Table of contents
Volume 392 Number 6673 pp211-314
Opinion
A culture whose time is past p211
France's scientific and technological structures have no choice but to undergo a revolution. The government must encourage a climate of competitiveness and risk-taking required to ensure a strong scientific future.
doi:10.1038/32476
Competitiveness versus conferences? p211
A small rebellion reflects postdocs' dissatisfaction with meetings of questionable value.
doi:10.1038/32478
News
German Greens soften views on biotech as power edges closer p213
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/32480
Clinton told to speed up plutonium disposal p213
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/32483
Innovation 'stifled' in France, says report p214
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/32485
Allègre seeks boost for young researchers p214
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/32488
Asteroid watchers debate false alarm p215
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/32490
Decline in Indian publications raises alarm p215
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/32493
Canada's environment act under attack... p216
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/32495
...as federal agency is accused of undermining pollution watchdog p216
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/32498
UK physics 'must focus on breakthroughs' p217
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/32500
Britain opens up science advisory panel p217
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/32503
Dating in doubt as researcher is probed p218
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/32505
Japan's genome programme goes ahead, with protein analysis p219
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/32510
Correspondence
Some issues for the biosafety protocol p221
Henry I. Miller, Charles J. Arntzen, Roger N. Beachy, R. James Cook, Susanne L. Huttner, Donald Kennedy, Calvin O. Qualset, Peter H. Raven and Anne K. Vidaver
doi:10.1038/32514
A pawn in a conspiracy? p221
George A. Mashour
doi:10.1038/32516
Early Alpine industry p221
A. J. (Tom) van Loon
doi:10.1038/32518
News and Views
A checkpoint on the road to cancer p223
Terry L. Orr-Weaver and Robert A. Weinberg
doi:10.1038/32520
Geophysics: Finding chaos in abyssal hills p224
John A. Goff
doi:10.1038/32524
100 and 50 years ago p225
doi:10.1038/32527
Malaria transmission: Has the ignition key been found? p227
Richard Carter and Lisa Ranford-Cartwright
doi:10.1038/32529
Galaxy formation: Clumps and bumps on the road p228
Melinda L. Weil
doi:10.1038/32532
Ecology: Nipped in the bud p229
Tim Lincoln
doi:10.1038/32536
Visual processing: How to know where to go p231
Roland Hengstenberg
doi:10.1038/32539
High-pressure physics: The double identity of ice X p232
José Teixeira
doi:10.1038/32542
Neuroscience: Right on in sign language p233
Eraldo Paulesu and Jacques Mehler
doi:10.1038/32546
Daedalus: Free captive fish p234
David Jones
doi:10.1038/32549
Art and Science
De Vries's varieties p235
Scientists have always had an irresistible urge to list and classify. But the work of the artist Herman de Vries reminds us that nature's variety will always defy our attempts at imposing a fixed order.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/32551
Scientific Correspondence
Carbon nano-cages created as cubes p237
Yahachi Saito and Takehisa Matsumoto
doi:10.1038/32555
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Tight knot values deviate from linear relations p237
Jason Cantarella, Robert B. Kusner and John M. Sullivan
doi:10.1038/32558
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Four-thirds power law for knots and links p238
Gregory Buck
doi:10.1038/32561
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Heartbeat synchronized with ventilation p239
Carsten Schäfer, Michael G. Rosenblum, Jürgen Kurths and Hans-Henning Abel
doi:10.1038/32567
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Book Reviews
Teasing with winsome heresy p241
John Maddox reviews The Ascent of Science by Brian Silver
doi:10.1038/32571
Mesmerized by meteors p241
doi:10.1038/32573
Engineering branch p242
Julian Vincent reviews Design in Nature: Learning from Trees by Claus Mattheck
doi:10.1038/32576
Marrow of the skull bears fruit p242
doi:10.1038/32578
Decisive action p242
Valerie M. Chase reviews Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions by Gary Klein
doi:10.1038/32581
Benevolent nuclei p243
Robert W. Cahn reviews Tracks to Innovation by Robert L. Fleischer
doi:10.1038/32583
In retrospect: chosen by Carl Djerassi p244
Carl Djerassi reviews The Struggles of Albert Woods by William Cooper
doi:10.1038/32585
Article
Dendritic cells and the control of immunity p245
Jacques Banchereau and Ralph M. Steinman
doi:10.1038/32588
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Letters to Nature
Clumpy star-forming regions as the origin of the peculiar morphology of high-redshift galaxies p253
Masafumi Noguchi
