Table of contents
Volume 393 Number 6685 pp499-606
Opinion
A time for scientific diplomacy p499
Both India and Pakistan have much to gain from closer collaboration between their scientific communities. Such collaboration must not be allowed to remain a casualty of tensions between the two.
doi:10.1038/31043
When moderation turns to greed p499
The NIH must be ready to take firm action to protect access to the tools that are essential to a researcher's work.
doi:10.1038/31045
News
New Russian funding cuts spark protests from researchers p501
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/31047
Galileo's manuscripts go on the Internet p501
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/31049
Report urges US to spend more money on R, but not D p502
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/31052
Framework programme to get new advisory system p502
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/31054
UK's Dounreay reprocessing plant to shut p503
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/31056
Germany owns up to weapons-grade uranium deal with Russians p503
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/31059
Senators seek secure funds for research p504
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/31061
Espionage verdict prompts call for retraction of polymerase paper p504
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/31064
NIH 'should help sharing of research tools' p505
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/31066
France smooths the way for foreigners p505
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/31069
French researchers reject reform plans... p506
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/31071
...as medical agency agrees to a compromise p506
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/31073
Harvard's 'oncomouse' fails to win Canadian patent p506
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/31075
Swiss reject curbs on genetic engineering p507
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/31077
India boosts budget for atomic research in wake of bomb tests p507
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/31079
Correspondence
British Biotech responds to allegations p509
Keith McCullagh, (Chief Executive)
doi:10.1038/31084
Way forward at NSF p509
Judy Sunley, (Assistant to the Director for Science Policy and Planning)
doi:10.1038/31086
Commentaries
Ethical discourse by science-in-fiction p511
It can be difficult to discuss ethical dilemmas in the academic environment. One way of doing it is through 'science-in-fiction'. The following 'science renga' shows how this is done with virtually total anonymity.
doi:10.1038/31088
A science renga p512
doi:10.1038/31091
News and Views
Blueprint for the white plague p515
Douglas B. Young
doi:10.1038/31095
Electronic devices: Single electrons in silicon drops p516
D. Christian Glattli
doi:10.1038/31099
Evolutionary biology: Help and you shall be helped p517
Régis Ferrière
doi:10.1038/31102
100 and 50 years ago p520
doi:10.1038/31105
Observational cosmology: Through a glass brightly p520
Andrew Blain
doi:10.1038/31107
Thermodynamics: Liquid landscape p521
Austen Angell
doi:10.1038/31110
Neurobiology: Brain, heart and stress p523
Tim Lincoln
doi:10.1038/31113
Physiology: Chemokines beyond inflammation p524
Richard Horuk
doi:10.1038/31116
Daedalus: Human quality control p525
David Jones
doi:10.1038/31119
Obituary: Derek H. R. Barton (1918-98) p526
F. Albert Cotton
doi:10.1038/31121
Science and Image
Mendeleev's matrix p527
Dmitri Mendeleev's periodic table permitted him to systematize crucial chemical data. But its real triumph was as an exercise in theoretical modelling, allowing the prediction of the discovery of previously unknown elements.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/31124
Scientific Correspondence
Mauritian red nectar remains a mystery p529
Jens M. Olesen, Nina Rønsted, Ulrik Tolderlund, Claus Cornett, Per Mølgaard, Jørn Madsen, Carl G. Jones and Carl E. Olsen
doi:10.1038/31128
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Moth uses fine tuning for odour resolution p530
T. C. Baker, H. Y. Fadamiro and A. A. Cosse
doi:10.1038/31131
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Sound localization and neurons p531
Bernt Christian Skottun
doi:10.1038/31134
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scientific correspondence p531
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Book Reviews
Savage reversals p533
Adam Kuper
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Lost cultures p533
doi:10.1038/31141
Eco-epidemiology p534
George A. Gellert reviews Health and Climate Change: Modelling the Impacts of Global Warming and Ozone Depletion by Pim Martens
doi:10.1038/31144
Hard sell for the Sun p534
doi:10.1038/31146
Wherein blue genes? p534
George Fink
doi:10.1038/31149
Higher planes p535
Lisa Satterwhite
doi:10.1038/31151
Animal anomalies p536
Douglas Palmer
doi:10.1038/31154
Past masters p536
