Table of contents
Volume 393 Number 6683 pp291-396
Opinion
Nuclear restraint is the difficult test p291
India's recent nuclear tests are a reminder that, despite recent progress in arms control, nuclear weapons remain a threat to humanity. Helping to prevent their use requires redoubled effort by the scientific community.
doi:10.1038/30544
Caveat investor p291
British Biotech's problems underline the need for scientific literacy in the stock market.
doi:10.1038/30546
News
German technician's confession spurs check on suspect data p293
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/30548
Nature wins publishing award p293
doi:10.1038/30551
Entry standards to UK science courses fall p294
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/30553
Japanese research 'must be more flexible' p294
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/30556
Panel calls for fair deal for US postdocs p295
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/30558
Computers hope to score at the football world cup for robots p295
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/30560
Drosophila set for fast-track sequencing p296
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/30563
Venter backs call for more public funds p296
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/30566
Universities win as South Africa reverses 1997 funding trend p297
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/30568
Bid to limit prices on drugs using 'public' discoveries p297
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/30570
Indian scientists speak out against bomb p298
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/30573
Despair over pay sparks Russian strike p298
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/30576
Chief to leave troubled British Biotech p299
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/30578
Germans mix support and scepticism for genetic engineering p299
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/30581
Correspondence
Bioprospecting for drugs p301
Gordon M. Cragg, David J. Newman and Stringner Sue Yang
doi:10.1038/30586
No convergence for references p301
Simonetta Sperti, Fiorenzo Stirpe and Maurizio Brigotti
doi:10.1038/30588
No laughing matter p301
Michael G. Vicker
doi:10.1038/30590
Unreliable errors p301
Bernard F. Erlanger
doi:10.1038/30592
News and Views
Noble gases under pressure in the mantle p303
Minoru Ozima
doi:10.1038/30594
Notch signalling: A short cut to the nucleus p304
Julian Lewis
doi:10.1038/30597
Colloids: Ordering entropy p305
Henk N. W. Lekkerkerker and Alain Stroobants
doi:10.1038/30599
Evolutionary biology: Land-loving crabs p305
Amanda Tromans
doi:10.1038/30601
100 and 50 years ago p307
doi:10.1038/30604
Molecular neurobiology: The stress of Gulf War syndrome p308
Robert M. Sapolsky
doi:10.1038/30606
Materials science: Silk and sequence p309
Paul Calvert
doi:10.1038/30610
Gene silencing: Methylation meets acetylation p311
Timothy H. Bestor
doi:10.1038/30613
Aurorae: Still in the dark p312
Joseph E. Borovsky
doi:10.1038/30616
Daedalus: Current chemistry p313
David Jones
doi:10.1038/30620
Obituary: Sir Frederick Charles Frank (1911-98) p314
John E. Enderby
doi:10.1038/30622
Science and Image
Max's modelling p315
Models of molecular structures are not just useful aids in visualization and education for our understanding of the engineering of materials, but also reflect the styles of the dominant modes of design of their period.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/30625
Scientific Correspondence
X-ray flare sparks quake inside Sun p317
A. G. Kosovichev and V. V. Zharkova
doi:10.1038/30629
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Low nitrate: phosphate ocean ratios corrected... p318
T. Tyrrell and C. S. Law
doi:10.1038/30632
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...and database flagged p318
Margarita Conkright
doi:10.1038/30634
Global impact of the 1789-93 El Niño p318
Richard H. Grove
doi:10.1038/30636
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Connexin 26 gene linked to a dominant deafness p319
Françoise Denoyelle, Genevieve Lina-Granade, Henri Plauchu, Roberto Bruzzone, Hassan Chaïb, Fabienne Lévi-Acobas, Dominique Weil and Christine Petit
doi:10.1038/30639
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Transgene risk is low p320
Susan E. Scott and Mike J. Wilkinson
doi:10.1038/30642
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Book Reviews
Mad cows and secret agents p321
Adriano Aguzzi reviews Fatal Protein: The Story of CJD, BSE and Other Prion Diseases by Rosalind M. Ridley and Harry F. Baker
doi:10.1038/30645
Computer evolution p322
Philip W. Anderson reviews Darwin Among the Machines by George Dyson
doi:10.1038/30648
Body of evidence p323
Roy Porter reviews Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex by Alice Domurat Dreger
doi:10.1038/30651
Movers and shakers p324
Graham A. Dunn reviews Motion Analysis of Living Cells edited by David R. Soll and Deborah Wessels
doi:10.1038/30655
Breaking the law p324
Peter T. Landsberg reviews Maxwell's Demon: Why Warmth Disperses and Time Passes by Hans Christian von Baeyer
doi:10.1038/30657
New Journals p324
