhard Fasol
doi:10.1038/36007
Art and Science
Latham's life-forms p849
William Latham is working to establish a place for computers in the world of art. He sets the design rules to be followed and his program generates images in a process that could be called a simulation of evolution in action.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/36010
Scientific Correspondence
Skin immunization made possible by cholera toxin p851
Gregory M. Glenn, Mangala Rao, Gary R. Matyas and Carl R. Alving
doi:10.1038/36014
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Rescuing Wolbachia have been overlooked... p852
Kostas Bourtzis, Stephen L. Dobson, Henk R. Braig and Scott L. O'Neill
doi:10.1038/36017
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...and discovered on Mount Kilimanjaro p853
Hervé Merçot and Denis Poinsot
doi:10.1038/36021
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Cranial surgery dates back to Mesolithic p854
Malcolm C. Lillie
doi:10.1038/36023
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Book Reviews
Celestial calculations p855
William R. Shea reviews Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827): A Life in Exact Science by Charles Coulston Gillispie
doi:10.1038/36027
Figure heads p856
Brian Butterworth reviews The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics by Stanislas Dehaene
doi:10.1038/36030
Old embryos and new developments p857
Jonathan Slack reviews Principles of Development by Lewis Wolpert, Rosa Beddington, Jeremy Brookes and Thomas Jessell and Embryology: Constructing the Organism edited by Scott F. Gilbert and Anne M. Raunio
doi:10.1038/36032
The great elusionist p858
Stephen Battersby reviews The Elusive Neutrino: A Subatomic Detective Story by Nickolas Solomey
doi:10.1038/36035
Article
Structure of the retinoblastoma tumour-suppressor pocket domain bound to a peptide from HPV E7 p859
Jie-Oh Lee, Alicia A. Russo and Nikola P. Pavletich
doi:10.1038/36038
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Letters to Nature
A population of faint galaxies that contribute to the cosmic X-ray background p866
Y. Ueda, T. Takahashi, H. Inoue, T. Tsuru, M. Sakano, Y. Ishisaki, Y. Ogasaka, K. Makishima, T. Yamada, K. Ohta and M. Akiyama
doi:10.1038/36047
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An oxygen-rich dust disk surrounding an evolved star in the Red Rectangle p868
L. B. F. M. Waters, C. Waelkens, H. van Winckel, F. J. Molster, A. G. G. M. Tielens, J. Th. van Loon, P. W. Morris, J. Cami, J. Bouwman, A. de Koter, T. de Jong and Th. de Graauw
doi:10.1038/36052
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Dephasing in electron interference by a 'which-path' detector p871
E. Buks, R. Schuster, M. Heiblum, D. Mahalu and V. Umansky
doi:10.1038/36057
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Two-dimensional ferroelectric films p874
A. V. Bune, V. M. Fridkin, Stephen Ducharme, L. M. Blinov, S. P. Palto, A. V. Sorokin, S. G. Yudin and A. Zlatkin
doi:10.1038/36069
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Surface-induced structure formation of polymer blends on patterned substrates p877
Martin Böltau, Stefan Walheim, Jürgen Mlynek, Georg Krausch and Ullrich Steiner
doi:10.1038/36075
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Origin of upper-ocean warming and El Niño change on decadal scales in the tropical Pacific Ocean p879
Rong-Hua Zhang, Lewis M. Rothstein and Antonio J. Busalacchi
doi:10.1038/36081
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Evidence for pressure-release melting beneath magmatic arcs from basalt at Galunggung, Indonesia p883
T. W. Sisson and S. Bronto
doi:10.1038/36087
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Foot posture in a primitive pterosaur p886
J. M. Clark, J. A. Hopson, R. Hernández R., D. E. Fastovsky and M. Montellano
doi:10.1038/36092
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Explaining the geographic distributions of sexual and asexual populations p889
Joel R. Peck, Jonathan M. Yearsley and David Waxman
doi:10.1038/36099
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Activity-dependent scaling of quantal amplitude in neocortical neurons p892
Gina G. Turrigiano, Kenneth R. Leslie, Niraj S. Desai, Lana C. Rutherford and Sacha B. Nelson
doi:10.1038/36103
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See also: News and Views by Frégnac
Molecular characterization of a neuronal low-voltage-activated T-type calcium channel p896
Edward Perez-Reyes, Leanne L. Cribbs, Asif Daud, Antonio E. Lacerda, Jane Barclay, Magali P. Williamson, Margaret Fox, Michele Rees and Jung-Ha Lee
doi:10.1038/36110
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See also: News and Views by Tsien
Disruption of IRS-2 causes type 2 diabetes in mice p900
Dominic J. Withers, Julio Sanchez Gutierrez, Heather Towery, Deborah J. Burks, Jian-Ming Ren, Stephen Previs, Yitao Zhang, Dolores Bernal, Sebastian Pons, Gerald I. Shulman, Susan Bonner-Weir and Morris F. White
doi:10.1038/36116
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See also: News and Views by Avruch
Impaired immunoglobulin gene rearrangement in mice lacking the IL-7 receptor p904
Anne E. Corcoran, Andrew Riddell, Danielle Krooshoop and Ashok R. Venkitaraman
doi:10.1038/36122
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-Chemokines are released from HIV-1-specific cytolytic T-cell granules complexed to proteoglycans p908
Ludwig Wagner, Otto O. Yang, Eduardo A. Garcia-Zepeda, Yimin Ge, Spyros A. Kalams, Bruce D. Walker, Mark S. Pasternack and Andrew D. Luster
doi:10.1038/36129
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Carrier protein import into mitochondria mediated by the intermembrane proteins Tim10/Mrs11 and Tim12/Mrs5 p912
Christian Sirrenberg, Maxi Endres, Heike Fölsch, Rosemary A. Stuart, Walter Neupert and Michael Brunner
doi:10.1038/36136
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Group II intron splicing in vivo by first-step hydrolysis p915
Mircea Podar, Vi T. Chu, Anna Marie Pyle and Philip S. Perlman
doi:10.1038/36142
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X-ray crystal structure of arrestin from bovine rod outer segments p918
Joachim Granzin, Ursula Wilden, Hui-Woog Choe, Jörg Labahn, Bianca Krafft and Georg Büldt
doi:10.1038/36147
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New on the Market
At the flick of a molecular switch p922
This week's product update features tools for the cell biologist, including electroporation and transfection systems, transcription and translation kits, new fluorescent markers and reagents for neuroscience.
compiled by Brendan Horton from information provided by the manufacturers.
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