doi:10.1038/31156
Article
Deciphering the biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the complete genome sequence p537
S. T. Cole, R. Brosch, J. Parkhill, T. Garnier, C. Churcher, D. Harris, S. V. Gordon, K. Eiglmeier, S. Gas, C. E. Barry, III, F. Tekaia, K. Badcock, D. Basham, D. Brown, T. Chillingworth, R. Connor, R. Davies, K. Devlin, T. Feltwell, S. Gentles, N. Hamlin, S. Holroyd, T. Hornsby, K. Jagels, A. Krogh, J. McLean, S. Moule, L. Murphy, K. Oliver, J. Osborne, M. A. Quail, M.-A. Rajandream, J. Rogers, S. Rutter, K. Seeger, J. Skelton, R. Squares, S. Squares, J. E. Sulston, K. Taylor, S. Whitehead and B. G. Barrell
doi:10.1038/31159
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See also: News and Views by Young
Letters to Nature
Nature of the heating mechanism for the diffuse solar corona p545
E. R. Priest, C. R. Foley, J. Heyvaerts, T. D. Arber, J. L. Culhane and L. W. Acton
doi:10.1038/31166
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Chemical processing in the coma as the source of cometary HNC p547
William M. Irvine, Edwin A. Bergin, James E. Dickens, David Jewitt, Amy J. Lovell, Henry E. Matthews, F. Peter Schloerb and Matthew Senay
doi:10.1038/31171
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Electronic liquid-crystal phases of a doped Mott insulator p550
S. A. Kivelson, E. Fradkin and V. J. Emery
doi:10.1038/31177
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Signatures of distinct dynamical regimes in the energy landscape of a glass-forming liquid p554
Srikanth Sastry, Pablo G. Debenedetti and Frank H. Stillinger
doi:10.1038/31189
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See also: News and Views by Angell
Millennial-scale changes in North Atlantic circulation since the last glaciation p557
Thomas M. Marchitto, Jr, William B. Curry and Delia W. Oppo
doi:10.1038/31197
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Iron-limited diatom growth and Si:N uptake ratios in a coastal upwelling regime p561
David A. Hutchins and Kenneth W. Bruland
doi:10.1038/31203
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Anisotropic structures at the base of the Earth's mantle p564
Lev Vinnik, Ludovic Breger and Barbara Romanowicz
doi:10.1038/31208
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Ediacara-type fossils in Cambrian sediments p567
Sören Jensen, James G. Gehling and Mary L. Droser
doi:10.1038/31215
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Herbivore-infested plants selectively attract parasitoids p570
C. M. De Moraes, W. J. Lewis, P. W. Paré, H. T. Alborn and J. H. Tumlinson
doi:10.1038/31219
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Evolution of indirect reciprocity by image scoring p573
Martin A. Nowak and Karl Sigmund
doi:10.1038/31225
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See also: News and Views by Ferrière
Selective representation of relevant information by neurons in the primate prefrontal cortex p577
Gregor Rainer, Wael F. Asaad and Earl K. Miller
doi:10.1038/31235
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Gli/Zic factors pattern the neural plate by defining domains of cell differentiation p579
R. Brewster, J. Lee and A. Ruiz i Altaba
doi:10.1038/31242
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Molecular identification of a hyperpolarization-activated channel in sea urchin sperm p583
Renate Gauss, Reinhard Seifert and U. Benjamin Kaupp
doi:10.1038/31248
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A family of hyperpolarization-activated mammalian cation channels p587
Andreas Ludwig, Xiangang Zong, Michael Jeglitsch, Franz Hofmann and Martin Biel
doi:10.1038/31255
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The chemokine receptor CXCR4 is essential for vascularization of the gastrointestinal tract p591
Kazunobu Tachibana, Seiichi Hirota, Hisashi Iizasa, Hisahiro Yoshida, Kenji Kawabata, Yuki Kataoka, Yukihiko Kitamura, Kouji Matsushima, Nobuaki Yoshida, Shin-ichi Nishikawa, Tadamitsu Kishimoto and Takashi Nagasawa
doi:10.1038/31261
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See also: News and Views by Horuk
Function of the chemokine receptor CXCR4 in haematopoiesis and in cerebellar development p595
Yong-Rui Zou, Andreas H. Kottmann, Masahiko Kuroda, Ichiro Taniuchi and Dan R. Littman
doi:10.1038/31269
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See also: News and Views by Horuk
Histone macroH2A1 is concentrated in the inactive X chromosome of female mammals p599
Carl Costanzi and John R. Pehrson
doi:10.1038/31275
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New on the Market
Sequence cyberbiology p603
Tools for bioinformatics and computational biology featured here include servers and computation boxes, cross-platform software, new web-based interfaces to tools and databases, as well as proprietary and public data sets.
compiled by Brendan Horton from information provided by the manufacturers.
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