doi:10.1038/32596
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See also: News and Views by Weil
Evidence against turbulent and canopy-like magnetic fields in the solar chromosphere p256
Egidio Landi Degl'Innocenti
doi:10.1038/32603
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Tunnelling and zero-point motion in high-pressure ice p258
Magali Benoit, Dominik Marx and Michele Parrinello
doi:10.1038/32609
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See also: News and Views by Teixeira
Polarizing energy transfer in photoluminescent materials for display applications p261
Andrea Montali, Cees Bastiaansen, Paul Smith and Christoph Weder
doi:10.1038/32616
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Total synthesis of brevetoxin A p264
K. C. Nicolaou, Zhen Yang, Guo-qiang Shi, Janet L. Gunzner, Konstantinos A. Agrios and Peter Gärtner
doi:10.1038/32623
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (352K) | Supplementary information
An unusual mid-Pleistocene monsoon period over Africa and Asia p269
M. Rossignol-Strick, M. Paterne, F. C. Bassinot, K.-C. Emeis and G. J. De Lange
doi:10.1038/32631
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Abyssal hills formed by stretching oceanic lithosphere p272
W. Roger Buck and Alexei N. B. Poliakov
doi:10.1038/32636
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See also: News and Views by Goff
The skull of a relative of the stem-group bird Mononykus p275
Luis M. Chiappe, Mark A. Norell and James M. Clark
doi:10.1038/32642
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Common reference frame for neural coding of translational and rotational optic flow p278
D. R. W. Wylie, W. F. Bischof and B. J. Frost
doi:10.1038/32648
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See also: News and Views by Hengstenberg
Sniffing and smelling: separate subsystems in the human olfactory cortex p282
N. Sobel, V. Prabhakaran, J. E. Desmond, G. H. Glover, R. L. Goode, E. V. Sullivan and J. D. E. Gabrieli
doi:10.1038/32654
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Nocistatin, a peptide that blocks nociceptin action in pain transmission p286
Emiko Okuda-Ashitaka, Toshiaki Minami, Shinro Tachibana, Yoshihiro Yoshihara, Yuji Nishiuchi, Terutoshi Kimura and Seiji Ito
doi:10.1038/32660
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Identification of xanthurenic acid as the putative inducer of malaria development in the mosquito p289
O. Billker, V. Lindo, M. Panico, A. E. Etienne, T. Paxton, A. Dell, M. Rogers, R. E. Sinden and H. R. Morris
doi:10.1038/32667
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See also: News and Views by Carter & Ranford-Cartwright
Genetic basis and molecular mechanism for idiopathic ventricular fibrillation p293
Qiuyun Chen, Glenn E. Kirsch, Danmei Zhang, Ramon Brugada, Josep Brugada, Pedro Brugada, Domenico Potenza, Angel Moya, Martin Borggrefe, Günter Breithardt, Rocio Ortiz-Lopez, Zhiqing Wang, Charles Antzelevitch, Richard E. O'Brien, Eric Schulze-Bahr, Mark T. Keating, Jeffrey A. Towbin and Qing Wang
doi:10.1038/32675
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Fas-mediated apoptosis and activation-induced T-cell proliferation are defective in mice lacking FADD/Mort1 p296
Jianke Zhang, Dragana Cado, Ann Chen, Nisha H. Kabra and Astar Winoto
doi:10.1038/32681
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Mutations of mitotic checkpoint genes in human cancers p300
Daniel P. Cahill, Christoph Lengauer, Jian Yu, Gregory J. Riggins, James K. V. Willson, Sanford D. Markowitz, Kenneth W. Kinzler and Bert Vogelstein
doi:10.1038/32688
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See also: News and Views by Orr-Weaver & Weinberg
Role of calcineurin and Mpk1 in regulating the onset of mitosis in budding yeast p303
Masaki Mizunuma, Dai Hirata, Kohji Miyahara, Eiko Tsuchiya and Tokichi Miyakawa
doi:10.1038/32695
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Human 
-tryptase is a ring-like tetramer with active sites facing a central pore p306
Pedro José Barbosa Pereira, Andreas Bergner, Sandra Macedo-Ribeiro, Robert Huber, Gabriele Matschiner, Hans Fritz, Christian P. Sommerhoff and Wolfram Bode
doi:10.1038/32703
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Erratum: Discovery of a supernova explosion at half the age of the Universe p311
S. Perlmutter, G. Aldering, M. Della Valle, S. Deustua, R. S. Ellis, S. Fabbro, A. Fruchter, G. Goldhaber, A. Goobar, D. E. Groom, I. M. Hook, A. G. Kim, M. Y. Kim, R. A. Knop, C. Lidman, R. G. McMahon, P. Nugent, R. Pain, N. Panagia, C. R. Pennypacker, P. Ruiz-Lapuente, B. Schaefer and N. Walton
doi:10.1038/32711
Retracted Correction: CTL induction by a tumour-associated antigen octapeptide derived from a murine lung carcinoma p311
Ofer Mandelboim, Gideon Berke, Mati Fridkin, Michael Feldman, Miriam Eisenstein and Lea Eisenbach
doi:10.1038/32713
New on the Market
Genetics and genomics p312
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doi:10.1038/32715