doi:10.1038/30659
Review
Global warming and the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet p325
Michael Oppenheimer
doi:10.1038/30661
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (464K)
Article
RAMPs regulate the transport and ligand specificity of the calcitonin-receptor-like receptor p333
Linda M. McLatchie, Neil J. Fraser, Martin J. Main, Alan Wise, Jason Brown, Nicola Thompson, Roberto Solari, Melanie G. Lee and Steven M. Foord
doi:10.1038/30666
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Letters to Nature
Reflected infrared spectrum of a massive protostar in Orion p340
Jun-Ichi Morino, Takuya Yamashita, Tetsuo Hasegawa and Takenori Nakano
doi:10.1038/30678
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Relation to solar activity of intense aurorae in sunlight and darkness p342
Patrick T. Newell, Ching-I. Meng and Simon Wing
doi:10.1038/30682
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See also: News and Views by Borovsky
Implementation of a quantum search algorithm on a quantum computer p344
Jonathan A. Jones, Michele Mosca and Rasmus H. Hansen
doi:10.1038/30687
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Carbon nanotubule membranes for electrochemical energy storage and production p346
Guangli Che, Brinda B. Lakshmi, Ellen R. Fisher and Charles R. Martin
doi:10.1038/30694
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Entropically driven microphase transitions in mixtures of colloidal rods and spheres p349
Marie Adams, Zvonimir Dogic, Sarah L. Keller and Seth Fraden
doi:10.1038/30700
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See also: News and Views by Lekkerkerker & Stroobants
Low argon solubility in silicate melts at high pressure p352
Eva Chamorro-Pérez, Philippe Gillet, Albert Jambon, James Badro and Paul McMillan
doi:10.1038/30706
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See also: News and Views by Ozima
Rare-gas solids in the Earth's deep interior p355
Andrew P. Jephcoat
doi:10.1038/30712
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See also: News and Views by Ozima
Optical and radiocarbon dating at Jinmium rock shelter in northern Australia p358
Richard Roberts, Michael Bird, Jon Olley, Rex Galbraith, Ewan Lawson, Geoff Laslett, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Rhys Jones, Richard Fullagar, Geraldine Jacobsen and Quan Hua
doi:10.1038/30718
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Rapid evolution to terrestrial life in Jamaican crabs p363
Christoph D. Schubart, Rudolf Diesel and S. Blair Hedges
doi:10.1038/30724
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See also: News and Views by Tromans
The biosynthetic pathway of vitamin C in higher plants p365
Glen L. Wheeler, Mark A. Jones and Nicholas Smirnoff
doi:10.1038/30728
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Visual input evokes transient and strong shunting inhibition in visual cortical neurons p369
Lyle J. Borg-Graham, Cyril Monier and Yves Frégnac
doi:10.1038/30735
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Acute stress facilitates long-lasting changes in cholinergic gene expression p373
Daniela Kaufer, Alon Friedman, Shlomo Seidman and Hermona Soreq
doi:10.1038/30741
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See also: News and Views by Sapolsky
Increased NMDA current and spine density in mice lacking the NMDA receptor subunit NR3A p377
Saumya Das, Yasnory F. Sasaki, Thomas Rothe, Louis S. Premkumar, Mari Takasu, James E. Crandall, Pieter Dikkes, David A. Conner, Posina V. Rayudu, Wing Cheung, H.-S. Vincent Chen, Stuart A. Lipton and Nobuki Nakanishi
doi:10.1038/30748
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Notch-1 signalling requires ligand-induced proteolytic release of intracellular domain p382
Eric H. Schroeter, Jeffrey A. Kisslinger and Raphael Kopan
doi:10.1038/30756
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See also: News and Views by Lewis
Transcriptional repression by the methyl-CpG-binding protein MeCP2 involves a histone deacetylase complex p386
Xinsheng Nan, Huck-Hui Ng, Colin A. Johnson, Carol D. Laherty, Bryan M. Turner, Robert N. Eisenman and Adrian Bird
doi:10.1038/30764
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See also: News and Views by Bestor
Transcriptional activation independent of TFIIH kinase and the RNA polymerase II mediator in vivo p389
Dong-ki Lee and John T. Lis
doi:10.1038/30770
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Atomic structure of progesterone complexed with its receptor p392
Shawn P. Williams and Paul B. Sigler
doi:10.1038/30775
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correction: Low nitrate: phosphate ratios in the global ocean p396
T. Tyrrell and C. S. Law
doi:10.1038/30780
correction: A caspase-activated DNase that degrades DNA during apoptosis, and its inhibitor ICAD p396
Masato Enari, Hideki Sakahira, Hideki Yokoyama, Katsuya Okawa, Akihiro Iwamatsu and Shigekazu Nagata
doi:10.1038/30782
correction: Phase-mapping of periodically domain-inverted LiNbO3 with coherent X-rays p396
Z. W. Hu, P. A. Thomas, A. Snigirev, I. Snigireva, A. Souvorov, P. G. R. Smith, G. W. Ross and S. Teat
doi:10.1038/30784
